Note 151 — PART II (continued 3)

Cited by Mr. Nutt, Voyage of Bran, i. 225, where it is suggested that this circumstance may have arisen in the distinction between the Pagan Elysium and Heaven, a provisional Hell being added for the sake of symmetry. But it appears quite as probable that this classification may be another instance of the acquaintance of the Irish Church with Eastern writers, for the fourfold division already exists in the Book of Enoch, c. 22, the several categories being: (1) The martyrs, as in the Fis Adamnáin; (2) The rest of the righteous; (3) Sinners who have been punished in this life; (4) Sinners who have not made expiation.