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In
no good man there will remorse be displayed, and in no evil one well-being,
but everyone there present will experience his individual deserving.
Therefore he who wants to have life at the Lord's hands must make
haste while existence and soul, secure together, are his. May he diligently
care for the candour of his soul under God's will and be wary in words
and deeds and habits and thoughts as long as this world, wandering
on in the darkness, is permitted to shine for him, so that in this
transient time he does not forfeit the abundance of his joys, and
the tally of his days, and the splendour of his achievement, and the
reward of celestial glory that the King of heaven steadfast in truth
will give in that sacred time, as rewards of victory to those who
diligently obey him in their spirits. |
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Then
heaven and hell will be filled with the children of mortals, with
the souls of men. The depths will swallow up God's adversaries; leaping
flame will punish men of malignant disposition, the arch-offenders,
and never will it let them go in relief to their redemption, but the
holocaust will hem in the tightly restricted throng and harass the
children of iniquities. It seems to me reckless that mortals possessed
of a spirit will not give heed in their heart, when they commit crime,
to what the Ruler has ordained as the punishment for them, those evil
people, when life and death swallow up souls: the home of torments
will be open and revealed for the reception of renegades, and people
diligent in wickedness shall fill it with their swarthy souls. Then
in punishment of their sins the swarm of those deemed culpable will
be dissevered, the despised from the saintly, into painful destruction.
There thieves and arch-criminals, deceivers and adulterers shall have
no hope of life, and perjurers shall see the reward of crime, harsh
and extremely severe. Then hell will receive the multitude of the
faithless and the Ruler will resign them to fiends in perdition; being
guilty, they will suffer appalling deadly harm. Miserable will be
the man who chooses to commit deeds of wickedness so that, being guilty,
he shall be dissevered from his Creator at the day of judgement, down
into death, in subjection to the brood of hell, in the scorching fire
in a dungeon of flame, where they will offer their limbs for binding
and burning and scourging in punishment of their sins. Then the Holy
Ghost, by the might of God at the word of the King, will lock up hell,
that hugest house of torment filled with fire, and the host of his
enemies. It will be the extremest anguish for devils and for men.
It is a house devoid of joy where no one may ever shed his chill shackles.
They violated the word of the King, the divine commandment of the
Scriptures; therefore they will have to languish in perpetuity and
go on suffering endless pain, being guilty of wicked deeds, such as
here rejected the majesty of the kingdom of heaven. |
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