The trumpet gives the sign in heaven, the lion being taken away, and suddenly darkness comes with the crashing of the heavens. The Lord casts down His eyes, that the earth may tremble; He cries aloud, that all in the whole world may hear: Behold, long have I kept silence, enduring your deeds for so great a time! Together they cry out, lamenting, too late groaning; there is howling, there is weeping, nor is any respite granted to the wicked. What shall the mother do for her suckling child, when she herself is being burned? In the flame of fire the Lord shall judge the wicked: but the fire shall not touch the righteous; rather, it shall pass them by. Under one fate they linger, yet one part shall weep at the sentence. So great shall be the heat, that the very stones shall melt; in the lightning the winds rush together, the heavenly wrath rages, so that wherever the impious flees, he is seized by the fire; no aid shall there be, nor ships of mariners:
yet the flame shall make the nations of the Medes and the Parthians glow for a thousand years, even as the bodies glow for the saints. For thereafter, after a thousand years, they are handed over to Gehenna, and the very structure of which they were a part is burned together with it.