Punishment
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10.Divine punishment and reward
10a.The divine justification of punishing
See also: God 3f · Justice 10a
Homer, The OdysseyVol. 22
- p. 184Athene foretells the wooers will die bespattering the earth with blood.read · scan
Aeschylus, AgamemnonVol. 8
- p. 8–9Heaven sends vengeful fiends on those who wrought rapine.read · scan
- p. 30–33Zeus tarries but avenges.read · scan
The Book of JobVol. 44
- p. 77–78Eliphaz treats affliction as divine chastening that leads to restoration.read · scan
- p. 82Job's children are said to have been delivered to their transgression.read · scan
- p. 87The wicked shall have no escape.read · scan
- p. 94Eliphaz says the wicked man suffers pain, terror and ruin all his days, consumed by God's breath.read · scan
- p. 98Bildad describes the wicked man's doom: light put out, snares, terrors, uprooted, name forgotten and childless.read · scan
- p. 101–102Retribution falls on the wicked: he must disgorge riches, is destroyed, and God casts out what he swallowed.read · scan
- p. 102–103Zophar concludes that terror, fire and loss are the wicked man's appointed portion from God.read · scan
- p. 112The wicked man's portion from God: children for the sword, riches given to the just, terror and disgrace.read · scan
- p. 124–125Elihu blames Job for scoffing and profiting nothing from God, implying deserved recompense.read · scan
- p. 126–127God's recompense is his to decide; wicked are struck openly.read · scan
- p. 128Those who obey prosper; those who do not perish by the sword without knowledge.read · scan
The Book of PsalmsVol. 44
- p. 145–146The wicked will not stand in judgment; God's wrath will break the rebellious nations.read · scan
- p. 148Prayer that the wicked fall by their own counsels and be held guilty for rebellion.read · scan
- p. 149–150The wicked fall into the pit they dug; God prepares instruments of death against the unrepentant.read · scan
- p. 151–152The nations are snared in their own nets; the wicked are turned back to Sheol.read · scan
- p. 155–156Fire, brimstone and snares rain on the wicked.read · scan
- p. 160God recompenses the righteous and merciful, brings down the haughty, and answers foes not at all; reward according to deeds.read · scan
- p. 174–175Asks God to render the wicked their desert according to their works.read · scan
- p. 206–207God will destroy and uproot the deceitful man, and put the oppressors to shame.read · scan
- p. 208The psalmist calls for the wicked to go down alive into Sheol and for God to requite evil.read · scan
- p. 208–210Deceitful and bloodthirsty men will be brought down into the pit and not live half their days.read · scan
- p. 212–214The psalmist calls for the breaking of the wicked and vengeance, that the righteous may see reward.read · scan
- p. 214–215Enemies to be consumed in wrath for the sin of their mouths, cursing and lying.read · scan
- p. 217–218Wicked schemers will be wounded by God's arrow, their own tongue turned against them.read · scan
- p. 226Imprecation asking God to pour indignation on persecutors and blot them from the book of life.read · scan
- p. 232The wicked are set in slippery places and cast down to sudden destruction.read · scan
- p. 241–242God's anger slays the fattest of them after granting their desire; their days are consumed in vanity.read · scan
- p. 248Prayer that enemies be scattered like dust and stubble, put to shame and perish.read · scan
- p. 255Transgression visited with rod and stripes, yet covenant not broken.read · scan
- p. 259The faithful will see the reward of the wicked.read · scan
- p. 262God will bring the wicked's iniquity upon them and cut them off.read · scan
- p. 281–282Rebels brought low with labor and bondage for contemning God's counsel.read · scan
- p. 288–289The wicked see the righteous vindicated, gnash teeth and their desire perishes.read · scan
- p. 321Prayer that burning coals and pits fall upon the wicked.read · scan
Sophocles, Oedipus the KingVol. 8
- p. 215He curses those who withhold information with barrenness and plague.read · scan
Plato, The Apology of SocratesVol. 2
- p. 27–28He predicts his killers will suffer far heavier punishment than they inflicted.read · scan
Plato, PhaedoVol. 2
- p. 50–51An owner would be angry at and punish a slave animal that killed itself uninvited.read · scan
Paul, The First Epistle of Paul to the CorinthiansVol. 45
- p. 494Poor work brings loss and whoever destroys God's temple will be destroyed; good work receives reward.read · scan
- p. 505Weakness and death among the Corinthians are chastening by the Lord, so they not be condemned with the world.read · scan
Paul, The Second Epistle of Paul to the CorinthiansVol. 45
- p. 520–521Each will receive according to what he has done, whether good or bad.read · scan
Luke, The Gospel According to LukeVol. 44
- p. 369Reward great in heaven for the persecuted; woes foretell reversal for the rich and full.read · scan
Plutarch, DemosthenesVol. 12
- p. 216–217Divine vengeance pursues Demades, whose intercepted letters lead Cassander to execute him and his son.read · scan
Saint Augustine, The Confessions of St. AugustineVol. 7
- p. 32–33God scourged him with grievous punishments for his misdeeds, even in church.read · scan
- p. 58–59His error is understood as a punishment for voluntary straying.read · scan
- p. 96Fear of death and of God's coming judgment alone holds him back from a deeper gulf of carnal pleasure.read · scan
- p. 100–101Suffering ill is God's just judgment; he admits he is not unjustly punished.read · scan
Hymns of the Christian Church: Latin HymnsVol. 45
- p. 549–552Day of wrath: the judge probes all, no transgression unavenged, doom awarded by the record.read · scan
Chapters from the KoranVol. 45
- p. 897–898God rewards those who do evil and good according to deeds, yet is ample in forgiveness.read · scan
- p. 918–919Judgment day: books given in right hand; the spiritually blind in this life remain blind in the next.read · scan
- p. 940–941God reckons up what every soul earns and judges with none to reverse His judgment.read · scan
- p. 948–949A mighty punishment would have touched them for taking ransom but for a prior book; God is forgiving.read · scan
- p. 951–952On the Day, each soul is paid what it has earned and finds its good and evil deeds present before it.read · scan
- p. 962–963Each soul on the resurrection day is paid what it earned; the cheat brings his cheating, hell for the angered-against.read · scan
- p. 976–977God is severe to punish; good and bad intercession earn like portions.read · scan
- p. 980–981He who does evil is recompensed, and the good are rewarded without being wronged.read · scan
- p. 987–988Fornication by the prophet's wives brings doubled torment, while devotion brings double hire.read · scan
- p. 990–991Those who annoy God and the Apostle are cursed in this world and next.read · scan
- p. 1006–1007God may punish or forgive his servants as he wills.read · scan
BeowulfVol. 49
- p. 28–30Grendel is sunk in sins and awaits the doom the Mighty Maker will mete out.read · scan
Stories from the Thousand and One NightsVol. 16
- p. 69–70The uncle beats his charred son, calling it the punishment of this world with a worse one to come.read · scan
- p. 70The Truth consumed the lovers by fire, with a more lasting punishment to come.read · scan
Dante Alighieri, ParadiseVol. 20
- p. 310Just vengeance was justly avenged: how the punishment could itself be punished.read · scan
Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of ChristVol. 7
- p. 232God the strict judge cannot be bribed; each bears his own burden at the day of judgment.read · scan
- p. 250–251Even punishment and stripes from God deserve thanks as they are for our profit.read · scan
- p. 260–261God is rewarder of the good; one who rejects His words will be judged at the last day.read · scan
- p. 300–301God will render eternal reward for short labour and infinite glory for transient shame.read · scan
- p. 301–302God repays every man according to his works; resignation earns reward.read · scan
- p. 319God's rod and stripes of love correct sin; better to be punished here than hereafter.read · scan
William Caxton, Prefaces and EpiloguesVol. 39
- p. 17Priest is sure he will be punished if any parishioner's soul is lost through his default.read · scan
