12. The desolation of the truth of the Church may be compared with the consummations on earth: namely, heat and all those seasons [see n. 10, above] are consummated by winter, and then comes spring; and light on earth is consummated by night, and then comes morning. Wherefore, the Lord said to those under the altar,
[that they should rest yet for a little time, till their fellow-servants, and their brethren, who should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled (Rev. vi 11)].
(Many passages are to be adduced from the Apocalypse, to the effect that the Church has been devastated, even down to last things.)
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