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destroyed? No, says the Friar, the world will only be destroyed as to its temporal uses, quanto al temporal provecho, and Christ will appear over the Valley of Jehosaphat near Mount Olivet, and there we shall all be gathered together, men, angels, and devils; and then if you have served God better than I have done, you will be better off than I shall be, and a pretty joke it would be if you with your rank and fortune were to go to Heaven, and the Friar to go to Hell.

y sera muy gran donayre,
si con vuestro grande estado
vays al cielo coronado,
y vaya al infierno el frayre.

Will the glory of men be greater than the glory of angels? Yes, twofold: because they will be glorified in the body, and angels have no body in which to be glorified. Moreover, having had greater toil for salvation, they will have greater

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