operations of the hands of men as to God himself, shall be
adjudged to this everlasting punishment, as having been the
causes of defilement; while the just shall obtain an
incorruptible and never-fading kingdom. These are now indeed
confined in Hades, but not in the same place wherein the unjust
are confined.

3. For there is one descent into this region, at whose gate we
believe there stands an archangel with an host; which gate when
those pass through that are conducted down by the angels
appointed over souls, they do not go the same way; but the just
are guided to the right hand, and are led with hymns, sung by the
angels appointed over that place, unto a region of light, in
which the just have dwelt from the beginning of the world; not
constrained by necessity, but ever enjoying the prospect of the
good things they see, and rejoic in the expectation of those new
enjoyments which will be peculiar to every one of them, and
esteeming those things beyond what we have here; with whom there
is no place of toil, no burning heat, no piercing cold, nor are
any briers there; but the countenance of the and of the just,
which they see, always smiles them, while they wait for that rest
and eternal new life in heaven, which is to succeed this region.
This place we call The Bosom of Abraham.

4. But as to the unjust, they are dragged by force to the left
hand by the angels allotted for punishment, no longer going with
a good-will, but as prisoners driven by violence; to whom are
sent the angels appointed over them to reproach them and threaten
them with their terrible looks, and to thrust them still
downwards. Now those angels that are set over these souls drag