And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
De Civ. Dei, xx, 19: For then shall Satan be unchained, and work through Antichrist in all his power, wonderfully indeed, but falsely. But a doubt is often raised whether the Apostle said “signs and lying wonders,” because he is to deceive mortal sense, by phantoms, so as to appear to do what he does not, or because those wonders themselves, even though true, are to turn men aside to lies, because they will not believe that any power but a Divine power could do them, being ignorant of the power of Satan, especially when he shall have received such power as henever had before. But for whichever reason it is said, they shall be deceived by those signs and wonders who deserve to be deceived.
Epist., 78: For He did not onlyforetel to His disciples the good things which He would give to His saints and faithful ones, but also the woes in which this world was to abound, that wemight look for our reward at the end of the world with more confidence, from feeling the woes in like manner announced as about to precede the end of the world.
Epist., cxcix, 11: For since it was said by the Angels to the Apostles, “He shall so come in like manner as yehave seen Him go into heaven,” rightly do we believe that He willcome not only in the same body, but on a cloud, since He is to come as He went away, and a cloud received Him as He was going.
de Trin., i, 13: For the vision of the Son of Man is shown even to the bad, but the vision of the form of Godto the pure in heart alone, “for they shall see God.” And because the wicked cannot see the Son of God, as He is in the form of God, equal to the Father, and at the same time both just and wicked are to see Him as Judge of the quick and dead, before Whom they shall be judged, it was necessary that the Son of Man should receive power to judge. Concerning the execution of which power, there is immediately added, “And then shall He send He angels.”
