Now are we able to say that the love
of the Creator is diminished towards those rational beings who have become demons
as a result of their demonic action, and is any less than the fulness of love
which He has towards those who remain in the angelic state; or that it is less
for sinners than for those who are justly named righteous. This is because the
divine Nature is not affected by what happens and by opposition, nor does there
spring up within it any causal stirring which takes its origin from creation,
and which is not to be found with Him from eternity; nor does He have a kind of
love which originates as a result of events which take place in time.
Rather, everyone has a single place in
His purpose in the ranking of love, corresponding to the form He beheld in them
before He created them and all the rest of created beings, that is, at the time
before the eternal purpose for the delineation of the world was put into
effect. For it was not with an adventitious love that He had, without any
beginning, the stirring that initiated the establishment of the world. He has a
single ranking of complete and impassible love towards everyone, and he has a
single caring concern for those who have fallen, just as much as for those who
have not fallen.
And it is clear that He does not
abandon them the moment they fall, and that demons will not remain in their
demonic state, and sinners will not remain in their sins; rather, He is going
to bring them to a single equal state or perfection in relationship to His own
being—in a state in which the holy angels are now, in perfection of love and a
passionless mind. He is going to bring them into that excellency of will, where
it will not be as though they were curbed and not [free], or having stirrings
from the Opponent then; rather, they will be in a state of excelling knowledge,
with a mind made mature I the stirrings which partake of the divine outpouring
which the blessed Creator is preparing in His grace; they will be perfected in
love for Him, with a perfect mind which is above the aberration in all its
stirrings. (Isaac of Nineveh, The Second Part, trans. Sebastian Brock
[1995], II.40.2-4, in Alvin F. Kimel, Jr., “Will Satan Be Saved?,” in Destined
for Joy: The Gospel of Universal Salvation [2022], 191-92)
