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501 20 | with him shall enter the lake of fire.~8-10. "And they
502 13 | he had two horns like a lamb-that is, the appearance within
503 1 | should prefer them to the larger number of similar small
504 20 | being at least that wherein lately had reposed the bodies of
505 12 | that the ten kings in the latest times are the same as these,
506 2 | is, I have not given you laws, observances, and duties,
507 1 | about the reading may thence learn to do works, and may keep
508 3 | endowed with the confidence of learning, but ceasing from its labour.
509 | least
510 5 | suffering for men He was led as a lamb to the slaughter.
511 5 | Himself had sealed. The legislator Moses intimating this, that
512 10 | thought that he should at length receive his quittance by
513 13 | from the sea, like unto a leopard."] This signifies the kingdom
514 | less
515 15 | perfectly, as it is said in Leviticus; and these shall be in the
516 2 | and thou has found them liars, and thou hast patience
517 1 | Scripture gave this similitude, likening His face to the glory of
518 5 | signifies the flesh of Christ linked with the wood of the passion.
519 1 | says: "By the breath of His lips He shall slay the wicked."
520 2 | grant unlawful peace, and to listen to new forms of prophesying;
521 20 | years: the rest of them lived not again until the thousand
522 11 | Assur, deeply rooted, was a lofty and branching cypress-that
523 4 | clouds, that ye may now no longer fear water, but fire.~6. "
524 12 | groans and torments of its longing until it saw that Christ,
525 4 | spiritual providence which both looks into the secrets of the
526 4 | and the teaching of the Lord-gave Him glory and honour.In
527 6 | The fig-tree, when shaken, loses its untimely figs-when men
528 1 | The Father," says he, "loveth the Son, and hath given
529 3 | of those, to wit, who are lowly in the world, and unskilled
530 3 | neither cold nor hot, but lukewarm, gives nausea, He says:-~
531 17 | He shall not know the lust of women, although before
532 11 | of Satan, with signs and lying wonders."And that they might
533 13 | t three hundred, e five, m forty, o seventy, j two
534 21-22| overcome by no traces of maddened men. Therefore they are
535 7 | sent upon the earth, or the madness of Antichrist himself, or
536 13 | said), in the sight of men. Magicians do these things, by the
537 1 | that he himself also might maintain the type of seven churches,
538 7 | Testament; for He says by Malachi: "Lo, I will send to you
539 13 | the devil speaks full of malice; for he shall do these things
540 13 | the appearance within of a man-and he spoke like a dragon."]
541 11 | The temple opened is a manifestation of our Lord. For the temple
542 21-22| virtues as precious stones, manifesting the light of their doctrine
543 21-22| of the faithful, and that manifold flourishing forms of odours
544 17 | and with the blood of the martyrs."] The decrees of that senate
545 4 | declareto us the genealogy of Mary, from whom Christ took flesh.
546 1 | says to Timothy: "That thou mayest know how thou oughtest to
547 7 | but we must follow the meaning of those things which are
548 9 | the river Euphrates, are meant four nations, because to
549 1 | name; or to those who are meekly instructed, that they may
550 4 | people had gone forth to meet Him, some strewed the road
551 10 | to one, to commit it to memory.~"And it was in my mouth
552 17 | in such a way as the Jews merited. And since he is to have
553 6 | He might show forth the merits of every individual. He
554 12 | was a battle in heaven: Michael and his angels fought with
555 20 | Christ, and accomplishing the millenary number thoroughly, is thought
556 21-22| doctrine flowed through the minds of the faithful, and that
557 13 | Antichrist, and the people mingled with the variety of nations.~
558 1 | precepts are those which minister light to believers, but
559 4 | feeling that they have ministered the mysteries and the word
560 2 | troublesome men, who, as ministers under the name of Nicolaus,
561 12 | of destruction and fatal mischiefs. His seven heads were the
562 11 | of them having overcome misery and death; and that, when
563 2 | advice to the king of the Moabites, and they caused stumbling
564 1 | on incorruption, and this mortal must put on mortality."Moreover,
565 1 | this mortal must put on mortality."Moreover, they ask that
566 17 | royal power when he shall move from the east, he says.
