<P> Albright and Mann note that it is important not to read the word wrath as a synonym for anger . Rather in Jewish and Christian thought it refers to the necessary meting out of final justice by an all loving God . Clarke notes that this phrase has been reused in other important contexts . In The Pilgrim's Progress it is a warning of "the wrath to come" by a character known as the Evangelist that sets the protagonist on his quest . John and Charles Wesley used the same phrase to advertise the Bible studies that would eventually grow into Methodism . </P> <P> "Generation of Vipers" was the title of a 1942 book by Philip Wylie which criticized American society . </P>

Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come meaning