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will never be freed from their pains." Gieseler,. 

 Hist. Doc. p. 248. 



"The doctrine of Eternal Punishment con- 

 tinned, as ill the preceding period, to be domi- 

 nant in the creed of the church/' Neander, 

 (Hist. Christian Church, Vol. II. p. 676). 



"The saved were then to be transported bodily 

 to the eternal bliss of heaven; the damned, in 

 like manner, were to be banished forever to a 

 fiery hell, there to endure uncomprehended 

 agonies, without any respite, without any end. 

 Such was undeniably the prevailing view, the 

 orthodox doctrine, of the Patristic church." 

 Alger, (Crit. Hist, Doc. Fut, Life. p. 402). 



Of St Luke, 12:5, it is said, " It is a matter of 

 history, out of the question, that the Apostolic 

 church, and the church of later times, took it 

 word for word in the whole of its apparent value. " 

 Taylor, Ancient Christianity. 



Without quoting extracts verbatim, we will 

 simply refer to others of repute whose state- 

 ments are consonant with what has been already 

 deduced. 



Herzog's Real Encyclopaedic (German), Vol. 

 VI. p. 18:3. 



McClintock and Strong, article "Future Pun- 

 ishment." Vol. VIII. p. 790. 



Edwards, .Encyclopedia of Religious Knowl- 

 edge, article " Future Retribution." 



