Judgment and the Second Coming

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Didache — Didache 16

Didache · fl. c. 100 AD · Didache

Watch for your life's sake. Let not your lamps be quenched, nor your loins unloosed; but be ready, for you know not the hour in which our Lord comes.

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Justin Martyr — Second Apology 9

Justin Martyr · c. 100–c. 165 AD · Second Apology

And that no one may say what is said by those who are deemed philosophers, that our assertions that the wicked are punished in eternal fire are big words and bugbears, and that we wish men to live virtuously through fear, and not because such a life is good and pleasant;

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Irenaeus — Against Heresies 5.35

Irenaeus · c. 130–c. 202 AD · Against Heresies

He contends that these testimonies already alleged cannot be understood allegorically of celestial blessings, but that they shall have their fulfilment after the coming of Antichrist, and the resurrection, in the terrestrial Jerusalem.

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Irenaeus — Against Heresies Against Heresies, V.28 (St. Irenaeus)

Irenaeus · c. 130–c. 202 AD · Against Heresies

The distinction to be made between the righteous and the wicked. The future apostasy in the time of Antichrist, and the end of the world. 1.

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