But who can abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fuller's soap:
Lo! Y sende myn aungel, and he schal make redi weie bifor my face; and anoon þe lordshipere, whom ye seken, schal come to his hooli temple, and þe aungel of testament, whom ye wolen. Lo! he cometh, seith þe Lord of oostis;