And death and hell were cast into the lake of
fire
Death cannot be taken properly, nor hell be the place of torment,
for devils and damned spirits; since that is that lake of fire,
for then the sense would be, hell is cast into hell; but either
by these the devil is meant, who has the power of death, and is
the prince of hell, were it not that the casting of him into this
lake is mentioned before in ( Revelation
20:10 ) or it denotes the destruction and abolition of death
and the grave, that from henceforth they should no more have
power over men, nor have any under their dominion, and in their
hands; and so what has been promised will now be fully performed,
( Hosea
13:14 ) ( 1
Corinthians 15:26 ) see ( Revelation
21:4 ) or rather the wicked dead, which they shall have
delivered up, and will be judged and sentenced to eternal death,
( Revelation 20:13 )
this is the second death;
or the destruction of the soul and body in hell, which will
consist in an eternal separation of both from God, and in a
continual sense of his wrath and displeasure. The Alexandrian
copy and the Complutensian edition read, "this second death is
the lake of fire"; and so the Arabic version, "and this is the
second death, even the lake of fire"; and not much different is
the Ethiopic version, "the second death, which is the fire of
hell".