Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Psalms 48

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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 6, page 440, footnote 3 (Image)

Gregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius the Great, Julius Africanus, Anatolius and Minor Writers, Methodius, Arnobius

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The Seven Books of Arnobius Against the Heathen. (Adversus Gentes.) (HTML)

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CCEL Footnote 3512 (In-Text, Margin)

... destruction. For theirs is an intermediate state, as has been learned from Christ’s teaching; and they are such that they may on the one hand perish if they have not known God, and on the other be delivered from death if they have given heed to His threats and proffered favours. And to make manifest what is unknown, this is man’s real death, this which leaves nothing behind. For that which is seen by the eyes is only a separation of soul from body, not the last end—annihilation:[Psalms 48] this, I say, is man’s real death, when souls which know not God shall be consumed in long-protracted torment with raging fire, into which certain fiercely cruel beings shall cast them, who were unknown before Christ, and brought to ...

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