Salvation is graded ever upward until it culminates in the glorious condition of exaltation. So [also] damnation is graded; else what did the Lord mean as recorded in the twelfth chapter of Mark. ... “These shall receive greater damnation”? Well, if there be a greater damnation there are lesser degrees of damnation and the term is used in the sense of deprivation and forfeiture. That man enters into a degree of damnation who has forfeited his opportunities and therefore has rendered himself incapable of the advancement that would otherwise be possible.