567 12 | the Lord says) he was a murderer; and he has oppressed the
568 17 | scarlet beast, the author of murders, is the image of the devil.
569 10 | our Lord, as we have above narrated.~"His face was as it were
570 4 | image of a man. Luke, in narrating the priesthood of Zacharias
571 8 | here would be an end of his narrative.~13 "And I saw an angel
572 20 | destroyed the untrained nature or impure thoughts within
573 13 | Jerusalem, an image such as Nebuchadnezzar had made."Thence here he
574 3 | should be turned away from negligence, and be saved; and to this
575 1 | Church; or to those who are negligent, and Christians only in
576 11 | together to him from the neighbouring provinces all the bishops,
577 17 | not yet come," speaks of Nerva; "and when he is come, he
578 | never
579 2 | ministers under the name of Nicolaus, had made for themselves
580 7 | Antichrist, "in the trench of Nimrod,"that is, in the nation
581 19 | From the Nineteenth Chapter.~11. "And I saw
582 9 | From the Ninth Chapter.~13, 14. "And I
583 19 | Because from the sea of the north, which is the Arabian Sea,
584 1 | is the Holy Spirit, which nourishes to eternal life, promised
585 11 | branching cypress-that is, a numerous people-in Mount Lebanon,
586 5 | contemplated for Him by its various oblations and sacrifices, it behoved
587 10 | whatever things had been obscure in the announcements of
588 6 | brightness of doctrine will be obscured by unbelievers.~"And the
589 5 | the priesthood of sacred observance, and to look for a kingdom
590 2 | have not given you laws, observances, and duties, which is another
591 5 | It should therefore be observed that the Man is accurately
592 15 | of God always strikes the obstinate people with seven plagues,
593 3 | he who perseveres shall obtain a nobility in the Church.~
594 7 | it is not said as if it occurred twice, but because what
595 21-22| manifold flourishing forms of odours germinated therein. The
596 6 | are the prayers which we offer), "and there rememberest
597 4 | priesthood of Zacharias as he offers a sacrifice for the people,
598 11 | says he was beautiful in offshoots, he says he was strong in
599 12 | afterwards flying when her offspring is brought forth, because
600 6 | Hurt not the wine and the oil."] That is, strike not the
601 4 | similitudes in their respective openings of the Gospels, but also
602 5 | moreover the testimonies are openly understood.~8, 9. "Twenty-four
603 2 | who know the wickedness opposed to them: for which evils
604 12 | was a murderer; and he has oppressed the whole of the human race,
605 13 | thence utter voices and oracles. Moreover, he himself shall
606 11 | I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the
607 1 | for the reproach is the original sin which is taken away
608 3 | For even as a pillar is an ornament of the building, so he who
609 | Otherwise
610 17 | brother, and Vespasian, Otho, Vitellius, and Galba. These
611 3 | transactions than those which they ought-Christians only in name. And therefore
612 1 | thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the
613 3 | while the faithful are outside; and they are understood
614 5 | is called a lion for the overcoming of death; but for the suffering
615 9 | be filled up. They do not overpass their bounds, because at
616 7 | of states, or the great overthrow of Babylon, that is, the
617 20 | earthly things, shall be overthrown, and together with him shall
618 12 | who was not born of seed, owed nothing to death: wherefore
619 4 | men who had any kind of palms of their victories against
620 7 | the Lord Himself, in the parable to the apostles, when the
621 1 | after He had completed His parables, He says to them: "Have
622 8 | but it is described as partial, because the silence being
623 3 | s name tribulations and passions.~"And anoint thine eyes
624 1 | walk in the midst of the paths of the just,"whose antiquity
625 10 | he was in the island of Patmos, condemned to the labour
626 11 | cypress-that is, a numerous people-in Mount Lebanon, in the kingdom
627 4 | these were setting forth two peoples-the one of the patriarchs, the
628 6 | brazen one without. But we perceive that the golden altar is
629 5 | the offered victims are perceived-now the fabrication of the priestly
630 15 | seven plagues, that is, perfectly, as it is said in Leviticus;
631 17 | he did not complete the period of two years.~11. "And the
632 14 | the nations that should perish on the advent of the Lord.
