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no flesh be saved[1].' 'Then men shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. — Now learn a parable of the fig-tree; When its branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh. So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors[2].'
Havilah looked at his friend in surprise when he had read. — I knew not, he said, that so many of the signs of the Prophet were told in the Christian Scriptures. Here are also some which Mohammed said should take place at the hour of resurrection; such as that a star should fall, and the trumpet should be sounded, and that a woman should abandon her sucking child.
Tell me other signs of the resurrection, said Eber; and perhaps we shall find that they also were written before Mohammed was born.
The heavens shall melt, said Havilah, and the angels who stand between heaven and earth to guide the stars, shall die; and the last angel
