PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
The Pulpit Commentary — Revelation
Alfred Plummer [1841-1926] · 535,750 words · 528 reading sections
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IL Tmi OPElONG OJ' BRT,A'BGED BPIIBRBII. OP USBFULntll!. • I have set before ibee an open door." ~ur. :Useful employment in the Lord's 8clllVice is t'l,.e highest ioken of approbation of past service foond in the call to greater works, ''.the llL TBB &11B,Jl)'GATI011t OJ' THE hElUEB OP THB CaUBC&, " I will make them…
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It hi, however, but a miserable village,· inhabited chiefl.y by shepherds, though it is :one IJf the 11topping~p1aoea of the· Petsian caravans. The original city was plundered by Cyrus, and afterwards desolated by an earthqnake, the ruins of it being still visible a little distance to the south of the present town. Not…
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i'IIQl,d fast, and repent." They were to renounce aU 'that waa pernicious.to ■piritual health, 11nd ~ue a right course. " Hold fast." Grasp with all the tenacity of their being the .good that comes up to memory, as the wowning man lays b.old of the roJ?f thrown Ql!t on the surging waves. 4. 'J hey ~• i11. a date of ala…
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firteeu clergymen, reside in its mldat.- Nowhere else ii ft mentioned. fn Mered Scripture.· This wonderful letter brings under our notice a <:hara.et#' to h adored, at1 ·M«'!IY lo & coveted, and a dtmny to be $01.lflht, · · · · · · L A OHABAarBB TO BB A.DOUD. 'l'his character ia here exhibited as : 1. Hdg. "He that ls…
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Political rule is but • mere worthlem shadow and pretence compared wi& moral. . 6. It w the energy qf DiviM a.P.J""Ol'(ll and proteduin.. " Because thou hast kept ~ keep] the word of IDY patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation. • , IIL A DBIITll!IY TO BB SOUGB'l'. What •·distinction amte··thoee w…
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near ita siten (Fa1J11Bet). We have heffl certain eolamn and significant &.cta con. oeming • OOJTUpt Ohurch,. auch a Chureh as that whioh was uillting at this time in Laodioea. . .· . · L Iu UAL CJUJU.OTU. W'AB '!'BOBOUGBLT kNOWlf. There waa an eye. thai peered into ita deepeat depths, knew well its moral elements and…
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EXPOSITlON, CHAPTER IV. openecLin heaven{ 'or, an open door, 11' hmuta.. St. Jobn·did not aee the action'i>f ·This is the commenceinent of the seqond opening the door, but he saw a door whilih great. divillioo, whichembmces eh. iv.-xxii. had been aet open, through whieh he infgn• 5, that in which the revelation, pro…
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lS). a token of God's faithfntne1111 in keepifig tiona which haYe been advanoed are (1) that his promises. It iB, therefore, a fit ,sign of the twenty-four olden reprel!tlnt the _great 1md comfort to those ~oouted Christians to minor prophets (St. Hippolytus).; (2:) higher whom, and for whose edification, this mee- …
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throne; where all who came would he.Te to may therefore infer that the appearaooe of J)Q88 by, it may, fitly typify the we.tars of the "living beinga_" illl:plied the prcaence .Baptism, passed by all Christians; and ihe of some order of bemgs m attendance upon figure would be aptly suggested to St. John God, the wor…
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the oe, Antioch, u" :i-ata obedire maiidatu But the point ii pr&Qiically immaterial. a.postolorum; ,. the fflf!k. Constantinople, since. the eense of the passage ia the -.me in rema.rka.ble for men "per contemplationem both readings. Th88e representatives of. ele'fflti, ut Greg. Na.11." (De Lym and life display the cha…
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Yer. 4). - hcl oaa1 taeir oro'WIUI before the logy fs given-" because thou didst cl'8!1,te." throne, 1&ying. Their - of Ti.ot.ory, And for thy pleasure ; much better, as in n-•,j>IU'ov$ (see on eh. ii. 10 and iv. 4). the Revised V emion, and becaue of tky trill Ver. 11.-Thou an worthy, o :Lord; or, (5ul -tb Bb,.,p.a.)…
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ag~in, regard the book as including a symbolic representation of things occurring on earth at the time of the apostle; and in addition thereto, a symbolic representation. of events extending over twelTe hundred and sixty days, which will usher in the coming of our Lord. 5. A fifth and rapidly increasing school or expos…
