The Open court . Dives in Hell. From a German Picture-Bible. sins and Lazarus is not rewarded for good deeds, their future fateis the result of an equalisation, as we read in Luke xvi, 25 : But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedest thygood things, and likewise Lazarus evil things : but now he is comforted, and thouart tormented. The bliss of heaven appears partly to consist in witnessing thetorments of hell. St. John the Divine simply follows the style ofprevious writers of prophecies and revelations when indulging withgreat delight in the anticipations of the plagu
The Open court . Dives in Hell. From a German Picture-Bible. sins and Lazarus is not rewarded for good deeds, their future fateis the result of an equalisation, as we read in Luke xvi, 25 : But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedest thygood things, and likewise Lazarus evil things : but now he is comforted, and thouart tormented. The bliss of heaven appears partly to consist in witnessing thetorments of hell. St. John the Divine simply follows the style ofprevious writers of prophecies and revelations when indulging withgreat delight in the anticipations of the plagues that will come overthis world and of the punishment that will be meted out to Rome, ESCHATOLOGY IN CHRISTIAN ART. 405. War in the Revelation of St. John. (By Albrecht Dur er.) 406 THE OPEN COURT. the new Babylon, the woman of abomination. This anticipationof plagues is an inheritance that Christianity had received from the
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