Matthew 23:15 Douay-Rheims

Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you go round about the sea and the land to make one proselyte; and when he is made, you make him the child of hell twofold more than yourselves.

Origen

c. A.D. 184–253 Patristic

From this place we learn that there will be a difference of torment in hell, seeing one is here said to be singly a child of hell, another twofold. And we ought to consider here whether it is possible that a man should be generally a child of hell, as a Jew, suppose, or a Gentile, or whether specially so in consequence of some particular sins; that as a righteous man is increased in glory by the abundance of his righteousnesses, so a sinner’s punishment is increased manifold by the number of his sins.

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A.D. 253 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 23:15

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