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cn1usr's ucozm counts. 197which are not built on the word of God; and, therefore,have no foundation, and may truly be said to be " bottomless.""Shall make waragainst them." The govern,ments, under the authority of Papal Rome, shall endeavor to exterminate the "two witnesses," the word ofGod. "And shall overcome them, and kill them ;" havepower over them, pass laws or edicts against them, and,ry this means, destroy their usefulness, life, and activity.or where theScriptures are not read, and believed in,they become a dea letter; but when read,s.ud believed,"they are spirit, they are life," John vi. 63.8th "verse, And their dead bodies shall lie in thestreets of the great city, which spiritually is calledSodom and where also our Lord was crucified."Egygt,This verseteac es us, that the word of God would bemade a dead letter, bty the authority of one of the principalkingdom out o one of the ten into which the Romangovernment was divided, and that the would beguilty of the same sins that Sodom and Egyptwereguilty of ; and, also, of crucifying our Lord, that is, in a;piritual sense. This will apply to France in particular.rance, previous to, and in the French revolution, wasgu1lt§ of Sodomitish sins; she also had held inbondage,like gypt, the people of God; and, in France, Christhad been crucified atresh in his people,on St. Bartholomew'seve, A. D. 1572, when 50,000 Huguenots weremurdered in one ni ht. The people of God are calledChrist's spiritual bo§y, 1 Peter ii. 5, Col. i. 24.Qthverse, " And they of the people, and kindreds, andtongues, shall see their dead bodies three days and ahal, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be putin graves." This decree, or edict, should be generallyknown among all nations; and although they could notprevent the witnesses from lying in the streets of thegeat city three years and a half; yet the nations aboutem would prevent the Scriptures from being buried,or put out of sight.10th "verse, And they that dwell upon the earth shallrejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send giftone to another, because thesetwonprophets tormentedthem thatthe earth." e learn by this textdweltlgppn