If the earth would not submit to this supreme transformation, it would be broken up, purified by fire, and by the breath of God.

A new heaven would be created, and the entire world would be peopled with the angels of God.[1] [Footnote 1: Matt.xxii.

30.] A radical revolution,[1] embracing even nature itself, was the fundamental idea of Jesus.

Henceforward, without doubt, he renounced politics; the example of Judas, the Gaulonite, had shown him the inutility of popular seditions.

He never thought of revolting against the Romans and tetrarchs.