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4 <h2 id="vii.ii-p0.1">Appendix 2</h2>
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8 <h3 id="AP2_Q1-p0.1">TWO ARTICLES ON PURGATORY</h3>
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12 <h4 id="AP2_Q1_A1-p0.1">Whether there is a Purgatory after this life?</h4>
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15 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that there is not a Purgatory after this life. For it is said (
16 <a class="scripRef" id="AP2_Q1_A1-p2.1" href="./asv.html#Rev.14.13" target="asv">Apoc. 14:13</a>): "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord. From henceforth now, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors."
17 Therefore after this life no cleansing labor awaits those who die in the Lord, nor those who do not die in the Lord, since
18 they cannot be cleansed. Therefore there is no Purgatory after this life.
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20 <p id="AP2_Q1_A1-p3">
21 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, as charity is to an eternal reward, so is mortal sin to eternal punishment. Now those who die in mortal sin are
22 forthwith consigned to eternal punishment. Therefore those who die in charity go at once to their reward; and consequently
23 no Purgatory awaits them after this life.
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26 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, God Who is supremely merciful is more inclined to reward good than to punish evil. Now just as those who are in
27 the state of charity, do certain evil things which are not deserving of eternal punishment, so those who are in mortal sin,
28 at times perform actions, generically good, which are not deserving of an eternal reward. Therefore since these good actions
29 are not rewarded after this life in those who will be damned, neither should those evil
30 actions be punished after this life. Hence the same conclusion follows.
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32 <p id="AP2_Q1_A1-p5">
33 <b>On the contrary,</b> It is said (
34 <a class="scripRef" id="AP2_Q1_A1-p5.1" href="./asv.html#iiMacc.12.46" target="asv">2 Macc. 12:46</a>): "It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from sins." Now there is no need to pray
35 for the dead who are in heaven, for they are in no need; nor again for those who are in hell, because they cannot be loosed
36 from sins. Therefore after this life, there are some not yet loosed from sins, who can be loosed therefrom; and the like have
37 charity, without which sins cannot be
38 loosed, for "charity covereth all sins" [*
39 <a class="scripRef" id="AP2_Q1_A1-p5.2" href="./asv.html#Prov.10.12" target="asv">Prov. 10:12</a>]. Hence they will not be consigned to everlasting death, since "he that liveth and believeth in Me, shall not die for ever"
40 [*
41 <a class="scripRef" id="AP2_Q1_A1-p5.3" href="./asv.html#John.11.26" target="asv">Jn. 11:26</a>]: nor will they obtain glory without being cleansed, because nothing unclean shall obtain it, as stated in the last chapter
42 of the Apocalypse (verse 14). Therefore some kind of cleansing remains after this life.
43 </p>
44 <p id="AP2_Q1_A1-p6"> Further, Gregory of Nyssa [*De iis qui in fide dormiunt] says: "If one who loves and believes in Christ," has failed to wash
45 away his sins in this life, "he is set free after death by the fire of Purgatory." Therefore there remains some kind of cleansing
46 after this life.
47 </p>
48 <p id="AP2_Q1_A1-p7">
49 <b>I answer that,</b> From the conclusions we have drawn above (
50 <a id="AP2_Q1_A1-p7.1" shape="rect" href="summa.TP_Q86_A4.html">TP, Q[86], AA[4]</a>,5;
51 <a id="AP2_Q1_A1-p7.2" shape="rect" href="summa.XP_Q12_A1.html">XP, Q[12], A[1]</a>) it is sufficiently clear that there is a Purgatory after this life. For if the debt of punishment is not paid in full after
52 the stain of sin has been washed away by contrition, nor again are venial sins always removed when mortal sins are remitted,
53 and if justice demands that sin be set in order by due punishment, it follows that
54 one who after contrition for his fault and after being absolved, dies before making due satisfaction, is punished after this
55 life. Wherefore those who deny Purgatory speak against the justice of God: for which reason such a statement is erroneous
56 and contrary to faith. Hence Gregory of Nyssa, after the words quoted above, adds: "This we preach, holding to the teaching
57 of truth, and this is our belief; this the universal Church holds, by praying for the dead that they may be loosed from sins."
58 This cannot be understood except as referring to Purgatory: and whosoever resists the authority of the Church, incurs the
59 note of heresy.
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61 <p id="AP2_Q1_A1-p8">
62 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> The authority quoted is speaking of the labor of working for merit, and not of the labor of suffering to be cleansed.
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65 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> Evil has not a perfect cause, but results from each single defect: whereas good arises from one perfect cause, as Dionysius
66 asserts [*Div. Nom. iv, 4]. Hence each defect is an obstacle to the perfection of good; while not every good hinders some
67 consummation of evil, since there is never evil without some good. Consequently venial sin prevents one who has charity from
68 obtaining the perfect good, namely eternal life, until he be cleansed; whereas
69 mortal sin cannot be hindered by some conjoined good from bringing a man forthwith to the extreme of evils.