633 12 | angel, who thought that the perishing of all men would be alike
634 20 | the faith, which does not permit men to pass over to the
635 3 | that they are not indeed permitted to be given over to temptation.~
636 1 | the Church wasters, and pernicious, they hear them, lest there
637 6 | reward of the saints will be perpetual, and the condemnation of
638 12 | who at his command would persecute her.~16. "And the earth
639 11 | become the heaping up of the persecuting people. Therefore it behoves
640 3 | the building, so he who perseveres shall obtain a nobility
641 5 | the substance of the dying person, that is, of the human members;
642 3 | repentance, He says:-~18. "I persuade thee to buy of Me gold tried
643 5 | wood of the passion. The phial signifies the Confession,
644 1 | the Thessalonians, to the Philippians, to the Colossians; afterwards
645 13 | the Gentiles call Sol and Phoebus; and it is reckoned in Greek
646 19 | Sea, even to the sea of Phoenice, and even to the ends of
647 5 | lion, has broken death in pieces, and has fulfilled what
648 1 | might, of knowledge and of piety, and the spirit of the fear
649 10 | the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire: and he had in his
650 10 | the speaker, and is most pleasant to the hearers; but it is
651 2 | others to whom this is not pleasing, who know the wickedness
652 11 | Holy Spirit, the gift and pledge of immortality, that He
653 10 | ought to respond to its position.~10. "I took the book from
654 3 | they are rich men placed in positions of dignity, but believing
655 5 | Lord's heir, that He should possess the substance of the dying
656 4 | into heaven, He forthwith poured out the Holy Spirit, who
657 6 | Church of the saints as pouring out her blood for Christ.~
658 2 | thy tribulation and thy poverty, but thou art rich."] For
659 10 | hand."For the apostles, by powers, by signs, by portents,
660 2 | last, works of love must be practised; and this is the principal
661 7 | holy angels; for He says: "Pray that ye enter not into temptation:
662 10 | says: "Every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her
663 4 | time of His advent. When He preaches to us, He is, as it were,
664 7 | the prophet, who is the precursor of the times of Antichrist,
665 11 | witnesses, and they shall predict a thousand two hundred and
666 1 | that ground any one should prefer them to the larger number
667 2 | not be defrauded of such privileges granted to them of God.
668 13 | and a tongue which will proceed to nothing else than to
669 4 | and voices, and thunders proceeding from the throne of God,
670 2 | order which follows. He proceeds to say:-~9. "I know thy
671 5 | an angel full of strength proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is
672 5 | singing a new song."] The proclamation of the Old Testament associated
673 20 | he is shut up as if in a profound abyss. And he shut him up,
674 7 | of those things which are prophesied. Therefore in the trumpets
675 10 | Every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered,
676 12 | great wings"] are the two prophets-Elias, and the prophet who shall
677 12 | wings-to wit, the gift of prophets-was given to that Catholic Church,
678 20 | equal inviolability have protected themselves, both in tongue
679 4 | extending His wings and protecting His people, He was named
680 11 | ascend from the abyss is proved by many testimonies; for
681 4 | without, shows the spiritual providence which both looks into the
682 11 | him from the neighbouring provinces all the bishops, and compelled
683 13 | predicted his contempt and provocation of God. "And he shall place,"
684 13 | called a contempt when God is provoked, because idols are worshipped
685 21-22| the four virtues,to wit, prudence, fortitude, justice, temperance,
686 5 | bearing their confession publicly. It is a new thing that
687 17 | the written Apocalypse was published, since then reigned Caesar
688 1 | slays the enemy, the sword punishes the deserter. And that He
689 6 | a region withdrawn from punishments and fires, and a place of
690 12 | red colour-that is, of a purple colour-the result of his
691 5 | people, having taken the wool purpled with the blood of the calf,
692 2 | them: for which evils He purposes to bring upon the head of
