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A small section of the "Josephus Discourse to the Greeks Concerning Hades>", But as to the unjust they are dragged by force to the left hand by the angels allotted for punishment, no longer going with a good will, but as prisoners driven by violence; to whom are sent the angels appointed over them to reproach them and threaten them with their terrible looks, and to thrust them still downwards. Now those angels that are set over these souls drag them into the neighborhood of hell itself: who when they are hard by it, continually hear the noise of it, and do not stand clear of the hot vapor itself; but when they have a nearer view of this spectacle as of a terrible great prospect of fire, they are struck with a fearful expectation of a future judgment and in effect punished thereby. and they see the place of the fathers and of the just , even hereby are they punished, for a chaos deep and large is fixed between them, insomuch that a just man that hath compassion upon them cannot be admitted nor can one that is unjust if he were bold enough to attempt to pass over it. etc etc.
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