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Testament of Our Lord
tr. Cooper and Maclean, 1902
11. Book I, Chapter 11
And these are the signs of him1: his head [is] as a fiery flame2: his right eye shot with blood, his left [eye] blue-black, and he hath two pupils. His eyelashes are white; and his lower lip is large; but his right thigh slender;3 his feet broad; his great toe4 is bruised and flat. This is the sickle of desolation.
Notes
- I.e. of Antichrist. So explicitly the Trèves Latin fragm.
- Lit.: a flame of fire. So S. and Trèves fragm.: M. B.; a flame that burneth. Trèves fragm. adds: his eyes are those of a cat (fellini, for felini).
- Trèves fragm.: his right thigh lean, the shin bones slender. So in the Apocryphal Apocalypse of John, Antichrist has the legs of a cock (James, Apoc. Anecd. 156, 187).
- Or: finger.