Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Patristics

It is vain, then, that some, indeed very many, make moan over the eternal punishment and perpetual, unintermitted torments of the lost, and say they do not believe it shall be so; not, indeed, that they directly oppose themselves to Holy Scripture, but, at the suggestion of their own feelings, they soften down everything that seems hard, and give a milder turn to statements which they think are rather designed to terrify and to be received as literally true.” Augustine, Enchiridion, CXII, NPNF1, 3:273

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