GREGORY. Because life is spoken of in two ways, death also ought to be understood in two ways. For one thing is that we live in God, and another that we live in this — that we have been founded or created; that is, one thing is to live blessedly, and another is to live essentially. The soul therefore is understood to be both mortal and immortal. Mortal indeed, because it loses to live blessedly; but immortal, because it never ceases to live essentially, and cannot lose the life of its own nature, not even when it has been damned in perpetual death. For placed there it loses to be blessed, and does not lose to be. Whereby it is forced always to suffer both death without death, and defect without defect, and end without end;
so that to it death is immortal, and defect unfailing, and end infinite. PETER. Who, coming to the end of any work whatsoever, would not utterly dread this so inexplicable sentence of damnation, when, even though he already knows what he has done, he yet is ignorant how subtly his deeds shall be judged?