A Brighter Day Begins with His Word.

Bengel, Johann Albrecht, 1687-1752 • SECTION 391

Chapter Xxi.

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Cent. 2. The Destruction of Judaism, . . ch. viii. 7.

3. The Inroad of the Barbarians, . . 8.

4. The Avian age : the Arian bitterness, . 10.

5. Overthrow of the Empire of Borne, • 12.

6. The Jewish Synagogue tormented, . is. 1.

7. The Saracen cavalry, . . . 13.

8. The Iconoclastic age : many Kings, . x. 11.

9. The age of Photius : the Buler of the nations also

born, ..... xii. 5.

10. The Disastrous age : the third woe, . 12.

11. The age of Hildebrand: the rising of the beast

out of the sea, .... xiii. 1.

12. The Waldensian age : Power given to the beast, 5.

13. The Scholastic age : War with the saints, . 7.

14. The age of Wicliff : the middle of the third woe.

15. The age of Synods : the beast in the midst of his

strength.

16. The age of the Reformation: the woman in the

wilderness better fed.

17. The everlasting Gospel [published], . xiv. 6.

18. The Worship of the beast, and his image, . 9.

— stpuytv, fled) This is the day , that day, the great day, Heb. x. 25, in which the earth and heaven flee away ; and moreover the last day, the day of the resurrection and the judgment, ver. 12, etc. ; John vi. 39, xii. 48. All judgment is given to the Son : John. v. ; Acts xvii.

12. 'Etfrwras, standing) The standing of infants , of whom by far the greatest part of mankind consists, is surprising. 1

1. Ovpavbv xambv , x.r.X.) The new heaven and the new earth preserve the name of heaven and earth because of the former ones : therefore the substantives precede in the former clause only ; and there follows, for the first heaven and the first earth , etc. It is not a flourishing

1 koctoL roi epyu xvtuv, according to their works) There is nothing which will not then be brought to light. Let your works be good and not evil — V. g.

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