Benvenuto Cellini, The Autobiography of Benvenuto CelliniVol. 31
- p. 17–18Pierino's fall and early death are presented as retribution for ingratitude and insult.read · scan
- p. 65–68Luigi's fatal accident is seen as merited retribution.read · scan
- p. 340–341The Duke who wronged the innocent was later murdered; God's justice does not leave such men unpunished.read · scan
Edward Haies, Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to NewfoundlandVol. 33
- p. 276Haies argues God's justice pursued the pirate crew to destruction, taking sharper revenge on those who pretended religion's cause.read · scan
- p. 277God's vengeance on the men who tortured and robbed the fishermen, drowned in their cockboat, as justified judgment.read · scan
William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of DenmarkVol. 46
- p. 160Divine judgment compels evidence of faults; repentance is the only recourse.read · scan
- p. 162Hamlet sees Polonius's death as heaven's punishment upon himself, making him heaven's scourge and minister.read · scan
William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King LearVol. 46
- p. 269–270Lear calls his daughters' cruelty 'judicious punishment' on the flesh that begot them; plagues invoked on their faults.read · scan
- p. 278–280A servant's remorseful rebellion kills Cornwall; servants judge that Regan's wickedness deserves heaven's answer.read · scan
- p. 284Albany expects the heavens to send visible spirits to tame these offences.read · scan
William Shakespeare, The TempestVol. 46
- p. 441The powers, delaying but not forgetting, punish with lingering perdition and loss of Alonso's son, escapable through repentance.read · scan
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Philaster, or Love Lies A-BleedingVol. 47
- p. 704–708Philaster threatens perjured souls with pains after death; Bellario invites such punishment if false.read · scan
Sir Thomas Browne, Religio MediciVol. 3
- p. 297–298Final judgment redresses inequalities with recompense.read · scan
John Milton, Poems Written at Horton, 1632-1638Vol. 4
- p. 72The two-handed engine at the door stands ready to smite the false clergy once.read · scan
John Milton, Paradise LostVol. 4
- p. 135Man with his progeny must die unless someone answers for his offence and undergoes his punishment.read · scan
- p. 136Man and posterity must die unless another pays the rigid satisfaction, death for death; the hardened are left to stumble.read · scan
- p. 154Eating the forbidden tree is forbidden under penalty of death.read · scan
- p. 249Death and loss of happy state are the announced penalty for transgression.read · scan
- p. 290–291God sends his Son to judge and sentence Adam and Eve; Satan and his followers are turned to serpents.read · scan
- p. 291Mortal sentence is to pass on Man, with Death denounced, though delay is no acquittance.read · scan
- p. 292The Son proceeds to sentence Man, mitigating the doom.read · scan
- p. 292God pronounces judgment and curse on the Serpent, and on the accused pair in turn.read · scan
- p. 292Sentences on the Serpent, Woman and Adam: enmity, painful childbirth, wifely submission, cursed ground, toil and return to dust.read · scan
- p. 304Sentence proved milder than feared; suicide would provoke greater punishment and let Satan escape his.read · scan
- p. 319Death mitigated not reversed; the tainted man is ejected from Paradise.read · scan
- p. 319The murderer will be avenged and the just brother's faith will not lose its reward.read · scan
- p. 331Enoch is taken to bliss, showing the reward of the good and punishment of the rest.read · scan
- p. 342Christ endures man's penalty in his stead.read · scan
John Milton, Samson AgonistesVol. 4
- p. 415Servile mind rewarded with servile punishment; Samson accepts his fall as just.read · scan
Blaise Pascal, ThoughtsVol. 48
- p. 189–190Clearness makes the reprobate inexcusable and condemned.read · scan
- p. 191Men are given light to return, or be punished if they refuse.read · scan
John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's ProgressVol. 15
- p. 45–46Those who begin wrong fall to destruction, and rise no more.read · scan
- p. 61–62Apollyon says the Prince's servants come to shameful ends; Christian answers that such ends are glorious and reward comes later.read · scan
- p. 74–75Blows without mercy for transgression, until Christ bids the striker forbear.read · scan
- p. 112–113Lot's wife, Sodom, and Korah's company are divine judgments serving as examples; sinning in sight of them merits severest judgments.read · scan
- p. 135–136The Shining One with a whip corrects and rebukes themread · scan
- p. 137–138The Shepherd chastises the pilgrims as loving correction, teaching them the good way and calling for repentance.read · scan
- p. 215Curse of a righteous law is borne by Christ in the sinner's stead.read · scan
Joseph Addison, The Vision of MirzaVol. 27
- p. 76Afterlife rewards are distributed according to virtue.read · scan
Benjamin Franklin, His AutobiographyVol. 1
- p. 76Believes all crime will be punished and virtue rewarded here or hereafter.read · scan
- p. 90God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, here or hereafter.read · scan
David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human UnderstandingVol. 37
- p. 399No particular reward or punishment beyond ordinary events can be inferred from supposed divine justice.read · scan
- p. 403A more impartial distribution of rewards and punishments would need greater justice, which cannot be inferred from what is seen.read · scan
- p. 403–404No reward or punishment can be expected or dreaded beyond what practice and observation already show.read · scan
- p. 404–405Belief that the Deity punishes vice and rewards virtue beyond nature restrains the passions and supports law.read · scan
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Profession of Faith of a Savoyard VicarVol. 34
- p. 263Recompense is not owed beforehand; the oppression of the just requires later justification by Providence.read · scan
- p. 264Future reward and torment arise from conscience comparing what we did with what we ought to have done.read · scan
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, The Education of the Human RaceVol. 32
- p. 187–189Law promised happiness for obedience and unhappiness for disobedience in this life.read · scan
- p. 190–191Warburton claimed God made each Jew happy or unhappy in proportion to his obedience.read · scan
- p. 198–199Earlier beliefs punished in the afterlife only acts harmful to civil society, already punished there.read · scan
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Tragedy of Faust, Part IVol. 19
- p. 164–167Judgment and torment foretold for the sinner; nothing unavenged.read · scan
Friedrich Schiller, William TellVol. 26
- p. 451–452The fisher sees the storm as Heaven's judgment on the Governor's crimes, though it endangers the innocent Tell.read · scan
Alessandro Manzoni, I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed)Vol. 21
- p. 385–386He expects the lash to fall on himself, undeserving.read · scan
- p. 398–399Lucia sees her sufferings as God's punishment for the attempted secret wedding.read · scan
- p. 428–429Agnese recalls examples of terrible punishments that follow violation of a vow.read · scan
- p. 541–542Griso, who plundered his master's clothes, catches the plague from them and dies on the monatti's car, a retribution.read · scan
Percy Bysshe Shelley, The CenciVol. 18
- p. 323Cenci calls down disease and ruin upon Beatrice; Lucretia warns that high God punishes such prayers.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, CompensationVol. 5
- p. 85Preacher assumed judgment not executed here; wicked succeed and good suffer, with compensation hereafter.read · scan
Hans Christian Andersen, TalesVol. 17
- p. 292–293Paradise is lost, and afterlife reward or sinking deeper depends on whether he is good and pious or evil.read · scan
Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the BeagleVol. 29
- p. 219York Minster sees storms as retributive punishment for wasting food or killing a man.read · scan
Robert Browning, A Blot in the 'ScutcheonVol. 18
- p. 372–373Mildred foresees punishment following sin, doubting they deserve happiness.read · scan
- p. 386–388Tresham curses Mildred, calls on Heaven to judge; she asks to be punished.read · scan
