Then came, at a predetermined moment, a moment in time and of time,

A moment not out of time, but in time, in what we call history: transecting, bisecting the world of time, a moment in time but not like a moment of time,

A moment in time but time was made through that moment: for without the meaning there is no time, and that moment of time gave the meaning.

And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven …

But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished …

And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.

Sanguine fundate est ecclesia, sanguine crevit, sanguine succrevit, sanguine finis erit. (The church was established in bloodshed; it grew and thrived on blood; it was renewed by blood; and its end will be in blood.)