disorder, and the breakdown of social conventions, in accordance with Jesus’s prediction recorded in Matthew 24:4–51 Meier 2025; Shoemaker 2018; Amirav, Grypeou, and Stroumsa 2017. In line with this expectation,John of Ephesus evokes eschatological imagery by identifying the divi…

Nec mirum, ait, si Christus dicatur omnipotens, cui tradita est omnis potestas in coelo et in terra (Matth. XXIV, 18) . Et qui dicit: Omnia quae Patris sunt, mea sunt (Joan. XVII, 10) .» VIII. Quomodo catholicus aestimari potest, qui et tantorum doctorum testimoniis non credit,…

, cadaver vocatur. Hinc ipsa Veritas ait: «Ubicunque fuerit corpus, illuc congregabuntur et aquilae (Matth. XXIV, 18) .» Aliter: Omnis enim qui in peccati mortem ceciderit, non inconvenienter poterit cadaver vocari. Quasi exanimis namque jacet, qui justitiae vivificantem spiritum…