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72 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> He that falls into mortal sin, deadens all the good he has done before, and what he does, while in mortal sin, is dead: since
73 by offending God he deserves to lose all the good he has from God. Wherefore no reward after this life awaits him who dies
74 in mortal sin, whereas sometimes punishment awaits him who dies in charity, which does not always wash away the sin which
75 it finds, but only that which is contrary to it.
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85 <h4 id="AP2_Q1_A2-p0.1">Whether it is the same place where souls are cleansed, and the damned punished?</h4>
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87 <p id="AP2_Q1_A2-p2">
88 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that it is not the same place where souls are cleansed and the damned punished. For the punishment of the damned
89 is eternal, according to
90 <a class="scripRef" id="AP2_Q1_A2-p2.1" href="./asv.html#Matt.25.46" target="asv"> Mat. 25:46, </a> "These shall go into everlasting punishment [Vulg.: 'fire']." But the fire of Purgatory is temporary, as the Master says
91 (Sent. iv, D, 21). Therefore the former and the latter are not punished together in the same place: and consequently these
92 places must needs be distinct.
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94 <p id="AP2_Q1_A2-p3">
95 <b>Objection 2:</b> The punishment of hell is called by various names, as in
96 <a class="scripRef" id="AP2_Q1_A2-p3.1" href="./asv.html#Ps.10.7" target="asv">Ps. 10:7</a>, "Fire and brimstone, and storms of winds," etc., whereas the punishment of Purgatory is called by one name only, namely
97 fire. Therefore they are not punished with the same fire and in the same place.
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99 <p id="AP2_Q1_A2-p4">
100 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, Hugh of St. Victor says (De Sacram. ii, 16): "It is probable that they are punished in the very places where they
101 sinned." And Gregory relates (Dial. iv, 40) that Germanus, Bishop of Capua, found Paschasius being cleansed in the baths.
102 Therefore they are not cleansed in the same place as hell, but in this world.
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104 <p id="AP2_Q1_A2-p5">
105 <b>On the contrary,</b> Gregory says [*The quotation is from St. Augustine (De Civ. Dei i, 8)]: "Even as in the same fire gold glistens and straw
106 smokes, so in the same fire the sinner burns and the elect is cleansed." Therefore the fire of Purgatory is the same as the
107 fire of hell: and hence they are in the same place.
108 </p>
109 <p id="AP2_Q1_A2-p6"> Further, the holy fathers; before the coming of Christ, were in a more worthy place than that wherein souls are now cleansed
110 after death, since there was no pain of sense there. Yet that place was joined to hell, or the same as hell: otherwise Christ
111 when descending into Limbo would not be said to have descended into hell. Therefore Purgatory is either close to, or the same
112 place as, hell.
113 </p>
114 <p id="AP2_Q1_A2-p7">
115 <b>I answer that,</b> Nothing is clearly stated in Scripture about the situation of Purgatory, nor is it possible to offer convincing arguments
116 on this question. It is probable, however, and more in keeping with the statements of holy men and the revelations made to
117 many, that there is a twofold place of Purgatory. one, according to the common law; and thus the place of Purgatory is situated
118 below and in proximity to hell, so that it is the same fire which torments the damned in
119 hell and cleanses the just in Purgatory; although the damned being lower in merit, are to be consigned to a lower place. Another
120 place of Purgatory is according to dispensation: and thus sometimes, as we read, some are punished in various places, either
121 that the living may learn, or that the dead may be succored, seeing that their punishment being made known to the living may
122 be mitigated through the prayers of the Church.
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124 <p id="AP2_Q1_A2-p8"> Some say, however, that according to the common law the place of Purgatory is where man sins. This does not seem probable,
125 since a man may be punished at the same time for sins committed in various places. And others say that according to the common
126 law they are punished above us, because they are between us and God, as regards their state. But this is of no account, for
127 they are not punished for being above us, but for that which is lowest in them, namely sin.
128 </p>
129 <p id="AP2_Q1_A2-p9">
130 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> The fire of Purgatory is eternal in its substance, but temporary in its cleansing effect.
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132 <p id="AP2_Q1_A2-p10">
133 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> The punishment of hell is for the purpose of affliction, wherefore it is called by the names of things that are wont to afflict
134 us here. But the chief purpose of the punishment of Purgatory is to cleanse us from the remains of sin; and consequently the
135 pain of fire only is ascribed to Purgatory, because fire cleanses and consumes.
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137 <p id="AP2_Q1_A2-p11">
138 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> This argument considers the point of special dispensation and not that of the common law.
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