Basil of Caesarea, on Luke 12:47

“And that servant who knew the will of his lord, and prepared not himself, and did not according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.”

“(in reg. brev. 267.) But you will say, If the one indeed received many stripes, and the other few, how do some say He assigns no end to punishments? But we must know, that what is here said assigns neither measure nor end of punishments, but their differences. For a man may deserve unquenchable fire, to either a slight or more intense degree of heat, and the worm that dieth not with greater or more violent gnawings.”

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