 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.  The Metropolitan - Page 1251845Full view - About this book
 | Nathaniel Lardner - Dissenters, Religious - 1815
...Rev. xviii. 2; " Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation, of daemons, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird,. 1 1 J" " In our Lord's comparison which we are considering, it is supposed, that evil spirits might... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1816 - 446 pages
...violence, like a great mill-stone cast into the sea, and shall be found no more at all, and shall become an habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. Now shall she be stripped of all her glory, and riches, and ornaments, and shall be cast out as an... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1817
...the vengeance of God executed upon her. Here it is proclaimed, that Babylon the Great is fallen, and become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every...spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird ; that her sins had reached unto heaven, and that God had remembered her iniquity; that God gave commandment... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1817
...violence, like a great mill-stone cast into the sea, and shall be found no more at all, and shall become an habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. Now shall she be stripped of all her glory, and riches, and ornaments, and shall be cast out as an... | |
 | Hosea Ballou - Electronic book - 1818 - 415 pages
...subject. The unclean beasts aad birds, mentioned by Isaiah, are the same as mentioned in Revelations 18th. "Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become...spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird." It seems to have been the design of prophecy, to represent the church and her doctrines by a land whose... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1818
...resurrection to empire. " Babylon u the great is fallen, is-fallen; and is become the ha" bitation of demons, and the hold of every foul " spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful '<• bird *." Such, like that of the literal Babylon, was to be the fate of the mystical Babylon after its overthrow... | |
 | Henry Gauntlett - 1821
...another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. 2. And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying,...spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. 3. For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth... | |
 | 1852
...— to hide the dead, — and the avenging angel shall cry mightily over the Castle of St. Angelo, saying, " Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen,...spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird." HEBREW DATES AND NUMBERS. ONE book of the New Testament, the Revelation of St. John the Divine, is... | |
 | 1823
...holiness," into which nothing that defileth or worketh iniquity can enter; and, as the earth has long been ' the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul...spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird ;' a departure from the one to occupy the other, must have been « sacrifice, the greatness of which... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - Theology - 1824
...mind which can voluntarily, which can laboriously, unite these things, be ' the habitation of devils;' the hold of every foul spirit, and a ' cage of every unclean and hateful bird !' How irreverent, how profane, how abominable, how filthy must it appear to him, ' in whose sight... | |
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