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Discourse on Eschatology

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Section 7

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VII.

Wherefore all shall walk after their own will. And the

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children

will

lay

hands

on

their

parents

.

The

wife

will

give

up

her

own

husband

to

death

,

and

the

husband

will

bring

his

own

wife

to

judgment

like

a

criminal

.

Masters

will

lord

it

over

their

servants

savagely

,

and

servants

will

assume

an

unruly

demeanour

toward

their

masters

.

None

will

reverence

the

grey

hairs

of

the

elderly

,

and

none

will

have

pity

upon

the

comeliness

of

the

youthful

.

The

temples

of

God

will

be

like

houses

,

and

there

will

be

overturnings

of

the

churches

everywhere

.

The

Scriptures

will

be

despised

,

and

everywhere

they

will

sing

the

songs

of

the

adversary

.

Fornications

,

and

adulteries

,

and

perjuries

will

fill

the

land

;

sorceries

,

and

incantations

,

and

divinations

will

follow

after

these

with

all

force

and

zeal

.

And

,

on

the

whole

,

from

among

those

who

profess

to

be

Christians

will

rise

up

then

false

prophets

,

false

apostles

,

impostors

,

mischief

-

makers

,

evil

-

doers

,

liars

against

each

other

,

adulterers

,

fornicators

,

robbers

,

grasping

,

perjured

,

mendacious

,

hating

each

other

.

The

shepherds

will

be

like

wolves

;

the

priests

will

embrace

falsehood

;

the

monks

will

lust

after

the

things

of

the

world

;

the

rich

will

assume

hardness

of

heart

;

the

rulers

will

not

help

the

poor

;

the

powerful

will

cast

off

all

pity

;

the

judges

will

remove

justice

from

the

just

,

and

,

blinded

with

bribes

,

they

will

call

in

unrighteousness

.

Notes

1
For εἰς τοὺς δούλους απάνθρωποι αὐθεντήσονται, Codex B reads, πρὸς τοὺς δούλους ἀπανθρωπίαν κτησονται.
2
For ἐχθροῦ, Codex B reads, διαβόλου, the devil.
3
This does not agree with the age of Hippolytus.