A Rich Man's Death

Mortuus est autem et dives, et sepultus est in inferno. Tria dicit circa mortem divitis: mortem, obsequium funeris, et receptaculum animae. De morte dicit: Mortuus est autem et dives. Et non dicit: Factum est autem, quia, sicut dicitur, Sapient. I: Deus mortem non fecit ... impii autem manibus et verbis accersierunt illam. Sed ipse dives mortem suam malis meritis effecit. Psal LIV: Viri sanguinum et dolosi non dimidiabunt dies suos. Ad exaggerationem autem miseriae dicitur dives, quia ille assuetus erat in deliciis: et ideo magis in tormentis torquebatur. Erat autem vere mortuus: quia nihil vitae habuit, sed in toto separatus a vita fuit. Perfecte enim mortuus est, qui triplici morte mortuus fuit gratiae, et naturae, et paenae. Et ideo dicitur, Apocal. VIII: Vae, vae, vae habitantibus in terra, hoc est, defixis in terrenis. Dives autem in extrema erat indigentia. Job. XXVII: Dives, cum dormierit, nihil secum auferet: operiet oculos suos, et nihil inveniet. Psal. lxxv: Dormierunt somnum suum, et nihil invenerunt omnes viri divitiarum in manibus suis. Et ideo cum talem penuriam pati non consueverint, multo plus aliis torquentur. Unde Boetius: Extremum genus infelicitatis est in misero, aliquando fuisse felicem. Et sepultus est. Ecce exsequiarum officium a daemonibus presbyteris impensum. In hoc enim praecipue verum est quod dicitur, Matth. VIII: Dimitte mortuos sepelire mortuos suos. Mortuus enim est daemon presbyter morte gratiae, et mortuus est dives morte gratiae, et naturae, et gloriae: et ideo daemon sepelivit divitem, Isa. XIV: Non habebis consortium, scilicet cum regibus, neque cum eis in sepultura. Jerem. XXII: Sepultura asini sepelietur, hoc est, insensati, et sine sensu viventis. Tale ergo obsequium fuit sui funeris. In inferno. Ecce animae receptaculum in inferno. Non enim dictum fuit ei quod dictum fuit Abrahae Patriarchae, et quod dicunt Religiosi divitibus ad se venientibus, et apud se eligentibus sepulturam: In electis sepulchris nostris sepeli mortuum tuum. Sed in inferno sepullus est. Isa. XIV: Detracta est ad inferos superbia tua, concidit cadaver tuum. Job XXI: Ducunt in bonis dies suos, et in puncto ad inferno descendunt. Ibi ergo sepultus est. Sanctus Albertus Magnus Commentarium In Evangelium Lucam, Caput VIII Source: Here p570

And the rich man died and he was buried in hell. 1 He speaks of three things regarding the death of the rich man, the death, the funeral service, and the reception of the soul. Concerning death it says, 'And the rich man died.' It does not say, 'It happened that,' because as is said in the first chapter of Wisdom, 'God did not make death, but the wicked summoned it with their deeds and words.' And this rich man makes his own death through the rewards of his evils. In the forty fourth Psalm, 'Men of blood shall not live out half their days.' 2 It is for an exaggeration of wretchedness that it is said 'the rich man,' because he had been accustomed to pleasure, and therefore was tormented with greater torments. But he was truly dead, because he had nothing of life, but he was completely separated from life, for he is utterly dead who has the threefold death, the death of grace and nature and punishment. Therefore it is said in the eighth chapter of the Apocalypse, 'Alas, alas, to those who dwell on the earth,' that is, those who are fixed in worldly things. And that the rich man was in the extremes of poverty, in the twenty seventh chapter of Job, 'The rich man, when he sleeps, shall take nothing with him. He shall close his eyes and find nothing.' In the seventy fifth Psalm 'The rich shall sleep their sleep and they shall find they have nothing in their hands.' 3 Therefore, since they were not accustomed to suffer grave poverty, their torments in other things will be so much greater. Hence Boethius says, 'It is a type of misfortune for a wretched person to have been happy sometime.' 4 'He was buried.' Behold the funeral service given by demonic priests. In this it is especially true what is said in the eighth chapter of Matthew, 'Leave the dead to bury their own dead.' 4 Death is the demonic priest of the death of grace, and the rich man was dead in the death of grace and nature and glory, and therefore a demon buried the rich man. In the fourteenth chapter of Isaiah, 'You shall have no association,' that is, with kings, 'nor with those in tombs.' In the twenty second chapter of Jeremiah, 'He shall be buried with the burial of an ass,' 5 that is, as something mindless, and without the understanding of the living. Such was the service of his funeral. 'In hell.' Behold the reception of the soul into hell. For it was not said to him as it was to Abraham the patriarch, and what the religious say to the pious rich folk who come to them, and to those who choose their tombs, 'In the finest of our tombs bury your dead.' But he was buried in hell. In the fourteenth chapter of Isaiah, 'Your pride brought you down to hell, your corpse has fallen.' In the twenty first chapter of Job, 'They had good things in their days, and in a moment they went down to hell.' 6 Therefore he was buried there. Saint Albert The Great, Commentary On The Gospel of St Luke, Chapter 8 1 Lk 16.22 2 Wisd 1. 13-16, Ps 44.24 3 Apoc .8.13, Job 27.19, Ps 75.6 4 Boeth Consol Phil 2 5 Isaiah 14.20, Jeremiah 12.19 6 Genesis 23. 6, Isaiah 14.11, Job 21.13