A Commentary on the Revelation of St. John, the DivineUniversalist Publishing House, 1848 - 388 pages |
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... thousands to conclude that the work is altogether inscrutable to human wisdom . - - But is this book absolutely dark . so that it is impossible for us to get at the meaning at all ? Is it impossible to do anything to throw light on the ...
... thousands to conclude that the work is altogether inscrutable to human wisdom . - - But is this book absolutely dark . so that it is impossible for us to get at the meaning at all ? Is it impossible to do anything to throw light on the ...
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... thousand years in Jerusalem ; and after that , shall be the general or eternal resur- rection and universal judgment . ' Melito , bishop of Sardis , one of the seven churches addressed in the Revelation , flourished about A. D. 174. All ...
... thousand years in Jerusalem ; and after that , shall be the general or eternal resur- rection and universal judgment . ' Melito , bishop of Sardis , one of the seven churches addressed in the Revelation , flourished about A. D. 174. All ...
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... thousand years upon earth , enjoying all the sensual gratifications which nature could afford . The fanatical sect of Montanists had lately carried this notion to the utmost extravagance , and dwelt 6 upon it as one of their favorite ...
... thousand years upon earth , enjoying all the sensual gratifications which nature could afford . The fanatical sect of Montanists had lately carried this notion to the utmost extravagance , and dwelt 6 upon it as one of their favorite ...
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... thousand years in nuptial entertainments . ' Such was the ground that Caius took with regard to the author of the Apocalypse . " His unsupported assertion , however , carries its own refutation on its very face . Who can suppose that a ...
... thousand years in nuptial entertainments . ' Such was the ground that Caius took with regard to the author of the Apocalypse . " His unsupported assertion , however , carries its own refutation on its very face . Who can suppose that a ...
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... thousand . " In the next place our Lord mentioned Fearful sights and signs in heaven . Is not this the language of the Apocalypse also ? The sun becomes black as sackcloth of hair ; the moon turns to blood ; the stars fall from heaven ...
... thousand . " In the next place our Lord mentioned Fearful sights and signs in heaven . Is not this the language of the Apocalypse also ? The sun becomes black as sackcloth of hair ; the moon turns to blood ; the stars fall from heaven ...
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Page 211 - And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Page 209 - Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea ! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
Page 154 - But Jesus, turning unto them, said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children. For behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck. Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us ; and to the hills, Cover us.
Page 366 - Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God ; and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner-stone ; in whom all the building, fitly framed together, groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord : in whom ye also are builded together, for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
Page 280 - And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
Page 150 - Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes ; and some of them ye shall kill and crucify, and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city. That upon you may come all the righteous blood, shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. Verily I say unto you, all these things shall come upon this generation.
Page 310 - And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived. 24 And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.
Page 299 - Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? and what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, "I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Page 54 - And I saw another Angel ascending from the East, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four Angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, saying, "Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.
Page 171 - And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.