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Post-Nicene · AD 400–500
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ESCHATOLOGY c. AD 400
Jerome
The resurrection of the body means the same body that died will rise, not a different spiritual substitute
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ESCHATOLOGY c. AD 413
Augustine of Hippo
Augustine teaches that unbaptised infants cannot enter the kingdom but suffer the mildest condemnation
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ESCHATOLOGY c. AD 420
Augustine of Hippo
Some suffer temporary punishments after death before the final judgment
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ESCHATOLOGY c. AD 593
Gregory the Great
Gregory the Great teaches that the souls in purgatory are helped by the prayers and Masses offered for them
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