Panthenosia: The Composition of All Dissensions

is eternal. Therefore, it is necessary that hell should exist, a place of punishment for those who, after their complete restoration, have sinned, since they can only sin against the Holy Spirit. Wherefore, they will necessarily snatch themselves from the hand of Christ through their own free will, and no one else will do so. This is the eternal punishment.

However, since the Father has given the entire human creation to the Son, Christ, so that no one may snatch it from Him, neither the devil nor man, it is necessary that all humans who ever sinned in the world through weakness, and who have been born to this day, be restored to that absolute condition which they were owed to obtain 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 could there be than that of the Divine, which has for five thousand and five hundred years allowed such people to be born for whom the condition of not being born would be happier?

Christ himself would certainly not be free from manifest impiety if He had not only allowed the wretched man Judas to be born from cursed seed, but had also voluntarily called him to a position which He knew he would lose, to his own greater condemnation. Far be this from the mercy of God. But as an example of those who sell and betray Christ himself with a dissembling heart, He allowed that wretched man to die without the hope of salvation and without Christ, until Satan was absolutely despoiled, not so that He remains ignorant that he sinned through the mutability of his mind and the persuasion of those