The Enchiridion 57

sant'Agostino d'Ippona (354–430 d.C.) · De fide spe et charitate · PL 40, 230–290

57 The Condition of the Church in Heaven PL 40, 259

But of that part of the Church which is in heaven what can we say, except that no wicked one is found in it, and that no one has fallen from it, or shall ever fall from it, since the time that “God spared not the angels that sinned,” as the Apostle Peter writes, “but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment?”

Stabilitas Ecclesiae coelestis. Sed de illa quae in coelo est, affirmare quid possumus, nisi quod nullus in ea malus est, nec quisquam deinceps inde cecidit aut casurus est, ex quo Deus angelis peccantibus non pepercit, sicut scribit apostolus Petrus; sed carceribus caliginis inferi retrudens tradidit in judicio puniendos reservari ?

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).