"You are the very cause of your ignorance, yourselves. You put away the light, yourselves; you first pluck out both your own eyes, yourselves; and after that other men’s too, so that the blind may lead the blind, until you both fall into the pit.”
Thomas More, The Sadness of Christ (Gethsemane), Tower of London, 1535
"So the rich man said, ‘Then I beg you, father Abraham, send Lazarus to my five brothers to warn them of the perils of this place of torment.’ But Abraham said, ‘They have had the words of Moses and the prophets.’
Then the rich man said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if someone from the dead comes before them, then they will repent.’ And Abraham replied, ‘If they will not listen to Moses and the prophets, then they will not be convinced enough to change even if someone rises from the dead and warns them.’”
