Commentary on the Revelation of St. John, on the Apocalypse, etcJ. G. & F. Rivington, 1833 - 224 pages |
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... dragon , or Satan ; who is otherwise called the seven - headed red dragon ; the moon , the supreme pontificate , established under him , which was annexed to the imperatorial dignity ; the stars , the Roman deities , with their priests ...
... dragon , or Satan ; who is otherwise called the seven - headed red dragon ; the moon , the supreme pontificate , established under him , which was annexed to the imperatorial dignity ; the stars , the Roman deities , with their priests ...
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... dragon , or the heathen Roman empire , drew a third part of the stars of heaven with his tail , and cast them to the earth ; that is , it subjected a third part of the princes and powers of the world to its dominion . These observations ...
... dragon , or the heathen Roman empire , drew a third part of the stars of heaven with his tail , and cast them to the earth ; that is , it subjected a third part of the princes and powers of the world to its dominion . These observations ...
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... dragon , and that of the 144,000 virgin attendants on the Lamb , and the events concluding with the harvest and the vintage of the earth . These , then , must be considered as containing general descriptions , while the intermediate ...
... dragon , and that of the 144,000 virgin attendants on the Lamb , and the events concluding with the harvest and the vintage of the earth . These , then , must be considered as containing general descriptions , while the intermediate ...
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... dragon , having seven heads , and ten horns , and seven crowns upon his heads . And his tail drew a third part of the stars of heaven , and did cast them to the earth . " The red dragon is the Heathen Roman empire , red from the uniform ...
... dragon , having seven heads , and ten horns , and seven crowns upon his heads . And his tail drew a third part of the stars of heaven , and did cast them to the earth . " The red dragon is the Heathen Roman empire , red from the uniform ...
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... dragon ( Ezek . xxix . 3. Psal . lxxiv . 13 , 14. ) so here the persecutor of the Christian Church is appositely and spiritually called by the same title . " And the dragon stood before the woman , who was ready to be delivered , for to ...
... dragon ( Ezek . xxix . 3. Psal . lxxiv . 13 , 14. ) so here the persecutor of the Christian Church is appositely and spiritually called by the same title . " And the dragon stood before the woman , who was ready to be delivered , for to ...
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Page 86 - And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire...
Page 176 - And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, " Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
Page 56 - And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters. And the name of the star is called Wormwood; and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.
Page 189 - And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven, saying ; Behold the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God...
Page 27 - And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne, and the beasts and the elders, and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice, "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and blessing.
Page 62 - And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
Page 195 - And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him: And they shall see his face ; and his name shall be in their foreheads.
Page 186 - And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, and shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle : the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
Page 172 - And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
Page 54 - And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea; and the third part of the sea became blood ; and the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died ; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.