239. A man's life cannot be changed after death. It remains then such as it had been; for a man's spirit is wholly according to the quality of his love; and an infernal love can never be transformed into a heavenly love, because they are opposites. This is meant by Abraham's words addressed to the rich man in hell, "Between you and us there is a great gulf: so that those who would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can those pass to us that would come from thence" (Luke xvi. 26). From this it is evident, that those who go to hell remain there to eternity, and that those who go to heaven remain there to eternity.