Particular Judgment
At the moment of death, the soul meets its own reckoning
The particular judgment is the judgment of each soul immediately at death, before the general judgment at the end of time. It developed in Western scholastic teaching and was addressed at the Council of Florence. The traditions differ in emphasis: Catholic teaching affirms it clearly, while Orthodox and Protestant eschatology leave the soul's state between death and resurrection less formally defined.
How it traveled
- The Testament of Abraham.— · c. 220 CEexplains
- The Homilies of St. John ChrysostomConstantinople (Istanbul) · c. 407 CEexplains
- Homilies on Second CorinthiansConstantinople (Istanbul) · c. 407 CEexplains
- The EnchiridionHippo Regius · c. 430 CEexplains
- A Treatise on the Soul and its OriginHippo Regius · c. 430 CEexplains
- Seventeen Occasional SermonsNorthampton, Massachusetts · c. 1758 CEexplains
- The Final JudgmentNorthampton, Massachusetts · c. 1758 CEexplains
Key passages(20)
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Seventeen Occasional Sermons · Jonathan Edwards
1. The soul, when it is separated from the body, shall be cast down into hell. There is without doubt a particular judgment by which every man is to be tried at death, beside the general judgment: for
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The Final Judgment · Jonathan Edwards
God is the supreme judge of the world. 1. God is so by right. He is by right the supreme and absolute ruler and disposer of all things, both in the natural and moral world. The rational understanding
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Procrastination · Jonathan Edwards
How to spend every day. God hath concealed from us the day of our death, without doubt, partly for this end, that we might be excited to be always ready, and might live as those that are always waiti
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Seventeen Occasional Sermons · Jonathan Edwards
2. Here the souls of wicked men shall suffer extreme and amazing misery in a separate state, until the resurrection. This misery is not indeed their full punishment; nor is the happiness of the saints
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The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom · John Chrysostom
Yet surely, if thou art willing to believe what is evident, the things invisible ought to be believed by thee, rather than those which are seen. Even though what I say be a paradox, nevertheless it is
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The Testament of Abraham. · The Testament of Abraham
The Testament of Abraham. ———————————— Version I. I. Abraham lived the measure of his life, nine hundred and ninety-five years, and having lived all the years of his life in quietness, gentleness,
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A Treatise on the Soul and its Origin · Augustine of Hippo
Chapter 8.—The Thirst of the Rich Man in Hell Does Not Prove the Soul to Be Corporeal. Now with regard to the point, which with perfect propriety and great soundness of view he believes, that souls a
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Homilies on Second Corinthians · John Chrysostom
[4.] Now I say these things, not that we may hear merely, but that we may learn also. For if he remembered those transgressions before the Laver, although they were all effaced, what forgiveness can w
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Five Sermons. On Different Occasions · Jonathan Edwards
And how much is there in the consideration of such an example, and so blessed an end, to excite us, who are yet alive, with the greatest diligence and earnestness, to improve the time of life, that we
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The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Paul's Epistle to the Romans · John Chrysostom
Where then are they who with all this great exactness in view, yet will not allow that there is a hell? For if all the righteous are not to enjoy the same lot, if they exceed others even a little (“fo
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The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom · John Chrysostom
What now is it that He affirms? Many things have ye spoken against me; that I am a deceiver, an adversary of God. These things I forgive you on your repentance, and exact no penalty of you; but blasph
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The Letters of St. Jerome · Jerome
23. We must proceed by a different path, for our purpose is not the praise of virginity but its preservation. To know that it is a good thing is not enough: when we have chosen it we must guard it wit
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The Testament of Abraham. · The Testament of Abraham
Version II. I. It came to pass, when the days of the death of Abraham drew near, that the Lord said to Michael: Arise and go to Abraham, my servant, and say to him, Thou shalt depart from life, for l
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Treatise on the Incarnation (qq[1]-59) · Thomas Aquinas
Reply to Objection 1: As was said above (A[3], OBJ[1]), judiciary power goes with royal dignity. Now Christ, although established king by God, did not wish while living on earth to govern temporarily
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Lectures or Tractates on the Gospel According to St. John · Augustine of Hippo
12. “For God sent not His Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world through Him may be saved.” So far, then, as it lies in the physician, He is come to heal the sick. He that will not
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Sinners in Zion Tenderly Warned · Jonathan Edwards
At the same time he cried to God to spare him, and made promises how he would live, if God would spare him; and he hoped that God would hear him. He observed also, that his friends, and perhaps the mi
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The Apocalypse of the Holy Mother of God Concerning the Chastisements. · The Apocalypse of the Virgin
The Apocalypse of the Holy Mother of God Concerning the Chastisements. ———————————— I. The all-holy mother of God was about to proceed to the Mount of Olives to pray; and praying to the Lord our God
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The Catechetical Lectures of S. Cyril · Cyril of Jerusalem
There is much variation in the reading and punctuation of this passage. I have followed the text adopted by the Jerusalem Editor with Codd. A. Roe. Casaub. and Grodecq, in preference to the Benedictin
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The Enchiridion · Augustine of Hippo
Chapter 109.—The State of the Soul During the Interval Between Death and the Resurrection. During the time, moreover, which intervenes between a man’s death and the final resurrection, the soul dwell
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The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Epistle to the Hebrews · John Chrysostom
Now, if thou remember them, and continually present them before God (see p. 448), and pray for them, thou wilt speedily blot them out; but if thou forget them now, thou wilt then be reminded of them e
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