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to mso^er discoune *| the Infidri aod PapftI powers are cast alive m\ the lake of 6r«. and the rest arc slutghtercd, giTcii for a prey to the beasu of bea^oi. by the i&atnimeDtality of what earthly MUn h M« IVJ Tiit DR¥lhO liPOlfTllli tUPHRATtS, 973 arrayed on the other side, we arc not told in the account of the sixth of the Apocalyp&c. which represents it as effected imnieduiuly ainJ direclly by tlie Lord and hi^ »aiotA, iindiiabciDg thegruod historical «ign of their comings accordiug as it U written in the Second Epi^lle to iheThe^fcalonians, ii. 8 : " And iheti t^hall that wicked one be reveal- ed, whom the Lord shall con£umc with the breath of bi$ mouth, and &haU dealrtjy with the bright* nc&s of hU coming." But as the kings of the P^st> yea« and of the whole world, are gathered together to thai »!aughi^r-hoiifte of tie powers uf the apostate church, they must be brought thither for some end; and a& they arc not found in the array ogaiusi the Lord, wc must conclude that they are found in the array again&i the beast and bis ten confederate kings. And lu thi^ agrees well the correttpondiDg puKsage in tlie xith chiipter of Daniel, which ushers in the same awfut day of wild havoc and unexampled desmictiveness ; at the time the kin^ of pride, or mfidcl power, had carrleil all before him in hi» own laud, and, parsing over into Asiu, wafi busied in reaping the golden harvest of his coQcine&tttover Egypt, and the Libyans, and the Ethiopians; when it is said that iid'tn^s out of the FmH^ and out uf the North did trouble hitn, upon which he went forth to destroy and make away many; " and he shall plant the tabernacle of his palaces between the seas in the glorious holy moiintatn; yet he shall Come to hit end, and none shall help bins/' And, upon his dcalh> there im- mediatcly ensues the delireranc'e of Go<V>; pt^ople The same allusion to a power out of the Ea^t and North coming up at the time of iha deliverance of God s people, and being mainly instrumental 874 THK DHTJ<i(0 UP OF TBE EUPHftATfei. [/X/. thereto, is coDtaroed in several other parts of Scripture, ui hi ItahihxH, 2A; "1 hare msetl up oDe from tbc north, and be sfaall come : tbe mingof t]ie tun fthall be call upou my m and he %hM coiDe upon princes »:« ujnm murti and as tbe potter treadeth clay/' It is the c torn to contract ibe mi)^hiy ^^pan of the propbi action of this chapter, which is uo 1c£a ibao across the whole period of tbe oppression of bis people, to the single act of Cynis, who led the army of M