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Last Judgment

At the end of the age, Christ returns to judge the living and the dead

Christians confess that at the close of history Christ will return to judge all humanity. Drawing on Jesus' parable of the sheep and the goats and the vision of the great white throne in Revelation, the creeds affirm that he will come to judge the living and the dead. This final reckoning gathers every person before Christ and brings God's justice and mercy to their ultimate completion.

How it traveled

  1. 2 Peter
    Rome · 64
    explains
  2. 2 Thessalonians
    Corinth · 67
    explains
  3. Romans
    Corinth · 67
    explains
  4. 1 Corinthians
    Ephesus · 67
    explains
  5. Hebrews
    Rome · 67
    explains
  6. 2 Corinthians
    Philippi · 67
    applies
  7. 2 Timothy
    Rome · 67
    explains
  8. Mark
    Rome · 68
    applies
  9. Matthew
    Antioch · 80
    explains
  10. Luke
    Rome · 84
    explains
  11. Acts
    Rome · 84
    explains
  12. Revelation
    Patmos · 100
    explains
  13. John
    Ephesus · 100
    explains
  14. The First Apology
    Rome · 165
    explains
  15. Dialogue with Trypho
    Rome · 165
    explains
  16. The Resurrection of the Dead
    Alexandria · 190
    explains
  17. A Plea for the Christians
    Alexandria · 190
    explains
  18. Against Heresies: Book V
    Lyons · 202
    explains
  19. Against Heresies: Book IV
    Lyons · 202
    explains
  20. On the Resurrection of the Flesh.
    — · 220
    explains
  21. The Instructions of Commodianus.
    — · 220
    explains
  22. Apology.
    — · 220
    explains
  23. The Second Epistle of Clement.
    — · 220
    explains
  24. The Soul's Testimony.
    — · 220
    explains
  25. The Treatises of Cyprian.
    Carthage · 258
    explains
  26. Commentary on the Apocalypse of the Blessed John
    — · 303
    explains
  27. The Life of Constantine with Orations of Constantine and Eusebius
    Caesarea · 339
    explains
  28. Aphrahat: Select Demonstrations
    Mosul · 345
    explains
  29. Ephraim Syrus: The Nisibene Hymns
    Edessa · 373
    explains
  30. The Catechetical Lectures of S. Cyril
    Jerusalem · 386
    explains

Key passages(20)

A History of the Work of Redemption — PERIOD III. From Christ's Resurrection the End of the World. — PART IX. The General Judgment — part 1↗explains

A History of the Work of Redemption · Jonathan Edwards

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Sinners in Zion Tenderly Warned — SECTION II. How fearfulness will surprise them — part 3↗explains

Sinners in Zion Tenderly Warned · Jonathan Edwards

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The Final Judgment — SECTION II. Publicity of final judgment — part 1↗explains

The Final Judgment · Jonathan Edwards

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Seventeen Occasional Sermons — SERMON VII. The Portion of the Wicked — part 6↗explains

Seventeen Occasional Sermons · Jonathan Edwards

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The Final Judgment — SECTION IV. Christ's coming, the resurrection, &c. — part 2↗explains

The Final Judgment · Jonathan Edwards

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2 Corinthians 5:10↗applies

2 Corinthians · Paul the Apostle

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A History of the Work of Redemption — PERIOD III. From Christ's Resurrection the End of the World. — PART IX. The General Judgment — part 2↗explains

A History of the Work of Redemption · Jonathan Edwards

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A History of the Work of Redemption — PERIOD III. From Christ's Resurrection the End of the World. — PART IX. The General Judgment — part 3↗explains

A History of the Work of Redemption · Jonathan Edwards

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City of God — Of the last judgment, and the declarations regarding it in the Old and New Testaments. — Passages from the Psalms of David Which Predict the End of the World and the Last Judgment.↗explains

City of God · Augustine of Hippo

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City of God — Of the last judgment, and the declarations regarding it in the Old and New Testaments. — That Proofs of the Last Judgment Will Be Adduced, First from the New Testament, and Then from the Old.↗explains

City of God · Augustine of Hippo

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City of God — Of the last judgment, and the declarations regarding it in the Old and New Testaments. — That in the Books of the Old Testament, Where It is Said that God Shall Judge the World, the Person of Christ is Not Explicitly Indicated, But It Plainly Appears from Some Passages in Which the Lord God Speaks that Christ is Meant.↗explains

City of God · Augustine of Hippo

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City of God — Of the last judgment, and the declarations regarding it in the Old and New Testaments. — The Passages in Which the Saviour Declares that There Shall Be a Divine Judgment in the End of the World.↗explains

City of God · Augustine of Hippo

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City of God — Of the last judgment, and the declarations regarding it in the Old and New Testaments. — Utterances of the Prophet Isaiah Regarding the Resurrection of the Dead and the Retributive Judgment.↗explains

City of God · Augustine of Hippo

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Homilies on Second Corinthians — Homily X — part 2↗explains

Homilies on Second Corinthians · John Chrysostom

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Lectures or Tractates on the Gospel According to St. John — Chapter V. 19–30. — part 6↗explains

Lectures or Tractates on the Gospel According to St. John · Augustine of Hippo

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On the Resurrection of the Flesh., The Flesh Will Be Associated with the Soul in Enduring the Penal Sentences of the Final Judgment.↗applies

On the Resurrection of the Flesh. · Anti-marcion

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Revelation 20:12↗explains

Revelation · John the Apostle

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Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New Testament — On the words of the Gospel, John v. 25,’Verily, verily, I say unto you, the hour cometh, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the son of God; and they that hear shall live,’ etc.; and on the words of the apostle, ‘things which eye saw not,’ etc., 1 Cor. ii. 9. — part 4↗explains

Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New Testament · Augustine of Hippo

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Seventeen Occasional Sermons — SERMON VII. The Portion of the Wicked — part 7↗explains

Seventeen Occasional Sermons · Jonathan Edwards

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Seventeen Occasional Sermons — SERMON XI. Wicked Men inconsistent with themselves — part 9↗explains

Seventeen Occasional Sermons · Jonathan Edwards

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