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In the Apocalypse of Peter, Uriel places those judged in a river of fire. A Latin homilist names Peter alongside Daniel when he turns the closed door of the ten virgins into that river.
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Apocalypse of Peter 1:43
Revelation of Peter
Early Christian
42 Close by this place of torment will be men and women, mute and blind, whose clothing is white. They will crowd one upon another, and fall on coals of unquenchable fire. These are those who give alms and say: We are righteous before God — yet they have not sought after righteousness. 43 Ezrael the angel of God will bring them forth out of this fire and establish a judgment of decision. This then is their judgment: a river of fire will flow, and all who are judged will be drawn down into the middle of the river. And Uriel will set them there. 44 There are wheels of fire, and men and women hung on them by the force of their whirling. Those who are in the pit will burn: these are the sorcerers and sorceresses. Those wheels will be in the judgment by fire without number.
Apocalypse of Peter 2:6
Revelation of Peter
Early Christian
6 In an old Latin homily on the Ten Virgins, found and published by Dom Wilmart, is this sentence: The closed door is the river of fire by which the ungodly will be kept out of the kingdom of God, as is written in Daniel and in Peter, in his Apocalypse. That company of the foolish will also arise and find the door shut — that is, the fiery river set against them.
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Notes and References
“... Sozomen in the fifth century, HE 7. 19 (ed. J. Bidez and G. C. Hansen, GCS 50 (Berlin, 1960), p. 331), refers to its being used in public worship on Good Friday. (It is not listed in the Gelasian Decree.) Thus it is clear that the book was popular and widespread in use in the early centuries of Christianity and hovered on the edges of canonical scripture. [...] Citations from the ancient apocalypse have been identified in Clement of Alexandria, Methodius, Macarius, and possibly in Theophilus of Antioch (and these are set out below): Macarius and Clement name the source. A fourth-century Latin homily cited below (A 7) also gives the source of a quotation as the Apocalypse of Peter. The citations have been verified by the discovery and publication of the text. ...”
Elliott, J. K.
The Apocryphal New Testament: A Collection of Apocryphal Christian Literature in an English Translation
(p. 593) Clarendon Press, 1993
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