Many passages I omit, because, though they seem to refer to the last judg- ment, yet on a closer examination they are found to be ambiguous, or to allude rather to some other event,–whether to that coming of the Saviour which con- tinually occurs in His Church, that is, in His members, in which comes little by little, and piece by piece, since the whole Church is His body, or to the de- struction of the earthly Jerusalem. For when He speaks even of this, He often uses language which is applicable to the end of the world and that last and great day of judgment, so that these two events cannot be distinguished unless all the corresponding passages bearing on the subject in the three evangelists, Matthew, Mark, and Luke, are compared with one another,–for some things are put more obscurely by one evangelist and more plainly by another,–so that it becomes apparent what things are meant to be referred to one event. It is this which I have been at pains to do in a letter which I wrote to Hesychius of blessed memory, bishop of Salon, and entitled, “Of the End of the World.”
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