“For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;”
For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment — the reference to sinning angels draws on intertestamental tradition (1 Enoch, Jude) concerning the sons of God in Genesis 6. The casting into Tartarus (tartaroō) represents the most severe punishment; these are not fallen angels in general but those who overstepped the boundaries. The chains of darkness (seirais zophon) suggest irreversible binding.
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