Revelation 20:10-15

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 20:11

A great white throne - Refulgent with glorious majesty. Him that sat on it - The indescribable Jehovah. From whose face the earth and the heaven fled away - Even the brightness of his countenance dissolved the universe, and annihilated the laws by which it was governed. This is a very majestic figure, and finely expressed. There was found no place for them - The glorious majesty of God filling all things, and being all in all. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 20:12

The dead, small and great - All ranks, degrees, and conditions of men. This description seems to refer to Daniel 7:9 , Daniel 7:10 . And the books were opened - See Daniel 12:1 . "Rab. Jehuda said: All the actions of men, whether good or bad, are written in a book, and of all they shall give account." - Sohar Gen., fol. 79, col. 298. "How careful should men be to shun vice, and to act uprightly before the holy blessed God, seeing there are so many which go throughout the earth, see... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 20:13

The sea gave up the dead - Those who had been drowned in it, and those millions slain in naval contests, who had no other grave. And death - All who died by any kind of disease. Death is here personified, and represented as a keeper of defunct human beings; probably no more than earth or the grave is meant, as properly belonging to the empire of death. And hell - Ἁιδης , Hades, the place of separate spirits. The sea and death have the bodies of all human beings; hades has their... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 20:14

And death and hell were cast into the lake - Death himself is now abolished, and the place for separate spirits no longer needful. All dead bodies and separated souls being rejoined, and no more separation of bodies and souls by death to take place, consequently the existence of these things is no farther necessary. This is the second death - The first death consisted in the separation of the soul from the body for a season; the second death in the separation of body and soul from God... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 20:15

Written in the book of life - Only those who had continued faithful unto death were taken to heaven. All whose names were not found in the public registers, who either were not citizens, or whose names had been erased from those registers because of crimes against the state, could claim none of those emoluments or privileges which belong to the citizens; so those who either did not belong to the new and spiritual Jerusalem, or who had forfeited their rights and privileges by sin, and had... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Revelation 20:1-10

The restraint upon evil. Following most appropriately upon the foregoing description of a conflict, and the conquest by the truth and the power of righteousness, is a representation, in most significant imagery, of the restraint that is put upon evil by the prevalence of righteousness—the chaining back the clouds of night by the rising sun. The spirit of evil, "the dragon, the old serpent," "the devil and Satan," is "laid hold" by "an angel coming down out of heaven," and bound with "a... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Revelation 20:7-10

Satan loosed from his prison after the thousand years. During the millennial period on earth, while the departed saints are living and reigning with Christ, evil will be subdued and restrained, but by no means will it be extinct. Had it been extinct it could not have broken out again, nor would there be any need for the παρεμβολή of the saints. The godless ones dispersed abroad, who will at the close of the thousand years break out afresh, are mentioned here under the peculiar names... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Revelation 20:7-10

The third scene in the history of redeemed humanity: the age of moral reaction. "And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison," etc. The long ages of earth's millennial glory described arc run out. The harmony which had reigned through indefinite centuries is broken into tumult; the sun of absolute truth and blessedness, under whose genial and unclouded beams unnumbered generations had come and gone, getting new vigour and catching new inspiration in... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Revelation 20:10

And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night forever and ever; and they shall be tormented. The last clause shows that this is the final judgment and punishment of the devil. Thus at this verse is completed the whole series of visions commencing at Revelation 12:1-17 ., in which arc set forth the origin and progress of the influence of evil, and the final termination of the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Revelation 20:11

And I saw a great white throne. And I saw; introducing a new phase of the vision (el. Revelation 20:1 , etc.). A throne is seen as in Revelation 4:1-11 .2; it is great, perhaps, by comparison with those mentioned in Revelation 4:4 ; white, because this is the colour of purity and all heavenly virtues (cf. Revelation 1:14 ; Revelation 2:17 ; Revelation 3:4 , etc.). And him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for... read more

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