Q&A — Matthew 18:34 ('delivered to the torturers until he pays all') examined as a tertiary purgatory text

The parable context (Matt 18:21-35) is about forgiveness among believers, not afterlife purification. If read as purgatory: (1) it implies your wife, children, and all possessions also go to purgatory; (2) the servant is thrown in while still Unforgiven — not in a state of grace — which contradicts Catholic purgatory doctrine; (3) if you go to pay a debt you can never fully pay, you never get out — which would be hell, not purgatory. Mike concludes the passage is about the saved/unsaved distinction and consequences of unforgiveness, not purgatory.