Même si mille trompettes sonnaient aux oreilles des morts, ils ne les entendraient jamais. Il en est ainsi de l'âme qui a perdu toute mémoire de Dieu, de l'âme qui ne pense jamais à Dieu de la journée : elle n'entend pas le son du Verbe qui l'appelle.
PHILOXENUS DE MABBUG (C.440-523) ÉVÊQUE, SAINT ET THÉOLOGIEN SYRIEN
Even if a thousand trumpets were to sound in the ears of the dead, they would never hear them. That is how it is with a soul . . . that has lost all memory of God, a soul that never thinks of God all day: it does not hear that sound of the Word that is calling it.
PHILOXENUS OF MABBUG (C.440–523) SYRIAN BISHOP, SAINT AND THEOLOGIAN