Note 450 — Chapter IV · PRE-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS: THE ORPHICI
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A sort of echo of this is perhaps to be found in the idea prevalent in the primitive Church that martyrs for the faith passed direct to a state of blessedness without waiting like the rest of the faithful for the Last Judgment. Cf. Revelation vi. 9-11; Neander, Ch. Hist. I. p. 463.