Tertullian A Treatise on the Soul In hell the soul of a certain man is in torment, punished in flames, suffering excruciating thirst, and imploring from the finger of a happier soul, for his tongue, the solace of a drop of water.[46] Thus it happens that the rich man in hell has a tongue and poor (Lazarus) a finger and Abraham a bosom.[63] Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV " is said to separate those regions, and to hinder a passage from one to the other. Besides, the rich man could not have "lifted up his eyes,"[1362]