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he context, which imraediately opens upon ns the destnic^ tive deluge of the seveQthvial; beginning with the judgment upon Babylon, fiist her convulsive distraction into three parts, and then her titter de- itruction; which, being dcacribcd in the two fol- lowing chapters, we find to he brought abotit by roeanii nf the ten hornft of the beast, Iier own kingly fKiwers, not the kings of the East, but the kinp of the Roman earth. It i& very im- portant to kuow, that these kings of the East have no hand in the destruction of Babylon ; in* aflmuch as it guards us againt^t a misinterpretation into which it i» very eas*y to fall. The drying up of the waters uf the riVL-r, being hO immL-di- ately succeeded by the destruction of the mystical Babylon, might have led us to sappote that tho whole event was typified in the o\criUrow of the literal Babylon* which the Mcde^aiid Uic Persians effected by turning the waters of the river inlo another bed, and so preparing themselves a way into the city. We should then have been con- strained to conclude, that these kings of the East were brought up on very purpose to destroy the mystical Babylon \ from which conclusion we are guarded by the interpretation of the augel, who 3 14 2 972 THE DRVIKO IP or THE EUPIIBATtS. [Dk expresisly givctli Ukif» worii into the bands of tl ten kings which are confcdcraic with the beaul Rev, xvii. 16, We arc therefore etill at muz, to diRcovcrfc what end ihetrC kings of the Ea&l hare their wa] prepared by the inlrstking aiid drying up of waterfi of the great river Euphrates, »eemg it Q&t for the defltruction of Babylon they are broughl up. Now^ it ii ^id m the text, that they mustered nion; with the r«6t to the battle or w: of the great day of God Almighty* And we fti that those ten kings oftbe earth, immediately al they hare de<ttroyed the whore of Babylon, proceef) to make wi^r with the I-imh, '* mid tli Lamb shall overcome them ; for he is Lord lord*, and King of kings : and they that are ^i him are called, and faithful, and cbofien/' Noi upon looking forward to the xixth chapter, find the particulars of thb war of the great di of God Almighty, in which are arrayed agaii the King of kiog« and Lord of lord«, and agaii his faithful fihUowerv, the beatt and the kn^ the earth, thoee same powers who had destroy Babyhw, lod were aimouDced w about to cntcf' iMratfter iii>oti the wmr with the Lamb, and hia^ cbosen and ^thful ones, in which wai the bcallfl and the fals« prophet; that b* aa we shall ice herraner, and baiv proved