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of thoughts, on account of which it is said that he neither travels with, nor is a fellow citizen with, nor lives with them. Of the same. -The wise man is a sojourner and an emigrant, from the confused life toward a life fitting for the peaceful and blessed. TITLE 71. —Concerning recompense and retribution on the day of judgment; and that the things laid up for each group are eternal and unending, whether good things, or terrible punishments. Of Saint Irenaeus, bishop of Lugdunum, from the second book of Against Heresies. -But as each one of us, etc. Of the same, from the 5th book of the same. - And the good things from God are eternal and unending, etc. Of Saint Meletius, bishop of Antioch. - And all, both just and unjust, will be brought before the God Logos. For to him the Father has given all judgment, and he himself, fulfilling the counsel of the Father, comes as judge. Whom we call Christ, God become man. For not Minos or Rhadamanthus are the judges, as you hold, O Greeks, but he whom God and the Father glorified, about whom we have discussed in more detail in other writings for those who seek the truth. This one, carrying out the Father's just judgment upon all, has prepared for each what is just according to his own (deeds). Standing before his judgment, both angels and men, and demons will utter to him one voice, saying: Just is your judgment. The retribution of this voice brings what is just upon both groups: to those who have acted well and justly, providing the eternal enjoyment of good things, but to the workers of evil, assigning eternal punishment; and for these the unquenchable fire remains. And a certain fiery worm, not dying, nor corrupting the body, abides, bubbling up from the mouth with unceasing pain. Sleep will not give these rest, nor will the intercession of mediating relatives help them. For the just are no longer seen by them, nor are they considered worthy of remembrance. But only the just remember the just works through which 96.485 they arrived at the heavenly kingdom; in which there is no toil, no grief, no corruption, no care. Of Saint Ephrem, from the (homily) on Cain. -Do not disbelieve, O heretic, that there is a judgment of souls and bodies, since you have proof. Sodom lives, and it is dead; it lives being judged, and it has died, having been rendered powerless. You see the fire, and you do not see it. It smolders, and it does not smoke; it is destroyed, and it is not destroyed; it is diminished, and it has flourished; it has substance, and is useful for nothing. O the wisdom of God! For in refuting He is silent, and in teaching He is not present, and in threatening He is not seen. O the operation of the Godhead! For