De Christi Reditu ad Iudicium
Christ the Judge of All
Christ will appear at the end of the world to judge, granting eternal life to the elect and endless condemnation to the wicked and devils.
They also teach that Christ will appear at the consummation of the world to judge, and will raise all the dead, and will give eternal life and everlasting joys to the pious and elect, but he will condemn wicked men and devils, so that they will be tormented without end.✦✦✦
Against False Hopes of Universal Endings
The confession condemns Anabaptist teachings that punishment will end and rejects Jewish millenarian hopes of earthly dominion before the resurrection.
They condemn the Anabaptists, who hold that for the damned among human beings and for the devils there will be an end to their punishment. And they condemn others who are now spreading Jewish opinions to the effect that, before the resurrection of the dead, the devout will occupy the kingdom of the world everywhere, with the ungodly oppressed under them.
Read the original Latin
Item docent, quod Christus apparebit in consummatione mundi ad iudicandum, et mortuos omnes resuscitabit, piis et electis dabit vitam aeternam et perpetua gaudia, impios autem homines ac diabolos condemnabit, ut sine fine crucientur.
Damnant Anabaptistas, qui sentiunt hominibus damnatis ac diabolis finem poenarum futurum esse. Damnant et alios qui nunc spargunt Iudaicas opiniones, quod ante resurrectionem mortuorum, pii regnum mundi occupaturi sint, ubique oppressis impiis.
Scripture echoes
- ↩Matt.25.46 — And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.
- ↩Acts.10.42 — And he commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one appointed by God as judge of the living and the dead.
- ↩John.5.28-John.5.29 — Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming in which all who are in the tombs will hear his voice John.5.29 — and they will come forth—those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment.
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