Revelation 20:13

And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. DEATH AND HELL - Hades. The essential identity of the dying and risen body is shown; for the sea and grave give up their dead. The body that sinned or served God shall, in righteous retribution, be the body also that shall suffer, or be rewarded. The "sea" may have a symbolical (Cluver from Augustine) meaning, as in ; ; ; ; . But the literal sense holds good: all the...

11-15 After the events just foretold, the end will speedily come; and there is no mention of any thing else, before the appearing of Christ to judge the world. This will be the great day: the Judge, the Lord Jesus Christ, will then put on majesty and terror. The persons to be judged are the dead, small and great; young and old, low and high, poor and rich. None are so mean, but they have some talents to account for; and none so great, as to avoid having to account for them. Not only those alive at the coming of Christ, but all the dead. There is a book of remembrance both for good and bad: and the book of the sinner's conscience, though formerly secret, will then be opened. Every man will recollect all his past actions, though he had long forgotten many of them. Another book shall be opened, the book of the Scriptures, the rule of life; it represents the Lord's knowledge of his people,...

Verse Revelation 20:13. _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_] αιδης, _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_....

AND THE SEA GAVE UP THE DEAD WHICH WERE IN IT - All that had been buried in the depths of ocean. This number in the aggregate will be great. If we include all who were swept off by the flood, and all who have perished by shipwreck, and all who have been killed in naval battles and buried in the sea, and all who have been swept away by inundations of the ocean, and all who have peacefully died at sea, as sailors, or in the pursuits of commerce or benevolence, the number in the aggregate will be immense - a number so vast that it was proper to notice them particularly in the account of the general resurrection and the last judgment. AND DEATH AND HELL DELIVERED UP THE DEAD WHICH WERE IN THEM - That is, all the dead came, from all regions where they were scattered - on the land and in the ocean - in this world and in the invisible world. “Death and hell” are here personified, and are repres...

EXPOSITION REVELATION 20:1 AND I SAW AN ANGEL COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN; _coming down out of heaven. _The usual mode of introducing a new vision (cf. Revelation 4:1, etc.). On account of Revelation 1:18, some have considered this angel to be Christ himself; but this is incorrect. As in Revelation 12:7, an angel is the immediate agent in this expulsion of Satan (_vide infra_)_._ HAVING THE KEY OF THE BOTTOMLESS PIT; _the abyss; _as in...

AND THE SEA GAVE UP THE DEAD WHICH WERE IN IT,.... Which is not to be interpreted metaphorically of the world, and the men of it, who are like the troubled sea; but literally of the sea, and of all such who have been drowned in the waters of it, as were Pharaoh and his host; or have died upon the mighty waters, and have been cast into them, and devoured by the fishes; and particular regard may be had to the men of the old world, drowned by the flood; these shall be raised from thence; the sea shall deliver them up: now this, and what is expressed in the next clause, will not be done after the judgment is set, the books are opened, and the sentence passed, but before all this, and in order to it, as the last clause of this verse shows: AND DEATH AND HELL DELIVERED UP THE DEAD WHICH WERE IN THEM; "death", which is here represented as a person, and elsewhere as a king, reigning and having...

Revelation 20:11 _And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them._ Driven, like chaff before the wind, from the face of him who sat upon the throne. Revelation 20:12. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not

HELL (_ See Scofield) - (Luke 16:23). _...

CHAPTER S 20:7-22:5 After the Thousand Years and the New Jerusalem _ 1. Satan's last revolt (Revelation 20:7)_ 2. The great white throne (Revelation 20:11) 3. The eternal state (Revelation 21:1) 4. The vision of the holy city (Revelation 21:9) 5. The glories of the redeemed (Revelation 22:1) Revelation 20:7 . Satan who was put into the abyss a thousand years before, is

THE GENERAL RESURRECTION. Revelation 20:11. great white throne: in contrast to the thrones of Revelation 20:4. In the final judgment there is but one throne, since there is but one judge (Swete); white symbolises the purity of the judgment. FLED AWAY: _cf._ Revelation 16:20. Revelation 20:12. the dead: _i.e._ the rest of the dead who did not share in the first resurrection. BOOKS. BOOK: the books contained the record of the acts and deeds of men, the book of life contained the names of the redeemed....