Robert Browning, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1082–1083Bound and pelted with stones, he goes to the scaffold, trusting God to repay what the world would not.read · scan
- p. 1087Trusts God compensates and punishes, so being underrated here is safer.read · scan
10b.Divine retribution on nations, dynasties and whole peoples
See also: History 6b · God 4c · Tyranny 4b · Prophecy 8b
Aeschylus, AgamemnonVol. 8
- p. 21–22Children's children read the reckoning in tears; the sinner prays in vain to unhearing powers.read · scan
The Book of PsalmsVol. 44
- p. 242Plagues on Egypt, and then on Israel itself, delivered to the sword for idolatry.read · scan
- p. 278Earth swallows Dathan, fire burns the wicked, plague breaks out, Israel doomed to wander.read · scan
- p. 278–281God's wrath gives them into enemy hands, oppressed and subjected, yet he repents and delivers.read · scan
Herodotus, An Account of EgyptVol. 33
- p. 58Troy's ruin shows that for great wrongs come great chastisements from the gods.read · scan
Luke, The Gospel According to LukeVol. 44
- p. 381Cities that reject him face a harsher judgment than Sodom, Tyre and Sidon.read · scan
- p. 399Flood and fire from heaven destroyed the heedless in Noah's and Lot's days.read · scan
Plutarch, CiceroVol. 12
- p. 259Antony's statues are taken down and his family disgraced, seen as divine retribution falling on Cicero's family.read · scan
Chapters from the KoranVol. 45
- p. 891–892Thamud, 'Ad and Pharaoh destroyed for calling judgment a lie; the damned are chained in hell.read · scan
- p. 898–899Past peoples were destroyed for injustice and outrage.read · scan
- p. 904–905The Egyptians are drowned and the errant fall headlong into hell.read · scan
- p. 905–906Those who reject the apostles are drowned or destroyed as a sign.read · scan
- p. 906Thamud is seized by torment after hamstringing the she-camel; Lot's people are destroyed by a rain.read · scan
- p. 907The unbelievers are seized by torment of the day of the shadow.read · scan
- p. 912–913The disbeliever's torment is extended and sinners driven to hell; earlier generations destroyed without trace.read · scan
- p. 915–916God punishes only after sending an apostle; luxurious sinful cities are destroyed and lovers of this life go to hell.read · scan
- p. 917–918Every city will be destroyed or tormented before judgment day; signs sent to make men fear.read · scan
- p. 921–922Pharaoh who wished to drive out Israel is drowned with his host; all brought to judgment.read · scan
- p. 930Sinful people will not escape God's violence or the sudden Hour.read · scan
- p. 931Nations that called prophets liars were seized; the misbelievers are destined for the Fire.read · scan
- p. 931–932Each soul is recompensed on the day of reckoning; earlier peoples were caught in their sins.read · scan
- p. 932–933The believer warns of the fate of Noah's people and other confederates.read · scan
- p. 936Late belief does not save misbelievers from God's way with past peoples.read · scan
- p. 947–948Pharaoh's people were destroyed in their sins; misbelievers taste burning torment.read · scan
- p. 996–997Forty years of wandering forbidden entry for the disobedient people.read · scan
BeowulfVol. 49
- p. 48–50The race of giants was overwhelmed by the flood as due payment for estrangement from God.read · scan
Stories from the Thousand and One NightsVol. 16
- p. 104–105The city's people, persisting in evil despite repeated warnings, are turned to black stones by Heaven's wrath.read · scan
Dante Alighieri, HellVol. 20
- p. 137Dante curses the Genoese as foul and deserving to be cancelled from the earth.read · scan
Sir Thomas Malory, The Holy GrailVol. 35
- p. 197All in the castle are found dead by the vengeance of the Lord for shedding the blood of maidens.read · scan
John Calvin, Dedication of the Institutes of the Christian ReligionVol. 39
- p. 35–38God takes vengeance to the third and fourth generation, and destroyed the sinning multitude in the deluge while saving Noah.read · scan
- p. 40Concealment of the Church is a divine judgment on men's ingratitude and resistance to truth.read · scan
Miguel de Cervantes, The History of Don Quixote of the Mancha, Part IVol. 14
- p. 385Defeat is read as God's chastisement for the sins of Christendom through executioners.read · scan
Sir Walter Raleigh, Preface to the History of the WorldVol. 39
- p. 68–69God made kingdoms prosperous for virtue and piety, wretched for vice.read · scan
- p. 69–70Divine retribution on ambitious and proud kings is illustrated by examples from scripture and history.read · scan
- p. 70–72Henry the First's cruelty to his brother was avenged when God drowned all his children.read · scan
- p. 72Murder of Edward II brought retribution through generations; innocent blood avenged on Edward III's line.read · scan
- p. 73Usurper's breach of faith visited on his grandchildren.read · scan
- p. 74Those who contrived Gloucester's death perished; York struck down for breach of oath.read · scan
- p. 75Those who shed blood under Edward IV did not escape God's judgment; kings who sell others' blood cheaply teach enemies to buy theirs.read · scan
- p. 76Hastings beheaded the same day he had counseled lawless execution of Rivers; Buckingham and Richard also meet just ends.read · scan
- p. 77Henry cut off Richard as immediate instrument of God's justice.read · scan
- p. 77God visits Henry's cruelty by taking away all his descendants, verified by Samuel's words to Agag.read · scan
- p. 80God punishes usurpation and unnatural cruelty in the children of Henry I, Edward III and Louis Debonnaire for generations.read · scan
- p. 80–82He is deposed by his son for violence against kin and nephew's death.read · scan
- p. 83Francis I's repented massacre of Protestants is not accepted; his line dies out without issue.read · scan
- p. 84Pedro is stabbed by his brother and his children disinherited, a retribution for his injustice and cruelty.read · scan
- p. 85Burgundy is struck down without leisure to repent; misery finds the lovers of others' miseries.read · scan
- p. 85–86Ferdinand, who sold heaven and honor for his son's greatness, sees his children die, go mad, or be cast off, a just judgment.read · scan
- p. 86Perjury and cruelty end in Alva's execration, Don John's early death and Escovedo's murder.read · scan
John Eliot, Eliot's Brief NarrativeVol. 43
- p. 145–146The destruction of the refusing Sachems is read as God's rejection of those who spurned prayer.read · scan
John Milton, Paradise LostVol. 4
- p. 331The flood overwhelms the corrupt world's dwellings and palaces where luxury reigned.read · scan
- p. 331The one just man admonishes, is derided, and builds the ark; the flood is to come on their impenitence.read · scan
Blaise Pascal, ThoughtsVol. 48
- p. 198Jews forgetting God will perish like the nations He destroys.read · scan
- p. 209Moses declares God will scatter them among the nations for worshipping false gods.read · scan
- p. 237–238Foretold punishments for Israel's ingratitude to God.read · scan
- p. 238The unfruitful vineyard is laid waste as penalty.read · scan
- p. 241God will recompense iniquities of the fathers and children, destroying the idolaters but sparing a remnant for his servants' sake.read · scan
- p. 242Those who forsook God are hungry and ashamed, their name a curse.read · scan
- p. 243Ephraim cast out for wickedness; God forbids prayer for the people.read · scan
- p. 253–254The sun goes down at noon and feasts turn to mourning as retribution.read · scan
- p. 254God sends sorrow and a famine of the word; idolaters fall and never rise.read · scan
Benjamin Franklin, His AutobiographyVol. 1
- p. 8–9Folger ascribed Indian wars and distresses to persecution as God's judgments punishing the offense.read · scan
John Woolman, The Journal of John WoolmanVol. 1
- p. 231God rewards the just and unjust in a future state and afflicts sinful nations with adversity.read · scan
- p. 232–233Heavier chastisement follows if warnings are unheeded.read · scan
- p. 236–237Earthquake, war, pestilence and famine are read as chastisements for unheeded invitations.read · scan
- p. 237Chastisement has an intent to be understood.read · scan
Alessandro Manzoni, I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed)Vol. 21
