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Medieval 1274 · Historical Christian Faith commentaries database, on Rev 14:10 (Breviloquium, Part 7)

Bonaventure, on Rev 14:10

Bonaventure · c. A.D. 1221–1274
Rev 14:10 · Douay-Rheims
“He also shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is mingled with pure wine in the cup of his wrath, and shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the sight of the holy angels, and in the sight of the Lamb.”
On this verse:
“Since the punishment for lustful disorder must be afflictive, because delight is punished through contrary sorrow: and the rational spirit in sinning turns itself to its own good and to what is present and partial, loving it lustfully, and from this despises the divine command and dominion: hence it is that, in order that that wicked delight be perfectly punished, in which there is simultaneously delight with contempt, it is necessary that for the punishment of that contempt and delight the sinner, whether man or spirit, be cast down into the lowest place and most distant from the state of glory, that is, into the deepest hell. It is also necessary that the one to be afflicted there be exposed to the lowest nature, and thereby suffer not from a spiritual substance, but from a corporeal and lowest one, that is, from the dregs of worldly bodies, so that he may be fixed in the dregs and burned with fire and brimstone. And since the spirit, which by nature is set over the body and has the power to influence and move it, has perverted the dignity of nature through fault and subjected itself in a certain way to the vileness and nothingness of sin: hence it is that according to the order of justice it must be ordained that both the sinning spirit and man be bound to corporeal fire, not so as to flow life into it, but so as to receive punishment by divine decree. For since he is inseparably bound to a thing which he dreads through divinely sent fear and which he perceives through the power of natural sensation: it is necessary that he be sharply tormented.”

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