Revelation 20:13

The Great White Throne Judgment

11 Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face ^athe earth and the heaven fled away. ^bAnd there was found no place for them.

12 And I saw the dead, ^asmall and great, standing before¹ God, ^band books were opened. And another ^cbook was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged ^daccording to their works, by the things which were written in the books.

13 The sea gave up the dead who were in it, ^aand Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them. ^bAnd they were judged, each one according to his works.

14 Then ^aDeath and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. ^bThis is the second death.

15 And anyone not found written in the Book of Life ^awas cast into the lake of fire.

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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The sea gave up the dead - Those who had been drowned in it, and those millions slain in naval contests, who had no other grave.

And death - All who died by any kind of disease. Death is here personified, and represented as a keeper of defunct human beings; probably no more than earth or the grave is meant, as properly belonging to the empire of death.

And hell - ̔ , Hades, the place of separate spirits. The sea and death have the bodies of all human beings; hades has their spirits. That they may be judged, and punished or rewarded according to their works, their bodies and souls must be reunited; hades, therefore, gives up the spirits; and the sea and the earth give up the bodies.

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