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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
Moreover, who can agree with the thesis that you [the Pelagians] set down as your next heading: "In the day of judgment, no leniency shall be shown to the ungodly and to sinners, but they shall be consumed in eternal fires," for you prevent God from showing mercy, and you pass judgment on the sentence of the judge before judgment day, so that if he wanted to spare the unjust and the sinner, he could not, in view of your prescription? …
Thomas Aquinas
63. And he shall destroy the wicked. Here he places the destruction of the obstinate. And concerning this, he does three things: first, he proclaims their destruction; second, the manner of their destruction, where it says, for they shall be confounded (Isa 1:29); third, he takes away the hope of escape, where it says, and your strength shall be as the ashes of tow (Isa 1:31). And because the punishment is ordered against the fault, therefore, concerning the first, he touches on the fault in two ways. …
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