The Last Judgment

“BELIEVE…that He is to return, glorious and illustrious, to exercise judgment on the living and the dead, not indeed in His former fleshly form, nor yet without a body, but with a body more august and more divine such as He alone knew.” ~St. Gregory Nazianzen: ‘Oratio,’ 45.

“OH, what and how great will that day be as its coming, beloved brethren, when the Lord shall begin to count up His people, and to recognize the merits of each one by the inspection of His divine knowledge, to send the guilty to Gehenna, and to set on fire persecutors with the perpetual burning of a penal fire, but to pay to us a reward for our faith and devotion.” ~St. Cyprian: ‘Letters,’ 55, 10.

The Last Judgment, by Peter Cornelius.
Fresco, 1836-39; Ludwigskirche, Munich.