More than this, he assured his hearers that the indulgences had power to save not only the living but the dead; that the very moment the money should clink against the bottom of his chest, the soul in whose behalf it had been paid would escape from purgatory and make its way to heaven. (See K. R. Hagenbach, History of the Reformation, vol. 1, p. 96.)
Aggiungeva che non appena la moneta toccava il fondo della cassa, l'anima, per la quale l'indulgenza era stata comperata, lasciava il purgatorio per salire in paradiso (Vedi K. R. Hagenbach, History of the Reformation, vol. 1, p. 96).