Image: “Lot and His Family Flee from Sodom,” by Gustave Dore (1832-1883), in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flight_of_Lot.png … public domain … COMMENTS: It is possible the notion that Satan fell into a lake of fire might have come from people’s experience of volcanic eruptions and lava flows in Biblical times. Such, for instance, might have the experience of Lot when Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed. –Alice B. Clagett