More Endless Realities According To The Church Fathers
by Tom Logan
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     And may the Lord be with you now, and to endless ages, constitutions of the the holy apostles for to Thee belongs all glory and worship, and thanksgiving, honor and adoration, the Father, with the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, both now and always, and for everlasting, and endless ages for ever. ---Constitutions Of  The Holy Apostles Recognititions Of Clement, book1 ch 22

ETERNITY OF PUNISHMENTS

     "But if any persist in impiety till the end of life, then as soon as the soul, which is immortal, departs, it shall pay the penalty of its persistence in impiety. For even the souls of the impious are immortal, though
perhaps they themselves would wish them to end with their bodies. But it is not so; for they endure without end the torments of eternal fire, and to their destruction they have not the quality of mortality. ---Pseudo Clementine Literature

IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL

     "And though by the dissolution of the body you should escape punishment, how shall you be able by corruption to flee from your soul, which is incorruptible? For the soul even of the wicked is immortal,
for whom it were better not to have it incorruptible. For, being punished with endless torture trader unquenchable fire, and never dying, it can receive no end of its misery. ---Homily ch 11

     For I am afflicted about thy destruction, and I am not disturbed about my own suffering. For my suffering takes up a space of one day, or two at most; but thy torment for endless ages shall never come to a close. Wherefore henceforward cease from adding to thy miseries, and lighting up everlasting fire for thyself. ---Acts And Martyrdom Of Andrew

     But I shall ask thee one thing, O child: that impious Herod, where is he? The child says to him: Since thou hast asked, hear his dwelling-place. He dwells, indeed, in Hades; and there has been prepared for him fire unquenchable, Gehenna without end, bubbling mire, worm that sleeps not, because he cut off three thousand infants, ---Acts And Martyrdom Andrew

     The irrational creatures are better than man, because they have no punishment; but Thou hast taken us, and given us up to judgment. Woe to the sinners in the world to come! because their judgment is
endless, and the flame unquenchable. ---Revelations Of Esdras

     And if infants are delivered from this I bondage of sin by the Redeemer's grace, they can suffer only this death which separates soul and body; but being redeemed from the obligation of sin, they do not pass
to that second endless and penal death. ---Augustine

     For by them so great a sin was committed, that by it the human nature was altered for the worse, and was transmitted also to their posterity, liable to sin and subject to death. And the kingdom of death so
reigned over men, that the deserved penalty of sin would have hurled all headlong even into the second death, of which there is no end, had not the undeserved grace of God saved some therefrom ---Augustine
 

     These are the bishops who are entrusted by us with the parishes in the Lord; whose doctrine keep ye always in mind, and observe our words. And may the Lord be with you now, and to endless ages, as
Himself said to us when He was about to be taken up to His own God and Father. ---Constitutions Of The Apostles

     Thee belongs all glory and worship, and thanksgiving, honor and adoration, the Father, with the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, both now and always, and for everlasting, and endless ages for ever. ---Constitutions Of The Apostles
 

     And not only is this uncertain, but there is for often when life has been extended for a long period, the conditions of luxury have not been extended with it, but have come, and at the same time hastily departed. However, if pared with the endless ages, and those bitter deed both good and evil things have an end, and that very speedily: but there, both are co-extensive with immortal ages, and in their quality differ  unspeakably from the things which now are. ---Chrysostom Letters To Theodore

     Do you propose a period of a hundred years or twice as long? and what is this compared with the endless ages? For what the dream of a single day is in the midst of a whole lifetime, that the enjoyment of
things here is as contrasted with the state of things to come. Is there then any one who, for the sake of seeing a good dream, would elect to be perpetually punished? ---Chrysostom Letters To Theodore

     And do thy best to manifest a life like his, and then assuredly thou shalt depart one day to join the same company with him, not to dwell with him for five years as thou didst here, nor for 20, or 100, nor for a thousand or twice that number but for infinite and endless ages. ---Chrysostom Letters To Theodore

     Which for the sake of their irreligious heresy they have been at the pains to frame among themselves; because to God and the Father is due the glory, honor, and worship with His co-existent Son and Word,
together with the All-holy and Life-giving Spirit, now and unto endless ages of ages. Amen. ---Athanasius

     He gives to the years of human life the longest number, according to the Psalmist's computation, and then compares this atom-interval with the endless ages, and pities the vain glory of those who excite themselves for such low and petty and perishable things. ---Gregory Of Nyssa

     He gave him his choice, to have the one or the other of those things, good or evil, I mean, in which of the two parts he liked:  either in this short and transitory life, or in those endless ages, ---ibid.

     May He keep you all well-pleasing in His sight! To whom be the glory, and the power unto the endless ages of eternity. Amen. ---Cyril

     He ever keep you in good works, and words, and thoughts; to Whom be glory, honor, and power, through our Lord Jesus Christ, with the Holy Ghost, now and ever, and unto all the endless ages of
eternity. Amen. ---ibid.

     Your very alms and those who shall be aided by your gifts shall intercede for you, that you may be always ready for every good work in Christ Jesus our LORD, Who lives and reigns for ages without end. Amen. ---Leo Bishop Of Rome

     For it is not right that private laws should be severer than public. Let faults be forgiven, let bonds be loosed offenses wiped out, designs of vengeance fall through, that the holy festival through the Divine and human grace may find all happy, all innocent: through our Lord Jesus Christ Who with the Father and the
Holy Spirit liveth and reigneth God for endless ages of ages. Amen. ---ibid.

     For He it is, to whom the Father said, ‘Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness s, (Genesis i. 26), who also was seen in His own Person by the patriarchs, gave the law, spoke by the prophets, and at last, became man, and manifested His own Father to all men, and reigns to never-ending ages. ---Athanasius