[De articulis fidei]

Against whom is the Apostle in Philippians 1: "Having a desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ." And Revelation 6: "I saw under the altar of God the souls of those slain for the word of God." The second is the error of Origen, who posited that demons and condemned men could be purged again and return to glory, and that angels and blessed men could again be led to evil. This is against the authority of the Lord in Matthew 25: "These will go into eternal punishment, but the just into eternal life." The third is the error of those saying that all rewards and all punishments of the evil will be equal. Against the first of these it is said in 1 Corinthians 15: "Star differs from star in brightness, so also is the resurrection of the dead." Against the second, it is said in Matthew 11: "It will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you." The fourth is the error of those saying that the souls of the evil do not descend into hell immediately after death, nor do any souls of the saints enter paradise before the day of judgment. Against whom it is said in Luke 16: "The rich man died and was buried in hell." And 2 Corinthians 5: "If our earthly house of this habitation is dissolved, we have a house not made by hands, preserved in the heavens." The fifth is the error of those saying that there is no purgatory for souls after death, namely of those who, dying in charity, have something purgable. Against whom 1 Corinthians 3 says: "If anyone builds upon the foundation—namely of faith through love—wood, hay, stubble, he will suffer detriment, yet he himself will be saved, but so as by fire." And against these errors it is said in the creed, "life everlasting, amen" or "the life of the world to come, amen." Others, indeed, who assign seven articles concerning the faith of divinity, distinguish them such that the first is of the unity of the essence, the second of the