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Biographical SummaryTranslation of selected portions from J. Aurifaber’s collection published in 1566 under title Tischreden.
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The Fathers made four sorts of hell.
1. The fore-front, wherein, they say, the patriarchs were until Christ descended into hell.
2. The feeling of pain, yet only temporal, as purgatory.
3. Where unbaptized children are, but feel no pain.
4. Where the damned are, which feel everlasting pain.
This is the right hell; the other three are only human imaginings. In Popedom they sang an evil song: ’Our sighs called upon thee, our pitiful lamentations sought thee,’ etc. This was not Christianlike, for the Gospel says: ’They are in Abraham’s bosom.’ Isaiah: ’They go into their chambers,’ and Ecclesiasticus: ’The righteous is in the Lord’s hand, let him die how he will, yea, although he be overtaken by death.’ What hell is, we know not; only this we know, that there is such a sure and certain place, as is written of the rich glutton, when Abraham said unto him: ’There is a great space between you and us.’
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Chicago: Martin Luther, "802," Table Talk, trans. William Hazlitt in The Table Talk or Familiar Discourse of Martin Luther (London: D. Bogue, 1848), Original Sources, accessed January 3, 2025, http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=UMUE2L1APB25V44.
MLA: Luther, Martin. "802." Table Talk, translted by William Hazlitt, in The Table Talk or Familiar Discourse of Martin Luther, London, D. Bogue, 1848, Original Sources. 3 Jan. 2025. http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=UMUE2L1APB25V44.
Harvard: Luther, M, '802' in Table Talk, trans. . cited in 1848, The Table Talk or Familiar Discourse of Martin Luther, D. Bogue, London. Original Sources, retrieved 3 January 2025, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=UMUE2L1APB25V44.
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