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he waters of Dimon shall be full of blood ; for 1 wil brin^' more upon Dimon, lions upon him that ea- capelh of Moab, and upon the remnant of the land.*' This is quite another figure, significant of ^rcat slaughter and destruction of life^ tintil the very brooks flhall be thickened with the blood of men, and the great river into which they fall ahdl be minted and dyed with the carnage of the pe<H ^ pic, whom erewhile it noiiriAhed with it» waten, fl yea and \ht- wrrlthed rrTnrtnul nhirli are left, shall ^^ driuk lh<: water niini^lud with the blood of their ^ brethren. This latter figure is formed into a sym-fl bol, tinder the fourth vial, which, aslboheve, bath IV.] Tilt D&rtXG UP or the ZUTHKAXfU. 997 reference to the. judgment T>rmight by the viulent ami bloo<)y iiivasioi) of tTiv FrL-ncli imd<*r Bona- jMrlc. upon the sacerdotal poweri of Italy. Thus, by contrast, both in the vials and in tlie judg:- mcnt of Moab, U the exact meaning of ihc wasting away of the waters of Euphrates assured unto us. For confirmaticD whereof, we have two kindred passageftto adduce ffom Ibe prophet Jeremiah, of ^fhich llic former beii^ as it were identical witli that quoted above, we shall merely refor to Jcr. xlviii. 33, 34. The oUkorUtakenfrom the judgment upoa Babylon, aagiven in ihcl ih and li itchaptcre of the same prophet, whereit is fiaid(l. 38), "A drought is upon her waters, and they ahall be dried up; for itis the land o ff^r a ven images, aiul they are mail upon tlii^ir idols. Th<?refore the wild beasU of the dt'^iTt, with the wild beasu of the islands &hall dwell there, aiid the owls shall dwell tlierein; and it Khali be no more inhabited for ever, neither shall it be dwelt in from gencmtmn to generation." This is not the judgmmit brouglu upon her in the time of Cyrus, hy the turnii^g of llic current of Euphrates; for fromUut lime s^he did net decline, liaviiiff eonlinued durinj^ all the Persian dynasty m greateatglory.Qjid by Alexander baring been found arrayed mall imperial pomp atidsplendour,whcrei fore he also made it the seat of his empire. liul it in the juLlgiut:nt which began to come upon her thereafter, when her daughter Rome began to fulfil her predestinatedofEice of imprisoningthe )H-oplc of God, and lighting against his truth. There eould not be two Babylons on the carth« as there could not be two Jerusalcms : there can only he one of each; wherefore the mother yielded plnce, when her harlot daughter began to shew herself lusty MS THR DHTIVG UP OV Tilt i:LHni»A tM. [/. and wicked enough