Chapter 8.—Of Christ’s Coming to Judgment.

15. We believe also, that at the most seasonable time He Will Come from Thence, and Will Judge the Quick and the Dead: whether by these terms are signified the righteous and sinners, or whether it be the case that those persons are here called the quick, whom at that period He shall find, previous to [their] death,67    The text gives simply ante mortem. Some editions insert nostram = previous to our death. upon the earth, while the dead denote those who shall rise again at His advent. This temporal dispensation not only is, as holds good of that generation which respects His being God, but also hath been and shall be. For our Lord hath been upon the earth, and at present He is in heaven, and [hereafter] He shall be in His brightness as the Judge of the quick and the dead. For He shall yet come, even so as He has ascended, according to the authority which is contained in the Acts of the Apostles.68    Acts i. 11 It is in accordance with this temporal dispensation, therefore, that He speaks in the Apocalypse, where it is written in this wise: “These things saith He, who is, and who was, and who is to come.”69    Rev. i. 8

CAPUT VIII.

15. Adventus ad judicium. Credimus etiam inde venturum convenientissimo tempore, et judicaturum vivos et mortuos. Sive istis nominibus justi et peccatores significentur; sive quos tunc ante mortem in terris inventurus est appellati sint vivi, mortui vero qui in ejus adventu resurrecturi sunt: haec dispensatio temporalis, non tantum est, sicut illa generatio secundum Deum; sed etiam fuit, et erit. Nam fuit Dominus noster in terris, et nunc est in coelo, et erit in claritate judex vivorum atque mortuorum. 0189 Ita enim veniet, sicut ascendit, secundum auctoritatem quae in Actibus Apostolorum continetur (Act. I, 11). Ex hac itaque temporali dispensatione loquitur in Apocalypsi, ubi scriptum est: Haec dicit qui est, et qui fuit, et qui venturus est (Apoc. I, 8).