Thought for the Future

Εἰ οὐρανὸς ὡς βιβλιον ἐλίσσεται, καὶ τὰ ἄστρα πίπτει, καὶ Ὠριον καὶ γῆ, καὶ τὰ ἐν αὐτῇ κατακαίεται, καὶ πάντα γυμνὰ καὶ τετραχηλισμένα τῇ μεγάλη ἡμέρᾳ τῆς τοῦ Κυρίου παρουσίας ἐτοιμὰζεται· τοῦ χάριν αὐτὸς ἀμελεῖς, καὶ οὐχ ὡς εὐθύνας ὑφέξων εὐτρεπίζῃ, ἀλλ' ὡς ἀνέγκλητος λησόμενος, ἀναβάλλῃ τὴν μεταμέλειαν; Ὅρα οὐν μὴ τότε σοι ἐπέλθῃ ἡ μετάγνωσις, ὅτε μόνη πάρεστιν ἡ ἀπογνωσις.  Ἅγιος Ἰσίδωρος Του Πηλουσιώτου, Βιβλιον Πρῶτον, Ἐπιστολή ΡΠΗ', Ἀσκληπιῳ

If the heavens are rolled up like a scroll and the stars fall, and Orion and the earth, all things burning up in it, stripped and laid open, on that great day prepared for the coming of the Lord, will you be careless for favour, not having prepared yourself for the promised investigation, like one blameless to be passed over, having no thought of penitence? Look to it, then, lest penance come to your mind when there shall be only a place of despair. Saint Isidore of Pelusium, Book 1, Letter 188, To Asclepius