XXXVI.
As these things, therefore, of which we have
spoken before are in the future, beloved, when the one week is divided
into parts, and the abomination of desolation has arisen then, and the
forerunners of the Lord have finished their proper course, and the
whole world, in fine, comes to the consummation, what remains but the
manifestation of our Lord and
Saviour Jesus Christ, the Son of God, from heaven, for whom we have
hoped; who shall bring forth fire and all just judgment against those
who have refused to believe in Him? For the Lord says, “For
as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the
west, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be; for wheresoever
the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered
together.” For the
sign of the cross shall arise
from the east even unto the west, in brightness exceeding that of the
sun, and shall announce the advent and manifestation of the Judge, to
give to every one according to his works. For concerning the
general resurrection and the kingdom of the saints, Daniel says: “And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.” And Isaiah says: “The dead shall rise, and those in the tombs shall awake, and those in the earth shall rejoice.” And our Lord says: “Many in that day shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that hear shall live.”