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(Dinocrates, cap. ii. p. 701.)
The avidity with which the Latin controversial
writers seize upon this fanciful passage, (which, in fact, is
subversive of their whole doctrine about Purgatory, as is the text from
the Maccabees) makes emphatic the utter absence from the early
Fathers of any reference to such a dogma; which, had it existed, must
have appeared in every reference to the State of the Dead, and in every
account of the discipline of penitents. Arbp. Usher9011
| 9011 Republished, Oxford,
1838. | ingeniously turns the tables upon these
errorists, by quoting the Prayers for the Dead, which were used in the
Early Church, but which, such as they were, not only make no mention of
a Purgatory, but refute the dogma, by their uniform limitation of such
prayers to the blessed dead, and to their consummation of bliss at the
Last day and not before. Such a prayer seems to occur
in 2 Tim. i.
18. The context (vers.
16–; 18, and iv. 19)
strongly supports this view; Onesiphorus is spoken of as if deceased,
apparently. But, as Chrysostom understands it, he was only absent (in
Rome) from his household. From i. 17 we should infer that he had left
Rome.9012
| 9012 See Opp. Tom. xi. p.
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