The clouds catch them up and carry them to meet Christ in the air; the living saints receive the Lord. He raises those too, that they may see his glory, those who fixed him to the cross; but in turn he shall render them to the depths. Woe to those wretched ones! The witness slain by them bears witness. Because by their punishments I, foreseeing... we here. These things we sing not out of envy, but we see them fixed. While the just rejoice, those are burned in hell; David said of them: Lord, repay them their iniquities! And if they will not believe, they shall dwell in the shadow of death. Surely he could here have prayed glad things for his people; why did he rather choose: Let them descend alive below, the rest who were among the saints at the coming of Christ? From the two peoples the lineage of the Most High flees... this greater one shall make them be changed quickly for himself.