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the evil he will be fearsome and terrible to see, to those sinful
people who come forth there condemned by their crimes. It may serve
as a warning of punishment to one who is possessed of the wise realization,
that he indeed dreads nothing at all who will not grow terrified in
spirit with fear for that figure, when he sees the actual Lord of
all created things journeying amid mighty marvels to judgement of
the many, and round about him on every side journey squadrons of celestial
angels, flocks of radiant beings, armies of saints, teeming in throngs. |
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deep universe will reverberate, and ahead of the Lord the most enormous
billowing fire will sweep across the spacious earth; scorching flame
will roar, the heavens will split asunder and the stars, fixed and
shining, will fall. Then the sun which brightly shone above the earlier
world on the children of men will be made dusky with the colour of
blood; likewise the moon which once illumined humankind by night will
fall down, and so too the stars will be scattered from heaven, lashed
by storms through the violent air. |
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Omnipotent with his company of angels, the ordaining Lord of mighty
kings will come to the conclave, a Prince secure in majesty. There
too will be the throng of his thanes, blessed with victory: those
saintly souls will journey with their Lord when he, the Protector
of his peoples, himself visits the nations of earth with throes of
terror. Across the broad earth the heavenly trumpet's loud voice will
be heard and on seven sides the winds will howl; they will blow, blustering,
with the mightiest uproar, and enfeeble and reduce the world by storm
and fill with fear earth's creatures. Then a jarring crash will be
signalled, loud beyond measure, painful and immense, a most enormous
noise, appalling to mortals, whereupon the sad hordes of humankind
will pass in their multitudes into the far-flung flame, some upwards,
some downwards, turgid with fire, when the destroying blaze meets
with the living. Then without a doubt it will be so, that the kin
of Adam, turgid with griefs, will lament sorely pained, a people in
mourning not for trivialities but for the most enormous and acute
miseries. Then simultaneously the fire's dark billowing, the sooty
flame will far and wide catch all three things together, the seas
with their fishes, the earth with its mountains and the shining heaven
on high with its stars: the destructive flame will forcibly and fiercely
burn the three together all at once. Sorely pained, all middle-earth
will mourn in that notorious hour. |
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