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Title: Illustrations of prophecy : particularly the evening and morning visions of Daniel, and the apocalyptical visions of John
Year: 1840 (1840s)
Authors: Cambell, David
Subjects: Bible Bible
Publisher: Boston : published by the author
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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of thesea! for the devil is come down unto you, having greatwrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. 13 And when the dragon saw that he was cast untothe earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forththe man-child. When the angel was about to give Daniela more full explanation of his vision of thePersian ram, and the Grecian goat, he said, The Prince of the kingdom of Persia,withstood me one and twenty days, but lo !Michael, one of the chief princes, came tohelp me, Dan. x—13. In verse 20, hesays again, Now will I return to fight withthe Prince of Persia, and when I am goneforth, lo ! the Prince of Greece shall come.The same warfare, by the same Michael andhis angels was maintained against the dragon,and his angels, the power of imperial Rome,till it was cast out as has been seen in for-mer Sections. The weapons of our war-fare, says Paul, are not carnal, but spirit-ual, and mighty, through God, to the pul-ling down of strong holds. 360 ILLUSTRATIONS OF PRORHECY.
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14 And to the woman were given two wings of a greateagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into herplace, where she is nourished for a lime, and times, andhalf a time, from the face of the serpent. 15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as aflood, after the woman, that he might cause her to becarried away of the flood. 16 And the earth helped the woman; and the earthopened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which thedragon cast out of his mouth. 17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, andwent to make war with the remnant of her seed,which keep the commandments of God, and have thetestimony of Jesus Christ. As soon as the persecuting power ofRome, with its various forms of government,symbolized by the seven heads of the drag-on, had passed away, another, and more ter-rible persecuting power arose, as we shallsoon see, before which the woman, or WAR OF THE DRAGON. 361 true church, takes her flight into her wilder-ness state, for the noted period, here repeat-ed, of

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