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... Italy , were favoured with the gospel . By the time that the book of the Revelation was written , the converts to Christianity were become in many places the most numerous party ; and if they had been inclined to resist the measures of ...
... Italy , were favoured with the gospel . By the time that the book of the Revelation was written , the converts to Christianity were become in many places the most numerous party ; and if they had been inclined to resist the measures of ...
Page 145
... Italy , and especially of Rome , increased in proportion as the empire was extended ; emigrants flocked thither from all regions , till the fields of Italy were totally insufficient to provide for this crowded population . A very ...
... Italy , and especially of Rome , increased in proportion as the empire was extended ; emigrants flocked thither from all regions , till the fields of Italy were totally insufficient to provide for this crowded population . A very ...
Page 146
... Italian fields and the African provinces were scorched with drought , while other parts of the empire were deluged with ... Italy itself . The priests doing all they could to put a stop to the miseries of the state , by attempting to ...
... Italian fields and the African provinces were scorched with drought , while other parts of the empire were deluged with ... Italy itself . The priests doing all they could to put a stop to the miseries of the state , by attempting to ...
Page 147
... Italy , and restricted it in other provinces to half the extent to which it had been formerly planted . The in- tention of this law was , that the fields which had been covered with vines might be sown with corn , and that the ...
... Italy , and restricted it in other provinces to half the extent to which it had been formerly planted . The in- tention of this law was , that the fields which had been covered with vines might be sown with corn , and that the ...
Page 149
... Italy , and they might employ all the means in their power to enforce their decrees ; but their measures were nugatory , when , more than a hundred years before , a voice had been heard from the throne in the heavens , saying , ' A ...
... Italy , and they might employ all the means in their power to enforce their decrees ; but their measures were nugatory , when , more than a hundred years before , a voice had been heard from the throne in the heavens , saying , ' A ...
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Page 478 - And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants, the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great, and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.
Page 313 - And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months : and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man. 6 And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it, ; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
Page 15 - And immediately I was in the Spirit : and behold, a throne was set in heaven, and One sat on the throne. And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone : and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.
Page 423 - And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them. And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.
Page 62 - And I beheld, and lo, in the midst of the throne, and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders stood a Lamb, as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of GOD sent forth into all the earth.
Page 265 - For the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, And upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low...
Page 15 - AFTER this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in. heaven : and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me ; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.
Page 193 - In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, Which they made each one for himself to worship, To the moles and to the bats...
Page 247 - And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night : for upon all the glory shall be a defence.
Page 530 - And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.