The wicked shall be turned into hell
Some render it, "shall return to the grave" F16, to
the earth, the original dust from whence they came; but this is
common to all men, to the righteous as well as the wicked; rather
(lwav) here signifies the
place of torment, commonly called hell, where devils and damned
spirits are; hither the souls of the wicked go immediately upon
their departure from their bodies, ( Luke 16:23 ) ; and after
the judgment is over, they will be remanded thither in soul and
body; and their damnation is called the destruction of soul and
body in hell; which will consist in an everlasting separation
from God, and in a sense of his wrath and fiery indignation: and
though this is true of all the wicked, yet here that wicked one,
antichrist, and his wicked followers, are chiefly designed; even
the beast and false prophet, who shall be cast alive into the
lake of fire burning with brimstone, ( Revelation
19:20 ) ( 20:10 ) ;
[and] all the nations that forget God;
which is not to be understood of the Pagan nations, though they
may be said to forget God, since he is to be known by the light
of nature, and yet they worship idols, the works of their hands;
but the Papal nations, who adore the pope of Rome as God on
earth, worship angels and saints departed, and images of gold and
silver, and wood and stone. It may be applied to every wicked man
who forgets there is a God who sees and knows all things, and to
whom men are accountable; see ( Psalms 50:22
) .