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until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled."

1 Peter ii. 5. "Ye also as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house."

1 Corinthians iii. 17. "For the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are."

Hebrews iii. 6.

"Whose house are we, if we

hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end."

XII.

Revelation vi. 12-17. "And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood. And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places, &c."

Revelation xix. 7. "Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready."

A. M. 6300 To 7000. A. D. 2300 To 3000.

XIII.

And after this, on the seventh day of the tenth week, there shall be an everlasting judgment, which shall be executed upon the watchers: and a spacious eternal heaven shall spring forth in the midst of the angels. The former heaven shall pass away; a new heaven shall appear; and all the celestial powers shine with seven-fold splendor for ever. Afterwards likewise shall there be many weeks, which shall eternally exist in goodness and in righteousness. Neither shall sin be named there for ever and ever.

XIII.

Revelation xx. 12. "And the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works."

Revelation xx. 4. "And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto

them."

Revelation xx. 10. "And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone." Revelation xxi. 1. "And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away."

Revelation xxi. 11. "And her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal."

Revelation xxi. 25. "And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there. And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie."

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Revelation xxii. 3. "And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him."

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OBSERVATIONS

ON THE

CHRONOLOGY OF THE BOOK OF ENOCH.

ONE of the most accurate and learned inquirers among those who have endeavoured to reconcile the difficulties of ancient chronology, prefaces a part of his works by this observation*:-" He "who undertakes to unravel and to reconcile "the events of the earliest ages, does indeed

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attempt a task, the extreme labour of which "is enhanced by continual difficulties."

And if this were necessarily always the case, from the inherent obscurity of the subject itself, when considered merely with a reference to

* Perizonii Origines Babylonicæ, p. 1.

+ "Ardui sane et multis difficultatibus impediti laboris "aggreditur opus, qui res antiquissimi temporis eruendas "sibi atque expediendas sumit."

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