...grimly celebrated in the medieval hymn, "Dies Irae, Dies Ilia" (in Sir Walter Scott's paraphrase), "That day of wrath, that dreadful day! When heaven...sinner's stay? How shall he meet that dreadful day?" What is striking in the book of Revelation — and strange, perhaps, to the modern reader — is that...

...them, Rev. xx. 11 : and " who shall be able to stand?" The day of wrath, that dreadful day, When heav'n and earth shall pass away ! What power shall be the...sinner's stay? How shall he meet that dreadful day ? When shriv'lling like a parched scroll, The flaming heavens together roll, And louder yet, and yet more...