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Catena Aurea · Matthäusevangelium 23
Mt 23, 15English original
Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, you make him two fold more the child of hell than yourselves.
From this place we learn that there will be a difference of torment in hell, seeing one is here said to be singly a child of hell, another twofold. And we ought to consider here whether it is possible that a man should be generally a child of hell, as a Jew, suppose, or a Gentile, or whether specially so inconsequence of some particular sins; that as a righteous man is increased in glory by the abundance of his righteousnesses, so a sinner’s punishment is increased manifold by the number of his sins.