tormented. Some shall go into outer darkness, where there is weeping and
gnashing of teeth. And others shall be cast into the fire, in accord with their
deserts; for it is written that they shall gnash their teeth, nor is that place
accounted as dark. And some shall be cast into another place, a place
where the worm shall not die and their fire shall not be quenched; and they
shall be a wonder to all flesh. Others shall have the door closed in their
faces, and to them the judge will say, ‘I do not know you’.”
St. Augustine of Hippo, Enchiridion of Faith, Hope and Love 29, 112
(421 AD)
“In vain, therefore, do some men, indeed, very many, because of human
sentiment, bewail the eternal punishment, of the damned and their
perpetual, unending torments, without really believing that it shall be
so...But let them suppose, if it pleases them, that the punishments of the
damned are, at certain periods of time, somewhat mitigated. For even thus
it can be understood that they remain in the wrath of God that is, in
damnation itself, for it is this that is called the ‘wrath of God,’ not some
disturbance in the divine mind: that in His wrath, that is, by their abiding in
His wrath, He does not shut up His mercies; yet He does not put an end to
their eternal punishment, but only applies or interposes some relief to their
torments.”
St. John Damascene, The Source of Knowledge 3, 4, 27 (inter 743-
749 AD)
“We shall rise again, therefore, our souls united again to our bodies, the
latter now made incorruptible and having put corruption aside; and we
shall stand before the awesome tribunal of Christ. And the devil and his
demons, and the man that is his, the Antichrist, and the impious and the
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