"In no way can the sinner escape the judgment to come unless he takes on here below voluntary hardships or involuntary afflictions."

Οὐκ ἔστιν ἁμαρτήσαντα ἐκφυγεῖν τὴν μέλλουσαν κρίσιν ἄνευ ἑκουσίων ἐνταῦθα πόνων ἢ ἀκουσίων ἐπιφορῶν.

     Maximus the Confessor, Four hundred chapters on love 2.66, trans. George C. Berthold, in Maximus Confessor:  selected writings, Classics of Western spirituality (New York:  Paulist Press, 1985), 56.  Capitoli sulla carità, ed. Aldo Ceresa-Gastaldo, Verba seniorum n.s. 3 (Roma : Editrice Studium, 1963), 124; PG 90, col. .