Bible Dictionaries
Lake of Fire

　　That particular conception of future punishment represented as ‘the Lake of Fire’ is found only in the Apocalypse of St. John among the Christian writings of the Apostolic Age. For a fuller account of the early history of the conception see ‘Introductory’ and ‘Christian’ sections of ‘Cosmology and Cosmogony’ in Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics[Note: BE Sacred Books of the East.][Note: AT Zimmern-Winckler’s ed. of the preceding (a totally distinct work), 1902-03.][Note: Zimmern-Winckler’s ed. of the preceding (a totally distinct work), 1902-03.] , 1911, ii. 40f.; M. Jastrow, The Rel. of Bab. and Assyrian ‘Fire’ in Dict. of Christ and the Gospels