Chapter 93.—Both the First
and the Second Deaths are the Consequence of Sin. Punishment is
Proportioned to Guilt.
And neither the first death, which
takes place when the soul is compelled to leave the body, nor the
second death, which takes place when the soul is not permitted to
leave the suffering body, would have been inflicted on man had no
one sinned. And, of course, the mildest punishment of all will fall
upon those who have added no actual sin, to the original sin they
brought with them; and as for the rest who have added such actual
sins, the punishment of each will be the more tolerable in the next
world, according as his iniquity has been less in this
world.