There shall no more be an infant of days there, nor an old man that shall not fill up his days: for the child shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed.
Francis Patrick Kenrick
Lit. " Upon the heart" M The Church, especially Jn her triumphant state. u No one shall be prematurely taken out of life. A man dying at the age of a hundred years shall be deemed a child in regard la the general longevity, and his death shall be considered a punishment which his sins provoked. This seems to refer to a state of great longevity ; but it may be understood of the Church, in which the regenerated Infant has the privileges of mature virtue, and the aged man may pos- sess the innocence of childhood. Age, however, does not shelter the sinner. St Jerome explains it of the resurrection: " At that time, when all shall be of the same age, and the saint and the sinner shall be perfected by a like resurrection, they shall not differ one from the other in time, but the one shall receive rewards, the other shall be dragged to punishment The sinner shall be accursed, inasmuch as he shall suffer eternal punishment his body remaining undissolved."
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