693 17 | cavalry sent by the senate was pursuing him, he himself cut his
694 14 | the world: for there is a quadrate put together by fours, as
695 1 | it is one in seven by the quality of faith and election. Whether
696 10 | should at length receive his quittance by suffering, Domitian being
697 13 | j two hundred, h eight, r a hundred, i ten, k twenty,
698 21-22| faith by the force of the rain, because they are associated
699 11 | and in three days I will raise it up." And when the Jews
700 5 | once, prophecy takes its rank.~
701 | rather
702 6 | preachers sent forth as arrows reaching to the human heart, that
703 13 | holy place, let him who readeth understand."It is called
704 1 | promises blessing to him that reads and hears and keeps, that
705 14 | thrust in the sickle, and reaped the vine of the earth, and
706 1 | women are seven churches, receiving His bread, and clothed with
707 13 | five, X ten,-which by the reckoning up of the letters makes
708 4 | of course, the actions recorded in the Gospels and the teaching
709 21-22| apostles can be separated from rectitude by no tempest of contradiction.
710 7 | although the same thing recurs in the phials, still it
711 7 | the phials. We must not regard the order of what is said,
712 6 | under which is the Hades,-a region withdrawn from punishments
713 20 | it shows, shall dwell in rejoicing for ever with the Lamb.~
714 6 | them that were slain."] He relates that he saw under the altar
715 17 | five who have fallen. One remains, under whom the Apocalypse
716 6 | which we offer), "and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought
717 5 | It is a new thing to give remission of sins to men. It is a
718 13 | places, and by and by here he renews, that of which the Lord,
719 14 | one thousand six hundred. Repeating the same persecution, the
720 1 | is deficient they should repent; or to those who dwell in
721 4 | shall we have? "our Lord replied, "When the Son of man shall
722 6 | and fires, and a place of repose for the saints, wherein
723 20 | that wherein lately had reposed the bodies of the virgins,
724 2 | forms of prophesying; and He reproves and warns the others to
725 21-22| squared beams,that it might resist the force of the deluge,
726 4 | four similitudes in their respective openings of the Gospels,
727 1 | them by love, that in what respects their faith is deficient
728 21-22| squared, he says also is resplendent with gold and precious stones,
729 10 | with His members, ought to respond to its position.~10. "I
730 7 | times of Antichrist, for the restoration and establishment of the
731 11 | him who now restraineth restrain, until he be taken out of
732 20 | that is, he forbade and restrained his seducing those who belong
733 11 | Thessalonians: "Let him who now restraineth restrain, until he be taken
734 12 | of a purple colour-the result of his work gave him such
735 20 | resurrection."] There are two resurrections. But the first resurrection
736 20 | impure thoughts within the retirement of the heart, that they
737 14 | of the wine-press is the retribution on the sinner.~"And blood
738 7 | the end of the last times, returns again to the same times,
739 21-22| superstitions of heretics should revolt against their true faith,
740 2 | with such men there are riches hidden with Him, and that
741 6 | saints, wherein indeed the righteous are seen and heard by the
742 1 | the whole world; for He rightly named those by whose means
743 17 | Christ by them. But that he rises again from hell, we have
744 4 | meet Him, some strewed the road with palm branches cut down,
745 4 | heard the voice of the lion roaring in the desert. And in the
746 21-22| foam, because Christ is the Rockby which, and on which, the
747 7 | of Babylon, that is, the Roman state.~9. "After this I
748 11 | Lebanon." Assur, deeply rooted, was a lofty and branching
749 12 | well as Antichrist, must be roused up from hell. Paul the apostle
750 6 | divers places."This is the ruddy horse.~5. "And when He had
751 7 | kingdom of the saints, or the ruin of states, or the great
752 4 | Zacharias as he offers a sacrifice for the people, and the
753 2 | Israel, to eat what was sacrificed to idols, and to commit
754 5 | its various oblations and sacrifices, it behoved Himself to fulfil.
