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Chapter LII.—Certain fulfilment of
prophecy.
Since, then, we prove that all things
which have already happened had been predicted by the prophets before
they came to pass, we must necessarily believe also that those things
which are in like manner predicted, but are yet to come to pass, shall
certainly happen. For as the things which have already taken place came
to pass when foretold, and even though unknown, so shall the things that
remain, even though they be unknown and disbelieved, yet come to pass.
For the prophets have proclaimed two advents of His: the one, that which
is already past, when He came as a dishonoured and suffering Man; but the
second, when, according to prophecy, He shall come from heaven with
glory, accompanied by His angelic host, when also He shall raise the
bodies of all men who have lived, and shall clothe those of the worthy
with immortality, and shall send those of the wicked, endued with eternal
sensibility, into everlasting fire with the wicked devils. And that these
things also have been foretold as yet to be, we will prove. By Ezekiel
the prophet it was said: “Joint shall be joined to joint, and bone
to bone, and flesh shall grow again; and every knee shall bow to the
Lord, and every tongue shall confess Him.”1876
And in what kind of
sensation and punishment the wicked are to be, hear from what was said in
like manner with reference to this; it is as follows: “Their worm
shall not rest, and their fire shall not be quenched;”1877
and then shall they repent, when it profits
them not. And what the people of the Jews shall say and do, when they see
Him coming in glory, has been thus predicted by Zechariah the prophet:
“I will command the four winds to gather the scattered children; I
will command the north wind to bring them, and the south wind, that it
keep not back. And then in Jerusalem there shall be great lamentation,
not the lamentation of mouths or of lips, but the lamentation of the
heart; and they shall rend not their garments, but their hearts. Tribe by
tribe they shall mourn, and then they shall look on Him whom they have
pierced; and they shall say, Why, O Lord, hast Thou made us to err from
Thy way? The glory which our fathers blessed, has for us been turned into
shame.”1878
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