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THE MIRACLES OF ANTICHRIST
INTRODUCTION
" When Antichrist comes, he will appear to be wholly like
Christ."
I
the emperor’s vision
At the time when Augustus was emperor in Rome
and Herod was king in Jerusalem, it happened that
a very great and holy night descended upon the
earth. It was the darkest night that anyone had
ever seen ; one might almost have believed that the
whole earth had chanced in under a cellar vault. It
was impossible to distinguish water from land or find
one’s way along the most familiar road. And it
could not be otherwise, for not a ray of light came
from the sky. All the stars had remained at home
in their houses, and the fair moon kept her face
turned away. And just as deep as the darkness was
also the silence and the stillness.
The rivers had ceased to flow, not a breath of
wind stirred, and even the aspen leaves trembled no
more. Had one walked by the sea, one would have
found that the waves no longer beat against the shore,
and had one walked in the desert, the sand would
not have grated under foot. Everything was
petrified and at rest, in order not to disturb the holy
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