680 GOSPEL ACCORDING TO CHAP. III. kingdoms of Christand the Devil. For the good and the evilare alike afflictedwith them, and among these great evilsisthe yet universalresortto licentiousfeasts. Is not thisthe being driedup from fear,or ratherthe being burnt up from lust? THEOPHYL. But not only shallmen be tossedabout when the world shallbe changed, but angels even shallstand amazed at the terriblerevolutionsof the universe. Henceit Greg. follows,And the powers of heaven shallbe shaken. GREG. in°Ev For wbom does He callthe powers of heaven,but the angels, dominions,principalities,and powers? which at the coming of the strictJudge shallthen appearvisiblyto our eyes,that they may strictlyexactjudgment of us,seeing that now our invisibleCreatorpatientlybearswith us. EUSEB. When also the Son of God shallcome in glory,and shallcrushtheproud empireofthe son of sin,the angelsof heaven attendingHim, the doors of heaven which have been shut from the founda tionofthe world shallbe opened,thatthe thingsthatareon Chrys.nd high may be witnessed. CHRYS. Or the heavenly powers E/."^' shallbe shaken,althoughthemselvesknow itnot. For when they see the innumerable multitudescondemned, theyshall not stand therewithouttrembling. BEDE. Thus itissaidin Job26, Job,thepillarsofheaventrembleand are afraidatHis reproof. What then do the boards do,when the pillarstremble? what does the shrub of the desertsuffer,when the cedarofPara diseisshaken ? EUSEB. Or the powers of heaven arethose which presideover the sensiblepartsof the universe,which indeed shallthen be shaken thatthey may attainto a better state. For they shallbe dischargedfrom the ministrywith which they serve God toward the sensiblebodies in their Aug. perishing condition. AUG. But that the Lord may not utsup.' seem to have foretoldas extraordinarythosethingsconcern ing His second coming, which were wont to happen to thisworld even before His firstcoming, and that we may not be laughed at by thosewho have read more and greater events than these in the historyof nations,I thinkwhat has been said may be better understood to applytothe Church. For the Church is the sun, the moon, and the Cant. stars,to whom itwas said,Fair as themoon, electas thesm. And she willthen not be seen forthe unbounded rageofthe