II.
Hence, too, they indicated the day of the
consummation to us, and signified beforehand the day of the apostate
that is to appear and deceive men at the last times, and the beginning
and end of his kingdom, and the advent of the Judge, and the life of
the righteous, and the punishment of the sinners, in order that we all,
bearing these things in mind day by day and hour by hour, as children
of the Church, might know that “not one jot nor one tittle of
these things shall fail,”
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as the Saviour’s own word
announced. Let all of you, then, of necessity, open the eyes of
your hearts and the ears of your soul, and receive the word which we
are about to speak. For I shall unfold to you to-day a narration
full of horror and fear, to wit, the account of the consummation, and
in particular, of the seduction of the whole world by the enemy and
devil; and after these things, the second coming of our Lord Jesus
Christ.
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Matt. v. 18
.