This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 edition. Excerpt: ... destroyed, and are thus reminded of the eclipse of the eastern empire by the conquest (in 1453) of Constantinople, by the Turks, in consequence of whose oppressive rule many learned Greeks emigrated to Europe. This circumstance contributed greatly to the study of Grecian literature, and of the Greek testament ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 edition. Excerpt: ... destroyed, and are thus reminded of the eclipse of the eastern empire by the conquest (in 1453) of Constantinople, by the Turks, in consequence of whose oppressive rule many learned Greeks emigrated to Europe. This circumstance contributed greatly to the study of Grecian literature, and of the Greek testament, and paved the way for the first steps of the Reformation. But as the trumpets only proclaim wars and woes, the glorious era of the Reformation, though commencing in the same century, is not alluded to till the 10th chapter; and the three woe trumpets give forth more dreadful blasts than any of their predecessors. CHAPTER IX. 1. The Fifth Trumpet. Much learning and ingenuity have been employed in twisting and accomodating the application of this chapter to the followers of Mahomet. But the events designated by the smoke of this trumpet, are not, as in the case of the other four, restricted to the "third part" and must therefore point to an evil more extensive than Mahometanism, which was confined within that limit. This view of the fifth trumpet is corroborated by the correspondence between the trumpets and vials. As the fifth vial clearly points to the seat of the beast, we must infer that the fifth trumpet indicates the cause of those evils on account of which that vial is poured out in judgment. "The smoke of the bottomless pit" is evidently the dark agency of the beast ascending therefrom--(xi. 7)--who "makes war against the witnessess, and shall overcome and kill them." This can be no other than the Jesuit power, predicted also by Joel as "a great people and a strong, before whose face the earth shall quake." The previous developments of Popery are described in a succeeding chapter, but this, its most terrible form, bursts upon us, in...
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