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Rev 20:10. Καὶ βασανισθήσονται) The more recent Latin copies badly omit καὶ:[221] and thence construe it thus, where both the beast and the false prophet shall be tormented; as though the devil himself were not to be tormented. The purity of the text is the more to be defended in this place, lest the casting of the beast and the false prophet into the lake of fire previously to that of the devil should be obliterated, whereas the particle καὶ necessarily infers it. [Not until now does the punishment of Satan commence. Until this limit he continues to sin without restraint, if you except his imprisonment during the thousand years, during which there is an interruption of his worst doings.-V. g.]
[221] A Vulg. and Rec. Text support καί; h omits it: also it and Vulg. read the plur. pseudoprophetæ.-E.