III–IV. Necessary consequence is the last judgment; definition; Gentile inklings
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III.The necessary consequence and end is the last judgment, and the condition of those judged.
IV.The last judgment is that most august act by which Christ, returning from heaven with highest glory and majesty at the end of this world, judges the whole orb of the earth.In the foundations of the Christian faith (Heb. 6:2) these two are joined.A general notion is implanted in all by nature, and a confused sense among the Gentiles — whether because they gathered that divine justice requires such a judgment, or from conscience, or because something of the Church's teaching reached their ears.That the dogma was revealed to the patriarchs the prophecy of Enoch shows (Jude 14–15).
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III. Necessarium consequens ac finis est extremum judicium, & judicatorum conditio. IV. Extremum judicium est actus ille augustissimus, quo Christus e caelo summa cum gloria & majestate in fine hujus mundi rediens judicat universum terrarum orbem. In fundamentis Christianae fidei Heb. 6.v.2 haec duo conjunguntur. Generalis notio omnibus a natura insita est, & confusus sensus in Ethnicis: vel quia divinam justitiam tale judicium requirere collegerunt, vel ex conscientia, vel quia aliquid de Ecclesiae doctrina ad aures pervenit. Dogma patriarchis revelatum ostendit prophetia Enochi, Judae 14–15.