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“The kind of punishment which tends to the improvement of the criminal is what the Greek philosopher called kolasis or chastisement.”
“Pruning, checking, punishment, chastisement, correction.” -J.W. HANSON, D. D. Universalism The Prevailing Doctrine Of The Christian Church

Any reader may see this who will consult Pagan literature and writers on the opinions of the ancients. And not only this, but the
heathen writers declare that the doctrine was invented to awe and control the multitude. Polybius writes: “Since the multitude is ever fickle * * * there is no other way to keep them in order but by fear of the invisible world...

What more natural than that the small reservoir of Christian truth should be contaminated by the opinionsthat converts from all these sources brought with them into their new religion at first, and later that the Roman Catholic priests and Pagan legislators should seize them as engines of power by which to control the world?