12. “Thence He shall come
to judge the quick and dead.” The quick, who shall be alive and
remain; the dead, who shall have gone before. It may also be
understood thus: The living, the just; the dead,
the unjust. For He judges both, rendering unto each his own. To the
just He will say in the judgment, “Come, ye blessed of My Father,
receive the kingdom prepared for you from the beginning of the
world.”1793
For this
prepare yourselves, for these things
hope, for this
live, and so
live, for this believe, for this be
baptized, that it may be said
to you, “Come ye
blessed of My
Father, receive the
kingdom
prepared for you from the
foundation of the
world.” To them on
the left
hand, what? “Go into
everlasting fire prepared for the
devil and his
angels.”
1794
Thus will they be judged by
Christ, the
quick and the dead. We have spoken of
Christ’s first
nativity, which is without time; spoken of the other in the
fullness of time,
Christ’s nativity of the
Virgin; spoken of the
passion of
Christ; spoken of the coming of
Christ to
judgment. The
whole is spoken, that was to be spoken of
Christ, God’s Only Son,
our Lord. But not yet is the Trinity perfect.
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