But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”
A new universe opens before us: not newly fashioned, but newly revealed and filled with heirs at last claiming their own. The glorified bodies of the saints will themselves be spiritual and heavenly, fitted for those bright mansions. All the old world's tumult and sorrow passes away to make room for this perfection.
AI summary
Commenting on Revelation 21:1-8
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and (a) Their lot, and inheritance as it were.
After a description given of the celestial happiness of the righteous at the day of judgment, here follows the eternally miserable condition of the wicked; and eight several sorts of sinners are here summed up, who shall be excluded out of heaven, and cast into hell, namely, the fearful, such as dare not own Christ, or for fear of suffering, have disowned him, or apostatized...