Panthenosia: The Composition of All Dissensions

is eternal. Therefore it is necessary that there be hell, a place of punishment for those who sinned after the full restoration, since they cannot sin except against the Holy Spirit. Wherefore they will necessarily seize themselves from the hand of Christ by their own will, and no one else. This is the eternal punishment. But since the Father gave the whole human creature to the Son, Christ, so that no one could snatch it from Him, neither the devil nor man: it is necessary that all men who ever sinned in the world through infirmity, and who have been born to this day, be restored to that absolute condition which they ought to have attained from Adam without sin. For since it is better not to be born than to be separated from God even for a moment, such that you think yourself damned, what greater injustice, I ask, could there be than the divine, which for five thousand five hundred years already allowed such men to be born, for whom the condition of not being born would be happier? Christ himself would certainly not be free from manifest impiety, who would have allowed wretched man Judas not only to be born from cursed seed, but would have freely called him, to his greater condemnation, to a rank which he knew he would lose. Let this be far from the mercy of God. But as an example of those who sell and betray Christ himself with a dissembling mind, He allowed that wretch, until Satan was absolutely despoiled, to die outside the hope of salvation and without Christ, not that He does not know he sinned by the mutability of his mind and the persuasion of those...