A Commentary on the Revelation of St. John, the DivineUniversalist Publishing House, 1848 - 388 pages |
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... seems to have found on the earth , and bound him , and , without carrying him away anywhere else , cast him into the bottomless pit . It was the power with which these facts - struck our mind , that led us to write the 1 * PREFACE . 5 — ...
... seems to have found on the earth , and bound him , and , without carrying him away anywhere else , cast him into the bottomless pit . It was the power with which these facts - struck our mind , that led us to write the 1 * PREFACE . 5 — ...
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... seem , of depriving them of their principal evidence , attributed the Revelation to Cerinthus , a famous Gnostic ... seems to have weighed nothing with his contemporaries , nor with the immediately suc- ceeding fathers , since they ...
... seem , of depriving them of their principal evidence , attributed the Revelation to Cerinthus , a famous Gnostic ... seems to have weighed nothing with his contemporaries , nor with the immediately suc- ceeding fathers , since they ...
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... seems to have made little impression ; but the renown of his learning and talents , and his character as one of the principal bishops in Christendom , drew attention at length to his opinion , and gave it an influence which in the next ...
... seems to have made little impression ; but the renown of his learning and talents , and his character as one of the principal bishops in Christendom , drew attention at length to his opinion , and gave it an influence which in the next ...
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... seems quite impossible to account for the testimonies quoted from the above - named Christian fathers , without supposing that it is a divine book , and that it was written by the apostle John . In giving the result of the historical ...
... seems quite impossible to account for the testimonies quoted from the above - named Christian fathers , without supposing that it is a divine book , and that it was written by the apostle John . In giving the result of the historical ...
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... seems to have grown up out of the ancient Scripture , like a luxuriant branch from its parent root . The allusions of the Revelation are drawn from the earliest sacred history of the Jews ; from the dress of the priests at the temple ...
... seems to have grown up out of the ancient Scripture , like a luxuriant branch from its parent root . The allusions of the Revelation are drawn from the earliest sacred history of the Jews ; from the dress of the priests at the temple ...
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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 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 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 150 - And white robes were given unto every one of them ; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.
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 135 - And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people : and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time : and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
Page 167 - And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters...
Page 338 - And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle : the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
Page 164 - And another Angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the Angel's hand.
Page 253 - As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world. The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; and shall cast them into a furnace of fire : there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.