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represents not only his ideas, and those of the 

 cause for which he did so much, but is thoroughly 

 scriptural in its main points, as to the fact of a 

 future place of eternal doom. He never is quoted 

 by the friends of the "wider hope." 



Pelagius, (A. D. 360-435,) strenuously favors 

 eternal punishment, and Ambrose even goes so 

 far as to declare unbaptized infants are lost. 



Jerome says that "sceptics" and "impious 

 ones and devils shall be in eternal torment" 

 Comm. in Jtrem. (50, ad. tin. Chrysostom, one 

 of the most reputable church fathers of the 

 Second Patristic period, cannot be misunderstood. 

 He not only believed in and taught eternal pun- 

 ishment (Ad Theod. Laps., 1:10), but advises 

 meditation upon the subject as a means to one's, 

 safety, from the pains of hell. (Horn. 31, ad. 

 Rom.). 



The Second Patristic period yields more abun- 

 dant evidence than we have given. Space does 

 not admit of more devotion to it than has been 

 given. For a fuller view of the position of these 

 writers, the reader is referred to chapter I., of the 

 "Unknown Country" and chapters 3, 4, of 

 "Doom Eternal." ********** 



