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of our bodies, in which we have done either good or evil, which, called forth by his omnipotent voice and restored to their souls, Christ will endow with immortality, and will indeed make the pious conformable to his own glorious body and capable of celestial life, but will relegate the impious with their prince, the devil, to the everlasting torments of the underworld.

Eternal life. Therefore, we also believe in eternal life, into which souls, released from the dungeon of the body, pass: for the pious, that they may live with Christ; for the impious, that they may be gathered to their predecessors and tormented, until, toward the end of the age, they are restored to their bodies, and with them receive the promised rewards of eternal joy or undergo punishments that will never end.

And this indeed is our faith, this is the hope on which we rely, and whose doctrine sounds in our Churches. Nor does He who alone searches hearts and kidneys know of anything that we feign or simulate here; those who have either spent time in our Churches or have read the books of our teachers also know this. And just as this Confession is common to us with the Catholic Church, so we likewise receive the Symbols of the ancient Councils, the Nicene, Constantinopolitan, Ephesian, and Chalcedonian, and with these those of Irenaeus, Tertullian, Cyril, Athanasius, Damasus, Jerome, and others of similar standing, which have been approved by the public judgment of the Church.