the idea of purgatory came from the latin church.
the idea of purgatory came from the latin church.
where does the idea of purgatory come from?
latin church
specific examples of belief in purification after death and of the communion of the living with the dead through prayer are found in many of the church fathers. irenaeus ("c". 130-202) mentioned an abode where the souls of the dead remained until the universal judgment, a process that has been described as one which "contains the concept of... purgatory." both st. clement of alexandria ("c". 150-215) and his pupil, origen of alexandria ("c". 185-254), developed a view of purification after death; this view drew upon the notion that fire is a divine instrument from the old testament, and understood this in the context of new testament teachings such as baptism by fire, from the gospels, and a purificatory trial after death, from st. paul. origen, in arguing against soul sleep, stated that the souls of the elect immediately entered paradise unless not yet purified, in which case they passed into a state of punishment, a penal fire, which is to be conceived as a place of purification. for both clement and origen, the fire was neither a material thing nor a metaphor, but a "spiritual fire". an early latin author, tertullian ("c". 160-225), also articulated a view of purification after death. in tertullian's understanding of the afterlife, the souls of martyrs entered directly into eternal blessedness, whereas the rest entered a generic realm of the dead. there the wicked suffered a foretaste of their eternal punishments, whilst the good experienced various stages and places of bliss wherein "the idea of a kind of purgatory… is quite plainly found," an idea that is representative of a view widely dispersed in antiquity. later examples, wherein further elaborations are articulated, include st. cyprian (d. 258), st. john chrysostom ("c". 347-407), and st. augustine (354-430), among others.
history of purgatory
many sources refer to snakes that give birth to live young as either ovoviviparous or viviparous. in reality, the distinction between these two terms is not very sharp, and the diversity of reproductive modes is better thought of as a spectrum or continuum between matrotrophy (embryonic nutrients come directly from the mother) and lecithotrophy (embryonic nutrients come mostly or completely from egg yolk). viviparity is the most extreme form of matrotrophy, whereas oviparity is the most extreme form of lecithotrophy.









































section::::behavior.
haldea striatula