- p. 590–591Rodrigo's plague may be punishment or mercy.read · scan
Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln's Second Inaugural AddressVol. 43
- p. 424The war is the woe due to those by whom the offense came.read · scan
10c.Gods' vengeance on the proud and the impious
See also: God 10d · Revenge 7c · Madness 2a · Religion 5d
Homer, The OdysseyVol. 22
- p. 58Poseidon smites Aias for his impious boast.read · scan
- p. 71Orion and Iasion were slain by gods' jealousy; Hermes warns of Zeus's wrath.read · scan
- p. 152–153Giants' impiety is punished by early death.read · scan
- p. 159Tityos, Tantalus and Sisyphus suffer eternal torments in Hades; Tityos is punished for violence against Leto.read · scan
- p. 170–171Helios demands vengeance and Zeus promises to smite the ship with his bolt.read · scan
- p. 171–172Zeus wrecks the ship with storm and thunderbolt, killing the crew for eating the cattle of Helios.read · scan
- p. 177–178Poseidon punishes the Phaeacians for escorting Odysseus by turning their ship to stone and threatening their city with a mountain.read · scan
Aeschylus, The FuriesVol. 8
- p. 142–144The proud man opposed to the gods will meet storm and ruin.read · scan
Aeschylus, Prometheus BoundVol. 8
- p. 166–167Prometheus is chained to the rock as due penalty for giving fire and power to men.read · scan
- p. 168Strength gloats that Prometheus obtains his deserts as the chains and wedge are fixed.read · scan
- p. 168–170He suffers chained for ten thousand years as penalty for stealing fire for men.read · scan
- p. 171–175Prometheus is chained for pity toward men, deemed unworthy of the favour Zeus gave others.read · scan
- p. 177Okeanos calls his suffering the punishment of over-lofty speech.read · scan
- p. 201–203Hermes details Zeus's punishment: burial in rock, then the eagle devouring Prometheus's liver until a god takes his woes.read · scan
Sophocles, AntigoneVol. 8
- p. 287Teiresias warns that avenging Erinyes wait to snare Creon for keeping a corpse unburied and entombing a living soul.read · scan
- p. 287–292Tiresias threatens Creon with retribution: wailing in his house and cities in arms against him for leaving the dead unburied.read · scan
- p. 297–298Great words of boasting bring great punishments.read · scan
Herodotus, An Account of EgyptVol. 33
- p. 53Pheros is blinded for hurling a spear at the flooding river, and his blindness is ended when the term of punishment expires.read · scan
Euripides, HippolytusVol. 8
- p. 303Aphrodite resolves to smite Hippolytus for scorning her, using Theseus's curses to destroy the offender.read · scan
- p. 353–355The henchman announces Theseus' curse is fulfilled, his son destroyed by his own team.read · scan
- p. 365–367Artemis promises to avenge Hippolytus on Cypris's dearest mortal.read · scan
Euripides, The BacchaeVol. 8
- p. 368–369He drives the Theban women mad for mocking his birth.read · scan
- p. 370–371Pentheus's refusal of due offerings will bring the god's power upon his head and people.read · scan
- p. 395–397Pentheus, deluded, stabs at emptiness and his house is overthrown as divine retribution.read · scan
- p. 408–409Chorus calls for vengeance on Pentheus, asking Dionysus to darken his reason so he pays for his sin.read · scan
- p. 410–411God's judgment waits for the proud who look not to Heaven.read · scan
- p. 412–415Dionysus ironically foretells Pentheus' trial and being borne home by his mother's hands.read · scan
- p. 415–417Dionysus foretells Pentheus' doom; chorus invokes Justice and the Wrath of the Lord to smite the godless.read · scan
- p. 417–419Pentheus is delivered to be torn apart for scorning the god.read · scan
- p. 419His death is divine retribution for defying Dionysus.read · scan
- p. 430–432Cadmus says Dionysus destroyed the house for denial of his deity; Pentheus' fate was due reward, though hard.read · scan
- p. 432–435Cadmus and Agave are condemned to exile and wandering as the wage for mocking the god; pleas for mercy come too late.read · scan
- p. 435–436Dionysus has poured the dregs of pain on the house of Cadmus as requital for Thebes' dishonoring of his name.read · scan
Buddhist WritingsVol. 45
- p. 710–711The demon who strikes the holy man falls into hell burning.read · scan
The Bhagavad-Gita; or, Song CelestialVol. 45
- p. 861–863Blasphemers are cast down again and again into devilish wombs at life's end.read · scan
Virgil, The AeneidVol. 13
- p. 100Impiety of Diomede and Ulysses in seizing the Palladium turned fortune from the Greeks.read · scan
Luke, The Acts of the ApostlesVol. 44
- p. 432Sapphira, confirming the lie, is told of her coming death and falls dead like her husband, as divine retribution.read · scan
- p. 448–450Herod dies of worms as divine retribution for pride; he also has the guards executed.read · scan
- p. 450–451Paul strikes the sorcerer Elymas temporarily blind for opposing the faith.read · scan
Chapters from the KoranVol. 45
- p. 887–889Pharaoh who rebelled and proclaimed himself Lord was seized with punishment in both lives; hell is the resort of the outrageous.read · scan
BeowulfVol. 49
- p. 7Cain's kin paid their wage for the slaughter, driven from the sight of men.read · scan
The Destruction of Dá Derga's HostelVol. 49
- p. 240–241The three red champions who wrought falsehood are punished by the elfmound king, to be destroyed thrice by the King of Tara.read · scan
Stories from the Thousand and One NightsVol. 16
- p. 321Talib is struck down by the guardian slaves for touching the forbidden treasure.read · scan
Songs from the Elder EddaVol. 49
- p. 387–390Odin punishes Brynhild for slaying by shutting her in a shield-wall ringed with fireread · scan
- p. 394–395The oath-breakers are doomed to be brought to naughtread · scan
The Story of the Volsungs and NiblungsVol. 49
- p. 299–300Odin strikes Brynhild with the sleep-thorn in vengeance for slaying the king he had promised victory.read · scan
Dante Alighieri, HellVol. 20
- p. 128–130Ephialtes, who tried his strength against Jove, is chained and immobile; the giants are requited for defying the gods.read · scan
Dante Alighieri, PurgatoryVol. 20
- p. 229–230Notes on Heliodorus struck down by a heavenly horseman and on Crassus and Polymnestor, figures of divine retribution for greed and murder.read · scan
Sir Thomas Malory, The Holy GrailVol. 35
- p. 136God strikes Evelake nearly blind for pressing too close to the Grail; his wounds are a lasting affliction.read · scan
- p. 182Hurlame draws the sword unworthily, is struck dead after his dolorous stroke, and the land is laid waste.read · scan
- p. 184–185A voice tells Nacien his wound is his forfeit for unworthily drawing the sword.read · scan
- p. 185King Pelles, though perfect, is maimed through both thighs for his hardiness in drawing the sword.read · scan
- p. 199–200A fiery breath strikes him down for presuming to enter.read · scan
Christopher Marlowe, The Tragical History of Doctor FaustusVol. 19
- p. 236Mephistophilis transforms Robin and Ralph into an ape and a dog for their presumption.read · scan
- p. 238–239Faustus punishes the knight's insolence with horns, then releases him at the Emperor's entreaty after penance.read · scan
John Milton, Paradise LostVol. 4
- p. 88Satan hurled to perdition in chains and penal fire for defying the Omnipotent.read · scan
- p. 90Wrath and vengeance poured on Satan; he heaps damnation on himself.read · scan
- p. 170Gabriel says Satan's flight will meet sevenfold wrath; no pain equals anger infinite provoked.read · scan
- p. 180Disobedience is threatened with casting out into utter darkness without redemption or endread · scan
- p. 180Abdiel warns God's golden sceptre will become an iron rod, and thunder and fire will fall on Satanread · scan
- p. 204God decrees the rebels be driven out into the gulf of Tartarus, their place of punishmentread · scan
- p. 220Son promises to drive rebels to chains of darkness for their revolt.read · scan
- p. 220Messiah routs and expels the rebels from Heaven, driving them into Hell without destroying them.read · scan
John Milton, Samson AgonistesVol. 4
- p. 415Revenge falls on the idolatrous Philistine lords; their own mad desire brings destruction upon them.read · scan
John Dryden, All for Love; or, The World Well LostVol. 18
- p. 81–84Antony says the gods must invent a torture worse than Sisyphus or Prometheus for such crimes.read · scan
