Church Father's On The End/Fullness/Consumation Of The Ages (of this earth)by Tom Logan
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"Let them be told that if the Word had been a creature, the creature would not have assumed a body to quicken it. For what
help can creatures get from a creature standing itself in need of salvation? But the Word, Himself Creator, was made maker of
created things, and therefore in the fullness of the ages He attached the creature to Himself, that once more as a Creator He
might renew it, and might be able to create it afresh." From the longer Discourse "De Fide": —Letters of Theodoret.For all things which the Father rules and sways, the Son rules and sways likewise: wholly from the Whole, being like the
Father as the Lord says, ‘he that hath seen Me hath seen the Father' (John 14:9). But he was begotten ineffably and
incomprehensibly, for ‘who shall declare his generation?' (Isaiah 53:8), in other words, no one can. Who, when at the
consummation of the ages (Hebrews 9:26), He had descended from the bosom of the Father, took from the undefiled Virgin
Mary our humanity ---Athanasius.For Abel too in this way witnessed, knowing what he had learned from Adam, who himself had learned from that Lord, who
said, when He came at the end of the ages for the abolishment of sin, ---Athanasius.Now as to the season spoken of, he will find for certain that, whereas the Lord always is, at length in fullness of the ages He
became man; and whereas He is Son of God, He became Son of man also ---Athanasius.For just as He is Word of God, so afterwards the Word was made flesh;' and while in the beginning was the Word; the Virgin
at the consummation of the ages conceived, and the Lord has become man.I do not know whether, when a new and different order of things has succeeded after the destruction of the world, and what
our Scriptures call the end (of the ages), ---Origen.10. Now, therefore, observe whatsoever I command you, children; for whatsoever things I have heard from my fathers I have
made known to you. I am clear from all your ungodliness and transgression which ye will do in the end of the ages against the
Savior of the world, acting ungodly, deceiving Israel, and raising up against it great evils from the Lord. ---testimony of the 12 patriarchs.And he related before Abgar the king, and before his princes and his nobles, and before Augustin, Abgar's mother, and before
Shalmath, the daughter of Meherdath, Abgar's wife, the signs of our Lord, and His wonders, and the glorious mighty-works
which He did, and His divine exploits, and His ascension to His Father; and how they had received power and authority at the
same time that He was received up — by which same power it was that he had healed Abgar, and Abdu son of Abdu, the
second person of his kingdom; and how He informed them that He would reveal Himself at the end of the ages and at the
consummation of all created things; also of the resuscitation and resurrection which is to come for all men, and the separation
which will be made between the sheep and the goats, and between the faithful and those who believe. ---no memoirs of Edessa.God the Word, the only-begotten of God, the Light, the Life, the Truth, the Wisdom: through whom all things were made which are in the heavens and upon the earth, whether visible or invisible. We believe that be took flesh of the holy Virgin Mary, at the end of the ages, in order to abolish sin; that he was made man, suffered for our sin, and rose again, and was taken up into the heavens, to sit at the right hand of the Father, whence he will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead. ---Soctrates Scholasticus ecclesiastical history.
Jesus Christ our Lord, who was begotten of the Father before all ages; God of God; Light of Light; through whom all things in the heavens and upon the earth, both visible and invisible, were made: who is the Word, and Wisdom, and Power, and Life, and true Light: who in the last days for our sake was made man, and was born of the holy virgin; who was crucified, and died, and was buried, and rose again from the dead on the third day, and ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of the Father, and shall come at the consummation of the ages, to judge the living and the dead, and to render to every one according to his works: whose kingdom being perpetual shall continue to infinite ages ---Soctrates Scholasticus.
"The Psalmist fully possessed by God sings, " The swords of the enemy are come to an end, and the cities which thou hast overthrown." 15. And what is the position, I should like to know, of those excessively scrupulous, or rather excessively profane
persons, who assert that there are more synagogues than Churches? How is it that the devil's kingdoms have been destroyed,
and now at last in the consummation of the ages, the idols have fallen? If Christ has no Church. ---Jerome."When again He bringeth in," he says, "the first-begotten into the world." The addition of "again" shows, by the force of this
word, that this event happens not for the first time: for we use tiffs word of the repetition of things which have once happened.
He signifies, therefore, by the phrase, the dread appearing of the Judge at the end of the ages, when He is seen no more in the
form of a servant, but seated in glory upon the throne of His kingdom, and worshipped by all the angels that are around Him.
Therefore He Who once entered into the world, becoming the first-born "from the dead," and "of His brethren," and "of all creation," does not, when He comes again into the world as He that judges the world in righteousness ---Gregory of Nyssa.They, when God so said, received the sonship, which before they had not: but He was not begotten to be other than He was before; but was begotten from the beginning Son of the Father, being above all beginning and all ages, Son of the Father, in all things like to Him who begot Him, eternal of a Father eternal, Life of Life begotten, and Light of Light, and Truth of Truth, and Wisdom of the Wise, and King of King, and God of God, and Power of Power. 5. If then thou hear the Gospel saying, The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham, understand "according to the flesh." For He is the Son of David at the end of the ages , but the Son of God BEFORE ALL AGES, without beginning. The one, which before He had not, He received; but the other, which He hath, He hath eternally as begotten of the Father. ---Cyrill.
Therefore neither was the Word changed into flesh nor flesh into the Word: but both remains in one and one is in both, not divided by the diversity and not confounded by intermixture: He is not one by His Father and another by His mother, but the same, in one way by His Father before every beginning, and in another by His mother at the end of the ages: ---Leo bishop of Rome.
"The Father is greater than I," just as He says with the same form, "I and my Father are one." For in "the form of a slave," which He took at the end of the ages for our restoration, ---ibid.
when they come to the Holy Catholic Church, are to be taught, by firm holding and profession of the true faith, to believe in one and the same Son of God and man, our Lord God Jesus Christ, the same existing in Divinity before the ages, and the same made man in the end of the ages, because The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us (John 1:14). ---Gregory the great.
"For this cause he both called them types, and said that they were "written for us" and made mention of an "end" that he might
remind them of the consummation of all things. For not such will be the penalties then as to admit of a termination and be done
away, but the punishment will be eternal; for even as the punishments in this world are ended with the present life, so those in
the next continually remain. But when he said, "the ends of the ages," he means nothing else than that the fearful judgment is
henceforth nigh at hand. Ver. 12.He also died, and rose again, and ascended into the heavens to Him that sent Him, and is sat down at His right hand, and shall
come at the end of the world, with His Father's glory, to judge the living and the dead, and to render to every one according to his works. ---Ignatius to the magnesians.And thus was He, with the flesh, received up in their sight unto Him that sent Him, being with that same flesh to come again,
accompanied by glory and power. For, say the [holy] oracles, "This same Jesus, who is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come, in like manner as ye have seen Him go unto heaven." But if they say that He will come at the end of the world without a body, how shall those "see Him that pierced Him," and when they recognize Him, "mourn for themselves?" For incorporeal beings have neither form nor figure, nor the aspect of an animal possessed of shape, because their nature is in itself simple. ---Ignatius to the smyraeans.Neither murmur ye, as some of them murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer. But all these things happened to them in a figure, and were written for our admonition, upon whom the end of the world (saeculorum) is come. Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth, take heed lest he fall." ---Irenaeus.
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