A Dissertation on the Prophecies, that Have Been Fulfilled, are Now Fulfilling, Or Will Hereafter be Fulfilled: Relative to the Great Period of 1260 Years; the Papal and Mohammedan Apostacies: the Tyrannical Reign of Antichrist, Or the Infidel Power; and the Restoration of the Jews. To which is Added, an Appendix, Volume 2Andrews and Cummings, Greenough and Stebbins, printers, 1808 - Bible |
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Page 51
... John therefore is ordered to measure , or take an account of , the faithful servants of God , who never ceased , in a greater or less number , to exist throughout the whole duration of the Apostasy : while he is com- manded to leave out ...
... John therefore is ordered to measure , or take an account of , the faithful servants of God , who never ceased , in a greater or less number , to exist throughout the whole duration of the Apostasy : while he is com- manded to leave out ...
Page 53
... John ; but , as he does not even attempt to shew in what particulars they answer to the character of the witnesses , he leaves no room for a regular confutation . Essay on the numbers of Daniel and St. John , p . 241 , 242 , 246 . Apoc ...
... John ; but , as he does not even attempt to shew in what particulars they answer to the character of the witnesses , he leaves no room for a regular confutation . Essay on the numbers of Daniel and St. John , p . 241 , 242 , 246 . Apoc ...
Page 54
... John to be the two olive trees , and the two candlesticks , stand- ing before the God of the earth . But both an olive tree , and a candlestick , are equally symbols of a church . Consequently the two witnesses must be two churches ...
... John to be the two olive trees , and the two candlesticks , stand- ing before the God of the earth . But both an olive tree , and a candlestick , are equally symbols of a church . Consequently the two witnesses must be two churches ...
Page 56
... John's imagery of the two candlesticks , and the two olive trees , is evidently taken from Zechariah's vision of the second temple * ; and that he himself describes the twenty - four elders as being in the figurative heaven , or the ...
... John's imagery of the two candlesticks , and the two olive trees , is evidently taken from Zechariah's vision of the second temple * ; and that he himself describes the twenty - four elders as being in the figurative heaven , or the ...
Page 64
... John identifies even the whole beast with his last head , on account of the vast power which this last head was destined at its first rise to possess : consequently , when he asserts , that the beast should make war upon the witnesses ...
... John identifies even the whole beast with his last head , on account of the vast power which this last head was destined at its first rise to possess : consequently , when he asserts , that the beast should make war upon the witnesses ...
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