Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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In this recording, Archimandrite Athanasios Mytilinaios (1927-2006), answers the question of how to interpret St. Isaac the Syrian's teaching that the fires of Hell are actually the love of God, explaining that the divine uncreated light is experienced as illuminating joy by the righteous but as burning torment by the unrepentant.

Audio source: “Answers to questions", no. 596 (in Greek), March 7th, 1993
https://arnion.gr/index.php/diafora-uemata/pantiseis-pori-n-katixitiko

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