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unmeasurable good things there. About hell, I can tell
you frankly that there is nothing there except complete sorrow and
suffering, that is, the most agonizing and the most horrible,
so grievous that there is no equal to it. And yet if all the
sons of Adam were damned, it would not be filled with them,
though they were twice as many, having there
perils, harm, and perpetual torments. For it will last forever from the time
when they were condemned there, so long
as God is who is without end and without beginning,
and they will burn there in eternal fire without hope of any
relief or mercy, and without any hope of ever having anything
better but instead everything getting worse from day to day. Just as it is
that the saved wish for the day of judgment so that they might be
saved and glorified in body and soul, so the damned fear it,
thinking that after that day they will be perpetually tormented
in body and soul. This is because before that dreadful day they are not
tormented in body, but they are in soul. I have discussed
this matter briefly so that you may know with certainty that
there is not, nor will there be, any good deed that will not be recompensed, nor any