He has given the sentence in things that do not suffer, He has hinted in the land of Sodom at the future, endless punishment, in order to shut up beforehand the wickedness of the evil, that repentance is not given to the rejected. For just as the land of Sodom has all substance, but is not able to act, so also the impious are then judged, having the substance of their free will and reason, but being deprived of action on account of their punishment. If therefore the sentence continually holds sway in lifeless earth, how much more in rational men? You have before your eyes the fire that burns, and does not consume; you have also the temporary made eternal, and the mortal made immortal. Let us fear the future, learning the terrible things from the examples. TITLE 73. —Concerning the fearsome resurrection. Of Saint Irenaeus, from the 4th (book of) the Refutation and Overthrow of Falsely Called Knowledge. -How they say the flesh, etc. Of the same, from the 5th refutation. -Since we are his members, etc. And after a little. -As therefore he who became a living soul, etc. From the same discourse. -He will transform, he says, the body of our lowliness, etc. Of Saint Justin, the philosopher and martyr, from the (treatise) On the Resurrection. -The word of truth is free and self-determining, etc. This is of the holy hieromartyr Methodius of Patara. -And that is also manifestly absurd, to think that the body will not be with the soul in the life for ages, etc. From the same. - Since he came to be on the borderland of incorruptibility, etc. From the same. -If from such a small drop, etc. Of Saint Titus, bishop of Bostra, from the (work) against

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διαλογισμῶν, δι' οὓς οὔτε συναποδημεῖν, οὔτε συμπολιτεύεσθαι, οὔτε συζῇν λέγεται. Τοῦ αὐτοῦ. -Ὁ σοφὸς μέτοικος καὶ μετανάστης ἐστὶν, ἐκ τοῦ περιπεφυρμένου βίου πρὸς εἰρηναίοις καὶ μακαρίοις πρέπουσαν ζωήν. ΤΙΤΛ. ΟΑʹ. -Περὶ ἀμοιβῆς καὶ ἀνταποδόσεως ἐν ἡμέρᾳ κρίσεως· καὶ ὅτι αἰώνια καὶ ἀτελεύτητα τὰ ἑκατέροις ἀποκείμενα, εἴτε ἀγαθὰ, εἴτε δεινὰ κολαστήρια. Τοῦ ἁγίου Εἰρηναίου ἐπισκόπου Λουγδούνων, ἐκ τοῦ Κατὰ αἱρέσεων βιβλίου βʹ. -Ἀλλ' ὡς εἷς ἕκαστος ἡμῶν, κ. τ. ε. Τοῦ αὐτοῦ, ἐκ τοῦ εʹ βιβλίου τῶν αὐτῶν. - Αἰώνια δὲ καὶ ἀτελεύτητα παρὰ Θεοῦ τὰ ἀγαθά, κ. τ. ε. Τοῦ ἁγίου Μελετίου ἐπισκόπου Ἀντιοχείας. - Πάντες δὲ δίκαιοι καὶ ἄδικοι ἐνώπιον τοῦ Θεοῦ Λόγου ἀχθήσονται. Τούτῳ γὰρ ὁ Πατὴρ τὴν πᾶσαν κρίσιν δέδωκε, καὶ αὐτὸς βουλὴν Πατρὸς ἐπιτελῶν, κριτὴς παραγίνεται. Ὃν Χριστὸν προσαγορεύομεν, Θεὸν ἐνανθρωπήσαντα. Οὐ γὰρ Μινὼς ἢ Ῥαδάμανθος κριταὶ, οἱ καθ' ὑμᾶς, Ἕλληνες, ἀλλ' ὃν ὁ Θεὸς ἐδόξασε καὶ Πατὴρ, περὶ οὗ ἐν ἑτέροις λεπτομερέστερον διεληλύθαμεν πρὸς τοὺς ἐπιζητοῦντας τὴν ἀλήθειαν. Οὗτος τὴν Πατρὸς εἰς πάντας δικαίαν κρίσιν