Chapter 4

1There 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.