Letter 172: Even during the tyranny of Eusebius — as you have written — when the friends of virtue were being destroyed, no one...

To Peter. On what was said by Abraham to the rich man: "Because between us and you a great chasm is fixed." [Luke 16:26] That a great chasm is fixed between himself and the rich man being punished, Abraham declared, pointing out the difference between the righteous and those who go astray. For the one was hospitable and a friend of the poor, receiving those who had been driven into exile far off; but the other, when a man lay ulcerated before his door, turned away from him without mercy. Therefore, just as their intentions were opposite, so too their removal to the other world is unmixed: the ones receiving relief, the others receiving punishment.

Εἰς τὸ εἰρημένον ὑπὸ τοῦ Ἀβραὰμ πρὸς τὸν πλούσιον, «Ὅτι μεταξὺ ἡμῶν καὶ ὑμῶν χάσμα μέγα ἐστήρικται.» Χάσμα μέγα ἐστήρικται μεταξὺ ἑαυτοῦ καὶ τοῦ πλουσίου τιμωρουμένου, ὁ Ἀβραὰμ ἀπεκρίνατο, τὴν τῶν δικαίων πρὸς τοὺς πταίνοντας διαφορὰν ἐνδεικνύμενος. Ὁ μὲν γὰρ, φιλόξενος ἦν καὶ φιλόπτωχος, τοὺς μακρὰν ἀπικισμένους δεχόμενος· ὁ δὲ (66) πρὸ τῆς θύρας ἡλκωμένον, ἀνήλεως ἐκτρεπόμενος. Ὥσπερ οὖν ἐναντίαι αἱ προθέσεις, οὕτως ἀμιγὴς ἡ μετάστασις· τῶν μὲν, τὴν ἄνεσιν· τῶν δὲ, τὴν κόλασιν δεξαμένων.