Death as Sin's ally must be destroyed along with Sin, while Hades, the grim receptacle of Death's prey (the intermediate rendezvous for the dead, except for martyrs, cf. Revelation 6:10), naturally ceases to have any function. This was the cherished hope of early Christianity as of Judaism (Isaiah 25:8). John's idea of the second death is much more realistic and severe than the Hellenic or the Philonic (cf. de Proem, et Poen. §12, etc.).

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