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That the prayers of the living benefit the dead in Christ, is, to say the least, not inconsistent … with the primitive belief.

 

 

It is true that there is but one Priest and one Sacrifice under the Gospel, but this is because the Priests of the Gospel are one with Christ, not because they are only improperly called Priests.

 

 

Tertullian speaks of purification in a subterranean prision; Cyprian of a prison with fire; Origen, Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, Gregory Nyssen, Lactantius, Hilary, Ambrose, Paulinus, Jerome, Augustine, all speak of fire.