The Divine Grace of the Cross, Purgatory and Mt 5:26

Many sincere Roman Catholic apologists will say that Mt 5:26 supports the Roman Catholic teaching of purgatory.  The Bible does not support the teaching of purgatory.  There was never a Old Testament understanding of purgatory nor a New Testament claim of purgatory.  Rather the teaching of purgatory is an invention of man-made tradition.  Ludwig Ott says that Mt 5:26 supports the Roman teaching of purgatory. 

They take a errant interpretation of 2 Maccabees 12 and apply this tradition of men to the New Testament.  2 Maccabees is not inspired or infallible Scripture.  We know that Jesus never quoted from these false writings.   We see that not only Luther rejected these writings but also Jerome.  I am also not saying that 2 Maccabees teaches purgatory.  Rather I am saying that the spiritual prison that Jesus speaks about is something that happens before someone dies.  It does not happen after someone dies because it does not refer to purgatory (cf.  Mt 5:25).  There is nothing in Matthew chapter 5 that refers to the purification of the flames of purgatory.  The former pope concluded that it is not a kind of "concentration camp."  

There is nothing to pay because Jesus paid it all at the Cross.  Purgatory is a denial of the unanimous testimony of divine Scriptures on the perpetuity of the Cross.