ACC ~ Revelation 20 v15

THE IMPIOUS WILL BE BURNED. LACTANTIUS: When, however, the thousand years shall be completed, the world will be renewed by God, heaven will be folded up and the earth changed. And God will transform people into the likeness of angels, and they will be white and shining as snow, and they will always be in the sight of the Omnipotent and will sacrifice to their God and serve him forever. At the same time, there will take place that second and public resurrection of all, during which the unjust will be raised to everlasting sufferings. These are they who worshiped idols made by hands, who did not know or who denied the Lord and Father of the universe. But their master will be seized with his ministers and will be condemned to punishment, and together with him the whole band of the impious will be burned in perpetual fire forever in the sight of the angels and the just. EPITOME OF THE DIVINE INSTITUTES 7.26.

GOD HAS AN INFALLIBLE FOREKNOWLEDGE OF THE ELECT. AUGUSTINE: The “Book of Life” is not for jogging God’s memory lest he forget. It is a figure of the predestination of those who are to receive eternal life. We are not to imagine that God does not know them and has to read in his books to find out who they are. On the contrary, the Book of Life is precisely his infallible prescience of those inscribed therein, whose very registration there means only that they are foreknown by him. CITY OF GOD 20.15.

CONCUPISCENCE GIVES BIRTH TO SIN; MATURE SIN BEGETS DEATH. FULGENTIUS OF RUSPE: [In evil persons] God begins his judgment with desertion and ends with anguish. For in this present time as well in which God deserts the evil ones who go away from him, he does not work in them what displeases him but works through them what pleases him. Afterwards, he is going to give them what they deserve from his justice. … Such people God has fitted for destruction as punishment that the just judge by his just predestination has decreed for the sinner. … Concupiscence, conceiving, has given birth to sin, but the mature sin has begotten death. The wicked, therefore, have not been predestined to the first death of the soul but have been predestined to the second, that is, to the pool of fire and sulphur. … He calls the second death that which follows from the sentence of the just judge, not that which went before in the evil concupiscence of the sinner. … Therefore, the first death of the soul, which a person inflicted on himself, is the cause of the second death. And the second death, which God has rendered to the person, is the punishment for the first death. LETTER TO MONIMUS 1.27.1-6.

WHOEVER HAS NOT CONFESSED THE LORD. APRINGIUS OF BEJA: Whoever did not believe during life and did not open his mouth in confession of our Lord Jesus Christ shall be destroyed along with death and hell because he failed to receive life. Nevertheless, we do not confess that everyone will die or come to punishment. Rather, that will be fulfilled which we read in Daniel, “Some shall rise to everlasting life, and some to everlasting contempt, so that they might always behold.” And what shall they always behold, if not that they are tormented while others are glorified? TRACTATE ON THE APOCALYPSE 20.15.

THERE IS A DISTINCTION OF PUNISHMENTS IN THE LAKE OF FIRE. OECUMENIUS: All those who remained in sins and were not accounted worthy to be in the Book of Life suffered the same fate. Do not marvel that it says that even those who had sinned moderately were thrown into the lake of fire together with the devil and the antichrist. For even there, there is a distinction of punishments. Just as in a fire there is a part that is continuously very hot and a part that is not so hot and is somewhat temperate, yet every part is called fire, so you might, as I do, consider this also to be like that. COMMENTARY ON THE APOCALYPSE 20.13-21.2.

THE THOUGHTS AND DEEDS OF EACH PERSON ARE MADE KNOWN. BEDE: [The passage] is speaking of those who are not judged by God to be living. For this reason, it seems to me that those are correct who say that the open books above are the thoughts and deeds of each person that have been made known. However, the Book of Life is the foreknowledge of God, which cannot fail concerning those to whom eternal life will be given. They are written in this book, that is, they have been foreknown [by God]. EXPLANATION OF THE APOCALYPSE 20.15.