Verse 14
14. Death and hades Not personification, but the submergence of the two conditions in the dark finality is expressed. Condemnation of both is implied; for both are the results of the fall; since without the fall man would have passed into the glorified state without death or an intermediate state. Death is a disorganization of the man into two parts; and hades is a continuation of that separation and a detention from full final bliss.
Lake of fire The most awful thought that can occupy the human mind.
This is the second death Alford well says, “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, (Revelation 21:4,) so after that death there is no more life. Revelation 20:10; Matthew 25:41.” There is a deathless life, and a resurrectionless death.
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