Saturday, August 2, 2014

St. Justin Martyr: Judgment

“THE prophets have foretold two comings of Christ: the one, which has already taken place, was that of a dishonored and suffering Man; the other coming will take place, as it is predicted, when He shall gloriously come from heaven with His angelic army, when He shall also raise to life the bodies of all the men that ever were, shall cloak the worthy with immortality, and shall relegate the wicked, subject to sensible pain for all eternity, into the eternal fire with the evil demons.”

~St. Justin Martyr: First Apology, 52.


Triptych: The Last Judgment, by Fra Angelico.
Poplar, c. 1450; Staatliche Museen, Berlin.