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Synopsis of the Theorems

First Commentary on the Eternity of Punishments

Doctrine of the Scriptures

Theorem	Statement	Page
I	The eternity of punishments is asserted by those testimonies which expressly call the punishments of hell eternal.	8
II	The eternity of punishments is established by those testimonies in which those same punishments are said to endure unto ages of ages.	13
III	The eternity of punishments is established by those testimonies in which their end is expressly and explicitly denied.	17
IV	The eternity of punishments is established by those testimonies in which the duration of the reward divinely appointed is compared with the duration of the punishment.	19
V	The eternity of punishments is established by those testimonies in which all hope of future redemption or liberation is taken away from the damned.	21
VI	The eternity of punishments is established by those testimonies in which all hope of liberation is denied to the evil angels.	25
VII	The eternity of punishments is established by those testimonies which demonstrate that a λύτρον of infinite price was necessary in order that men might be delivered from sins and from the punishment due to sins.	26

Second Commentary on the Eternity of Punishments

Judgment of Reason

I

Theorem	Statement	Page
I	Reason, well consulted, detects no contradiction in the fact that God has appointed beforehand a certain time, after the lapse of which no hope remains to sinners of obtaining pardon.	33

II

Theorem	Statement	Page
II	Reason, well consulted, detects no contradiction in the fact that the time appointed beforehand by God for obtaining pardon is confined within the limits of mortal life.	34
III	It is in the highest degree consonant with the principles of reason that the limits of the present life should also be considered the limits of obtaining pardon.	35

III

Theorem	Statement	Page
IV	Reason, well consulted, detects nothing absurd in the fact that he who completes his life subject to sin should undergo punishment for as long as he exists.	36
V	Reason, well consulted, detects nothing absurd in the fact that those who die bound by guilt should undergo punishments that will endure perpetually.	37

IV

Theorem	Statement	Page
VI	Reason, well consulted, detects nothing absurd in the fact that God sanctions his laws with privative punishments of such a kind as endure perpetually.	38
VII	Reason, well consulted, detects nothing absurd in the fact that the divine laws are sanctioned with positive punishments, and those perpetual.	39
VIII	Reason, well consulted, approves that the divine laws are sanctioned with perpetual punishments, both privative and positive.	Ibid.

V

Theorem	Statement	Page
IX	Reason, well consulted, far from condemning it, approves that men who depart from life bound by sin immediately fall into perpetual punishments.	43

VI

Theorem	Statement	Page
X	A revelation which teaches that those who depart from life subject to sin are to be punished with perpetual punishments contains nothing which is opposed to reason—indeed, nothing which does not agree well with reason.	44
XI	The Christian revelation which teaches that men who die unexpiated are immediately to be punished with perpetual punishments, far from being opposed to reason, accords amicably with reason.	Ibid.

Commentary on the Fire of Hell

I

Theorem	Statement	Page
I	The sentence of Christ against the reprobate is explained.	48
II	By arguments drawn from the sentence of Christ, it is shown that the fire of hell is not metaphorical.	51

II

Theorem	Statement	Page
III	The real fire of hell is proved from those things which are attributed to it in the New Testament.	52
IV	The real fire of hell is proved from those things which are attributed to it in the Old Testament.	53

III

Theorem	Statement	Page
V	The real fire of hell is proved by other passages of the Scriptures.	54
VI	The real fire of hell is proved from the name Gehenna.	Ibid.
VII	The real fire of hell is proved from the usage of speech in the Scriptures.	57

IV

Theorem	Statement	Page
VIII	The real fire of hell differs in more than one respect from that of which we have daily experience.	58

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Carlo Passaglia, “Synopsis of the Theorems,” in On the Eternity of Punishments and on the Fire of Hell, English translation, Mind of the Church, https://mindofthechurch.com/works/passaglia-eternity-of-punishments/31-synopsis-of-the-theorems/.