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by way of objutii>n : tr I/ IO much ia unsaid, cmd tMf'V<>re uncertain, alJ U uncertain, tmd the book i• useleas." Not so; there is very much that is fixed and elear; very much more, indeed, on the principle of interpretation for which we contend, than on any other'; and not only so, but the value of ,the book is, to u…
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n the apostle venture on a word till is given him from above. Eiquisitely indeed hu the sculptor caught the spirit of the beloved apostle s.s he awaits the revelation from on. high. Let us, in arranging our homiletic ex.position, follow the leadings of the narra- tive. We bave-- L A GLIMPSE INTO THE UPl'ER woRtD. "A d…
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indicate their triumph. 4-. Out of. the throM prooeeded lightnings and thundering& and voices. What can these symbolize b11t the outgoings of Jehovah's power, whereby from his throne forces go forth which cause the earth to tremble; that while before the throne there was the symbol of perpetual calm, yet from thence sh…
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L THII VISION l'l.'SELF. St. John begins his account of it with a" Behold." And well may he do so. He repeats this when he sees the "throne" and him that sat upon it. Again in oh. T. 5, when he sees Jesus, the "Lamb as it had been slain." And if in like ma.nner tbi.9 vision come to us, we shall be filled, as he was, wi…
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tlmm,- This i11 the emblelJl (cf. Gen. ix. 12-16) of God's gracious covenant which be bath esta.blisbed for evermore. And it told to St. John and to Christ's Churcn everywhere that, awful, glorious, and te1Tible as our God is, all that he does, of what- aoe..-er kind, is embraced within the mighty span of his all-o'era…
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of here as leaders or worship, aa singing the song or the redeemed {ob. v. 9), with harps and golden censers " full of odours, which are the prayers of sainta." They say, "Thou hast made us kings and priests," etc. Surely all this belongs more to human, redeemed ministries than to vague abstractions, such &s "represent…
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the full concurrence of David and of the priests of the Lord, substituted for theae cherubim, or else added to them, two others of colossal size, whose wings, stretching overhead, filled the most holy place in his new and gorgeous temple (1 Kin3t1 vi 23). Besides this, the figures of cherubim were multiplied in the var…
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Vera. 1-6.-'l'M Divine governmfflt symbolized. In the forms of rarth the formlet1s heavenly t~ings are. represe~~d-the Divine government whi~h in our thoug~ts is s.o often restricted to the cond1t1ons of human government. It 1s needful to remind our• selves that when we have conceived the most lofty notions of the Divi…
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Ver. 1.-Man'a higher sphere qf "being: (1) HtNl'IUffllv aecun,?ile, "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 show thee things which must be hereafter." Disrobe this chapter of its…
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L TJIK BXTJU.ORD[NARY CHARACTER of man's higher sphere or being. .All thinir here seem· to be of a unique nature and order. An air of the wonderful spreads ova: all. 1. The general appearances are «x;traordinary. Observe the •ooial appearanrA,;, are extra.ordinary. Boyalties abound. "A throne was set in heaven," with o…
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tion. Ex.traonilnary Tiaiom men often h,.ve in. tile still:, :watohea of the •11.ight, ia the But imagination oan act more ICCurately, if not more vividly, ia ll8a80D. of dream.a. the hour of oonscioW1ness &Jld i-ntellectaal activity. Thus Milton beheld his heavens and hia hells, his angvla and his devils. We can all,…
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other monarchs of the earth in the pomp and plg88Dtry of his movements, what ia the glory of that poor mortalj on which the empty crowd atarea with wonder? It is only the glory of a gaudy actor on the stage, garbed in. the tawdry and tinselled robe, put on for the hour for popular effect. But this is a glory altogethe…
