4810. From this one may see what these words spoken by the Lord imply and that they must not be understood literally. That is to say, they must not be taken to mean that the Lord is going at some last phase to come in glory and all the holy angels with Him, that He is going to sit on a throne of glory, and that He is going to judge all nations gathered together before Him. Rather, the meaning is that each person will be judged according to what his life is, when he passes over from life in the world to eternal life.
