239. A person's life cannot change after death; it then remains as it had been. For a person's spirit is wholly and completely such as is his love; and hellish love cannot be translated into a heavenly one, since they are opposites. This is what is meant by Abraham's words to the rich man in hell:
There is a great gulf between you and us, so that those who would cross over to you cannot, neither can they cross from there over to us. Luke 16:26.
It is plain from this that those who come into hell remain there for ever; and those who come into heaven remain there for ever.
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