Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IV/Commodianus/The Instructions of Commodianus/Chapter 80

LXXX.&#8212;The Name of the Man of Gaza.

Ye who are to be inhabitants of the heavens with God-Christ, hold fast the beginning, look at all things from heaven.&#160; Let simplicity, let meekness dwell in your body.&#160; Be not angry with thy devout brother without a cause, for ye shall receive whatever ye may have done from him.&#160; This has pleased Christ, that the dead should rise again, yea, with their bodies; and those, too, whom in this world the fire has burned, when six thousand years are completed, and the world has come to an end.&#160; The heaven in the meantime is changed with an altered course, for then the wicked are burnt up with divine fire.&#160; The creature with groaning burns with the anger of the highest God.&#160; Those who are more worthy, and who are begotten of an illustrious stem, and the men of nobility under the conquered Antichrist, according to God&#8217;s command living again in the world for a thousand years, indeed, that they may serve the saints, and the High One, under a servile yoke, that they may bear victuals on their neck.&#160; Moreover, that they may be judged again when the reign is finished.&#160; They who make God of no account when the thousandth year is finished shall perish by fire, when they themselves shall speak to the mountains.&#160; All flesh in the monuments and tombs is restored according to its deed:&#160; they are plunged in hell; they bear their punishments in the world; they are shown to them, and they read the things transacted from heaven; the reward according to one&#8217;s deeds in a perpetual tyranny.&#160; I cannot comprehend all things in a little treatise; the curiosity of the learned men shall find my name in this.