<P> The "Book of the Dead" (Nekyia) in the Odyssey depicts judgment in the afterlife by Minos, the "radiant son of Zeus" who in his mortal life had been king of Crete . Three egregious sinners are singled out for eternal punishment, but the theological implications of the scene are unclear . Plato elaborates on the concept in the myth of Er at the end of the Republic . Each misdeed receives a tenfold penalty, with rewards also proportional . Elsewhere, Plato names the judges as Minos and Rhadamanthys, but he also draws on the tenets of Orphic religion . A third judge was Aeacus; all three were once mortal kings whose excellence as rulers among the living was transferred to the dead . Vergil's depiction of the afterlife in the Aeneid is consonant with the Homeric view as well as that of Plato, and he makes it clear that everyone faces judgment . </P> <P> The mystery religions of the Hellenistic era offered initiates the hope of salvation through confession, judgment, and forgiveness, as well as ritual purity . The Isaic mysteries were influenced by the traditional religion of ancient Egypt, which had symbolized the judgment of the soul through its weight on the scale of truth . Orphic initiates were buried with devotional texts that provided instructions for navigating the hazards of the underworld and addressing the judges; the soul who speaks correctly will be given a drink from the pool of Memory before joining the heroes who have gone before . </P> <P> Justice and righteousness are such essential attributes of God as to have led to the conviction upon every believer that every evil deed will meet with its due punishment . "Shall not the Judge of all the earth do righteous judgment?" (Gen. 28: 25). Great catastrophes as Noah's flood, the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, the earthquake that swallowed up Korah and his followers, the plagues of Egypt and the evil that came upon other oppressors of Israel are represented in the Bible as Divine judgments . The end of history, therefore, was conceived to be the execution of the divine judgment upon all the nations . This divine judgment is to take place, according to the Biblical view, on earth, and is intended to be particularly a vindication of Israel . </P> <P> This Day of Judgment ("Day of the Lord") is portrayed vividly in the Book of Jubilees and particularly in Enoch . The leading idea in Enoch is that the Deluge was the first world - judgment, and that the final judgment of the world is to take place at the beginning or at the close of the Messianic kingdom . The one at the beginning of the Messianic kingdom is more national in its character; the one at the close is to consign all souls either to Paradise or to Gehenna . The fire of the latter consumes the wicked, the heathen often being represented as types of wickedness, while the Israelites are supposed to be saved by their own merit or by that of their fathers . The divine judgment described in the Testament of Abraham is one concerning all souls in the life to come . </P>

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