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but being translated out of the body, it is invisible; and this did they say was Hádes.

So where the author of the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy ⟨p. 343⟩defineth death to be a separation of the united parts, and the bringing to them [Greek or Hebrew], unto that which is invisible to us: his scholiast Maximus noteth thereupon, that ^rthis invisible thing some do affirm to be Hades; that is to say, an unseen and invisible departure of the soul unto places not to be seen by the sense of man. Hitherto also may be referred the place cited ^sbefore out of Origen in his fourth book [Greek or Hebrew]: which by S. Hierome is thus delivered. ^tThey who dye in this world by the separation of the flesh and the soul, according to the difference of their works obtain diverse places in Hell. Where by Hades, Inferi, or Hell he meaneth indefinitely the other world: in which how the souls of the godly were disposed, he thus declareth in another place. ^uThe soul leaveth the darkness of this world, and the blindness of this bodily nature, and is translated unto another world: which is either the bosom of Abraham, as it is showed in Lazarus, or Paradise, as in the thief that believed upon the cross; or yet if God know that there be any other places, or other mansions, by which the soul that believeth in God passing, and coming unto that river which maketh glad the city of God, may receive within it the lot of the inheritance promised unto the Fathers. For touching the determinate state of the faithful souls departed this life, the ancient Doctors (as we have showed) were not so thoroughly resolved.

So where the author of the Ecclesiasticall Hierarchy