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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... interpretation of it seems to be this : that , as the rising of a star denotes the rise of some new " power or authority , so the fall of a star from heaven signifies " the full of some kingdom or empire . " ( Paraph . in loc . ) He ...
... interpretation of it seems to be this : that , as the rising of a star denotes the rise of some new " power or authority , so the fall of a star from heaven signifies " the full of some kingdom or empire . " ( Paraph . in loc . ) He ...
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... interpretation of the first four trumpets , it is a mark of respect only due to so excellent a commentator to state the grounds of my differing from him . According to his Lord- ship's exposition , " at the sounding of the first ...
... interpretation of the first four trumpets , it is a mark of respect only due to so excellent a commentator to state the grounds of my differing from him . According to his Lord- ship's exposition , " at the sounding of the first ...
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... interpretation may be traced up to an erroneous curtailment of the effects produced by the first trumpet . The northern hail - storm , according to the most natural explanation which can be given of it , must mean all the invasions of ...
... interpretation may be traced up to an erroneous curtailment of the effects produced by the first trumpet . The northern hail - storm , according to the most natural explanation which can be given of it , must mean all the invasions of ...
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... interpreted to mean an extinction of the sun , and only an eclipse of the other luminaries : yet does the scheme of Bp . Newton , by leading him to view the Western Empire as something altogether * Jerem . li . 25 . distinct distinct ...
... interpreted to mean an extinction of the sun , and only an eclipse of the other luminaries : yet does the scheme of Bp . Newton , by leading him to view the Western Empire as something altogether * Jerem . li . 25 . distinct distinct ...
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... interpretation , which at once har- monizes with the symbolical language of prophecy , and which shews how a way was prepared for the developement of the great Apostasy . 1 * Whatever objections are here made to the scheme of Bp ...
... interpretation , which at once har- monizes with the symbolical language of prophecy , and which shews how a way was prepared for the developement of the great Apostasy . 1 * Whatever objections are here made to the scheme of Bp ...
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