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suine of their bodies, and will supply itself, with 

 eternal nourishment, which the poets transferred 

 to the vulture of Tityus. This without any wast- 

 ing of bodies, which regain their substance ; it. 

 will only burn and effect them with a sense of 

 pain." Instit. 7:21 (Clark's Ante-Nicene Li- 

 brary.) 



Augustine, (A. D. 353-430,) is so well known 

 as favoring eternal punishment that it would be 

 unnecessary to transcribe any amount of his 

 numerous arguments. He not only believed in 

 retribution, but logically and conclusively com- 

 bated restorationism and annihilationism. His. 

 argument is quite fully given in the " Unknown 

 Country" pp. 42 to 45. The quotations given- 

 there are supplied by the translations published 

 by T. & T. Clark. 



Augustine is supposed by the opposition to- 

 have imbibed his ideas from the heathen. But 

 we are not informed as to where the heathen se- 

 cured their ideas. The effort to impeach the 

 Augustinian testimony as to future punishment 

 seems to be reducible to an argumentum ad ab- 

 surdum. In whatever points he may have de- 

 parted from orthodoxy, yet on this point his voice 

 is consonant with the church universal. Criti- 

 cism is a deadly weapon in some quarters. It 

 cannot produce death in the field of polemics.. 

 The argument of Augustine is conclusive, and 



