Who did in gold and purple shine!
“While round the saint so poor below,
Full rivers of salvation flow.
“Jesus, my Lord, let me appear
The meanest of thy creatures here.”
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Why was Dives’ request that his brothers be informed of their impending fate refused?
“They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them” ([Luke xvi, 29]).
Moses and the prophets do not teach the doctrine of endless punishment, nor even that of a future existence, much less that the mere possession of wealth, acquired perhaps by honest industry, is a crime which can be expiated only by the sufferings of an endless hell.