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You can't put all the early church fathers in the same basket. As shown in the first post of this thread, there were early church fathers who believed in eternal punishment. Simply read the quotes.
As for Universalism, that subject is now confined to a thread which has been dedicated for it.
Yep. When we created the Universalism thread, we said that any other threads on the topic would be closed as they turned up. See the Opening Post in this thread: