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] "Whilst thou art yet speaking," says the Scripture, "I will say, Lo, here I am."

Again Diphilus, the comic poet, discourses as follows on the judgment:

And with this agrees the tragedy in the following lines:

And after a little he adds:

"And when the whole world fades, And vanished all the abyss of ocean's waves, And earth of trees is bare; and wrapt in flames,