II. 



The scholastic period (800-1500 A. D.) yields 

 the same general information as the former 

 periods do. 



The " Elueedarium," a work of great authority 

 in its time, gives a conversation between a Disci- 

 pnlus and his Magister. It yields all the infor- 

 mation orthodoxy might desire on the question 

 under discussion. 



Peter Lombard also speaks to the point in 

 question with no uncertainty. 



Thomas Aquinas, known to all religious read- 

 fers, though laboring under some of the crudities 

 of his Roman Catholic bias, is nevertheless posi- 

 tive in his statement of the orthodox view, and is 

 unequivocal in his testimony as to a place of 

 punishment for the incorrigible and impenitent. 



Master Eckhart, the most eminent of the mys- 

 tics of this period, was so familiar with the 

 subject of eternal doom as to give himself up to 

 reasonings on the " philosophy'' of hell-torment ! 



Suso, (A. D. 1300-1365) giving an illustration 

 of the eternity of future suffering says: " Give 

 us a millstone, say the damned, as broad as the 

 whole earth, and so large as to touch the sky all 



