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Page 87
... kingdom ' which had been taken away by Antiochus . In other words : God appears as the vindicator of the pious and persecuted Jews , and restores to them the rightful do- minion of their country . This idea is thrice repeated in chap ...
... kingdom ' which had been taken away by Antiochus . In other words : God appears as the vindicator of the pious and persecuted Jews , and restores to them the rightful do- minion of their country . This idea is thrice repeated in chap ...
Page 88
... kingdom is to follow immediately after the destruction of the king- dom of Antiochus . The simple truth is , that the writer passes from one kingdom , restored to the ancient Jewish saints , to the descrip- tion of another and greater ...
... kingdom is to follow immediately after the destruction of the king- dom of Antiochus . The simple truth is , that the writer passes from one kingdom , restored to the ancient Jewish saints , to the descrip- tion of another and greater ...
Page 109
... kingdom of God above ; are unfolded on the pages of the Apoca- lypse , and stand there deeply engraven in characters of light . He who runneth , may read . It follows now , from the plain and evident intention and object of the writer ...
... kingdom of God above ; are unfolded on the pages of the Apoca- lypse , and stand there deeply engraven in characters of light . He who runneth , may read . It follows now , from the plain and evident intention and object of the writer ...
Page 110
... kingdoms , nothing can be more plain , than that we should assign to it an object totally foreign to what was appropriate to the time and circumstances of both writer and reader . I am aware that the very first verse of the Revelation ...
... kingdoms , nothing can be more plain , than that we should assign to it an object totally foreign to what was appropriate to the time and circumstances of both writer and reader . I am aware that the very first verse of the Revelation ...
Page 144
... kingdom to Israel ? It matters not what particular thing they had in mind , i . e . whether it was purely the spiritual kingdom of Christ , or the eccle- siastico - political kingdom which they had once been ex- pecting . The answer is ...
... kingdom to Israel ? It matters not what particular thing they had in mind , i . e . whether it was purely the spiritual kingdom of Christ , or the eccle- siastico - political kingdom which they had once been ex- pecting . The answer is ...
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