It is also fortuitous, we might say, because it resurrects the situation of the early Church, which, although the historical record is notoriously [End Page 22] difficult to capture in any satisfying precision, was not in total agreement on this question.
The question is, as is now becoming clear, the extent to which we can assign salvation whether in the mode of hope and possibility or of certainty to the demons and the devil.
In this article, I intend to answer two questions: first, whether it is a fact of Revelation that the devil is consigned to hell everlastingly, and, if so, how we know; and second, what the answer to the first [End Page 23] question tells us about the possibility of the salvation of all human beings.
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