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Christ’s Second Coming Does Not Belong to the Past, But Will Take Place at the End of the World.

Doctrinal Treatises of St. Augustin — translated by ANF/NPNF editors

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Chapter 54.—Christ’s Second Coming Does Not Belong to the Past, But Will Take Place at the End of the World.

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But what we believe as to Christ’s action in the future, when He shall come from heaven to judge the quick and the dead, has no bearing upon the life which we now lead here; for it forms no part of what He did upon earth, but is part of what He shall do at the end of the world. And it is to this that the apostle refers in what immediately follows the passage quoted above: “When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory.”

Translated by ANF/NPNF editors. Edition ccel.npnf103.division.iv.en.

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