The former, as liar and murderer, avails himself of the grand, beastly, and mendacious powers of the earth, in order, by means of trickery and force, lies and murder, to prevail over the kingdom of God; the latter, in reliance upon his own spiritual powers, erects his own proud unchristian and antichristian structure. Both labor in company, and are long time associated with each other; but their covenant is no covenant [http://www.michaelkorsoutletonline-vip.com/ Michael Kors] of love, but only a common antagonism to the Lord and his people. Satan and his associates hate man, even when he is building the Babylonian tower of pride and false worship; for man would like to rule over all, even over his allies from the deep. But proud, ungodly-minded man shall be brought to nought, when (he friendship, as it must necessarily come, shall be dissolved. Long doth the church resist these hostile forces ; but as she, like ancient Israel, absorbs more and more of the bad leaven of human pride, and the satanic agencies of falsehood and sensuality and malice and lovelessness, and becomes on the whole lukewarm and ever more lukewarm, the world and the [http://www.michaelkorsoutletonline-vip.com/ Michael Kors Outlet] kingdom of darkness receive so much the more power. and that which was once slain by the word of God revives anew. The evil powers become ever stronger, the sufferings of the genuine spiritual Israel ever greater, with the flow of years. Nevertheless, for the elect's sake, for the sake of the poor worm Jacob, for the sake of his own great name and sacred blood, the Lord has compassion upon all those who have kept their fidelity, the virgins who have remained undefiled by the lusts and vices of the world and of idolatry, as also upon many a wavering soul who is purified and preserved by afflictions, so that its raiment is also washed white in the blood of the Lamb, and plunges the whole kingdom of darkness, after sufficient probation, into destruction, to rear the luminous, eternal city, having the glory of God ; now old things are passed away, behold all things are become new! The work of the Lamb that was slain is accomplished ; Babel annihilated, the beast, the false prophet, the devil, and with him death and hell, are delivered over to the lake of fire, the second death." — One finds here and there, scattered through the little book, not a few new and suggestive thoughts, exegetical hints, etc., and not a few felicitous passages verifying his conclusions by squaring them with the general doctrinal systems of the church and with universal Christian life. Some parts, however, strike us as fanciful, and tend to leave the mind in an unsatisfactory state. As to the Apocalyptic chronology, he supports (with Bengel) the view according to which the several seals, trumpets, woes, vials, etc. represent continuous history, notwithstanding the dissent of Hengstenberg, Ebrard, and so many others. The part entitled " Introduction to the Apocalypse" contains a very timely essay on the philosophy of prophetic vision. (4). Geschichte des Alten Bundes. (Leipzig; 1863.) — This is a volume of Lectures on the History of the Old Covenant from the pen of the late rofessor F. It. Hasse of Bonn, best known as the author of a remarkably thorough and valuable monograph on the [http://www.michaelkorsoutletonline-vip.com/ www.michaelkors-soutlet.com] Life and Views of Anselm of Canterbury (2 Vols. 8vo. 1843, 1852). Dr. Hasse was born in Dresden 1808, became Privat Doccnt in Berlin 1835, sometime after Professor of Theology in Greifswald, and since 1842 in Bonn. He died the 14th of October last. Compared with Kurtz's " History of the Old Covenant," the work before us might seem superficial and unimportant, but it should be remembered that a course of academic lectures are not to be compared in these particulars with thoroughly elaborated and exhaustive treatises. ffice:office" />
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