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seventh ,eal eapecially . ie attended by a opening of the 88ala R.?e therefore a prop!~ rompound aeriea of event.a; but nowhere of the relations of the Church and-the world are we explicitly informed of the oontent.s to the en.<l of time. · Many opinions have pf the book. Alford well remarks," Not its been held as t…
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torions tribe f4 Judah waa he who had tiTe form of ~ ( - ) , a reference to prevailed to orn 'the ·book, w·here· otheni the lowlineSB and meekness of our Lord; bad failed (o. Gen. xl 9, MJudah is a and th'l)' eee a oontraat in the po,- in- lion's whelp : " Heb. vii. 14, " For it is dicated by the aeven horns. But mob e…
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in eanh ''). hcl llfft1l 9JII• The - the /OM and ttmat, d4-. u. ?eJ;lll!lenfA.. eye, . aymbolize perfeet knowled~mni- tive of the Church (.ee on eh. 1y. ¼. 6) aoience (cf. Zech. iv. 10. "They shall Having every one of them barpa. (On the rejoice, and shall - the plummet in the difficulty of kow each one could hold _har…
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giYe,the IIODll8morucorrectly; rou11ch .it the to err In the lllllile way• the Jew■ did, b:, lui'llit of the words, .. ln tliy blood" ( b, T,; expecting to see the redeemed exerci■e at; 11fp,m). The words point to a particular aot any time visible authority over their fellow-- performed at a definite time, Tiz. the …
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Tbe Lamb is in the midat before. tbe tbroue All a.nim&tsd areaUon now joins bt the (Bee. on eh. iv. 6). " Th118," eay11 Bisping, ascription of praise. Thoaa tmdfr t1e ~ " the redeemed creation stands nearer to the are probably the "spirits in prillOll" of .throne of God than even the angel, (see 1 Pet. iii. 19, thou…
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HOMILETICS. · • Vera. 1-H.-C'onUnualion ofwirm. In the preceding homily we noted that the a-poetle records five l!ODg8, We have already referred to two of them. We now hu·e .t6ethree :remaining,onea before us. L The third song is OM new t/Oflg-of retkmption. Creation being <!lfected, what is to be done with it? Of w…
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"The higheet angel n&Ter 11&W" So much of G:>d before." ln creation there is 1ee11 the work of his hands. In. providential government, the 'wisdom th&t controls. In redemption, the grace that saves and the out-gushing fulness of a mighty heart that loves! ''That was not first which was spirituaJ, but that which was …
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make this clear to our minds? We wait to undentMid. 2. I,d,i, IfJCGfflGtioltl. We trace him from t.he manger at Bethlehem, all through his 88il'thly life and ministry, to Gethsemane, Calvary, and the toir\b, And we see him rising from the dead and after,, wards ascending .to the right h!!,nd of Goo. But we are permi…
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God, wbo was with God and was God, that he should· have been content to come hither to this thom-strewn earth of ours, and to live here the life of a poor, meek man, and then to die upon the erosa for us-" herein w love;" and herein is also hls npteme qualification to reveal and admin,ister t):ie will of God. V. T1…
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(Gen. xlix. 9.) Hence bis right was from his office, the position tt was fredloted he 1'bould fill. And his life and.·his conquest over Satan, sin, man, death, al verified the t.ruih of J acob'a dying prophecy. 2. The Root of David. Hence, by descent also, as Heir of him to whom God's promises of universal rule had bee…
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tp the seTen Churches, clt :ii. and iii.). At eh. xix. 10 we are told that "the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy." The Holy Spirit confirms ihe "Toice from heaven~ (eh. xiv. 13), which declares. "Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord. Yea,: saith the Spirit," etc. It was under the influence of the Spir…
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• CeNctUBION, If we beaaked-Why, if itbe so that the Spirit of God t.h111 goeaforth; why ia the world no .better? we can only reply: 1. The higher the life the longer ia development demands. What wonder, then, that "the end is not yet"? 2. The Spirit may be resisted; is so. The old fable of the sirens is of everyday…
