The Enchiridion 111

St Augustine of Hippo (AD 354–430) · De fide spe et charitate · PL 40, 230–290

111 After the Resurrection There Shall Be Two Distinct Kingdoms, One of Eternal Happiness, the Other of Eternal Misery PL 40, 284

After the resurrection, however, when the final, universal judgment has been completed, there shall be two kingdoms, each with its own distinct boundaries, the one Christ’s, the other the devil’s; the one consisting of the good, the other of the bad,—both, however, consisting of angels and men. The former shall have no will, the latter no power, to sin, and neither shall have any power to choose death; but the former shall live truly and happily in eternal life, the latter shall drag a miserable existence in eternal death without the power of dying; for the life and the death shall both be without end. But among the former there shall be degrees of happiness, one being more pre-eminently happy than another; and among the latter there shall be degrees of misery, one being more endurably miserable than another.

Duae civitates post judicium in aeterna vel beatitudine vel miseria. Post resurrectionem vero facto universo completoque judicio, suos fines habebunt civitates duae, una scilicet Christi, altera diaboli; una bonorum, altera malorum; utraque tamen et angelorum et hominum. Istis voluntas, illis facultas non poterit ulla esse peccandi, vel ulla conditio moriendi; istis in aeterna vita vere feliciterque viventibus, illis infeliciter in aeterna morte sine moriendi potestate durantibus, quoniam utrique sine fine. Sed in beatitudine isti alius alio praestabilius, in miseria vero illi alius alio tolerabilius permanebunt.

Philip Schaff (ed.), Buffalo/New York: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1886-1889. Public domain: English translation first published 1885-1900 (Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series). Latin: Migne, Patrologia Latina (1844-1855), public domain; transcription from Corpus Corporum (University of Zurich).

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