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Prudentius

5th century · AD 410 · Western · 59 passages

Background on Prudentius

In his own words on 1 Thessalonians

  • 1 Thessalonians 4:16

    When at the awful trumpet's sound The earth will be consumed by fire, And with a mighty rush the world Unhinged, will crash in dreadful ruin.

    HYMNS 11, 105-8

  • 1 Thessalonians 5:6

    The winged messenger of day Sings loud, foretelling dawn's approach, And Christ in stirring accents calls Our slumbering souls to life with him. "Away," he cries, "with dull repose, The sleep of death and sinful sloth; With hearts now sober, just and pure, Keep watch, for I am very near."

    HYMNS 1.1-8

Quoted verbatim from public-domain English translations of the fathers — Aquinas's Catena Aurea, the Ante-Nicene and Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers, and related editions. Each quotation links to its source.