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    Supports→The term "lake of fire" and "torment day and night forever and ever" as used in Revelation 20 supports the claim that the punishment of the wicked lasts forever

    Contextual unity within a single pericope requires that shared referents (the lake) carry consistent semantic content across all subjects cast into it.

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    • 1.Semantic consistency of shared referents is necessary for logical coherence within any bounded textual unit.
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    • 2.Readers construct unified meaning by tracking stable object-references; shifting semantic content undermines interpretive reliability.
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    • 3.Pericope boundaries signal authorial intent to create internal coherence, requiring referents to maintain fixed semantic values.
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    • 1.Polysemy and contextual meaning-variance are linguistically natural; requiring uniform semantic content over-constrains language use.
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    • 2.Symbolic or metaphorical shifts in the same referent within one pericope create intentional semantic richness, not logical failure.
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    • 3.Pericope divisions are often editorial impositions, not authorial markers, so they cannot ground claims about semantic unity requirements.
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    All sources support it1 linkedEternal Conscious Torment1 linkedProof of definition segments1 linked
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