Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>The prophet Malachi or Malachias, who is also called Angel,\r\nand is by some (for Jerome<a id=\"FNanchor_815_815\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_815_815\">[815]</a> tells us that this is the opinion\r\nof the Hebrews) identified with Ezra the priest,<a id=\"FNanchor_816_816\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_816_816\">[816]</a> others of\r\nwhose writings have been received into the canon, predicts\r\nthe last judgment, saying, \"Behold, He cometh, saith the Lord\r\nAlmighty; and who shall abide the day of His entrance? ...\r\nfor I am the Lord your God, and I change not.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_817_817\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_817_817\">[817]</a> From\r\nthese words it more evidently appears that some shall in the\r\nlast judgment suffer some kind of purgatorial punishments;\r\nfor what else can be understood by the word, \"Who shall\r\nabide the day of His entrance, or who shall be able to look\r\nupon Him? for He enters as a moulder's fire, and as the\r\nherb of fullers: and He shall sit fusing and purifying as if<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_400\">[Pg 400]</a></span>\r\nover gold and silver: and He shall purify the sons of Levi,\r\nand pour them out like gold and silver?\" Similarly Isaiah\r\nsays, \"The Lord shall wash the filthiness of the sons and\r\ndaughters of Zion, and shall cleanse away the blood from their\r\nmidst, by the spirit of judgment and by the spirit of burning.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_818_818\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_818_818\">[818]</a>\r\nUnless perhaps we should say that they are cleansed from\r\nfilthiness and in a manner clarified, when the wicked are\r\nseparated from them by penal judgment, so that the elimination\r\nand damnation of the one party is the purgation of the\r\nothers, because they shall henceforth live free from the contamination\r\nof such men. But when he says, \"And he shall\r\npurify the sons of Levi, and pour them out like gold and silver,\r\nand they shall offer to the Lord sacrifices in righteousness;\r\nand the sacrifices of Judah and Jerusalem shall be pleasing to\r\nthe Lord,\" he declares that those who shall be purified shall\r\nthen please the Lord with sacrifices of righteousness, and consequently\r\nthey themselves shall be purified from their own\r\nunrighteousness which made them displeasing to God. Now\r\nthey themselves, when they have been purified, shall be sacrifices\r\nof complete and perfect righteousness; for what more\r\nacceptable offering can such persons make to God than themselves?\r\nBut this question of purgatorial punishments we\r\nmust defer to another time, to give it a more adequate treatment.\r\nBy the sons of Levi and Judah and Jerusalem we\r\nought to understand the Church herself, gathered not from\r\nthe Hebrews only, but from other nations as well; nor such\r\na Church as she now is, when \"if we say that we have no sin,\r\nwe deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_819_819\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_819_819\">[819]</a> but as she\r\nshall then be, purged by the last judgment as a threshing-floor\r\nby a winnowing wind, and those of her members who need it\r\nbeing cleansed by fire, so that there remains absolutely not\r\none who offers sacrifice for his sins. For all who make such\r\nofferings are assuredly in their sins, for the remission of which\r\nthey make offerings, that having made to God an acceptable\r\noffering, they may then be absolved.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK TWENTIETH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-631"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"0251bb1fb65658f6320216726063ae79a0e8ed40cfde14996d5d7977128a0815","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_815_815","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Provider catalog reports public domain in the USA. 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