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seal.
It is believed that after the death of Antichrist, there will be
some little rest in the Church, which Daniel thus foretold:
"Blessed is he who waiteth and cometh to the one thousand three
hundred and thirty-five days." And it is thus interpreted by
the blessed Jerome:
"Blessed," he says, "is he, who when Antichrist is
slain, beyond the one thousand two hundred and ninety days, that
is, three years and a half, waits for the forty-five days, in which
the Lord and Saviour is to come in His own Majesty. Now for what
reason, after the destruction of Antichrist,
there is silence for forty-five days, is a subject of divine knowledge,
unless perhaps we say, the deferring of the kingdom of the saints
is the trial of patience." Observe that at the sixth seal,
he sees the greatest afflictions of the Church, at the seventh,
rest. For the Lord was crucified on the sixth day of the week, and
rested on the Sabbath, awaiting the time of resurrection. Thus far
concerning the opening of the closed book. and the six seals. But
now he recapitulates from the beginning, as he is about to say the
same things in another manner.
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