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"Now it remains to tell of the third
reproof which is on the Last Day of Judgment.
"Already I have told you of two, and now, so that you
may see how greatly man deceives himself, I will tell
you of the third -- of the General Judgment, when the
pain of the miserable soul is renewed and increased
by the union that the soul will make with the body,
with an intolerable reproof, which will generate in
it confusion and shame.
"Know that, in the Last Day of Judgment, when will
come the Word -- My Son, with My Divine Majesty to
reprove the world with Divine Power, He will not come
like a poor one, as when He was born, coming in the
womb of the Virgin, and being born in a stable
amongst the animals, and then dying between two
thieves. Then I concealed My power in Him, letting
Him suffer pain and torment like man, not that My
divine nature was therefore separated from human
nature, but I let Him suffer like man to satisfy for
your guilt.
"He will not come thus in that last moment, but He
will come, with power, to reprove in His Own Person,
and will render to everyone his due, and there will
be no one in that Day who will not tremble. To the
miserable ones who are damned, His aspect will cause
such torment and terror that the tongue cannot
describe it.
"To the just it will cause the fear of reverence with
great joy; not that His face changes, because He is
unchangeable, being one thing with Me according to
the divine nature, and, according to the human
nature, His face was unchangeable, after it took the
glory of the Resurrection.
"But, to the eye of the damned, it will appear such,
on account of their terrible and darkened vision,
that, as the sun which is so bright, appears all
darkness to the infirm eye, but to the healthy eye
light (and it is not the defect of the light that
makes it appear other to the blind than to the
illuminated one, but the defect of the eye which is
infirm), so will the condemned ones see His
countenance in darkness, in confusion, and in hatred,
not through defect of My Divine Majesty, with which
He will come to judge the world, but through their
own defect."
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