Jean Racine, PhaedraVol. 26
- p. 177–180Theseus banishes his son and relies on Neptune's oath to destroy him, though his heart is troubled.read · scan
William Wordsworth, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 666–668Laodamia, having failed to heed counsel, is doomed by the just gods as for a wilful crime, apart from happy ghosts.read · scan
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient MarinerVol. 41
- p. 685–687The becalmed ship suffers thirst and horror; the Albatross is hung on the Mariner's neck as the shipmates lay guilt upon him.read · scan
- p. 688–690The Mariner's horrible penance: crew's dead eyes curse him and he is left alone in agony.read · scan
- p. 694–696Two spirit voices say the Mariner has done penance and more remains, the Polar Spirit demanding vengeance for the Albatross.read · scan
10d.Purgation and the fitting punishments of hell
See also: Immortality 8c · Sin 5c · Angel 8d · Prophecy 7b
Aristophanes, The FrogsVol. 8
- p. 439In Hades, wrongdoers such as those who wronged strangers, struck parents, or forswore oaths lie in filth.read · scan
Plato, PhaedoVol. 2
- p. 73–74Evil souls wander in payment of penalty and are imprisoned in bodies matching their former vices.read · scan
- p. 103–104Impure souls guilty of murder are shunned and wander in evil until appointed times are fulfilled.read · scan
- p. 108–109Dead are judged; incurable criminals hurled into Tartarus, lesser offenders suffer and are released only by their victims' mercy.read · scan
Buddhist WritingsVol. 45
- p. 685–686Wrongdoers are seized by hell's guardians and brought before Yama, who metes out punishment according to their evil deeds.read · scan
- p. 687–688Graphic tortures of hell are inflicted, and the sinner does not die until his wickedness is exhausted.read · scan
Virgil, The AeneidVol. 13
- p. 210Minos judges the dead, absolving the just and condemning the guilty; suicides are confined by Fate to repent.read · scan
- p. 210Tartarus is described with Rhadamanthus judging each crime, forcing confession, and Furies scourging the guilty.read · scan
- p. 210Titans, Salmoneus, Tityus and Ixion suffer eternal torments; greedy misers and those who wronged kin are also damned.read · scan
- p. 210Adulterers, traitors, deserters and bribe-takers endure hopeless torments; Phlegyas cries out to learn righteousness.read · scan
- p. 210–232Penances of wind, water and fire purge inveterate vice from the dead until the soul is pure.read · scan
- p. 287The damned are tortured, Catiline hangs on a rock beneath the Furies.read · scan
Songs from the Elder EddaVol. 49
- p. 368–370Oath-breakers are tormented; the liar is to be repaid.read · scan
Dante Alighieri, HellVol. 20
- p. 6Virgil promises to show the tormented spirits of Hell and Purgatory, where some hope for the blest.read · scan
- p. 13The apathetic who lived without praise or blame are tormented, scorned by mercy and justice.read · scan
- p. 13The neutral are stung by wasps and hornets; the wicked ferried by Charon into eternal darkness, heat and ice.read · scan
- p. 16–17Limbo's souls live desiring without hope, afflicted by grief rather than torture.read · scan
- p. 21Minos judges each sinner and assigns the circle of punishment; carnal sinners are driven ceaselessly by furious winds.read · scan
- p. 25Gluttons lie in mire under ceaseless hail and rain, torn by Cerberus, each punished for like crime.read · scan
- p. 28Prodigal and avaricious are condemned to endless clashing, a punishment fitting their contrary crimes.read · scan
- p. 28Wrathful and sullen suffer fitting torment in the Stygian slime.read · scan
- p. 32Wrathful sinners are immersed in the filthy lake.read · scan
- p. 32The muddy tribes set upon Filippo Argenti, who turns his fangs on himself; Dante thanks God.read · scan
- p. 36–38Within the gate the graveyard of burning tombs shows torment and pain awaiting the damned.read · scan
- p. 38–40Arch-heretics and their sects lie in fiery tombs, grouped like with like and heated in different degrees.read · scan
- p. 44Thousands including Emperor Frederick II and the Cardinal lie in the heretics' tombs.read · scan
- p. 45Slayers, plunderers, suicides and blasphemers suffer in graded rounds according to whom they injured.read · scan
- p. 48The violent against neighbors are tormented in a river of blood, and Centaurs shoot any who rise beyond their guilt.read · scan
- p. 49Those who did violence stand steeped in a river of blood, shot at by Centaurs if they rise.read · scan
- p. 49–53Tyrants and murderers are immersed in boiling blood to depths matching their guilt.read · scan
- p. 53The second round holds suicides and wasters, changed into thorny trees where harpies nest.read · scan
- p. 54Suicides suffer bleeding and groaning as trees, a retributive torment in the seventh circle.read · scan
- p. 54Suicides are denied their bodies at resurrection, since a man may not have what he took from himself; harpies torment them.read · scan
- p. 56–57Profligates are hunted and torn apart by black mastiffs in the wood; the wounded bush mourns in vain.read · scan
- p. 57–58Flakes of fire eternally rain on the violent against God, Nature and Art; Capaneus lies unyielding.read · scan
- p. 61Those violent to Nature move endlessly on the sand; one who stops lies a hundred years beneath the fire.read · scan
- p. 61Brunetto must hurry back, unable to linger among his tormented company.read · scan
- p. 65–66Three spirits wounded by flames run beneath the fiery storm, wheeling in restless circles.read · scan
- p. 69Usurers sit on burning sand beneath falling fire, plying their hands against the flames like dogs against flies.read · scan
- p. 69The usurer's grimace and tongue-lolling show the sad condition of the spirits tormented on the sand.read · scan
- p. 69Dante perceives torments and wailing on every side as the descent brings them nearer.read · scan
- p. 73Horned demons scourge seducers in the first gulf of Malebolge; punishment fits the fraud committed.read · scan
- p. 73Scourged seducers and flatterers immersed in ordure suffer torments answering their guilt.read · scan
- p. 73Flatterers are immersed in filth, a fitting penalty for foul words.read · scan
- p. 77Simoniacs are fixed head-down in rock apertures with flames burning their feet, showing God's just recompense.read · scan
- p. 78The simoniac stands inverted with burning soles, awaiting the next pope to push him deeper.read · scan
- p. 81Diviners walk backward, faces twisted round, weeping; penalty fits their presumption to see ahead.read · scan
- p. 85Corrupt officeholders who sold offices for gain are plunged in boiling pitch and hooked by demons, a fitting retribution for secret graft.read · scan
- p. 89Barterers stay submerged in boiling pitch and are hooked and flayed by demons when they surface.read · scan
- p. 89Demons mangle the barterer with prongs while he names fellow sinners Gomita and Michel Zanche.read · scan
- p. 89Deceived demons fall into the boiling lake and are glued, themselves suffering.read · scan
- p. 93–96Hypocrites pace wearily in gilded cloaks leaden within, a punishment fitting outward show over inner heaviness.read · scan
- p. 97Caiaphas lies crucified on the ground, trodden by all passing, eternal banishment for counselling Christ's death; his council share it.read · scan
- p. 98Thieves run naked among serpents that bind and pierce them, one burned to ashes and restored, a fitting torment.read · scan
- p. 98Vanni Fucci, damned for sacrilegious theft, endures God's stormy vengeance; Dante marvels at the severity of divine judgment.read · scan
- p. 102–103Thieves are seized by serpents; Cacus bears serpents and a fire-breathing dragon as retribution.read · scan
- p. 103–104Thieves suffer loss of human form as their penalty.read · scan
- p. 104The thief's soul is degraded into a brute, hissing along the valley.read · scan
- p. 106Evil counsellors are swathed in confining flames, each sinner hidden inside a fire.read · scan
- p. 106Ulysses and Diomede suffer penal torments in one flame for their guile at Troy.read · scan
- p. 110–111A tormented voice sounds through the flame like the brazen Sicilian bull.read · scan
- p. 112Minos condemns Guido as a guilty soul, and he wanders in flame.read · scan
- p. 114Sowers of scandal and schism are hacked apart by a fiend, wounds closing only to be reopened.read · scan