755 13 | says he, "his temple within Samaria, upon the illustrious and
756 11 | forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee
757 20 | whose foes shall be as the sand of the sea.~~~~~~4, 5. "And
758 21-22| according to the flesh, who satisfied the peoples wasted with
759 17 | And the beast which thou sawest is of the seven."] Since
760 11 | interpretation of the following sayings has shown therein, that
761 6 | the hand is the examining scales, wherein He might show forth
762 17 | blasphemy."] But to sit upon the scarlet beast, the author of murders,
763 17 | herself sitting upon the scarlet-coloured beast, full of names of
764 11 | the school of Satan, were scattered abroad throughout the world,
765 11 | Ebion, and others of the school of Satan, were scattered
766 1 | added, Therefore is every scribe instructed in the kingdom
767 6 | the heaven withdrew as a scroll that is rolled up."] For
768 10 | indeed, first, apostles; secondly, prophets; thirdly, teachers,"
769 11 | already endeavours after the secret of mischief"that is, the
770 11 | about to do he strives to do secretly; but he is not raised up
771 4 | which both looks into the secrets of the heart, and beholds
772 20 | forbade and restrained his seducing those who belong to Christ.
773 20 | nations signify the Church, seeing that of them it itself is
774 20 | have risen with Christ, seek those things which are above."~~~~~~
775 6 | the good will be removed, seeking to avoid the persecution.~
776 | seem
777 6 | carried across to them. He who sees all things would have us
778 10 | all nations, because thou seest the crowds of Antichrist
779 12 | had taken flesh out of the selfsame people. Moreover, being
780 13 | lest any one should buy or sell them. Daniel had previously
781 11 | paradise. Also, in another sense, standing in the presence
782 1 | churches are arranged by sevens, that they are called seven,
783 17 | From the Seventeenth Chapter.~1-6. "There came
784 6 | figs."] The fig-tree, when shaken, loses its untimely figs-when
785 13 | nothing else than to the shedding of blood.~18. "His number
786 4 | gift of baptism which He sheds forth through His Son in
787 1 | wool, in respect of simple sheep; to snow, in respect of
788 21-22| as the immaculate light shines in the midst of it, whose
789 21-22| number of the apostles, who, shining in the four virtues as precious
790 7 | and except the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should
791 1 | servants things which must shortly come to pass, and signified
792 1 | which God gave to Him, and showed unto His servants things
793 6 | golden altar, the Holy Spirit signifying that Christ should do this
794 1 | to the larger number of similar small ones. In the whole
795 1 | the Scripture gave this similitude, likening His face to the
796 1 | like to wool, in respect of simple sheep; to snow, in respect
797 14 | predicted, "In blood thou hast sinned, and blood shall follow
798 14 | is the retribution on the sinner.~"And blood went out from
799 19 | The horse, and He that sits upon him, sets forth our
800 6 | therefore-that is, the souls of the slain-are asking for vengeance for
801 1 | arms the soldier, the sword slays the enemy, the sword punishes
802 12 | is the hope of those that sleep extinguished absolutely,
803 5 | thou hast lain down and slept, and hast risen up again
804 4 | not flowing down as on a slope, but given to be immoveable
805 7 | seven great archangels to smite the kingdom of Antichrist;
806 4 | shows that it is pure water, smooth, not agitated by the wind,
807 13 | which the Gentiles call Sol and Phoebus; and it is reckoned
808 6 | them to wait. And for a solace to their body, there were
809 1 | For the sword arms the soldier, the sword slays the enemy,
810 1 | churches, as it is said in Solomon, "I will walk in the midst
811 4 | spake to Noah and to his sons,that they should not fear
812 2 | head of the faithful both sorrows and dangers; and therefore
813 11 | and was made man in very soul and flesh, both of them
814 7 | said, "Lord, did not we sow good seed in Thy field?
