In today’s episode, we hear Justin Martyr’s passionate meditation on the Second Coming in Dialogue with Trypho, Chapter 31, as he walks Trypho through the dramatic vision of Daniel 7—where the Son of Man comes with the clouds and receives an everlasting kingdom. Augustine continues wrestling with the illusions of astrology in Confessions, Book VII, Chapters 9–10, recounting how the story of Firminius finally shattered his belief in the stars and revealed God’s quiet providence beneath it all. We end with Thomas Aquinas in Summa Theologica, Part I, Question 48, Article 2, where he explains the paradox that good is the cause of evil—not by intention, but by defect—and that evil only exists where good has been distorted.

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