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, Antwerp edition, 1698. ^ See especially his last work, entitled Dialogue -with the Jew Tryp/io, p. 158, Paris edition, 1615. For an adequate and conclusive inquiry into the testimony of the Fathers, our THE STRUGGLE FOR ETERNAL LIFE. 65 THE COMMON ORIGIN OF PURGATORY AND AN ETERNAL HELL. Two natives of the burning plains of Africa, Ter- tullian and Augustine, were foremost in procuring a victory for these anti-biblical views. Not under- standing Hebrew, Tertullian appealed to the account of t...he creation of Adam for proof of the immortality of the soul ; ^ then, conscious that he had failed to establish his theory, he quoted the revelations of his sister, who had visions. According to him, hell is a perpetual slaughtering. , '''•ceteryia occisio, " a scene of mortal agony without the release of death. This extreme doctrine provoked the equally ex- treme reaction of Origen. He represents hell as a kind of purgatory, where men and devils are puri- fied, and whence they go to enjoy the blessedness of saints at the right hand of God.
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