| 单词 | purgatory fire |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspurgatory fire purgatory fire n. [compare Anglo-Norman feu purgatoire (early 13th cent. or earlier)] ΚΠ c1390Purgatory fire [see main sense]. 1625 J. Ussher Answer to Jesuite 172 It be a probatory, and not a purgatory fire that the Apostle there treateth of. 1747 T. Podmore Layman's Apol. vi. 35 And lastly let us hear S. Augustin, who as I observed above was the first that mentions this purgatory fire. 1817 Times 18 Sept. 3/4 To the same effect St. Gregory Nazianzen calls purgatory fire ‘the last baptism’. 1993 Guardian (Nexis) 6 Feb. 11 (heading) The healing path through purgatory fire. < as lemmas |
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