The General History of the Christian Church: From Her Birth to Her Final Triumphant State in Heaven: Chiefly Deduced from the Apocalypse of St. John, the Apostle and Evangelist ... |
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... most of these interpreters had failed in their attempts , because they had contracted their fyftems to too narrow a compass , viz . only to a few of the firft ages of the Church : He takes a more enlarged and extensive view of things ...
... most of these interpreters had failed in their attempts , because they had contracted their fyftems to too narrow a compass , viz . only to a few of the firft ages of the Church : He takes a more enlarged and extensive view of things ...
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... most myfte- " rious of the moft facred writings . The Won- " derful prophecies contained in it , being " established upon authentic , ftriking and every point of view , in order to fix and 66 public THE EDITOR TO THE PUBLIC . vri.
... most myfte- " rious of the moft facred writings . The Won- " derful prophecies contained in it , being " established upon authentic , ftriking and every point of view , in order to fix and 66 public THE EDITOR TO THE PUBLIC . vri.
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... most myfterious enigmas .. Hence it has happened that fo many different explanations have been invented . But the fame obfcurity was the occafion , that the an- cient Fathers were fo fparing in their inter- pretations of this prophecy ...
... most myfterious enigmas .. Hence it has happened that fo many different explanations have been invented . But the fame obfcurity was the occafion , that the an- cient Fathers were fo fparing in their inter- pretations of this prophecy ...
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... most interesting to the Church , as the three firft of them exhibit the history of idolatry , and the laft or seventh relates to the general judgment . This narrative is given in the chapters xii . xiii . xiv .; and as it is join- ed to ...
... most interesting to the Church , as the three firft of them exhibit the history of idolatry , and the laft or seventh relates to the general judgment . This narrative is given in the chapters xii . xiii . xiv .; and as it is join- ed to ...
Page xix
... most comprehensive of all prophecies . " St. John was a prophet , " fays St. Jerom , " be- caufe being in the ifle of Patmos , whither he had been exiled for the faith by the emperor Domitian , he received the Apocalypfe or a revelation ...
... most comprehensive of all prophecies . " St. John was a prophet , " fays St. Jerom , " be- caufe being in the ifle of Patmos , whither he had been exiled for the faith by the emperor Domitian , he received the Apocalypfe or a revelation ...
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