Revelation 20:10

And the devil that deceived them Lit. that deceiveth, but the sense is general: as if we were to say "their deceiver."

into the lake&c. Revelation 19:20.

where Read, where also.

the beast and the false prophetare] It might be better to supply were cast. That they are there still, not consumed by their more than thousand years of torment, is not stated in this clause but is in the next.

shall be&c. To prevent ambiguity we should render, they shall be, all three of them.

for ever and ever Lit. to the ages of the ages, as strong an expression for absolute endlessness as Biblical language affords. The expression "day and night" seems hardly consistent with the view often expressed, that the eternity here spoken of is unaccompanied with a sense of duration like that which we call time.