who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him.
(6) It follows, that if there is not a place of purgatory in the future world there is a place of punishment. If the word prison, in the passage before us, does not mean purgatory, and does not refer to a detention with a prospect or possibility of release, it must refer to detention of another kind, and for another purpose, and that can be only with reference “to the judgment of the great day,” 2 Peter 2:14; Jude 1:6. From that gloomy prison there is no evidence that any have been, or will be, released.