...final destruction of the beast and the false prophet, Rev. xx., ' Satan is bound for a thousand years ; and I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment...them ; and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus Christ and for the word of God ; which had not worshipped the beast, neither...

...church, in which the Devil and Satan is to be bound a thousand years. 'And I saw thrones,' he adds, ' and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto...: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded,' &c. " But even in this passage, if we only examine, we shall find that it contains no such thing as...

...twelve thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel." (Ibid.) As in that vision in the Revelation, "I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them. And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away."...

...the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name " (xv. 2) ; " they which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark in their foreheads or in their hands " (xx. 4). And what is signified by these forms of temptation,...

...Exoriare ! one or many ! " the souls" of the first martyrs "who were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the Word of God, and which had not worshipped the bea^t, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads or in their hands." As...

...themselves, than to sit with Christ in his throne, John in bis vision saw many thiones, " And 1 saw s covenants; Rev. 20:4. And Christ himself told his apostles, " Verily I say unto you, that ye which have followed...

...agreement which is apparent between these passages and the prediction of the xxth of St. John, " I saw thrones, " and they sat upon them, and '* judgment was given unto them," viewed together with the song sung in the fifth chapter, " Thou hast made us unto our God, kings and...

...Jerusalem, and the house of Judah and Israel, the third with Egypt and Assyria (Isa. xix. 24). " I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them" (Rev. xx.4): " I beheld till the thrones were cast down" (Dan. vii. 9) : " The Ancient of Days came,...

...should be fulfilled ; and after that he must be loosed a little season. And I saw thrones, and they that sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them :...beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark in their foreheads, or in their hands ; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. But...

...more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled : And after that he must be loosed a little season. And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment..."for the word of God, and which had not worshipped his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands ; and they lived,...