Article XVIIOf the Return of Christ to Judgment

1 p. 42 Also they teach, that, at the Consummation of the World, Christ shall appear for judgment, and shall raise 2 up all the dead; he shall give to the godly and elect eternal life and everlasting joys, but ungodly men and the devils he 3 shall condemn to be tormented without end.

4 They condemn the Anabaptists who think that there will be an end to the punishments of condemned men and devils. 5 They condemn also others, who are now spreading certain Jewish opinions that, before the resurrection of the dead, the godly shall take possession of the kingdom of the world, the ungodly being everywhere suppressed [exterminated].

Krauth’s translation, from Jacobs, The Book of Concord (1911), public domain. The small “p.” numbers link to the printed page.