XI. Proper status is duplex: joy of heaven for the pious, torment of gehenna for the impious; no third place
XI. These things concerning the common status: the proper status of souls, when they have gone out from the age, is likewise twofold — the status of joy or of the kingdom of the heavens, by which the souls of the pious are received, and of torment, into which the souls of the impious are delivered, which in the same sense is called gehenna (Hypognostics book 5). So Christ teaches (Matthew 25:34, 41; Mark 16:16; Luke 16:23; John 3:18). Hence Irenaeus (book 5, chapter 27), making two orders of the dead, says the impious and blasphemers are sent into eternal fire, while to the just and equitable life is given and eternal brightness is put around them. Tertullian also gathers the same in On Idolatry chapter 13: If we rejoice with the age, it is to be feared lest we mourn with the age hereafter. But let us mourn while the age rejoices, and we shall rejoice when the age afterward mourns.
So Lazarus is about to obtain refreshment in Abraham's bosom; on the contrary the rich man, comforted in the torment of fire, compensates alternating turns of evils and goods by rival retribution. Nor besides these two is there a third place and status of the dead, nor otherwise Fulgentius to Venantius On Penitence chapter 7: That we may know, he says, that those who delight in temporal joys and contemn divine commands are to be burned with eternal fires, but those who patiently bear temporal evils with the fear of God will obtain eternal rest: let us attend to the purple-clad rich man and poor Lazarus. Nor is it to be said that these things have place after the resurrection indeed, but not before it. For as Olympiodorus truly says on Ecclesiastes 1:3: In whatever place a human being is found when he dies, in that grade and order he remains forever. And Augustine to Hesychius (letter 80): In what state each one's own last day finds him, in that the last day of the world will seize him. And sermon On Time 232: Let no one deceive himself, brothers. For there are two places, and there is no third. Whoever has not deserved to reign with Christ will perish with the devil without any doubt.
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XI. Haec de statu communi: proprius animarum, cum de saeculo exierunt, itidem duplex est, status gaudii seu regni coelorum, quo excipiuntur animae piorum, & tormenti, in quem traduntur animae impiorum, qui eodem sensu gehenna dicitur, lib. 5. hypognosticorum. Sic docet Christus Matth. 25.34.41. Marc. 16.16. Luc. 16.23. Joh. 3.18. Hinc Irenaeus lib. 5. cap. 27. duos mortuorum ordines faciens, dicit impios & blasphemos in aeternum ignem mitti, justis & aequis vitam donari & claritatem aeternam circumdari. Tertullianus quoque idem colligit lib. de idololatria cap. 13. Si cum saeculo gaudemus, verendum est ne cum saeculo hinc lugeamus. Saeculo autem gaudente lugeamus, & saeculo postea lugente gaudebimus. Sic Lazarus in sinu Abrahae refrigerium consecuturus, contra dives in tormento ignis consolatus alternas malorum & bonorum vices aemula retributione compensat. Neque praeter hosce duos tertius defunctorum locus & status est, nec aliter Fulgentius ad Venantium de poenitentia cap. 7. Ut, inquit, noverimus illos qui gaudiis temporalibus oblectantur & jussa divina contemnunt, aeternis ignibus cremandos: illos vero qui mala temporalia cum timore Dei patienter tolerant aeterna quiete potituros: attendamus divitem purpuratum & pauperem Lazarum. Neque est quod dicatur, haec post resurrectionem quidem habere locum, ante eam non item. Nam, ut vere Olympiodorus in Eccles. 1.3. In quocunque, ait, loco deprehendatur homo cum moritur, in eo gradu atque ordine permanet in aeternum. Et Augustinus epist. 80. ad Hesychium: In quo quemque invenerit suus novissimus dies, in hoc eum comprehendet mundi novissimus dies. Et serm. de tempore 232. Nemo se decipiat, fratres. Duo enim loca sunt, & tertius non est ullus. Qui cum Christo regnare non meruerit, cum diabolo absque dubitatione ulla peribit.