- p. 117Sowers of discord are mutilated; Curio's tongue cut out, Mosca's hands maimed, one carries his severed head.read · scan
- p. 117–118Bertrand de Born, carrying his severed head, declares the law of retribution: he parted father and son, so his head is parted from its source.read · scan
- p. 119All-searching Justice dooms the forgers to plagues and diseases in the tenth gulf, a graphic penalty for falsifiers.read · scan
- p. 119–121Alchemists suffer leprous itching in Hell; the Arezzo shade was burned on earth for a jest but damned by Minos for alchemy.read · scan
- p. 123Impostors, counterfeiters and perjurers suffer frenzy, biting and diseases like dropsy in the tenth gulf.read · scan
- p. 123–125Master Adamo, a coiner, suffers thirst and dropsy, tormented by visions of cool streams; stern justice fits the penalty to the sin.read · scan
- p. 126Their afflictions of thirst and dropsy are turned into taunts against each other.read · scan
- p. 131Traitors are frozen in a glassy lake of ice, tears freezing in their eyes, a fate worse than being beasts.read · scan
- p. 131–133Traitors to kin and country lie frozen in Caina and Antenora; Camiccione awaits his kinsman Carlino, whose deeper guilt will eclipse his.read · scan
- p. 134Traitors suffer frozen torment in Cocytus, gnawing one another in eternal retribution for betrayal.read · scan
- p. 135–136Ugolino gnaws his betrayer in Hell; traitors under semblance of kindness are punished in Ptolomea.read · scan
- p. 137Traitors in Ptolomea suffer frozen tears; souls fall to Hell before death.read · scan
- p. 140Souls encased in ice and Lucifer's three mouths tormenting sinners.read · scan
- p. 140Judas suffers the worst torment in Lucifer's mouth; Brutus and Cassius are punished with him for betrayal.read · scan
Dante Alighieri, PurgatoryVol. 20
- p. 156–157Decreed term of penance for contumacy against the Church.read · scan
- p. 166–167Virgil explains that divine judgment does not bend, and prayer cannot supply what satisfaction is owed.read · scan
- p. 182Scars inscribed by the sword must be purged after entry.read · scan
- p. 183Souls stoop under heavy stones; Dante urges thinking of what follows the torment.read · scan
- p. 183–186Burdens vary in weight; the load is fitted to each soul's pride.read · scan
- p. 186–187Souls go bent beneath heavy weights, wearied, purging the world's darkness.read · scan
- p. 187Prideful souls groan under weights until God's justice is appeased.read · scan
- p. 194–195Envy's scourge and curb; sewn eyes and leaning penitents are the fitting penalty.read · scan
- p. 222Penal woes are mitigated by hope and justice.read · scan
- p. 223Justice levels the avaricious to the earth, bound hand and foot, as they fixed their eyes below.read · scan
- p. 238Famished spirits are purified by hunger before fruit and water they cannot taste.read · scan
- p. 239–240Gluttons are purified by hunger and thirst inflamed by fruit and spray, a pain that is also solace, following Christ's suffering.read · scan
- p. 242Justice strips the gluttons through hunger, and they are content with it.read · scan
- p. 255Virgil says Dante has seen both the temporal and eternal fires.read · scan
Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of ChristVol. 7
- p. 233Hell's fire punishes each sin with its proper torment: slothful, gluttons, luxurious, envious, proud, covetous.read · scan
Sir Thomas Malory, The Holy GrailVol. 35
- p. 205–206The purgatorial fire is penance for sin.read · scan
Martin Luther, The Ninety-Five ThesesVol. 36
- p. 247Indulgences are believed to free men from all punishment, and to release souls from purgatory.read · scan
- p. 251–252Canonical penalties bind only the living; the dying are released by death from them.read · scan
- p. 252–253Denies that the Pope's indulgences free souls from all punishment; his remission covers only penalties he imposed.read · scan
Sir Philip Sidney, The Defense of PoesyVol. 27
- p. 21Poetry devises new punishments in hell for tyrants, which history cannot guarantee.read · scan
William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of DenmarkVol. 46
- p. 112–114The ghost is doomed to fasting fires until the foul crimes of his life are burnt away; purgatorial retribution.read · scan
John Milton, Paradise LostVol. 4
- p. 108The damned suffer alternating fire and ice, and are denied the forgetfulness of Lethe.read · scan
- p. 300–303Satan and his host are transformed into serpents, punished in the shape in which he sinned.read · scan
- p. 304The devils are plagued with illusory fruit that turns to ashes and yearly humbling to dash their pride.read · scan
Jean Racine, PhaedraVol. 26
- p. 181–182She imagines Minos judging her in hell and demands severe punishment for Aricia.read · scan
Hans Christian Andersen, TalesVol. 17
- p. 258Each tear shed for a wicked child adds a day to the spirits' trial; good conduct is rewarded by shortened time.read · scan
10e.Eternal torment and the doctrine of hell
See also: Charity 8a · Immortality 7d · God 5a · Religion 14e
Buddhist WritingsVol. 45
- p. 688–689The chiefest hell is described as an iron, glowing prison of eternal torment for wrongdoers.read · scan
Luke, The Gospel According to LukeVol. 44
- p. 361–362Barren trees hewn down and chaff burned with unquenchable fire; the coming judgment separates wheat from chaff.read · scan
- p. 397Rich man's torment as recompense for a life of good things while Lazarus suffered.read · scan
Hymns of the Christian Church: Latin HymnsVol. 45
- p. 552–554Judgment day separates sheep from goats; prays to be spared eternal flame.read · scan
Chapters from the KoranVol. 45
- p. 879The lying sinner who hinders prayer will be dragged by the forelock and the guards of hell.read · scan
- p. 879–880The proud misbeliever is threatened with hell-fire; the damned confess they neither prayed nor fed the poor.read · scan
- p. 881–882Hell-fire and fetters await disbelievers; Pharaoh who rebelled was seized with overpowering punishment.read · scan
- p. 883The wretched who call it a lie will broil in flaming fire; the pious escape it.read · scan
- p. 884Disbelievers, fellows of the left, get closing fire.read · scan
- p. 886The wicked broil in hell on judgment day while the righteous are in pleasure.read · scan
- p. 889Refrain 'Woe on that day for those who say it is a lie': the sinners face flame, the pious shades and springs.read · scan
- p. 893–894Hell's fire rewards those who called apostles liars; the pious are rewarded in gardens.read · scan
- p. 894A day of torment awaits wrongdoers, when their plotting will not avail.read · scan
- p. 895The affluent sinners who denied resurrection eat Zaqqum and drink boiling water as their entertainment.read · scan
- p. 899–902Sinners are known by their marks, seized by forelock and feet, and made to circulate between hell and boiling water.read · scan
- p. 911–912The boldest against God will be dragged to hell; evildoers are left on their knees.read · scan
- p. 933–934Pharaoh's people are exposed to the fire; evil is recompensed with its like, and excuses avail not the unjust.read · scan
- p. 934–935Proud disbelievers shall enter hell; the Hour will surely come.read · scan
- p. 935–936Deniers of the Book are dragged in chains into hell; those who exulted without right are condemned.read · scan
- p. 937–938Disbelievers with fetters and Fire; God is keen to punish though forgiving.read · scan
- p. 939–940Calamity overtakes misbelievers, apostles' mockers were seized, and next-life torment is worse than this world's.read · scan
- p. 943–944God is keen to punish those opposing Him and His Apostle; misbelievers face the Fire.read · scan
- p. 944–945Fleeing from battle brings God's wrath and hell.read · scan
- p. 945–946God tortures misbelievers and gathers the vile into hell, yet forgives those who desist.read · scan
- p. 949–950Misbelievers face severe torment and become fuel of the fire, as did Pharaoh's people.read · scan
- p. 953–954God promises grievous punishment in this world and the next for unbelievers at the day of judgment.read · scan
- p. 956–957Apostates are cursed and eternally tormented; not even a ransom of gold will be accepted.read · scan
- p. 957–958On the last day faces whitened enter mercy, faces blackened taste torment for misbelief.read · scan
