564 GOSPEL ACCORDING TO CHAP. XVF. might be embraced and cherishedby him ; Abraham's bosom is Paradise. And the ministeringangels carriedthe poor man, and placed him in Abraham's bosom, because though he laydespised,he yet despairednot nor blasphemed,saying, This rich man livingin wickedness is happy and suffers no tribulation,but I cannot get even food to supplymy wants. Aug. AUG. Now as toyour thinkingAbraham's bosom tobe any A^im'8 thing bodily,I am afraidlestyou should be thought totreat 4i16. so weighty a matter ratherlightlythan seriously.For you could never be guiltyof such folly,as to suppose the corpo realbosom of one man ableto hold so many souls,nay,to use your own words, so many bodies as the angelscarry thitheras they did Lazarus. But perhaps you imaginethat one soul to have alonedeservedto come to that bosom. If you would not fallintoa childishmistake,you must.under stand Abraham's bosom to be a retiredand hidden resting- place where Abraham is; and thereforecalledAbraham's, not thatitishisalone,but becausehe isthe fatherof many nations,and placed first,that othersmight imitatehispre eminence of faith. Greg.in GREG. When the two men were below on earth,thatis, Hom.40. tne p00r anj tne ricn,there was one above who saw into theirhearts,and by trialsexercisedthe poor man to glory, by endurance awaitedthe rich man to punishment. Hence Chrys. itfollows,The richman alsodied. CHRYS. He diedthenin- VnTad6 deed,in body, but hissoulwas dead before.For he didnone Cor. of the works of the soul. All thatwarmth.which issuesfrom the love of our neighbour had fled,and he was more dead Chrys. than hisbody. But no one isspoken of as having ministered 2°^' to the richman's burialas to thatof Lazarus. Because when Lazaro. ne livedpleasantlyin the broad road,he had many busyflat terers; when he came to his end, allforsookhim. Forit simply follows,and was buried in hell. But his soulalso when livingwas buried,enshrinedin itsbody as itwere in a tomb. AUG. The burialin hellisthe lowestdepth of tor ment which afterthislifedevoursthe proud and unmerciful. InEsai.5. PSEUDO-BASIL. Hellisa certaincommon placeintheinterior of the earth,shaded on allsidesand dark,in which thereis a kind ofopening stretchingdownward, through which liesthe