Here is another teaching of the mystic St. Isaac of Nineveh as paraphrased by Scott Cairns in his book of insights from the mystics in verse form, Endless Life. What follows provides some aspects of hell that you may not have considered.
Gehenna, Its Duration
Even in the matter of afflictions
-
The judgement of Gehenna, say –
there abides a hidden mystery, whereby
the Maker
has taken as a starting point
our patent willfulness, using even Hell
as a way of
bringing to perfection
His greater dispensation.
If the world to come proves entirely the realm
of mercy,
love, and goodness,
how then a final state that claims
requital
for its measure?
That we should think that hell
is not also
full
of love and mingled with compassion
would be an
insult to our God.
By saying He will deliver us
to
suffering without purpose, we
most surely sin. We blaspheme also if we say
that He
will act with spite or with a vengeful purpose,
as if He had a need
to avenge Himself.
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