Matthew 25:46 (WEB)
These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
Catechism · 6
"I Believe in Life Everlasting"
“Our Lord warns us that we shall be separated from him if we fail to meet the serious needs of the poor and the little ones who are his brethren.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Mt 25:31-46.
“Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate them one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats, and he will place the sheep at his right hand, but the goats at the left.... and they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."” — Catechism footnote: Mt 25:31, 32, 46.
The Sacrament of the Eucharist
“"Christ Jesus, who died, yes, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes for us," is present in many ways to his Church: in his word, in his Church's prayer, "where two or three are gathered in my name," in the poor, the sick, and the imprisoned,” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Mt 25:31-46.
The Seventh Commandment
“Instructing, advising, consoling, comforting are spiritual works of mercy, as are forgiving and bearing wrongs patiently. the corporal works of mercy consist especially in feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, clothing the naked, visiting the sick and imprisoned, and burying the dead.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Mt 25:31-46.
The Seven Petitions
“This petition of the Lord's Prayer cannot be isolated from the parables of the poor man Lazarus and of the Last Judgment.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Lk 16:19-31; Mt 25:31-46.
The Mysteries of Christ's Life
“Jesus identifies himself with the poor of every kind and makes active love toward them the condition for entering his kingdom.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Mt 25:31-46.
Fathers and councils · 39
Catena Aurea on Luke
- BedeCatena Aurea on Luke
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“But most plainly of all the Saviour Himself says in the Gospel, And these shall go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into life eternal.” — editor's note: Matt. xxv. 46.
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Clement of Alexandria
“He offers freedom, you flee into bondage; He bestows salvation, you sink down into destruction; He confers everlasting life, you wait for punishment, and prefer the fire which the Lord “has prepared for the devil and his angels.”” — editor's note: Matt. xxv. 41, 46.
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Augustine of Hippo
“Consider what follows: “And these shall go into everlasting burning; but the righteous into life eternal.”” — editor's note: Matt. xxv. 46.
Read the whole comment“Now this may be understood with a certain limitation; but he afterwards saith, “Even the covenant that He made with Abraham” (ver. 9): “and the oath that He sware unto Isaac; and appointed the same unto Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting testament” (ver. 10).” — editor's note: [He adds: “Where there is no room for doubt: for the Greek has αἰώνιον, which our interpreters have never rendered by any other word than eternal; though…
Read the whole comment“…the judgment, by which at the end of the world the quick and the dead must be judged, the just being sent into life eternal, the unjust into everlasting fire, there will not afterwards be those, whom God will have mercy on, yet rightly may His future mercy be understood to be for ever, which He bestows on His saints…” — editor's note: Matt. xxv. 46.
Read the whole comment“For there, those on the left hand shall go away into eternal burning, but the righteous into life eternal.” — editor's note: Matt. xxv. 33–46.
Read the whole comment“For then will the ungodly be taken away, so that he shall not see the glory of the Lord, when those on the left hand shall go into eternal punishment, while those on the right go into life eternal.” — editor's note: Matt. xxv. 46
Read the whole comment“…will take place at the last judgment, the righteous being requited with a reward, sinners with condemnation—when the sheep shall be separated from the goats.” — editor's note: Matt. xxv. 33, 46.
Read the whole comment“For after He had said of those on the left hand, “So these shall go away into everlasting burning;” of those on the right hand He saith, “but the righteous into life eternal.”” — editor's note: Matt. xxv. 46.
Read the whole comment“But the Lord made an end when He spake these words, thus, “These shall go into everlasting burning, but the righteous into life eternal.”” — editor's note: Matt. xxv. 46.
Read the whole comment“For the truth in the gospel promises to the saints and the faithful that they will be equal to the angels of God; and it is also promised them that they will “go away into life eternal.”” — editor's note: Matt. xxv. 46.
Read the whole comment“Having briefly explained the Lord’s words, “These will go away into everlasting punishment,” it remains that he explain the connected words, “but the righteous into life eternal.”” — editor's note: Matt. xxv. 46.
Read the whole comment“…righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of His Father;” and that, “These shall go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into life eternal.”” — editor's note: Matt. xxv. 46.
Read the whole comment“…same passage spoke of both in similar terms in one and the same sentence, “These shall go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into life eternal!”” — editor's note: Matt. xxv. 46.
Read the whole comment“…the eternal fire, which is prepared for the devil and his angels,” and “These shall go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life,” it were excessively presumptuous to say that the punishment of any of those whom God has said shall go away into eternal punishment shall not be eternal, and…” — editor's note: Matt. xxv. 34, 41, 46.
