Verse 14
From this point on there will be no more death (cf. 1 Corinthians 15:24-28). God will cast death and Hades into the lake of fire. This is hell, the place of eternal punishment.
"Death and Hades are an inseparable pair, as in i. 18, vi. 8 . . ., representing the two aspects of Death, the physical fact and its spiritual consequences . . . Here they appear as two voracious and insatiable monsters who have swallowed all past generations, but are now forced to disgorge their prey." [Note: Swete, p. 273.]
The "second death" is separation from God in the lake of fire (cf. Revelation 19:20; Revelation 21:8). Evidently the wicked too will receive resurrection bodies that are different from their former mortal bodies. They will be indestructible. [Note: See Robert A. Peterson, "A Traditionalist Response to John Stott’s Arguments for Annihilationism," Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 37:4 (December 1994):553-68.]
"As there is a second and higher life, so there is also a second and deeper death. And as after that life there is no more death (ch. xxi. 4), so after that death there is no more life, Revelation 20:10; Matt. xxv. 41)." [Note: Alford, 4:735-36.]
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