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Enchiridion

Blessed Augustine, NPNF I.3

The State of the Soul During the Interval Between Death and the Resurrection

During the time, moreover, which intervenes between a man’s death and the final resurrection, the soul dwells in a hidden retreat, where it enjoys rest or suffers affliction just in proportion to the merit it has earned by the life which it led on earth.