Read the whole comment“…when He shall say to the former, “Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom,” and to the latter, “Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire.”” — editor's note: Matt. xxv. 31–46
Read the whole comment“…punishment;” for this shall end in the same manner and at the same time as the happiness of those of whom it is said, “but the righteous unto life eternal.”” — editor's note: Matt. xxv. 46
Read the whole comment“He says also in another place on this wise: “These shall go away into everlasting burning” (speaking of certain on the left), “but the just into life eternal;” of which life He says in another place: “And this is eternal life, that they may know Thee the one true God, and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent.”” — editor's note: Matt. xxv. 46.
Read the whole comment“Let the Lord Himself say: “So those shall go into everlasting burning, but the righteous into life eternal.”” — editor's note: Matt. xxv. 46.
Read the whole comment“Then shall they go away into everlasting punishment; for so shall the wicked be taken away, that he may not behold the glory of the Lord: but the righteous shall go into life eternal.” — editor's note: Matt. xxv. 46.
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John Chrysostom
“Therefore of the first He saith, “I came not to condemn the world, but to save the world” ( c. iii. 17 ); but of the second, “When the Son shall have come in the glory of His Father, He shall set the sheep on His right hand, and the goats on His left.” ( Matt. xxv. 31, 46.)” — the author cites it
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Tertullian
“…each Testament exhibits; and is subject to a more constant external compulsion, arising from the apprehension or the desire of the eternal fire or kingdom.” — editor's note: Comp. Matt. xxv. 46.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“And these shall go away into everlasting burning: but the righteous into life eternal.”” — editor's note: Matt. xxv. 31–46.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Matthew
Some deceive themselves, saying, that the fire indeed is called everlasting, but not the punishment. This the Lord foreseeing, sums up His sentence in these words.
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Observe that whereas He put first the invitation, “Come, ye blessed,” and after that, “Depart, ye cursed,” because it is the property of a merciful God to record the good deeds of the good, before the bad deeds of…
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If he who has not given to others is visited with so heavy a punishment, what shall he get who is convicted of having robbed others of their own.
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Eternal life is our chief good, and the end of the city of God, of which the Apostle speaks, “And the end everlasting life.” [Rom 6:22] But because eternal life might be understood by those who are not well versed in…
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That which the Lord spoke to His servant Moses, “I am that I am,” [Ex 3:14] this we shall contemplate when we shall live in eternity. For thus the Lord speaks, “This is life eternal, that they might know thee the…
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Let the thoughtful reader observe that punishments are eternal, and that that continuing life has thenceforward no fear of fall.
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They say that He held out empty terrors to deter them from sin. We answer, if He threatened falsely to check unrighteousness, then He promised falsely to promote good conduct. Thus while they go out of the way to…
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And the justice of no law is concerned to provide that the duration of each man’s punishment should be the same with the sin which drew that punishment upon him. There never was any man, who held that the torment of…
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But they Say, no just man takes pleasure in cruelties, and the guilty servant was scourged to correct his fault. But when the wicked are given over to hell fire, to what purpose shall they burn there for ever? We…
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But, they assert, nobody can be at once capable of suffering pain, and incapable of death. It must be that one live in pain, but it need not be that pain kill him; for not even these mortal bodies die from every…
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But they say, How can they be called Saints, if they shall not pray for their enemies whom they see then burning? They do indeed pray for their enemies so long as there is any possibility of converting their hearts…
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So some there are who hold out liberation from punishment not to all men, but to those only who have been washed in Christ’s Baptism, and have been partakers of His Body, let them have lived as they will; because of…
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Or, It is not one kind of righteousness only that is rewarded, as many think. In whatsoever matters any one does Christ’s commands, be gives Christ meat and drink, Who feeds ever upon the truth and righteousness of…
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Cross-references · 24
Cited together in Bede on Luke 6:46–49 (5) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Bede on Luke 6:46–49 (5) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Bede on Luke 6:46–49 (5) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 36.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 36.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XIV.19.
Cited together in Catechism §1038.
Cited together in Catechism §1038 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount II.6.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 25:46 (6) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in The City of God XI.13.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 25:46 (3) (Catena Aurea) and 1 other place.
Cited together in Catechism §1038.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 25:46 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 25:46 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Bede on Luke 6:46–49 (5) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in The City of God XX.16.
Cited together in The City of God XXI.23.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 25:46 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 36.
Cited together in The Enchiridion Chapter 112.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 25:46 (4) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 25:46 (6) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount II.6.