Signs in sun, earth, and sea; Jewish fifteen signs; disputed sign of the cross; sign of the Son of Man

Of the latter mark are things in the world, in which both heaven is beheld and the globe of earth and sea (Luke 21:25–26). On the Scriptures and Ecclesiastical Dogmas book 3, tractate 3, folio 159. The Jews hand down fifteen signs which will precede the last day by fifteen days, which Thomas recounts from Jerome (Sentences book 4, distinction 48, question 1, article 4). But that they assign to each sign its own day is Rabbinic.

Hither they also refer that the sign of the cross will appear in heaven, and they gather that from Matthew 24:30. Remaclus de Vaulx in Divine Harpocrates or On the Consummation of the World part 2: By this sign, he says, both Greeks and Latins with consenting minds assert that Christ's cross is signified. And Lucas Pinellus On the Other Life book 2, chapter 20: By this sign of the Son of Man, he says, all interpreters, both Greek and Latin, affirm that the cross is signified. Whom Maldonatus refutes on Matthew chapter 24. It seems simpler if the sign of the Son of Man is understood as the Son of Man himself coming in a cloud (Luke 21:27), whose sight will be the most certain sign of the world's end. By a similar phrase the sign of circumcision is taken for circumcision itself (Romans 4:11). See the ocean of antiquity and learning, Gerhard Johann Vossius, disputation On the Advent of Christ, theses 5–9.