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 and fidelity to Him—not the Lamb. The Son of man judging as the Judge from God, so to speak, not wielding His power as King of kings and Lord of lords.

But upon this judgment (the drying up of the Euphrates), the last struggle must. commences and Satan uses all his energies to prepare his forces: but it is only for the battle of the great day of God Almighty. This is done (being a vision in the midst of the course of the judgment) by the influence and principles of the positive exercise of infidel self-will and enmity to Christ’s power—the concentrating spirit of empire in the beast—the Roman power—and the spirit of popery—here, having changed its secular hierarchical power as a beast for its false influence on minds as a prophet. We see the sort of place this holds in Judah in Jeremiah’s time,