Chapter
Eleven
[1] Also, he took “a reed
similar to a rod,” with which he was ordered to measure the places which Christian
people held. [2] But he [was ordered] to leave out [measuring] other places, which
unbelievers were able to hold. These [unbelievers] are those who, at the end of
the world for the three and a half years when Antichrist is reigning, will
revel in the blood of the martyrs. [3] Also, there was mention of Enoch and
Elijah, [8-9] that they will lie slain publicly, unburned for three days,
[11-12] until, called, they are seen to ascend suddenly into heaven. Those
enemies looking on were stricken with great fear, [13] and they will offer
glory to God with great admiration. (Cassiodorus, “Brief Explanations on the Apocalypse,”
in Cassiodorus, St. Gregory the Great, and Anonymous Greek Scholia: Writings
on the Apocalypse [trans. Francis X. Gumerlock; The Fathers of the Church
144; Washington, D. C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2022], 26-27)
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