“It is better to be punished and cleansed now than to be transmitted to the torment to come, when it is the time of chastisement, not of cleansing. For as he who remembers God here is conqueror of death (as David has most excellently sung), so the departed have not in the grave confession and restoration; for God has c…”
Gregory of Nazianzus, 4th c. — ON HIS FATHER'S SILENCE, ORATION 16:7
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5For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?
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3My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long?
4Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies’ sake.
— Psalms 6:5 —
6I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
7Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.