Chapter 111.—After the
Resurrection There Shall Be Two Distinct Kingdoms, One of Eternal
Happiness, the Other of Eternal Misery.
After the resurrection, however,
when the final, universal judgment has been completed, there shall
be two kingdoms, each with its own distinct boundaries, the one
Christ’s, the other the devil’s; the one consisting of the
good, the other of the bad,—both, however, consisting of angels
and men. The former shall have no will, the latter no power, to
sin, and neither shall have any power to choose death; but the
former shall live truly and happily in eternal life, the latter
shall drag a miserable existence in eternal death without the power
of dying; for the life and the death shall both be without end. But
among the former there shall be degrees of happiness, one being
more pre-eminently happy than another; and among the latter there
shall be degrees of misery, one being more endurably miserable than
another.