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And famine.— Literal and symbolic (Amos.8:11). "As we call to mind the long train of evilsby which Babylon has oppressed and worn outthe saints of the most High (the true Zion), andhow it is written that God will avenge His ownElect, and that speedily; that, according to theirdeeds, He will repay recompense to His enemies;that He will render unto Babylon a recompense(Luke 18:7, 8; Isa. 59:18; Jer. 51:6), we begin torealize that some fearful calamity awaits her. <strong>The</strong>horrible decrees of Papacy,— the reproach andreward of which Protestantism also is incurringby her present compromising association withher,— for the burning, butchering, banishing,imprisoning and torturing of the saints in everyconceivable way, executed with such fiendishcruelty in the days of her power by the arm of theState, whose power she demanded and received,await full measure of just retribution."— D39.And she shall be utterly burned with fire.—Completely destroyed in the anarchy to ollow.—Rev. 17:16; Gen. 38:24; Ezek. 16:41; Lev.20:14; 21:9.For strong is GOD the Lord [God] who[judgeth] JUDGED her.— "Compare Rev.17:17, where the event is expressly declared tohave been overruled by God." (Cook.) "And Iwill punish Bel in Babylon [the God ofBabylon,— the Pope]; and I will bring forth outof his mouth that which he hath swallowed up[he shall repudiate in his extremity the ‘greatswelling words' and blasphemous titles which hehas long appropriated to himself— that he is theinfallible vicar.' ‘vice-gerent of Christ,' ‘anotherGod on earth,' etc.], and the nations shall notflow together any more unto him. Yea, the wallof Babylon [the civil power that once defendedit, and that in a measure does so still] shall fall.. . . Thus saith the Lord of Hosts: the broadwalls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and herhigh gates shall be burned with fire [shall bedestroyed]; and the people shall labor in vain,and the folk in the fire [to prop and save thewalls of Babylon], and they shall be weary.—Jer. 51:44, 58."— D40. <strong>The</strong> people are already

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