- p. 958–959Unbelievers dwell forever in the Fire; the abased suffer wrath and poverty for rebellion.read · scan
- p. 964Unbelievers are given range to increase in sin; the niggardly get a collar on the resurrection day; torment of burning.read · scan
- p. 965The unjust are disgraced and tormented in fire, while the righteous are rewarded.read · scan
- p. 965–966Reward with God for the righteous and Hell for misbelievers; God is quick at reckoning.read · scan
- p. 967–968Those who unjustly devour orphans' property devour fire and shall broil in flames.read · scan
- p. 973Disbelievers are broiled in fire with renewed skins; believers enter gardens with pure wives.read · scan
- p. 981–982Hypocrites and misbelievers are gathered into the lowest depths of hell-fire.read · scan
- p. 983–984Injustice brings prohibitions and a grievous woe; the unjust are guided only to hell.read · scan
- p. 984The proud who disdain God's service face grievous woe; the believers receive reward and grace.read · scan
- p. 991–992Hypocrites and misbelievers are cursed, slain, and consigned to fire forever.read · scan
- p. 992–993Unbelievers are told they will be rewarded only for their deeds; the fire awaits the disbelievers.read · scan
- p. 993Misbelievers and hypocrites are to be fought; hell is their resort.read · scan
Dante Alighieri, HellVol. 20
- p. 13Those who die under God's wrath gather from every clime; no good spirit passes here.read · scan
Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of ChristVol. 7
- p. 234Fear of hell restrains from evil when love does not.read · scan
- p. 252–253The wicked will hear 'Depart from me' into eternal fire at judgment.read · scan
Christopher Marlowe, The Tragical History of Doctor FaustusVol. 19
- p. 248–250Faustus begs to suffer a thousand years in hell if saved at last, but damned souls have no end.read · scan
Sir Thomas Browne, Religio MediciVol. 3
- p. 256–258Origen's view that God would release damned souls after a time, from meditation on His mercy.read · scan
John Milton, Paradise LostVol. 4
- p. 88–90Hell as prison prepared by Eternal Justice for the rebellious, torture without end.read · scan
- p. 90Eternal being feared only as capacity to undergo eternal punishment.read · scan
- p. 108–125Rebels condemned to eternal days of woe; threat of whip of scorpions.read · scan
- p. 155Satan suffers eternal woe and asks whether pardon remains, finding only submission.read · scan
- p. 226Disobedience's reward is eternal misery, shown as terrible example.read · scan
- p. 304He reasons God cannot extend finite man's punishment infinitely beyond nature's law.read · scan
Blaise Pascal, ThoughtsVol. 48
- p. 313–314Mocks the idea of two hells, for sins against love and against justice.read · scan
John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's ProgressVol. 15
- p. 38–39He expects certain judgment and fiery indignation; God denies him repentance.read · scan
- p. 39Tares and chaff cast into the burning lake; the wheat gathered; sinners face the Judge.read · scan
- p. 40–41Fear of hell and the Judge's indignation at the day of judgment.read · scan
- p. 109–110Christian warns the hypocrites of God's sentence and the devouring fire.read · scan
- p. 111–112By-ends and companions perish in the pit; Lot's wife is turned to salt as a spectacle.read · scan
- p. 124–125Those who leave the way are blinded, imprisoned, and left among the tombsread · scan
- p. 127–128The apostate is bound by seven devils and led to the door of hellread · scan
- p. 140–141Fear of damnation drives him to amend his life.read · scan
- p. 155–156Like a felon who quakes at the judge yet fears only the halter, not the offence.read · scan
- p. 161The redeemed will share in the Last Judgment, sitting with the King as sentence falls on workers of iniquity.read · scan
- p. 164–165Ignorance, lacking a certificate, is bound hand and foot and cast into the door to Hell at heaven's gate.read · scan
- p. 292–293Voices of the damned lament losing their souls and heeding wrong counsel.read · scan
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Profession of Faith of a Savoyard VicarVol. 34
- p. 264–266Denies eternal torments; the wicked are punished here by their own envy, avarice and ambition, so hell is in their hearts.read · scan
- p. 296–297Questions eternal punishment of an innocent man ignorant of the gospel.read · scan
Robert Burns, Poems and SongsVol. 6
- p. 100–102Preacher's talk of hell, a boundless pit of burning brimstone, harrows souls.read · scan
- p. 393–394Tam warned he will get his fairing in hell, roasted like a herring.read · scan
John Ruskin, Sesame and LiliesVol. 28
- p. 110Teachers who withhold help or enforce falsehood are bound and shut out of sight, imprisoned on earth as well as hereafter.read · scan
Walter Bagehot, John MiltonVol. 28
- p. 196Disobeyer falls into utter darkness without redemption or end.read · scan
10f.Karma and the fruition of deeds
See also: Cause 6d · Religion 14d
Buddhist WritingsVol. 45
- p. 669–670Man experiences the fruition of his deeds in this or a later life; deeds without covetousness, hatred or infatuation are uprooted.read · scan
- p. 670–671Deeds bring needful consequence; the wise leave the way to punishment and expiate misdeeds in this life.read · scan
- p. 671–672The same slight wickedness brings hell to one person and light expiation to another, depending on their character.read · scan
- p. 673–674Reward accords with deeds, enabling a religious life and extinction of misery.read · scan
- p. 675Almsgiving, repentance of the gift and murder of a nephew each bear fruit: heaven, aversion to luxury, long hell.read · scan
- p. 677–678One is not freed from evil deeds by rebirth; the mango thief is liable despite claiming different mangoes.read · scan
- p. 678–679The man is liable for damage despite claiming a different fire; likewise one is not freed from evil deeds.read · scan
- p. 762Liberality in a past life is rewarded with a corresponding fruition: women receive the parure, men the bowl and robes.read · scan
- p. 763–764Karmic reward: the deed of persistent almsgiving in a previous existence accounts for the cattle coming forth.read · scan
10g.Punishment in fable and fairy tale
See also: Animal 9a · Angel 9b
Aesop, FablesVol. 17
- p. 19The fox suffers the trick he played.read · scan
- p. 31–32Jupiter grants the wishes on a condition as a punishment.read · scan
Stories from the Thousand and One NightsVol. 16
- p. 20The wife is transformed into a gazelle in retribution for her enchantment of the son.read · scan
- p. 22The Jinniyeh insists the brothers must die; the narrator pleads for mercy.read · scan
- p. 23–24The brothers are turned into dogs for ten years as penalty for their crime.read · scan
- p. 24The adulterous wife is turned into a mule in retribution; the Jinni remits the merchant's penalty.read · scan
- p. 27The Jinni threatens death and confinement for rebellion.read · scan
- p. 29The 'Efrit's imprisonment is presented as recompense for his treachery.read · scan
- p. 38–39The King who condemned an innocent physician is killed by the poison in the book, a retribution the tale dramatizes.read · scan
- p. 39King Yunan's death and the threatened sea imprisonment of the 'Efrit are deserved retribution for ingratitude.read · scan
- p. 49–50The enchantress tortures the young king with a hundred lashes daily and turns him half to stone in vengeance.read · scan
- p. 51The enchanted youth is stripped and whipped daily by his wife while unable to move.read · scan
- p. 78The prince must choose between transformation into a dog, ass or ape as his penalty.read · scan
- p. 80–81The 'Efrit refuses pardon and transforms the prince into an ape.read · scan
- p. 98–99Disobedience is repaid by the horse blinding him and by exile from the palace.read · scan
- p. 106The Jinniyeh turns the treacherous sisters into black bitches, to be whipped daily as retribution.read · scan
- p. 112The Jinniyeh had punished the sisters by transformation and now restores them.read · scan
- p. 305The 'Efrit is confined and tortured by God's power until the day of resurrection.read · scan
- p. 309–310Suleyman imprisons the 'Efrit in a sealed pillar until the resurrection as his penalty.read · scan
Philip Massinger, A New Way to Pay Old DebtsVol. 47
- p. 941Overreach is punished by madness and bound, a precedent to wicked men.read · scan
