 For understanding the prophecies, we are, in the first place, to acquaint ourselves with the figurative language of the prophets. This language is taken from the analogy between the world natural and an empire or kingdom considered as a world politic.  The Life of Sir Isaac Newton - Página 248por David Brewster - 1832 - 323 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | J H. Aitken - 1853 - 378 páginas
...the first place, to acquaint ourselves with the figurative language of the prophets. This language is taken from the analogy between the world natural,...an empire or kingdom considered as a world politic. Accordingly, the whole world natural, consisting of heaven and earth, signifies the whole world politic,... | |
 | David Brewster - 1855 - 584 páginas
...work entitled Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse of St. John? is divided into two parts, the first of which treats of the Prophecies...dynasties ; the earth, with the things therein, the inferior people ; and the lowest parts of the earth the most mi1 The editor supplied the beginning... | |
 | Samuel Waldegrave (bp. of Carlisle.) - 1855 - 710 páginas
...with the nations of the earth. " The figurative language of the prophets," says Sir Isaac Newton, "is taken from the analogy between the world natural,...empire or kingdom considered as a world politic." " Accordingly," he adds, " great earthquakes and the shaking of heaven and earth, [are put] for the... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 páginas
...the first place, to acquaint ourselves with the figurative language of the prophets. This language is taken from the analogy between the world natural,...an empire or kingdom considered as a world politic. Accordingly, the whole world natural, consisting of heaven and earth, signifies the whole world politic,... | |
 | Samuel Noble - 1860 - 554 páginas
...application of it to the phrase, "heaven and earth," thus: "The figurative language of the prophets is taken from the analogy between the world natural,...an empire or kingdom considered as a world politic. Accordingly, the whole world natural, consisting of heaven and earth, signifies the whole world politic,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1862 - 360 páginas
...of time, and the easiest to be understood, he makes him the key to all the prophetic books in these matters which relate to the " last time." He next...dynasties ; the earth, with the things therein, the inferior people ; and the lowest parts of the earth the most miserable of the people. The sun is put... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 678 páginas
...the first place, to acquaint ourselves with the figurative language of the prophets. This language is taken from the analogy between the world natural and...an empire or kingdom considered as a world politic. Accordingly, the whole world natural, consisting of heaven and earth, signifies the whole world politic,... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 550 páginas
...the first place, to acquaint onrselvea with the figurative language of the prophets. This language is taken from the analogy between the world natural and...an empire or kingdom considered as a world politic. Accordingly, the whole world natural, consisting of heaven and earth, signifies the whole world politic,... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1868 - 550 páginas
...place, to acquaint ourselves with the figurative language of the prophets. This language is taken fro"1 the analogy between the world natural and an empire or kingdom considered M a world politic. Accordingly, the whole world natural, consisting of heaven and earth, signifies... | |
 | Philip Bolton - 1870 - 1098 páginas
...his death his "Observations upon the Prophecies" were published, the language of which, he says, " is taken from the analogy between the world natural,...empire or kingdom, considered as a world politic." This theory, however, applies more particularly to the allegorical language of the prophecies, and... | |
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