The important period, and long wished for revolution, shewn to be at hand, when God will cleanse the earth by his judgments / [Lewis Mayer].

  • Mayer, Lewis
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1806
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    firft ; her princes, her wise men, her captains, her rulers, and her mighty men, were not made drunk with the cup of God’s wrath, and caused to sleep a perpetual sleep; nor was she rolled down from the rocks and converted into a burn- ing mountain, as stated, chap. li. 25, 57, 58; since Babylon continued for many ages after- wards a great and flourishing city, and the whole country remained in a state of great pros- perity ; neither has there been a period, when the nations specified in the 19th and eight fol* lowing verses were visited by God, with such an awful destruction, as not to be able to gather and bury their dead ; or a time when tliey fell to rise no more, by war, pestilence, or famine, to which the prophecy can only have an allusion : from which considerations it may be inferred that the controversy spoken of by the prophet, has an allusion to far greater and more extensive calamities, than what has been poured out on^ Babylon, or the nations previously alluded to. Ver. 14. I presume, is applicable to the^ Persian, Grecian, Roman, and Turkish empires, which have successively fallen by war, which may be denominated a desolation; alternately served themselves of the land of Chaldea by its possession during the continuation of their power; and, with the single exemption of Turkey, have been recompensed according to their deeds; for, as those empires were established by war, by war have they been destroyed ; and, it seems probable, that Turkey will soon share the same fate. Babylon, in the prophetic writings, is, in many instances, used with a figurative signification ; for, in Rev. xviii, 2. she is said to have fallen, and become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird; and in the 5th and 7th B 2
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