The Great Controversy by Ellen White (Unabridged Version)

Page 57. The Dictate of Hildebrand (Gregory VII).--For the original Latin version see
Baronius, Annales Ecclesiastici, ann. 1076, vol. 17, pp. 405, 406 of the Paris printing of 1869;
and the Monumenta Germaniae Historica Selecta, vol. 3, p. 17. For an English translation see
Frederic A. Ogg, Source Book of Medieval History (New York: American Book Co., 1907),
ch. 6, sec. 45, pp. 262-264; and Oliver J. Thatcher and Edgar H. Mcneal, source Book for
Medieval History (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905), sec. 3, item 65, pp. 136-139.
For a discussion of the background of the Dictate, see James Bryce, The Holy Roman
Empire, rev. ed., ch. 10; and James W. Thompson and Edgar N. Johnson, An Introduction to
Medieval Europe, 300-1500, pages 377-380.
Page 59. Purgatory.--Dr. Joseph Faa Di Bruno thus defines purgatory: "Purgatory is a
state of suffering after this life, in which those souls are for a time detained, who depart this
life after their deadly sins have been remitted as to the stain and guilt, and as to the everlasting
pain that was due to them; but who have on account of those sins still some debt of temporal
punishment to pay; as also those souls which leave this world guilty only of venial sins."--
Catholic Belief (1884 ed.; imprimatur Archbishop of New York), page 196.
See also K. R. Hagenbach, Compendium of the History of Doctrines (T. and T. Clark
ed.) vol. 1, pp. 234-237, 405, 408; vol. 2, pp. 135-150, 308, 309; Charles Elliott, Delineation
of Roman Catholicism, b. 2, ch. 12; The Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 12, art. "Purgatory."
Page 59. Indulgences.--For a detailed history of the doctrine of indulgences see Mandell
Creighton, A History of the Papacy from The Great Schism to the Sack of Rome (London:
Longmans, Green and Co., 1911), vol. 5, pp. 56-64, 71; W. H. Kent, "Indulgences," The
Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 7, pp. 783-789; H. C. Lea, A History of Auricular Confession and
Indulgences in the Latin Church (Philadelphia: Lea Brothers and Co., 1896); Thomas M.
Lindsay, A History of the Reformation (New York; Charles Scribner's Sons, 1917), vol. 1, pp.
216-227; Albert Henry Newman, A Manual of Church History (Philadelphia: The American
Baptist Publication Society, 1953), vol. 2, pp. 53, 54, 62; Leopold Ranke, History of the
Reformation in Germany (2d London ed., 1845), translated by Sarah Austin, vol. 1, pp. 331,
335337, 343-346; Preserved Smith, The Age of the Reformation (New York: Henry Holt and
Company, 1920), pp. 23-25, 66.
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