Commentary on the Revelation of St. John, on the Apocalypse, etcJ. G. & F. Rivington, 1833 - 224 pages |
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Page 76
... locusts upon the earth ; and to them was given power , as the scorpions of the earth have power , " & c . " One woe is past , and behold there come two woes more hereafter . " On the sounding of the fifth trumpet the first 1 πεπτωκότα ...
... locusts upon the earth ; and to them was given power , as the scorpions of the earth have power , " & c . " One woe is past , and behold there come two woes more hereafter . " On the sounding of the fifth trumpet the first 1 πεπτωκότα ...
Page 78
... locusts , which imbibing the false religion of Mohammed ' , speedily overran and subdued all the countries in the neighbourhood of Arabia , including the Holy Land , the northern shores of Africa , and part of Spain , and even made ...
... locusts , which imbibing the false religion of Mohammed ' , speedily overran and subdued all the countries in the neighbourhood of Arabia , including the Holy Land , the northern shores of Africa , and part of Spain , and even made ...
Page 79
... locusts seems evidently to refer to the Saracen or Arabian tribes , who , in point of numbers , are compared to locusts , Jud . vii . 12 ; and who come from the land of Kedem , or the east . From thence came the natural locusts , who ...
... locusts seems evidently to refer to the Saracen or Arabian tribes , who , in point of numbers , are compared to locusts , Jud . vii . 12 ; and who come from the land of Kedem , or the east . From thence came the natural locusts , who ...
Page 82
... locusts are described in such terms , as while they allude to the nature of the insect , point out the Arabian ... locust has a head somewhat resembling a horse , so that the Italians call them cavaletti , or little horses . In the ...
... locusts are described in such terms , as while they allude to the nature of the insect , point out the Arabian ... locust has a head somewhat resembling a horse , so that the Italians call them cavaletti , or little horses . In the ...
Page 83
... locusts , ch . i . 6. " A nation whose teeth are the teeth of a lion , and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion . " This is very apposite to the natural locust , which has power , as Pliny says , to bite and gnaw every thing , even ...
... locusts , ch . i . 6. " A nation whose teeth are the teeth of a lion , and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion . " This is very apposite to the natural locust , which has power , as Pliny says , to bite and gnaw every thing , even ...
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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.