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in the future resurrection of the dead, each of these finds according to its worth a dwelling place full of light or of darkness. Those that are pure and have partaken of light and have lit their own lamps will surely be in unwaning light; but those that are impure and have the eyes of their heart blind and are full of darkness, how then will they see the divine light? You would say, not at all. Therefore, tell me, who will hear the pleas of these after their fate and open the eyes of these, alas, who willingly did not wish to see nor to light the soul’s lamp? Lightless darkness, therefore, will receive them. But the bodies, as we have said, of the saints also are equally corrupted and decay, (368) but they are raised as they were sown, pure wheat, sanctified wheat, holy vessels of the Holy Spirit; as they were most pure, they are raised again glorified, shining, flashing, like the divine light. The souls of the saints, having dwelt in these, will then shine brighter than the sun and will become like the Master, whose divine laws they kept. But those of the sinners rise up again as they too were sown in the earth: muddy, foul-smelling, full of rottenness, profane vessels, tares of wickedness, utterly gloomy as having done the works of darkness and having served as instruments of all kinds of evil for the wicked sower; but these too rise up immortal and spiritual, yet resembling darkness. Therefore miserable souls united to these, being themselves gloomy and impure, will become like the devil, as having imitated his works and kept his commandments, with whom they will also be assigned to unquenchable fire, having been sent over to darkness and Tartarus, or rather, these will be brought down in proportion to the weight, according to the worth of the sins which each one bears, and there he will spend ages of ages. (369) But the saints, as we have said, again, each one lifted up on the wings of virtues

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ἐν τῇ μελλούσῃ τῶν νεκρῶν ἀναστάσει, τούτων ἑκάστη κατ᾿ ἀξίαν εὑρίσκει τό κατάλυμα φωτός ἤ σκότους πλῆρες. Αἰ μέν καθαραί καί φωτός μετασχοῦσαι καί ἀνάψασαι τάς ἑαυτῶν λαμπάδας ἔσονται πάντως ἐν φωτί ἀνεσπέρῳ˙ αἱ δ᾿ ἀκάθαρτοι καί τυφλά τῆς καρδίας ἔχουσαι τά ὄμματα καί σκότους πλήρεις, πῶς ἄρα θεάσονται φέγγος τό θεῖον; Εἴπῃς οὐδαμῶς˙ τούτων οὖν, εἰπέ μοι, τίς δεομένων μετά πότμον ἀκούσει καί διανοίξει ὀφθαλμούς τούτων, οἴμοι, τῶν ἑκουσίως βλέψαι μή βουληθέντων μηδέ ἀνάψαι τήν ψυχικήν λαμπάδα; Σκότος οὖν ἐκδέξεται ἀφεγγές τούτους. Τά σώματα δέ, ὡς εἴπομεν, ἐπίσης φθείρονται καί σήπονται καί τῶν ἁγίων, (368) ἀλλ᾿ ἐγείρονται, οἷα ταῦτα ἐσπάρη, σῖτος καθαρός, σῖτος ἡγιασμένος, τοῦ Ἁγίου Πνεύμτος ἅγια σκεύη˙ ὡς ὑπάρξαντα καθαρώτατα πάνυ ἐξεγείρονται αὖθις δεδοξασμένα, λάμποντα, ἀστράπτοντα, ὡς φῶς τό θεῖον. Τούτοις ἐνοικήσασαι ψυχαί ἁγίων ὑπέρ γε τόν ἥλιον λάμψουσι τότε καί γενήσονται ὅμοιοι τοῦ ∆εσπότου, οὗτινος ἐτήρησαν τούς θείους νόμους. Τῶν δ᾿ ἁμαρτωλῶν ἐξανίστανται αὖθις, οἷα καί αὐτά ἐν τῇ γῇ κατεσπάρη βορβορώδη, δύσοσμα, σαπρίας πλήρη, σκεύη βέβηλα, ζιζάνια κακίας, πάνυ ζοφώδη ὡς τά τοῦ σκότους ἔργα πράξαντα καί ὄργανα κακῶν παντοίων χρηματίσαντα τοῦ πονηροῦ σπορέως˙ ἐξανίστανται δ᾿ ἀθάνατα καί ταῦτα καί πνευματικά, πλήν ἐοικότα σκότει. Τούτοις οὖν ψυχαί ἄθλιαι ἑνωθεῖσαι, ζοφώδεις αὗται καί ἀκάθαρτοι οὖσαι, ὅμοιοι γενήσονται τῷ διαβόλῳ ὡς τά ἐκείνου μιμησάμεναι ἔργα καί τάς ἐκείνου τηρήσασαι προστάξεις, μεθ᾿ οὗ καί ταχθήσονται πυρί ἀσβέστῳ, τῷ σκότει καί ταρτάρῳ παραπεμφθεῖσαι, μᾶλλον δέ αὗται κατά ἀναλογίαν καταχθήσονται τοῦ βάρους, κατ᾿ ἀξίαν τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν, ὧν ἕκαστος βαστάζει κἀκεῖ διάξει εἰς αἰῶνας αἰώνων. (369) Οἱ δέ ἅγιοι, ὥσπερ εἴπομεν, πάλιν τῶν ἀρετῶν ἕκαστος πτεροῖς ἀρθέντες