This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1826 edition. Excerpt: ... in the blood of the martyrs and confessors of Jesus. As Jehovah executed judgment upon all the gods of the Egyptians, when he brought up the ancient church out of the furnace of Egyptian persecution, so he here threatens to execute judgment upon all the gods of the Roman state, whose worshippers had ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1826 edition. Excerpt: ... in the blood of the martyrs and confessors of Jesus. As Jehovah executed judgment upon all the gods of the Egyptians, when he brought up the ancient church out of the furnace of Egyptian persecution, so he here threatens to execute judgment upon all the gods of the Roman state, whose worshippers had manifested the same spirit of intolerant zeal with Pharaoh and his subjects. When the worship of idols was abolished, when their statues and temples were thrown down, when every law that had been enacted in favour of the ancient idolatry was repealed, and Christians were permitted to meet together for the exercises of social worship, and secured against harm, --it was then that the sun of Heathens was smitten, and the system of superstition and idolatry, of which that sun was the centre, appeared as if it were about to be dissolved. So completely was this false luminary shorn of his beams, that he became black as sackcloth of hair. The clothing of mourners and of penitents was usually of the coarsest fabric and of the blackest hue. It was generally made of hair; and the darker the natural colour of the materials, it was always accounted the more suitable for the occasion on which it was worn. Cloth fabricated of hair which was naturally black, did not require any artificial die, and was sure to retain its colour; the tinge which it received from the hand of nature could not be taken out by any applications which the ingenuity of man might suggest. To this species of sackcloth is the allusion in the text; and the figure seems intended to intimate, that this sun would never be permitted to resume his splendour. The whole mass or substance would be affected, so that the light would be turned into perpetual blackness and darkness. And if you..
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