{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/105/1050754.htm","path":"chr/ecf/105/1050754.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/105/1050754.htm","text":"Chapter 22 [XV.]\u2014A Summary Recapitulation of the Errors of Victor.\nWhat these particular errors are, I have, to the best of my ability, already explained. But I will run over them again with a brief recapitulation. One is, \u201cThat God did not make the soul out of nothing, but out of His own self.\u201d A second is, that \u201cjust as God who gives is Himself ever existent, so is He ever giving souls through infinite time.\u201d The third is, that \u201cthe soul lost some merit by the flesh, which it had had previous to the flesh.\u201d The fourth is, that \u201cthe soul by means of the flesh recovers its ancient condition, and is born again through the very same flesh by which it had deserved to be polluted.\u201d The fifth is, that \u201cthe soul deserved to be sinful, previous to any sin.\u201d The sixth is, that \u201cinfants which are forestalled by death before they are baptized, may yet attain to forgiveness of their original sins.\u201d The seventh is, that \u201cthey whom the Lord has predestinated to be baptized may be taken away from his predestination, or die before that has been accomplished in them which the Almighty has predestined.\u201d The eighth is, that \u201cit is of infants who are fore-stalled by death, before they are born again in Christ, that the Scripture says, \u2018Speedily was he taken away, lest wickedness should alter his understanding,\u2019\u201d with the remainder of the passage to the same effect in the Book of Wisdom. The ninth is, that \u201cthere are outside the kingdom of God some of those mansions which the Lord said were in His Father\u2019s house.\u201d The tenth is, that \u201cthe sacrifice of Christians ought to be offered in behalf of those who have departed out of the body without being baptized.\u201d The eleventh is, that \u201csome of those persons who have departed this life without the baptism of Christ do not in the meanwhile go into the kingdom, but into paradise; afterwards, however, in the resurrection of the dead, they attain even to the blessedness of the kingdom of heaven.\u201d","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. V: A Treatise on the...","type":"page"}