815 10 | of the preaching of the speaker, and is most pleasant to
816 6 | places; "but the word is specially extended to the times of
817 1 | judgment. "And from the seven spirits which are before His throne."]
818 11 | of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt."]
819 5 | of the calf, with water sprinkled the whole people, saying, "
820 10 | grace of the subsequent stage should be given in the first. "
821 7 | Babylon, that is, the Roman state.~9. "After this I beheld,
822 1 | mouth, thou shalt find a stater (that is, two denarii),
823 7 | the saints, or the ruin of states, or the great overthrow
824 2 | patient; think not that I am staying long from thee.~"And that
825 13 | is a turning away because stedfast men, seduced by false signs
826 15 | That is, that they stood stedfastly in the faith upon their
827 21-22| stones, and has a sacred street, and a river through the
828 3 | says:-~2. "Be watchful, and strengthen the other things which were
829 5 | The harp, and the chord stretched on its wooden frame, signifies
830 4 | forth to meet Him, some strewed the road with palm branches
831 6 | and the oil."] That is, strike not the spiritual man with
832 15 | the wrath of God always strikes the obstinate people with
833 3 | the Scripture, you should strive also to do the work of the
834 17 | slain to death, and that the stroke of his death was directed,
835 1 | in faith; or to those who study the Scriptures, and labour
836 2 | Moabites, and they caused stumbling to the people. Thus, says
837 12 | of the angels that were subject to him, since he was still
838 11 | thousands of men which were subjected to him; and the abyss increased
839 10 | fitting that the grace of the subsequent stage should be given in
840 20 | of the sixth age, which subsists for a thousand years; after
841 7 | faith of the people that succeed them."And to that end He
842 2 | speaks thus: I know that thou sufferest and workest, I see that
843 5 | into one. For it is not sufficient that that law is spoken
844 4 | closed to men. And it was sufficiently and fully laid open when
845 10 | John, armed as he was with superior virtue, this was not necessary,
846 13 | although he be cut off from the supernal light, and deprived thereof,
847 21-22| the nations and the vain superstitions of heretics should revolt
848 12 | have ready, and let them be supported there for three years and
849 6 | the law, commanding in the symbolical form of the truth two altars
850 2 | are not; but they are the synagogue of Satan, since they are
851 | taking
852 4 | as it were, of a trumpet talking with me, saying, Come up
853 1 | apostles, saying: "Go ye, teach all nations, baptizing them
854 10 | secondly, prophets; thirdly, teachers,"and the rest. And in another
855 4 | recorded in the Gospels and the teaching of the Lord-gave Him glory
856 13 | among many to be teitan, for teitanhas this number, which the Gentiles
857 21-22| prudence, fortitude, justice, temperance, which are associated with
858 12 | suffered, he approached to tempt Him as man; but when he
859 2 | sake."] All these things tend to praise, and that no small
860 2 | Himself also hated, this tends to praise. But the works
861 20 | enables me to judge. The tenfold number signifies the decalogue,
862 10 | From the Tenth Chapter.~1, 2. "I saw another
863 1 | His paps are the two testaments, and the golden girdle is
864 1 | and the prophets: and He testified that these proceeded out
865 11 | very word spoken to him testifies to him, saying, "Before
866 5 | creation, bringing to our Lord thanksgiving for the deliverance of men
867 4 | find in the epitomes of Theodore. But, moreover (as we have
868 6 | know that these saints, therefore-that is, the souls of the slain-are
869 | thine
870 10 | apostles; secondly, prophets; thirdly, teachers,"and the rest.
