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Then, the Supreme authority smitten; but this in a confined sphere with all dependant or subordinate light or authority.

There is then a term introduced, not previously used, save in the address to the Church of Philadelphia, “Woe to the inhabiters of earth!” an expression, I apprehend, taken from Isaiah xxiv., and used in the Apocalypse in contrast with dwellers in heaven, i.e. persons within the range of the prophetic earth, or scene of God’s immediate moral dealings, but not a stranger or sojourner