Hell

OUR FATHER, HELL AND HEAVEN : M. M. NINAN
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century, contained in a manuscript of the fifteenth century discovered at Athens in 1867 and edited by C. Blondel.
This work (called Ἀποκριτικός πρὸς Ἕλληνας in Greek; Apocriticus in Latin) agrees in its dogmatics with
Gregory of Nyssa, and is valuable on account of the numerous excerpts from the writings of the opponent of
Macarius. These fragments are apparently drawn from the lost Against the Christians of Porphyry or from the
Lover of Truth of Hierocles.
He may be the Macarius, bishop of Magnesia, who, at the Synod of the Oak in 403, brought charges against
Heraclides, bishop of Ephesus, the friend of John Chrysostom, although Adolf Harnack dated him in the late
third century.
Death was ordained at the first,
"in order that, by the dissolution of the body, all the sin proceeding from the connection (of soul and
body) should be totally destroyed."
Ambrosiaster
4th C AD
Ambrosiaster, the name given to the author of a commentary on St. Paul’s letters in the New Testament, long
attributed to St. Ambrose (died 397), bishop of Milan. The work is valuable for the criticism of the Latin text of the
New Testament. The commentary itself was written during the papacy of Pope Damasus I, that is, between 366
and 384, and is considered an important document of the Latin text of Paul before the Vulgate of Jerome, and of
the interpretation of Paul prior to Augustine of Hippo
"This is implied in the Savior's subjecting himself to the Father;
his is involved in God's being all in all, namely, when every creature thinks one and the same thing,
so that every tongue of celestials, terrestials, and infernals shall confess God as the great One
from whom all things are derived."
On I Cor. xv: 28, the Ambrosiaster
Gaius Marius Victorinus
A.D. 360
Gaius Marius Victorinus was a Roman grammarian, rhetorician and Neoplatonic philosopher. Victorinus was
African by birth and experienced the height of his career during the reign of Constantius II. Marius Victorinus,
was a famous rhetorician, whose writings abound with expressions of the faith of Universalism. Victorinus had a
religious conversion, from being a pagan to a Christian, "at an advanced old age" (c. 355).
On I Cor. xv: 28, he says:
"All things shall be rendered spiritual at the consummation of the world.
At the consummation all things shall be one.
14 Therefore all things converted to him shall become one, i.e., spiritual;
through the Son all things shall be made one, for all things are by him,
for all things that exist are one, though they be different.
For the body of the entire universe is not like a mere heap, which becomes a body, only by the contact
of its particles;
but it is a body chiefly in its several parts being closely and mutually bound together--it forms a
continuous chain.
For the chain is this
, God: Jesus: the Spirit: the intellect: the soul: the angelic host: and lastly, all subordinate bodily
existences."
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