And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
, gives the proper distinction between this fire of purgatory and that of hell: both are punishments, one temporary, the other eternal; the latter to punish us in God's justice, the former to amend us in his mercy.