872. [verse 14] 'And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire' signifies that the wicked-hearted, who in themselves were devils and satans and yet in external things like men of the Church, were cast down into hell among those who were in the love of evil and consequently in the love of untruths agreeing with evil. By 'death and hell' are signified the wicked-hearted who interiorly in themselves were devils and satans, and yet in external things like the men of the Church, as above (n. 870). By 'the lake of fire' is signified hell, where those are who are in the love of evil and consequently in the love of the untruth agreeing with evil, thus who love evil and confirm it by reasonings derived from the natural man, and still more those who confirm it by means of the sense of the letter of the Word. These cannot interiorly in themselves do other than deny God, for this lies concealed in evil of life confirmed by untruths. The 'lake' signifies where there is untruth in abundance, and 'fire' signifies the love of evil, as above (n. 835, 864). Its being said that 'death and hell were cast into the lake of fire' is in accordance with angelic speech, in which persons are not named but that which is in the person and makes him, here what in the person makes his death and hell. That this is the case can be seen from the fact that hell cannot be cast into hell.