871 13 | From the Thirteenth Chapter.~~~~~~1. "And I saw
872 11 | testimonies; for he says in the thirty-first chapter of Ezekiel: "Behold,
873 20 | accomplishing the millenary number thoroughly, is thought to reign with
874 | though
875 20 | untrained nature or impure thoughts within the retirement of
876 2 | unless this is done, He threatened to remove their candlestick
877 4 | promises of adoption, and threatenings. For lightnings signify
878 4 | branches cut down, others threw down their garments, doubtless
879 17 | him, he himself cut his throat. Him therefore, when raised
880 1 | announcement, he thus says to Timothy: "That thou mayest know
881 7 | will send to you Elias the Tishbite, to turn the hearts of the
882 17 | but before him had been Titus his brother, and Vespasian,
883 10 | the peoples, and to the tongues, and to the nations, and
884 20 | the false prophet shall be tormented day and night for ever and
885 21-22| thus it is overcome by no traces of maddened men. Therefore
886 20 | devil will avenge himself trader Antichrist against the Church.
887 12 | is the devil,-to wit, the traitor angel, who thought that
888 3 | carrying on in the world other transactions than those which they ought-Christians
889 13 | and deprived thereof, yet transforms himself into an angel of
890 21-22| purified from all uncleanness, transparent with glowing light, that
891 7 | Holy Spirit, when He has traversed even to the end of the last
892 11 | and says:-~3. "They shall tread the holy city down for forty
893 14 | down without the city, the treading of the wine-press is the
894 1 | bringing forth from his treasure things new and old,"the
895 7 | is, Antichrist, "in the trench of Nimrod,"that is, in the
896 2 | to say:-~9. "I know thy tribulation and thy poverty, but thou
897 3 | suffer for the Lord's name tribulations and passions.~"And anoint
898 4 | as judgments upon God's tribunal until the consummation of
899 6 | are the faithful who are troubled for Christ's sake.~"Even
900 12 | vengeance for the present troubles. Although, therefore, it
901 2 | were in that time false and troublesome men, who, as ministers under
902 11 | the nations; and thus the truthful word of God makes it necessary,
903 13 | the churches. But it is a turning away because stedfast men,
904 12 | From the Twelfth Chapter.~1. "And there was
905 20 | From the Twentieth Chapter.~1-3. "And I saw
906 21-22| From the Twenty-First and Twenty-Second Chapters.~
907 21-22| From the Twenty-First and Twenty-Second Chapters.~16. "And the city
908 1 | two-edged sword."] By the twice-sharpened sword going forth out of
909 1 | also might maintain the type of seven churches, he did
910 1 | We read also that this typical number is announced by the
911 3 | hot."] That is, neither unbelieving nor believing, for they
912 5 | to look for a kingdom of unbounded promise. The harp, and the
913 20 | those who are down it is uncertain whether they may rise. Moreover,
914 13 | bear."] A strong and most unclean beast, the feet are to be
915 21-22| hearts purified from all uncleanness, transparent with glowing
916 10 | prophesieth with her head uncovered, dishonoureth her head"And
917 1 | spirit of wisdom and of understanding, the spirit of counsel and
918 17 | worship of idols, but to undertake circumcision, and, if he
919 1 | the manhood that He had undertaken, shall after a little while
920 20 | who shall have kept the undertaking of virginity completely,
921 4 | happened, that begets an undoubting faith. Again, also, if wings
922 2 | God.~The following epistle unfolds the mode of life and habit
923 10 | Catholic prophecy of things unheard and unknown, but of things
924 1 | into the heavens, after the union in His body of the power
925 21-22| city, he shows forth the united multitude of the saints,
926 5 | and the testimony of the universal creation, bringing to our
927 10 | prophecy of things unheard and unknown, but of things both announced
928 6 | for the devouring of many unrighteous souls. This is the pale
929 5 | Revelation. For now His book is unsealed-now the offered victims are
930 5 | destruction of death. The unsealing of the seals, as we have
931 3 | lowly in the world, and unskilled in the Scriptures, and who
932 20 | shall have destroyed the untrained nature or impure thoughts
933 5 | His face is opened and unveiled to Moses; and therefore
934 1 | their announcement, and are unwilling to do God's work that is
935 4 | to an eagle hastening on uplifted wings to greater heights,
936 1 | mercy and love: to all he urges penitence, to all he declares
937 3 | repentance, they are not only useful to themselves, but they
938 11 | diligently, and with the utmost care, to follow the prophetic
939 13 | should enter, and thence utter voices and oracles. Moreover,
940 10 | testimonies of the prophetic utterance.It is plain, therefore,
941 10 | voices."] The seven thunders uttering their voices signify, the
942 13 | one, C a hundred, L fifty, V five, X ten,-which by the
943 11 | our salvation. For when Valentinus, and Cerinthus, and Ebion,
944 1 | blood from sin; and having vanquished hell, He was the first who
945 13 | people mingled with the variety of nations.~2. "His feet
946 17 | been Titus his brother, and Vespasian, Otho, Vitellius, and Galba.
