how to answer even the common salutations, shall be placed on a throne of glory and light. Rabab, a sinful woman, shall mount up to the heavenly Sion along with the true Israelites; while the sister of Moses, and the spouse of Jesus Christ, shall be driven from the camp and the tents of Israel, and shall appear covered with a shameful leprosy. Thou art determined, O my God! that nothing shall be wanting toward the despair of the criminal soul. It is not sufficient that he shall be overwhelmed under the weight of his own misery; thou shalt create for him a new punishment in the felicity of the just, who, preferred to him, shall be seen conducted by angels into the bosom of immortality.
What change of scene, my brethren, in the universe! It is then that, all scandals being plucked out from the kingdom of Jesus Christ, and the just wholly separated from the sinful, they shall form a holy nation, a chosen race, and the church of the first born, whose names were written down in heaven. It is then that the commerce of the wicked, inevitable on this earth, shall no longer occasion their faith to lament, or their innocence to tremble. It is then that their lot, no longer connected with the unfaithful or the hypocrite, shall no more constrain them to be witnesses of their crimes, and sometimes even the involuntary agents of their passions. It is then that all the bonds of society, of authority, or dependence, which attached them on this earth to the impious and to the worldly, being broken asunder, they shall no longer say with the prophet, " Lord, why lengthenest thou out here our banishment and our sojourning? How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither for the wickedness of them that dwell therein?" Lastly, then it is that their tears shall be changed into joy, and their sighs into thanksgivings; they shall pass to the right hand as the sheep, while the rest shall be reserved for the goats and the impious.
The disposition of the universe thus laid out; all nations of the earth thus divided; each one fixed in the place allotted to him; surprise, terror, despair, and confusion marked in the countenance of one part; on that of the other, joy, serenity, and confidence: the eyes of the just raised on high toward the Son of Man, from whom they await their deliverance; those of the impious frightfully fixed on the earth, and almost piercing the abyss with their looks, as if already to mark out the place which is destined for them: the King of glory, says the Gospel, placed in the middle of two nations, shall come forward: and, turning toward those who who shall be at his right hand, with an aspect full of sweetness and majesty, and sufficient of itself to console them for all their past sufferings, he will say to them, " Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. The sinful had always considered you as the outcast, and the most useless portion of the earth; let them now learn that the world itself existed only for you, that all was created for you, and all hath finished from the moment that your number was completed. Quit, then, an earth were you had always been travellers
