I enjoyed these quotes from the preface of his book...
"What terrible wars, both foreign and domestic! What pestilences, famines...and quakings of the earth has history recorded!" -Tertullian, 197 A.D.
"The wars continue frequently to prevail, that death and famine accumulate anxiety, that health is shattered by raging diseases, that the human race is wasted by the desolation of pestilence, know that this was foretold; that evils should be multiplied in the last times, and that misfortunes should be varied; and that the day of judgment is now drawing nigh." -Cyprian, Third Century
"Of all the signs described by our Lord as presaging the end of the world some we see already accomplished.... For we now see that nation arises against nation and that they press and weigh upon the land in our own times as never before in the annals of the past. Earthquakes overwhelm countless cities, as we often hear from other parts of the world. Pestilence we endure without interruption." -Pope Gregory the Great, Sixth Century
Sound familiar?
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