947 20 | who is entangled in the vices and the dogmas of heretics,
948 5 | unsealed-now the offered victims are perceived-now the fabrication
949 1 | taken a beginning from the Virgin; He is to come, because
950 10 | as he was with superior virtue, this was not necessary,
951 17 | brother, and Vespasian, Otho, Vitellius, and Galba. These are the
952 3 | nausea, He says:-~16. "I will vomit thee out of My mouth."]
953 6 | come, it was told them to wait. And for a solace to their
954 11 | Isaiah saith: "While they waited for the light, darkness
955 6 | followed him."] That is, it was waiting for the devouring of many
956 11 | the empty altar within the walls: these being such as were
957 20 | whole world, and will entice war against the Church, the
958 2 | prophesying; and He reproves and warns the others to whom this
959 12 | the dragon; and the dragon warred, and his angels, and they
960 21-22| who satisfied the peoples wasted with famine, that received
961 1 | certain men in the Church wasters, and pernicious, they hear
962 3 | effect He says:-~2. "Be watchful, and strengthen the other
963 12 | moon under her feet, and wearing a crown of twelve stars
964 7 | but that they gather the wheat into my barns."The Apocalypse
965 14 | and four appearances, and wheels by fours; for forty times
966 | Whereby
967 12 | owed nothing to death: wherefore he could not devour Him-that
968 1 | faith. And His garments wherewith they desire to be clothed
969 1 | snow."] On the head the whiteness is shown; "but the head
970 | whoever
971 4 | course of Abia, and his wife was of the daughters of
972 8 | times, any one should be willing to be converted, any one
973 7 | they said to Him, Lord, wilt Thou, then, that we go and
974 6 | says:-~6. "Hurt not the wine and the oil."] That is,
975 12 | aid of the great eagle's wings-to wit, the gift of prophets-was
976 13 | name; which name if you wish to turn into Latin, it is
977 1 | assumption of humanity, wishing to show that men shall be
978 11 | and I will give to my two witnesses, and they shall predict
979 11 | camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I
980 15 | I saw another great and wonderful sign, seven angels having
981 11 | Satan, with signs and lying wonders."And that they might know
982 5 | the chord stretched on its wooden frame, signifies the flesh
983 2 | that thou sufferest and workest, I see that thou art patient;
984 11 | whose coining is after the working of Satan, with signs and
985 11 | measure of faith; and no one worships the holy altar save he who
986 4 | previously foretold by them, they worthily and with reason exult, feeling
987 17 | whom the Apocalypse was written-Domitian, to wit. "The other has
988 1 | apostles His feet, who, being wrought by suffering, preached His
989 13 | hundred, L fifty, V five, X ten,-which by the reckoning
990 5 | the praise of many angels, yea, of all, the salvation of
991 6 | accustomed to enter once in the year-as they who had the anointing-to
992 1 | His feet were like unto yellow brass, as if burned in a
993 | Yes
994 4 | There was a priest, by name Zachariah, of the course of Abia,
995 4 | narrating the priesthood of Zacharias as he offers a sacrifice
996 11 | understand here. For in Zechariah, one of the twelve prophets,