For here, whatever suffering may occur, each of them has some consolation and ends in death, and there is suffering, fierce suffering without any consolation, suffering not only in word, but also in the mind; suffering that will always be, but never ends: "Their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched," says the prophet (Isaiah 66:24). Whoever believes this, pondering and often remembering this terrible misfortune, can be stirred up to the most zealous repentance, in order to be delivered from that calamity; but whoever does not believe will taste of it by the very work of sorrow, and without end, as it is said, he will eat. Those who are pious enter into blessed eternity, who have been justified by faith in Christ, the Son of God, and who have finished their lives in the living faith, whom Christ Himself, pleasing, calls to that blessedness: "Come, ye blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world, for I was hungry, and you gave Me to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and you received me; I was naked, and you clothed me; was sick, and you visited me; I was in prison, and you came to me" (Matthew 25:34-36). Unrepentant sinners will be cast into troubled eternity, whom Christ will send away from Himself as ungrateful: "Depart from me, you cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels, for I was hungry, and you did not give me to eat; I was thirsty, and you did not give me to drink; I was a stranger, and they did not receive Me; I was naked, and they did not clothe me; sick and in prison, and have not visited me" (Matthew 25:41-43). "And these go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life" (Matt. 25:46). Both go, but not equally: some with inconsolable weeping and weeping, and others with inexpressible joy and rejoicing. For they go to unequal places: some to the abode of the Heavenly Father, to the adorned palaces of the King of glory, to the great supper, infinitely rejoicing, and to the most sweet marriage of the Lamb, and others to the eternal prison and the place of weeping, weeping, and torment of the most delightful. Some will be received by heaven with all the good things "which eye has not seen, ear has not heard, and has not entered into the heart of man" (1 Corinthians 2:9), while others are imprisoned by hell with all the wicked, whom we cannot depict with words or with our minds. Amen.