ποιούμενος ἑκάστῳ κατὰ τὸ ἴδιον παρεσκεύασε δίκαιον. Οὗ τῇ κρίσει παραστάντες ἄγγελοί τε καὶ ἄνθρωποι, καὶ δαίμονες μίαν ἀποφθέγξονται αὐτῷ φωνὴν, λέγοντες· ∆ικαία ἡ κρίσις σου. Ἧς φωνῆς τὸ ἀνταπόδομα ἐπ' ἀμφοτέροις τὸ δίκαιον ἐπάγει· τοῖς μὲν εὖ πράξασι καὶ δικαίως τὴν ἀΐδιον τῶν ἀγαθῶν ἀπόλαυσιν παρέχον, τοῖς δὲ τῶν φαύλων ἐργάταις, τὴν ἀΐδιον κόλασιν ἀπονέμον· καὶ τούτοις μὲν τὸ πῦρ ἄσβεστον διαμένει. Σκώληξ δέ τις ἔμπυρος μὴ τελευτῶν, μηδὲ σῶμα διαφθείρων, ἀπαύστῳ ὀδύνῃ ἐκ στόματος ἀναβράσσων παραμένει. Τούτους οὐχ ὕπνος ἀναπαύσει, οὐ παράκλησις συγγενῶν μεσιτευσάντων ὀνήσει. Οὐ γὰρ ἔτι δίκαιοι ὑπ' αὐτῶν ὁρῶνται, οὐδὲ μνήμης γίνονται ἄξιοι. Μόνον δὲ οἱ δίκαιοι δικαίων μέμνηνται ἔργων, δι' ὧν 96.485 ἐπὶ τὴν οὐράνιον βασιλείαν κατήντησαν· ἐν ᾗ οὐ πόνος, οὐ λύπη, οὐ φθορὰ, οὐ φροντίς. Τοῦ ἁγίου Ἐφραὶμ, ἐκ τοῦ εἰς τὸν Κάϊν. -Μὴ ἀπιστήσῃς, αἱρετικὲ, ὅτι ἐστὶ κρίσις ψυχῶν καὶ σωμάτων, ἐπειδὴ ἔχεις τεκμήριον. Σόδομα ζῇ, καὶ νεκρά ἐστι· ζῇ κρινομένη, καὶ τέθνηκε κατηργημένη. Βλέπεις τὸ πῦρ, καὶ οὐχ ὁρᾷς αὐτό. Σμύχεται, καὶ οὐ καπνίζεται· φθείρεται, καὶ οὐ φθείρεται· μειοῦται, καὶ τέθηλεν· ἔχει ὑπόστασιν, καὶ εἰς οὐδέν ἐστι χρήσιμον. Ὢ τῆς τοῦ Θεοῦ σοφίας! ὅτι ἐλέγχων σιωπᾷ, καὶ διδάσκων οὐ πάρεστι, καὶ ἀπειλῶν οὐ φαίνεται. Ὢ τῆς ἐνεργείας τῆς Θεότητος! ὅτι ἔδωκε τὴν ἀπόφασιν ἐν τοῖς μὴ πάσχουσιν, ᾐνίξατο ἐν τῇ γῇ τῶν Σοδόμων τὴν μέλλουσαν ἀπέραντον κόλασιν, ἵνα προαναστομώσῃ τῶν κακῶν τὴν μοχθηρίαν, ὅτι μετάνοια τοῖς ἀποβλητοῖς οὐ δίδοται. Ὥσπερ γὰρ ἡ γῆ Σοδόμων ἔχει πᾶσαν ὑπόστασιν, ἐνεργεῖν δὲ οὐ δύναται, οὕτω καὶ οἱ ἀσεβεῖς τότε κρίνονται, τῆς προαιρέσεως μὲν καὶ τοῦ λογικοῦ ἔχοντες τὴν ὑπόστασιν, ἐστερημένοι δὲ τῆς πράξεως διὰ τὴν κόλασιν. Εἰ τοίνυν ἐν ἀψύχῳ γῇ κρατεῖ διηνεκῶς ἡ ἀπόφασις, πόσῳ μᾶλλον ἐν λογικοῖς ἀνθρώποις; Ἔχεις πρὸ ὀφθαλμῶν τὸ πῦρ τὸ φλέγον, καὶ μὴ καταφλέγον· ἔχεις καὶ τὸ πρόσκαιρον αἰώνιον, καὶ τὸ θνητὸν ἀθάνατον. Φοβηθῶμεν τὸ μέλλον, ἐκ τῶν ὑποδειγμάτων τὰ δεινὰ μανθάνοντες. ΤΙΤΛ. ΟΓʹ. -Περὶ τῆς φοβερᾶς ἀναστάσεως. Τοῦ ἁγίου Εἰρηναίου, ἐκ τοῦ δʹ ἐλέγχου καὶ ἀνατροπῆς τῆς ψευδωνύμου γνώσεως. -Πῶς τὴν σάρκα λέγουσιν, κ. τ. ε. Τοῦ αὐτοῦ, ἐκ τοῦ εʹ ἐλέγχου. -Ἐπειδὴ μέλη αὐτοῦ ἐσμεν, κ. τ. ε. Καὶ μετὰ βραχέα. -Ὡς οὖν ὁ εἰς ψυχὴν ζῶσαν γεγονὼς, κ. τ. ε. Ἐκ τοῦ αὐτοῦ λόγου. -Μετασχηματίσει, φησὶ, τὸ σῶμα τῆς ταπεινώσεως ἡμῶν, κ. τ. ε. Τοῦ ἁγίου Ἰουστίνου τοῦ φιλοσόφου καὶ μάρτυρος, ἐκ τοῦ περὶ ἀναστάσεως. -Ὁ μὲν τῆς ἀληθείας λόγος ἐστὶν ἐλεύθερος καὶ αὐτεξούσιος, κ. τ. ε. Τοῦτο τοῦ ἁγίου ἱερομάρτυρος Μεθοδίου Πατάρων ἐστίν. -Ἄτοπον δὲ κἀκεῖνο προφανῶς, τὸ οἴεσθαι σῶμα ἐν τῇ εἰς αἰῶνας διαγωγῇ μὴ συνέσεσθαι τῇ ψυχῇ, κ. τ. ἑ. Ἐκ τοῦ αὐτοῦ. - Ἐπειδὴ μεθόριος τῆς ἀφθαρσίας ἐγένετο, κ. τ. ἑ. Ἐκ τοῦ αὐτοῦ. -Εἰ ἐκ τοιαύτης σταγόνος βραχείας, κ. τ. ἑ. Τοῦ ἁγίου Τίτου ἐπισκόπου Βόστρων ἐκ τοῦ κατὰ