444 A TREATISE AGAINST NOVATIAN. He who must be reveredby us ; He must be held fast; He must be propitiatedby our full and worthy confession, " who has the power of sendingsouland body to the Gehenna of fire,"1— as it iswritten," Behold,He cometh with many thousandsof His messengers,to execute judgment upon all, and to destroyallthe wicked,and to condemn allflesh,for allthe deedsof the wicked which they have wickedly done, and for allthe impious words which sinnershave spoken about God." 8 17. Like things to these alsosaysDaniel : " I beheld a throneplaced,and the Ancient of days sat upon it,and His clothingwas as itwere snow, and the hairsof His head as it were white wool : His throne was a flame of fire,its wheels were burning fire. A riverof firecame forthbefore Him : thousand thousandsministeredto Him, and thousand thousands stood before Him : He satto judgment, and the books were opened."8 And John stillmore plainlydeclares, both about theday of judgment and the consummation of the world,saying," And when," said he, " He had opened the sixthseal,lo,therewas a greatearthquake; and the sun be came black as sackclothof hair,and the whole moon became as of blood; and the starsfellto the earth,even as a fig-tree, shaken by a mighty wind, castethher unripe figs. And the heaven departed as a book when it is rolledup, and every mountain and islandwere moved from theirplaces. And thekingsof theearth,and allthe greatmen, and thetribunes, and the richmen, and the strongmen, and every slave,and everyfreeman, hidthemselvesin the cavesand inthe caverns of the mountains ; sayingto the mountains and to the rocks, Fall upon us,and hide us from the sightof the Father that sittethupon thethrone,and from the wrath of theLamb :be causethe day of destructioncometh ; and who shallbe ableto stand?" 4 Also in the same Apocalypse John saysthatthis toowas revealedto him. "I saw,"sayshe,"a greatthrone, and one in white who sat upon it,from whose face the heaven and the earth fled away ; and theirplace was not found. And I saw the dead,great and small,standingbe- 1Matt.x.28. sJude14,15. 3Dan.vii.9,10. 4 Rev.yi.12-17.