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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Oecumenius
And if anyone was not found written in the little scroll of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire. But those who are said to have been in sins and are not worthy of the inscription in life have suffered equally. And if he said that those who are in the middle of the sinners are cast into the lake of fire together with the Devil and the Antichrist, for he said this above, do not be surprised, for there too there is a varied punishment, just as with fever: one kind is burning and continuous, another is lesser and mild, even if all …
Irenaeus
And in the Apocalypse John saw this new [Jerusalem] descending upon the new earth. For after the times of the kingdom, he says, "I saw a great white throne, and Him who sat upon it, from whose face the earth fled away, and the heavens; and there was no more place for them." And he sets forth, too, the things connected with the general resurrection and the judgment, mentioning "the dead, great and small." "The sea," he says, "gave up the dead which it had in it, and death and hell delivered up the dead that they contained; and the …
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
The "Book of Life" is not for jogging God's memory lest he forget. It is a figure of the predestination of those who are to receive eternal life. We are not to imagine that God does not know them and has to read in his books to find out who they are. On the contrary, the Book of Life is precisely his infallible prescience of those inscribed therein, whose very registration there means only that they are foreknown by him.
Bede
And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life. That is, who was not judged by God to be alive. Hence, it seems more correct to say, as those who interpret the open books as the consciences of individuals and their revealed works. The book of life, however, is the foreknowledge of God (which cannot be mistaken) concerning those to whom eternal life will be given, in which they are written, that is, foreknown. …
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