and 3. That the good may receive the honor due to them, and the wicked the dishonor they have deserved.
1. 'And the heavens shall declare His justice; for God is judge' (Ps. xlix. 6). 2, 'They shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of Heaven, with much power and majesty' (Matt. xxiv. 30). 3. 'Then shall those that have afflicted them be amazed at the suddenness of their unexpected salvation, saying within themselves, repenting, and groaning for anguish of spirit: These are they whom we had some time in derision, and for a parable of reproach. We fools esteemed their life madness, and their end without honor. Behold how they are numbered among the children of God, and their lot is among the Saints,' etc. (Wisd. v. 1-5).
9. Whither does the soul go after the particular judgment?
Either to Heaven, or to Hell, or to Purgatory.
10. How do we know that there is a Purgatory?
1. From the Holy Scripture,1 and from the Tradition of the Church.2
1 In the Holy Scripture—namely, the Old Testament—it is said (-2 Mac. xii. 46): 'It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from sins. 'In the New Testament, Christ speaks (Matt. xii. 32) of sins which shall be forgiven in the world to tome; and (Matt. v. 26) of a prison in the other world, from which there shall be no release till the last farthing has been paid. And St. Paul speaks (1 Cor. iii. 12-15) of such as on the day of judgment 'shall be saved, yet so as by fire.'
2That Tradition teaches it, follows from the constant practice of the Church to pray for the dead, as well as from the unanimous testimony of the Holy Fathers and of the Councils.
2. Also in some measure from Reason; for as no one goes to Heaven except those who are perfectly undefiled (Apoc. xxi. 27), and no one to Hell but those who die in mortal sin, we cannot but admit a place between Heaven and Hell where those souls that are not quite clean, but nevertheless died in the state of grace, suffer until they are worthy of entering Heaven.
11. Who go to Purgatory?
1. Such souls as have departed this life, not in mortal,
