Rev. 18. 20. Rejoice over her fall, thou throne of God, and ye souls of the Apostles and Prophets : 19. for God hath avenged you on her (for all the evil she has done you by her errors). 21. Thus with violence shall that great, spiritually dangerous, system, Babylon, be thrown down or overturned, and shall be found no more at all (in the soul). 23. For the dealers in thy knowledges were the great men in the human philosophy: for, by thy seducing and imposing errors, were all souls deceived. 24. And in her criminal philosophy was found the destroyed knowledge of Prophets, and of Saints, and of all souls that were slain in the human system. 2. For true and righteous are His judgements: for He hath judged the spirit of the great faithless philosophy, which did corrupt the human heart with her false notions, and hath avenged the life of His servants at her hand. 3. And again they said Alleluia: and her vanity rose up for ever and ever (away from the soul). Of Tyrus. I suppose that the Tyre mentioned in Isaiah 23, and the Tyrus spoken of in Ezekiel 26, and 27, and 28 are the same thing, as they go by the same name in the Latin and in the French versions. Theophila, I refer you to those chapters. Should you think on their con tents, I believe you will agree with me that many of their verses seem to allude to a city different from any of this earth. What it means, I do not know; but as a part of the scriptural world, I am inclined to take it, like Babylon, for a high degree of the opinion of one's self, and of the human philosophy, or knowledge of good and evil; for an elevated philosophical system, a philosophy that crowns with knowledge, and makes honourable the souls that traffic in her precious knowledges (Isaiah, 23. 8); a philosophical spirit jealous of the spirit Jerusalem (Ezek. 26. 2), against which is the Lord (3), who will bring upon her the spirit Nebuchadnezzar that governs the system Babylon, attended with many powerful knowledges (7), and by whose reasonings or opinions she shall be spoiled and destroyed in the soul (12); a renowned system strong or learned in the instructions of the deep human philosophy (17); a spirit of perfect philosophical beauty (27. 3); assisted by the knowledge of many degrees of philosophy; from (v. 5. to 26) rich human knowledges which shall fall (27); filling and enriching the minds of many of the followers of the world (33), but which shall be broken by superior instructions (34); a degree of the human philosophy, or of the spirit of the world, that is governed by a heavenly and lifted up spirit (28. 2, 14, 16) of wisdom and understanding (4 and 5); adorned with many precious knowledges or gifts at his creation (13); perfect in his ways, till iniquity is found in him (15); till his heart is lifted up because of his philosophical, or of his spiritual, beauty, till he corrupts his wisdom (17); and which shall be destroyed on account of his iniquities (18). I believe the philosophical knowledge Tyrus shall be made deso late in the soul, when the Lord will bring upon her, and cover her with the great instructions of the simple and deep philosophy (Ezek. 26. 19); and when she will be brought down and set in the low degrees of the spirit of the earth, that she be not inhabited by souls-men (20); also that she shall be forgotten for a time (Isaiah, 23. 15); after which the Spirit of the Lord will visit her (17), and her knowledges will become useful to the soul. Of Zion and Jerusalem. From the following verses I am inclined to understand that the Scriptural Zion and Jerusalem mean the same thing; or two degrees of the same thing, very near one another: I am totally unable to explain satisfactorily the difference that may exist between them. If there is any, I wish you may succeed to find it out. Many verses give room to suppose that there is one. 2 Kings, 19. 21. The virgin, the daughter of Zion hath despised thee; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee. Psalm 48. 2. Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth is mount Zion; on the sides of the north, the city of the Great King. Isaiah, 65. 18. I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her peo ple a joy. Psalm 44. 28. Even saying to Jerusalem, thou shalt be built. Psalm 51. 18. Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem. Micah, 102. 16. When the Lord shall build up Zion, he shalt appear in his glory. 122. 3. Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together. 147. 2. The Lord doth build up Jerusalem: He ga- Psalm 48. Isaiah, 1. Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of His holiness. 102. 21. To declare the name of the Lord in Zion, and His praise in Jerusalem. 74. 2. This mount Zion wherein thou hast dwelt. 76. 2. And his dwelling place in Zion. 135. 21. Blessed be the Lord out of Zion, which dwelleth at Jerusalem. 8. 18. From the Lord of hosts which dwelleth in mount Zion. Joel, 3. 17. So shall ye know that I am the Lord your God dwelling in Zion my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy. Zech. 8. 3. I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. Daniel, 9. Joel, 2. Heb. 6. Let thine anger and thy fury be turned from Jerusalem, thy holy mountain. 1. Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound the alarm in my holy mountain. 12. 22. But ye are come unto mount Zion, and unto Psalm the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. 87. 2. The Lord loveth the gates of Zion, more than all the dwellings of Jacob. 122. 2. Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Je rusalem! 147. 12. Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem: praise thy God, O Zion. Song of Sol. 2. 7. I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem. 3. 11. Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion. Isaiah, 2. 3. For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. Joel, 3. 16. The Lord also shall roar out of Zion, and utter His voice from Jerusalem. Isaiah, 10. 12. Wherefore it shall come to pass that when the Lord hath performed His whole work upon mount Zion, and on Jerusalem. Jere. Isaiah, 4. 4. When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem, from the midst thereof. 4. 14. O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved! How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee ! 10. 33. He shall shake his head against the mount |