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 for ever and ever.
That deceived - `that deceiveth,' etc.
Lake of fire - his final doom: as "the bottomless pit" (Revelation 20:1) was his temporary prison.
Where. So 'Aleph ('), Coptic; but A B, Vulgate, Syriac, 'where also.'
The beast and the false prophet are - (Revelation 19:20.)
Day and night - without intermission (Revelation 22:5), such as now night interposes between day and day. The same phrase is used of the eternal state of the blessed (Revelation 4:8). As the bliss is eternal, so the woe must be, As the beast and the false prophet led the former conspiracy against Christ and His people, so Satan in person heads the last. Satan shall be permitted to enter this paradise regained, to show the security of believers, unlike the first Adam, whom Satan robbed of paradise; and shall, like Pharaoh at the Red Sea, receive in this last attempt his final doom,
Forever and ever - `to the ages of the ages.'