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Annotatio XXXIX — Genesis 2:8

“The Lord had planted a Paradise.”

Annotatio XXXIX

”The Lord had planted a Paradise.” — Genesis 2:8

Tertullian, in the book On Paradise, published by him for the exposition of the present chapter, asserts that all the souls of the deceased — both good and bad — are sequestered in the underworld until the day of judgment.1 See Annotation 345 of the sixth book.

Footnotes

  1. Right margin: Tertullian held that all souls are in the underworld until the day of judgment. (Animas omnes usque ad diem iudicij in Inferno esse sensit Tertullianus.) ↩