Showing posts with label judgment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label judgment. Show all posts

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.

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

St. Gregory Nazianzen: "Judgment on the living and the dead"

“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.


Last Judgment, by Michelangelo Buonarroti.
Fresco, 1537-41; Cappella Sistina, Vatican.

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