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to the laws ofluarmony. Obed[ence Is it• rue. Aild how gloriOUI fs that music whlcb ill conaecrated to God's praise! (c) Interoeuions for those on earth. Thill seems to me the 1ignifieanae of the incense-laden censers, the "vials fiill of odours," which are IJICken of. How can the Lord of love be more truly worshipped …
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a Divine posseMton. They are purchased •• unto God;• they~ made a kingdom and priest.I "unto God." . V. THB BONG RISES Il!f'1'0 A ,10Yll'UL B.BOOGNITION OP '1'llll UALTJllD ST.A.TB OP TBJI REDEEKBD. Seen: 1. In their relation.to God. 2. In their compact union as a kingdom under Divine rule. 3. In their universal pr…
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Ven. 1--5.-fle go,,itmimfflt fJ/ God. "And I eaw," eto. Concerning the govern.. ment of Gld, observe- . · L 'lBAT IT IS CONDU<n'ED ACCORDING TO A VAST PBECONCBBTBD PLAN. There WU a · book, seven pieces of parchment rolled together, and each one aealed, in the band of him that "sat on the throne." The Almighty never…
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Vera. 6-10.-0hri,f the E ~ of tlie mysury. "And I beheld, an~, lo,".~- Thie passage presents to us (Jhri,t G1 Che &poWlde,o ~ the mystery of 1M D11nn9 government. Various orders or intelligence surround him as he takes the "book ; •• they prostrat.e themselves at hil footstool with "harps" and .. viala" and "l!Ollg.…
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vuUI of the gospel, to the. g-l'W:J6 ~f the gospel, .t9 U1B wor<t.of tlJ,gospel; .all ,t.h-.~ a.id to cleanse, to redeem,,to co11quer,,to:IJ)8,~e white.ete. Not;OJ1fydoea,i~1serYe,tp explain the essence of the. gospel,_ b,u.t, tpe fflS.ence 9f, .per.'s~Z .lwlinu,. .. ,'.l;'hati.. • ,p.·rini;iP,J,e of love which led C…
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oae .r &be ...ta; ou of t1uJ - -Z. (Re- 13,, or B()tne qualifying parliale: but, on the vised Venion). The iruiertion of "88Ve.n" eontiwy, it is en.ctly the e:r.preeaion 1188d ·of (f,....,l) u Bllpported by A, B, 0. N, and our Lord's ad'fent in eh. :r.:r.ii.1'/, to, "The othem; Vulgate, Do Dien's Syria.o, Andreas, …
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Uw-.g w,p-. repl'l)Senting.-tion, l!M Oil eh. iv. 6.) For •the omiallion of "and -," and the disoll88ion of the question to whom ihe words are eddresaeil, aee above,on ver. l. As. them Skted. some .belieYB the aecond living being here, ~cified to be the or, which, on .ac.:ouJrt of dB aacmleial character, invites…
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• da7;" and Tacltu, • Ann.," i. 17, 26, "Ut action of opening the eeal. Of the /ourlTa deoariua diumum stipendium roret.'' Cf. living l>eing (see on eh. iv. 6). The indi- Tobit •· H, where irool&ina is equivalent vidual is not specified (see on Yer. l); but to dimari•). The chmnix was the eighth Wordsworth specifies…
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lbo• that both are intended. Oftr the our Lord, "These are -the words whicll I toutll put of tile earth. There is a general 1pake unto you, while:! wu yet-with you; eoll86DBtla of opinion that thia expffl!llion be- that 'all thing■ must be ,fulfilled which were tokens a part of· mankind. Why the /ourfl,, written iu th…
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..,.Ja,.'St."John baa 'awn: that·n· is. with 'Ullder the altar, a11d ·cherish a .apirit of God'a 1:nowledge and con~t flif.t .afflidioDB patience until otbera aie admitted to fill up -a peneeutiona are allo1red to try.the faith their oommunion.. of glory;" and ,Jremeus, t>f hit: servantit on: eanh; while yet the ulti- …
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the lnflttence or our Lord's df,scriptlon in to aak, " la it worih while? If Obristiant\y Matt. mv. is notie,,able. The special involves all this suffering, would it not be revelation of God's preeenoe or of hie judg- better to be as the world is, and 88C6pe? " ments ii wroally depicted nuder the figure a picture of th…
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:gested by Isa. :n:xiv. f, taken in conjnnotion with the pnrable of Matt. xxiv. 32. plereness of the extent of the judgment ob. i. 4; v. 1, ete.). c- Vez. H.-And tha heaven departed u a Ver. 16.-And laid to the mountalnl IIIUl acroll when it ii rolle4 together;. !llld Ou, rockl, Fall on u, and hide u from die fac…
