DAILY CONTEMPLATION

October 17, 2025 ~ Paope 7, 1742

For notice of two judgments is conveyed to us throughout the Scriptures,
if any one will give heed to them,
one hidden, the other manifest.
The hidden one is passing now, of which the Apostle Peter says,
“The time is come that judgment should begin from the house of the Lord.”
The hidden judgment accordingly is the pain,
by which now each man is either exercised to purification, or warned to conversion,
or if he despise the calling and discipline of God, is blinded unto damnation.
But the manifest judgment is that in which the Lord, at His coming,
will judge the quick and the dead,
all men confessing that it is He by whom both
rewards shall be assigned to the good, and punishments to the evil.
But then that confession will avail, not to the remedy of evils, but to the accumulation of damnation…
Whoever then is not corrected by this hidden judgment of God [in this life],
shall most worthily be punished by that manifest one
St. Augustine