The Testament of Our Lord

I. 4

There shall, then, be signs when the kingdom is approaching such as these. After the famines and pestilences and tumults among the nations,! then there shall rule, and rise to power, princes who love money, who hate the truth, who kill their brethren, liars, haters of the faithful,? proud, lovers of gold, allied by relationship but not allied in counsel,® for they wish each to destroy the life of his fellow. But there shall be in their hosts great affliction, and flight,® and bloodshed.

CHaprer 57

But there shall arise also in the West a king of foreign race, a prince of great craft, godless,$ a homicide, a deceiver, a lover of gold, great at devices,? a hater of the faithful,” a persecutor44; and he shall bear rule also over barbarous nations, and shall shed much blood. At that time silver shall be despised and gold be honoured; and in every city and every country there shall be spoiling and robbery, and there shall be # spilling of blood.