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Discourse on Eschatology

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Section 34

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XXXIV.

And the churches, too, will wail with a mighty

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lamentation

,

because

neither

“

oblation

nor

incense

”

is

attended

to

,

nor

a

service

acceptable

to

God

;

but

the

sanctuaries

of

the

churches

will

become

like

a

garden

-

watcher’s

hut

,

and

the

holy

body

and

blood

of

Christ

will

not

be

shown

in

those

days

.

The

public

service

of

God

shall

be

extinguished

,

psalmody

shall

cease

,

the

reading

of

the

Scriptures

shall

not

be

heard

;

but

for

men

there

shall

be

darkness

,

and

lamentation

on

lamentation

,

and

woe

on

woe

.

At

that

time

silver

and

gold

shall

be

cast

out

in

the

streets

,

and

none

shall

gather

them

;

but

all

things

shall

be

held

an

offence

.

For

all

shall

be

eager

to

escape

and

to

hide

themselves

,

and

they

shall

not

be

able

anywhere

to

find

concealment

from

the

woes

of

the

adversary

;

but

as

they

carry

his

mark

about

them

,

they

shall

be

readily

recognised

and

declared

to

be

his

.

Without

there

shall

be

fear

,

and

within

trembling

,

both

by

night

and

by

day

.

In

the

street

and

in

the

houses

there

shall

be

the

dead

;

in

the

streets

and

in

the

houses

there

shall

be

hunger

and

thirst

;

in

the

streets

there

shall

be

tumults

,

and

in

the

houses

lamentations

.

And

beauty

of

countenance

shall

be

withered

,

for

their

forms

shall

be

like

those

of

the

dead

;

and

the

beauty

of

women

shall

fade

,

and

the

desire

of

all

men

shall

vanish

.

Notes

1
[The reference is to Mal. i. 11, and incense is expounded spiritually by the Ante-Nicene Fathers generally. See Irenæus, vol. i. p. 574, Tertullian, iii. p. 346 and passim.]
2
[Isa. i. 8.]
3
[The public reading of Scripture-lessons is implied, Acts xv. 21. See Hooker, Eccl. Pol., book v. cap. xix.]
4
παθῶν. B reads παγίδων, snares.