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shall have no other inheritance than what they thus
choose for themselves. This will be the dreadful fire of
hell, which is a pool of burning sulphur,
full of darkness
and stench, where for each of the damned there shall be
different pains and torments according to the abomina
tions committed by each one; but all of them shall be
eternal and connected with the loss of the divine and
beatific vision enjoyed by the saints. This shall be the
second death, from which there shall be no salvation;
because those overtaken by
it have not availed themselves
of the Redemption from the first death of sin through
the Redeemer and his blessed Mother in grace.
Still de
scribing his vision the Evangelist proceeds :
24. "And there came one of the seven angels, who
had the vials full of the seven last plagues, and spoke
with me, saying Come and I will show thee the Bride,
:
and the
the Wife of the Lamb." I saw that this angel
others were of the highest and closest to the throne of
the blessed Trinity; and that they were endowed with
special powers to chastise the presumption of men who
should commit the above-mentioned sins, after the mys
tery of the Redemption, the life, teaching and death of
the Savior had been proclaimed, and the excellence and
power of his most blessed Mother in assisting the sin
ners had become known. And as, in the course of time,
these sacraments, with their miracles and enlightenment,
with the example of the saints, and especially that of the
apostolic men, of the founders of religious communities,
and of the great number of martyrs and confessors, have
become more and more manifest: therefore the sins of
men in the last ages are more heinous and detestable,
their ingratitude toward such blessings is more abomi
nable and worthy of greater punishments. Consequently
they rouse so much the greater indignation and wrath of
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