Who Said That?

OK, who said this?  No cheating or google searches!  Answer to follow in a few days . . .

"As we have learned from Almighty God in the words of Holy Scripture, that the end of the present world is already near and that the unending kingdom of the saints is approaching.  As this same end of the world is drawing nigh, many unusual things will happen--climate changes, terrors from heaven, unseasonable tempests, wars, famines, pestilences, earthquakes.  All of these things are not to come in our own days, but they will follow upon our times."

Update on Monday, May 8, 2006 at 11:26AM by Kim Riddlebarger

These words come from Pope Gregory the Great in a letter written to Ethelbert in June of 601.  End-times prognostication is nothing new!

Comments

[Mike Ratliff]

That sounds sorta' like J.R. Church...

[R.K.Brumbelow]

You have me stumped on this one. It sounds like someone with an high church background, or from more than a century ago.

["lee n. field"]

" All of these things are not to come in our own days, but they will follow upon our times."

Now that does _not_ sound like your typical end-times enthusiast.

No idea.

[Jeremy Weaver]

Martin Luther?

[Chris Malamisuro]

How about Joseph Smith?

[Debbie]

Well this may be way out - centuries out probably - but the children and I have been studying how Christianity grew in our country, so we've been finding out about Augustine and Gregory.

I'm sure we read this but I can't remember if it was by Gregory the Great or Augustine (Canterbury).