CHAPTER V. 



TESTIMONY OF LATER PATRISTIC AND SCHOLAS- 

 TIC WRITERS. 



f/ff HE Second Patristic Period. (A. D. 300-609) 

 '^r has many witnesses to the doctrine of future 

 endless punishment. 



Gregory of Nazianzen writes: "For those 

 who have departed from this life there will no 

 more be in hell confession or amendment of ways 

 (non est in inferno hie morum correct io"). 



He says also that he knew " of a purifying fire 

 which Christ has come to kindle on earth; this 

 fire has the power to eradicate matter and all evil 

 propensities, * * * * * I know also of a fire 

 which does not purify but punishes, ***** 

 which is connected with the worm that never 

 dies, and which cannot be extinguished, but per- 

 petuates itself for evil doers." Orat., 40., 30. 



Lactantius also says: ''The same divine fire 

 therefore, with one and the same force and 

 power, will both burn the wicked and form them 

 again, and will replace as much as it will con- 