Voltaire, Letters on the EnglishVol. 34
- p. 136–138Dramatic justice: the treacherous friend is run through and virtue rewarded.read · scan
Samuel Johnson, Life of Addison, 1672-1719Vol. 27
- p. 186–187Dennis demands poetical justice, rewarding and punishing characters as Providence does; Johnson replies that the stage should mirror life.read · scan
Alessandro Manzoni, I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed)Vol. 21
- p. 49The miserly son who denies the convent its share finds only withered leaves in his store, a rebuke.read · scan
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Household TalesVol. 17
- p. 50–51She is declared unworthy of heaven for disobedience and lying.read · scan
- p. 52Exiled to a wilderness, mute, and living in a hollow tree, she suffers for her disobedience.read · scan
- p. 53–54The Queen is tried and condemned to be burnt alive, then rescued when repentance comes.read · scan
- p. 56–57The wicked wolf is filled with stones and drowns in the well as retribution for his greedread · scan
- p. 60–61Whoever reveals the secret is to be turned to stoneread · scan
- p. 63John declares that the king's truth shall not go unrewardedread · scan
- p. 64Duck is harnessed to the carriage as a penalty after being beaten for the quarrelread · scan
- p. 64The host is pricked by pin, needle and egg-shell, the result of the guests' mischievous tricksread · scan
- p. 67–68The enchantress cuts off Rapunzel's hair and casts her into a desert in pitiless anger at her deception.read · scan
- p. 69The enchantress mocks the prince and takes cruel revenge, and he is blinded by thorns.read · scan
- p. 70–71Kindness earns gifts from the dwarfs, while the stepmother's cruelty sends the girl to die of cold.read · scan
- p. 71–72The dwarfs grant ugliness, toads and a miserable death to the girl who refused to share or serve.read · scan
- p. 73–74The King asks what such a crime deserves; the wicked stepmother condemns herself and is rolled downhill in a nail-studded barrel.read · scan
- p. 82–83The godless witch is miserably burnt to death in the oven she prepared for Grethel.read · scan
- p. 90Her wish to be like God is punished by return to the dirty hovel.read · scan
- p. 104The false sisters are blinded by pigeons for their wickedness and falsehood.read · scan
- p. 106–107The lazy girl receives pitch instead of gold, a permanent mark of her laziness.read · scan
- p. 111–112The wolf is killed by stones in his belly.read · scan
- p. 135–136Queen sentenced to fire unjustly; the wicked woman burnt as punishment.read · scan
- p. 137The wicked step-mother is burnt to ashes as retribution.read · scan
- p. 141The wicked cook-witch is drowned by the duck.read · scan
- p. 142–143Her father's oath to marry her to a beggar is retribution for her scorn.read · scan
- p. 145–146Thrushbeard admits his disguise and her hardships were meant to punish her insolence and humble her proud spirit.read · scan
- p. 153–154The wicked Queen is forced to dance in red-hot iron shoes until she drops dead.read · scan
- p. 156The manikin's scheme to take the child ends in his own destruction.read · scan
- p. 159–160The brothers are hurt by their axes as retribution for their stinginess, the little man's doing.read · scan
- p. 160–161The three girls' covetous grasping at the golden feathers leaves them stuck and dragged along.read · scan
- p. 167The wolf is beaten mercilessly by peasants after each greedy raid.read · scan
- p. 168The farmer kills the wolf stuck in the hole, the end of his gluttony.read · scan
- p. 178The waiting-maid is condemned to be dragged in a nail-studded barrel by horses until dead, the penalty she named herself.read · scan
- p. 182The spirit says his confinement in the bottle was a punishment.read · scan
- p. 189Both sisters kill themselves in anger, a fate that answers their pride.read · scan
- p. 191The bear is threatened with broken ribs and forced to beg pardon for his insult.read · scan
- p. 217–218The wicked dwarf is killed by the bear, his well-deserved punishment for theft and enchantment.read · scan
Hans Christian Andersen, TalesVol. 17
- p. 233–234The Emperor boxes the Princess's ears and expels both; the Prince tells her she now has her deserts.read · scan
- p. 284–285The mother pops the South Wind into the sack for destroying a caravan in the desert.read · scan
- p. 313–314The storks plan revenge on the mocking boys, deferred until departure, rewarding the kind boys with siblings and giving the worst a dead one.read · scan
- p. 314–315The mocking boy gets a dead baby brother, while kind Peter is rewarded with a brother and sister.read · scan
- p. 331–332Compelled endless dancing appears as retribution for her wrong.read · scan
- p. 332–333The angel condemns Karen to dance until she is a skeleton, warning proud children; the executioner cuts off her feet.read · scan
- p. 356–357The proud Buckwheat is burned coal-black by lightning, a retribution the Willow says always follows pride.read · scan
10h.Penance and self-punishment
See also: Sin 8c
Sophocles, Oedipus the KingVol. 8
- p. 248He judges his self-blinding the fitting penalty and asks to be hidden, slain or cast into the sea.read · scan
Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of ChristVol. 7
- p. 321Deserves scourging, hell and everlasting fire for his sins.read · scan
Traditional BalladsVol. 40
- p. 55–57Edward's penance is exile over the sea.read · scan
- p. 57–59Self-exile as penance.read · scan
Sir Thomas Malory, The Holy GrailVol. 35
- p. 126–128Penance is demanded of Gawaine for his sin, and he rejects it.read · scan
- p. 132–134Christ's cursing of the barren fig tree is used to warn Launcelot, and penance is enjoined.read · scan
- p. 146–147He stabs his own thigh to punish his flesh and offers the blood in recompense to the Lord.read · scan
- p. 200–202He sees his long trance as penance imposed by the Lord.read · scan
Martin Luther, The Ninety-Five ThesesVol. 36
- p. 247–248Indulgences only remove the outward canonical penalty, not guilt.read · scan
- p. 253–254True contrition seeks punishment while ample pardons relax it and make men hate it.read · scan
Miguel de Cervantes, The History of Don Quixote of the Mancha, Part IVol. 14
- p. 247He chooses to inflict lingering pain on himself, reasoning that sudden death ends pain sooner than torment.read · scan
- p. 286Don Quixote says a new offence must have a new penance.read · scan
- p. 341Camilla says she will chastise herself for possible carelessness and kill Lothario, seeing that justice will punish her crime, avoiding another executioner.read · scan
John Milton, Samson AgonistesVol. 4
- p. 415Samson wishes to pay his punishment; Manoa says self-rigor for one's own offence exceeds concern for God's.read · scan
Blaise Pascal, ThoughtsVol. 48
- p. 162Justice humbles pride even in holy works; repentance follows God's goodness.read · scan
Jean Racine, PhaedraVol. 26
- p. 194–196Phaedra takes poison as penance; Oenone punished; Theseus feels his fate punishes him.read · scan
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient MarinerVol. 41
- p. 698–700The recurring agony compels the Mariner to retell his tale until it is told.read · scan
- p. 700–701Penance of life falls on the Mariner as an agony that forces him to travel and teach.read · scan
Alessandro Manzoni, I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed)Vol. 21
- p. 61Taking the habit serves as atonement and penance, judged equal to the heaviest punishment: poverty, barefoot life, and straw beds.read · scan
- p. 61Ludovico regards even unjust imputation as a punishment and means of expiation.read · scan
- p. 622–623The guilty nun of Monza repented and lives in voluntary penance so severe no one could devise worse punishment.read · scan
Lord Byron, ManfredVol. 18
- p. 437No future pang can deal the justice the self-condemned deals on his own soul.read · scan
- p. 448Manfred asks whether crimes must be punished by greater criminals; his inner torment exceeds the demons'.read · scan
Robert Browning, A Blot in the 'ScutcheonVol. 18
- p. 382Mildred asks Thorold to devise fit expiation; death would seem like punishment yet an easy escape.read · scan
- p. 402Tresham says his punishment is at hand, meting out self-inflicted retribution.read · scan
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