Chapter 160

¹ When, therefore, the passion is accomplished and the scattering takes place, the Antichrist being present in those days, they shall know all these things.

² Why, then, do you still hesitate, O man, over what has been said, or how do you disbelieve the things spoken by the Lord, when his first coming has already taken place, and he who then stood above the water and was seen by Daniel has now been manifested to the world, and his passion has been signified to all, and the scattering of the people of the Jews by the Romans has taken place?

³ For in his saying “when the scattering is accomplished they shall know all these things”—the Lord being then present among them and not being recognized by them, they were scattered into all the world, cast out from their own country, and warred upon by their enemies they were driven out of the city of Jerusalem, becoming a derision to all the nations—so that the Gospel of the Lord might be preached throughout all the world, and all the time be fulfilled, and the last week be comprehended, and the two forerunners of Christ be sent, and the abomination of desolation appear after them, and the Judge of judges be revealed from heaven, and the resurrection of the saints and of the whole world take place, and the eternal kingdom be given to the worthy, and the unquenchable and unsleeping fire be kindled for the ungodly.