Don't forget that Hell is supposed to be as much a punishment for Satan as the rest of the people there. According to Dante's Inferno, the higher levels have punishments like being whipped and wallowing in muck while the very lowest levels, are full of ice and the lower down you are the more encased in ice you are, the penultimate level's denizens are completed encased in ice while the unlucky people in the lowest level are held inside Lucifer's mouth. He being completely encased in ice.
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