1841 William Miller Evidence from Scripture & History - A2Z.org

you believe Is there one rational convichon that you
will be then convinced No, not one. Then will you
not see and learn wisdom by what ie gone before
Pharaoh had no space for re entance under, or even just
before the lut lague. An! so it will be with you ; the
door will have geen shut before any part of the sesenrh
vial will be poured out, for then will be heard a great
voice reverberating through the upper vault of heaven,
and, sounding even to the dark cella of the pit of woe,
shaking the middle air with itj deep-toned thunder, and,
like the lightning, darting its vivid flash of fire from eaet
to west, wlll pierce the deafest ear, and make the hardest
heart to break, although a thousand fold more hard than
the adamantine rock, saying, U It u dod This bhga
me to sl~ow,
11. What we may understand b It is done."
The 6nt question which nadly arise% on the mind
ig What h done When Christ was about expiating
for the sins of the world; when he waa closing up the
work which his Father gave him to do on earth in the
flesh; when the spirit was about leaving the tenement
of clay which it had inhabited through a life of thirtythree
yeam of pain, sufferings, de rivations, eorrowq
promy, and team, made more acute iy to~~~pt~tions trylog
as the arch-demon of hell could invent; suffering
reproach from the haughty Pharisee, and the more obatinate
Sadducee, and contempt and ridicule frorn the
base rabble of his own people; persecuted even until
death by the envy, malice, and hatred of tl~oae who had
received boons and blessings of life at his hands, - he 11rd
laved them froin disease, death, and the rage of tleii~oiis;
yet, in this lnolnent of great need, he waa foreak+.n of
dl; they stood afar off; and when he war about giving
opthe ghost, he cried, It ia finis!ied !" and bowed hu
head, and died. The fratricide man could do m more;
he had followed hiin to death ; beyond that the envy of
Iie brother could not reach him The mbble, wlm r