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-and in that Grecian doctrine of Fate, which had 

 far more the aspect of a stern moral degree, than 

 of a physical necessity. 



" Moipa, as well as the Latin Fatum, was the posi- 

 tive divine degree, the inexorable law of a^, in- 

 flicting wretchedness, and coming down with 

 immutable and unrelenting severity." 



Justin Martyr says: "When we assert de- 

 parted souls to be in a state sensibility, and the 

 wicked to be in torments, but the good free from 

 pain in a blissful condition, we assert no more 

 than do your poets and philosophers. " 



The doctrine of eternal woe is expressly stated 

 by the Greek and Latin writers. 



Cicero used the expression "sempiternum 

 malum,'' and Lucretius used the expression 

 "mors immortal is," and a distinguished Grecian 

 historian thus speaks : ' ' Great offenders are 

 doomed to a kind of suffering most in accordance 

 with the character of the infernal realms, to the 

 torment of unavailing toil, and unsatisfied long- 

 ings. A more tremendous prison, removed as 

 far below hades as earth is from heaven, was 

 reserved for the audacious enemies of Jupiter, 

 the abyss of Tartarus, fast secured with iron 

 gates and a brazen floor/' (Thirl wall). 



The foregoing excerpts are transcribed from 

 Keimensnyder. 



Mohammed says: — "Those who believe not 



