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Rhadamanthus and Minos would punish the- 

 wicked who came before them: and we say that 

 the same will be done, but at the hand of Christ, 

 and upon the wicked in the same bodies united 

 agaiu to their spirits, which are now to undergo 

 everlasting punishment: and not only, as Plato 

 said, for a period of a thousand years." Apolo- 

 gia, 1:8 and 2:0. 



Justin Trypho says: "Thus some which have 

 appeared worthy of God never die; but others are 

 punished so long as God w T ills them to exist and 

 to be punished." 



Justin says: " But since God in the beginning 

 made the race of angels and men with free-wall, 

 they will justly suffer in eternal fire the punish- 

 ment of whatever sins they have committed." 

 Apol. 2:7. 



Trypho: " But we will not receive it of all 

 your nation (Gentiles) since w T e know from 

 Isaiah (06:24) that the numbers of those who 

 have transgressed shall be consumed by the 

 worm and unquenchable fire, remaining immor- 

 tal; so that they become a spectacle to all flesh." 

 ch. 130. 



Justin: ,; And that he (Satan) would be sent 

 into the fire with his host, and the men w T ho fol- 

 low him, and would be punished for an endless 

 duration, Christ foretold." Apol. 1:28. 



That Irenaeus favored the doctrine of annihila- 



