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... blood . Grant me , with Thy assistance , and with the Spirit for my guide , to investigate these abstruse mysteries , and to explain them to others ! I give the name of Apocalyptical theatre to that august session of God and the Church ...
... blood . Grant me , with Thy assistance , and with the Spirit for my guide , to investigate these abstruse mysteries , and to explain them to others ! I give the name of Apocalyptical theatre to that august session of God and the Church ...
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... blood , out of every tribe , and tongue , and people , and nation . " By which , perhaps , light may be thrown on that saying of our Saviour before he had suffered and been glorified : " But of that day and hour ( alluding to his second ...
... blood , out of every tribe , and tongue , and people , and nation . " By which , perhaps , light may be thrown on that saying of our Saviour before he had suffered and been glorified : " But of that day and hour ( alluding to his second ...
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... , ) under a certain leader of the name of Andrew , slew Romans as well as Greeks , fed upon their flesh , and ate their entrails * . They * Query . then smeared themselves with their blood , and put on CLAVIS APOCALYPTICA . 75.
... , ) under a certain leader of the name of Andrew , slew Romans as well as Greeks , fed upon their flesh , and ate their entrails * . They * Query . then smeared themselves with their blood , and put on CLAVIS APOCALYPTICA . 75.
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Joseph Mede. then smeared themselves with their blood , and put on their skins . They divided many from head to foot with saws , they cast many to the wild beasts , they compelled many to fight toge- ther ; so that there perished about ...
Joseph Mede. then smeared themselves with their blood , and put on their skins . They divided many from head to foot with saws , they cast many to the wild beasts , they compelled many to fight toge- ther ; so that there perished about ...
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... blood - thirsty , that he left most of the cities void of the male sex . " The same writer , in the Life of Gallienus , says : " The Scythians , having invaded Cappadocia , the sol- diers had again entertained thoughts of making a new ...
... blood - thirsty , that he left most of the cities void of the male sex . " The same writer , in the Life of Gallienus , says : " The Scythians , having invaded Cappadocia , the sol- diers had again entertained thoughts of making a new ...
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Page 39 - And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the Word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years...
Page 110 - ... and said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
Page 35 - For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth, and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
Page 320 - And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.
Page 359 - And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder ; and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps...
Page 33 - And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Page 60 - And there were voices and thunders and lightnings ; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake and so great.
Page 399 - And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God. And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.
Page 432 - But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
Page 370 - And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation and kindred and tongue and people ; saying with a loud voice ; Fear God, and give glory to him, for the hour of his judgment is come; and worship him that made heaven and earth and the sea and the fountains of waters.