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HOMILETICS. Vers.1-17.-Sia: Na1' opened. The grmad-thou,gkt of this book ls •e-The .Lord is c-0ming.•· Concemfog this Professor Godet remarks, "L'histoire du monde dans son eijsence se 1'sume dans ces trois mots : Il vient; il est venu ; il revient. C'est .11ur cette idoo que repose le plan du drame apocalyptique.• 1 …
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aeriee of strife and civil war, as if to show on what .a frail foundation the virtue of the An.tonines bad reared the felicity of the empire. That period of strife was succeeded by famine, and that again by pestilence; then followed the dreadful era of the Diocle- tian martyrdom, and the break-up of the Roman empire, …
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HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. Vets. 1'.'""""17.-ne opening qf the seals. The Book of Revelation may be said t,o consist-with the exception of eh. ii. and iii.-of a vast picture-gallery. Aud this not so much because of the number of the pictures, as their sublimity and extent. ·eh. L is the portraiture of "the Son of…
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all. Arid, without doubt, terrur is their one ~dge and mark. The four horses with their l'i.del'8 all tell of terrible things. 'l'he souls under the altar, whom we see at the opening of the :fifth, ery for vengeance on their murderers, and aH horrors seem accu- mulated in one at the open,ing of the sixth. The reading o…
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terrible thiugR. 'l'hine arrows shall be sharp in the hea.rt of the king's enemies; whereby the people fall under thee,, ? Of the Lord Jesus Christ going forth conquering a.nd ro conquer, in spite of, in the midst of, and by means of, all the dread events which are a.fterwards declared-of him we believe the vision t…
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When all our fathers worsMpped stooks and stones, Forget not: in thy book reeord their groans . Who-we:re thy sheep, -and in their anoieut fold · Slain by the bloody Piedmont.ese that mll'd Mother with infant down the rooks. Their moan■ The vales redonbled to the hills. and they To heaven. Their martyred blood an…
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the conterliplation <if the.11ource 1it;the Church~!! comfort 1111(1 hoPQ tQ. the.soone of the Church's confli~t, tlie ~artp...<, IL;~in is 'depicted .the afflictions throµgh which the Church shouJci ,P,alls. : Well was it t}iat.~:~man~ ha<l b~n giv~ of fiµal triumph. Always from conditions of sorrow the Church could…
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l1phpld the •sinking1 fa.in ting, feeble, suffering ones. " Vengeance belongeth unto me: I will recompense, saith the Lord." No• do the enemies prove" it is a fearful thing tci fall into the hands of the living God}' Th" br~ing of the Bixth · seal is ihe Bignal for 1' just ju~goient of the cruel perse~tirig oneil~th~ w…
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conviction. (3) Royally. "There was given unto him a crown." Right is royal, the only royal thing in the universe, and th.e more perfectly it is embodied, the ·more brilliant the diadem. Hence Christ is crowned with glory and honour. He is '.' exalted above all principalities sn..d powers," etc. Kind Heaven, quicken th…
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long?" As if they !!&id, " We know that thou wilt judge and avenge our blood sooner or later: but how long?" The truly good in all ages have an unbounded con- fidence in the rectitude of the Divine procedure. "I know," said Job, "that my Vindicator liveth." Justice will come J10oner or later. (3) He is one who in the h…
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issuei. -."Come and see" "the souls of those who were slain for the Word of God." Study martyrdom, despise the persecutors, and honour their victims. " Come and see " the great phy,11icaloonvulsions Qf nature. Study the physical phenom~ of the world, 'lud cultivate that love for the ,(¼cl in all,c who is over a.I), and…
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.y~J~".16,-,-1,'be wonders of the last day. "And the kings of the earth," eto, The last day, the day of days, will be a day of wonders. The words indicate three .of the ~onders of that. day•:, . . . . · , . . · .. ·• .. . L . ~ ~ n t G TBJ(l'~CE .OJ!' C:imrsT. '"The face or him tliat Bit~th bn the t.hro~:u:~·ar~. m…
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