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The great king of heaven (1)

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01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery



 		Keywords
end of times
Period
3rd century CE
Roman Empire 		Channel
Christian-Roman philosophers and scholars

Text
Lactantius, Divinae Institutiones 7.10-11, 7.17:
When these things shall so happen (in the end time), then the righteous and the followers of truth shall separate themselves from the wicked, and flee into solitudes. And when he hears of this, the impious king, inflamed with anger, will come with a great army, and bringing up all his forces, will surround all the mountain in which the righteous shall be situated, that he may seize them. But they, when they shall see themselves to be shut in on all sides and besieged, will call upon God with a loud voice, and implore the aid of heaven; and God will hear them and he will send a great king from heaven who will release and rescue them and who will destroy all the impious by the sword and by fire.

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Lactantius, Divinae Institutiones 7.10-11
Lactantius, Divinae Institutiones 7.17

Bibliography

Luttikhuizen 1985, 197Luttikhuizen Gerard P. The Revelation of Elchasai. Investigations into the Evidence for a Mesopotamian Jewish Apocalypse of the Second Century and its Reception by Judeo-Christian Propagandists. Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr 1985.

Amar Annus


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