"In the interval which runs out between the death of the man and supreme resurrection, souls are retained in secrets stays where they know either the rest either the punishment which they deserve, according to the fate which they were made while they lived in the flesh".

After the general judgment

"But after resurrection, once finished the general judgment, the borders will be fixed between both cities, namely the city of Christ and that of the devil, that of welldoers and tha of evildoers, both consisted of angels and men. Those will have no more will, these any means to sin.

Both will henceforth be unfit any more to die; because those will live on an eternal, real and happy life, whereas these, for their misfortune, will be fixed in the eternal death; all also unlimitedly. But, in the happiness of these, more or less enviable will be the honour, as in the misfortune of those, more or less tolerable, the fate to which each one will be dedicated" (Manuel, XXIX, 109, 111).

The author

Augustine was born into 354 in Thagaste (today Souk-Ahras in Algeria).
He is Father and Doctor of the Church. He wrote two much wellknown works: The confessions and the City of God. He is without any doubt the greatest thinker of North Africa (Maghreb). One day, he heard in his garden a voice which says to him: "Take and read". He opened the Bible and fell on the following passage:

"Let us conduct ourselves becomingly as in the day, not in revelling and drunkenness, not in debauchery and licentiousness, not in quarrelling and jealousy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires" (Romans, 13, 13-14).

His conversion was immediate and he was baptized by Ambrose, the bishop of Milan in 387. He became bishop of Hippone (current Annaba).

After the particular judgment