[716] See too Joel ii. 2.
[717] Enoch xc. 16.
[718] Rev. xvi. 14, xix. 19.
[719] Comp. Matt. xxiv. 6, 7, 21, 22.
[720] Such is the reading of the LXX., Vulgate, Peshitta, Symmachus, etc.
[721] Zech. xiv. 1-7.
[722] Comp. vii. 10: "And the books were opened."
[723] Mal. iii. 16.
[724] Rev. xx. 12-15. Compare too Phil. iv. 3: "With Clement also, and the rest of my fellow-workers, whose names are in the book of life."
[725] "Many sleepers in the land of dust" seems to mean the dead. Comp. Jer. li. 39; Psalm xxii. 29; 1 Thess. iv. 14; Acts vii. 60. For "shame" see Jer. xxiii. 40. The word for "abhorrence" only occurs in Isa. lxvi. 24. The allusion seems to be to the ἀνάστασις κρίσεως (John v. 29), the δεύτερος θάνατος of Rev. xx. 14. Comp. Enoch xxii.