Wherefore, if man turns inordinately to a mutable good, without turning from God, as happens in venial sins, he incurs a debt, not of eternal but of temporal punishment.
Persons go to Purgatory, as you know, to have the temporal punishment blotted out; but if you have notemporal punishment to make satisfaction for, there is no Purgatory for you.
God requires a temporal punishment as a satisfaction for sin to teach us the great evil of sin, and to prevent us from failing again.
God requires a temporal punishment as a satisfaction for sin to teach us the great evil of sin and to prevent us from falling again.
The request was frequently granted and the penance remitted, shortened or changed, and with the penance remitted the temporal punishment corresponding to it was blotted out.
III, 15), are interpreted to mean the existence of a middle state in which unforgiven venial sins and the temporal punishment due to sin will be burnt away and the soul thus purified will attain eternal life.
That is true, the Church teaches, even of unrepented venial sin with its debt of temporal punishment.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "temporal punishment" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
