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“The way of life for a wise man is upward, to escape from hell below” (Prov. 15:24).
Everyone knows that there is hell, and anyone can go there for their deeds. But not everyone remembers this and does not live so regularly that they show concern for avoiding hell. They live as they live, at random: maybe somehow we won’t end up in hell. Where is our mind? In everyday affairs one can still get away with “maybe,” but in such a decisive deed, which, once accomplished, will remain unchanged forever and ever, “maybe” exposes the unreasonableness of the last degree. Do not boast, O mind, of your rationality, when you do not remember this and do not offer us thoughts of life on how to escape from hell and be saved.
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