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The Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus (3) (Metropolitan Ierotheos of Nafpaktos and Ayios Vlasios)

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Sixth. While Lazarus was in the bosom of Abraham, the rich man was burning in hades. Indeed, he would beg Abraham to send Lazarus to cool his tongue, because ‘I am in agony in this flame’. The place the rich man is in is hades, not hell. Hell begins after Christ’s Second Coming and the Judgement. After their separation from the body, the souls of sinners dwell in hades. According to the teachings of the Holy Fathers, hades is a spiritual location, a foretaste of hell, when people will endure God’s energy as fire. There were lengthy discussion on these issues at the Council of Ferrara-Florence, and the revealing views and teaching of Saint Mark of Ephesus have survived. The fire in ...

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