The Vision of Paul 3534

The Vision of Paul · The Ante-Nicene Fathers Volume IX: Recently Discovered Additions to Early Christian Literature and Commentaries of Origen by Philip Schaff

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34. I further observed the fiery river and saw there a man being tortured by Tartaruchian angels having in their hands an iron with three hooks with which they pierced the bowels of that old man: and I asked the angel, and said: Sir, who is that old man on whom such torments are imposed? And the angel answered and said to me: He whom you see was a presbyter who did not perform well his ministry: when he had been eating and drinking and committing fornication he offered the host to the Lord at his holy altar.