Selections from Eminent Commentators

A polemical anthology with a sly method: Paige gathers the concessions of orthodox scholars — men who themselves believed in punishment after death — showing that on passage after disputed passage, the best learning of the church admitted the texts did not teach endless misery. By making Calvinist and Arminian commentators testify for the Universalist reading, Paige built one of the movement's most effective argumentative weapons; ministers kept it within reach for decades.

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