Revelation:11:7-12

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* * And their dead bodies [shall lie ] in the (note :)That is , openly at Rome : where at that time was a most great crowd of people , the year of Jubile being then first ordained by Boniface to the same end , in the year 1300 , an example of which is read in chapter 1 «Extra , de poenitentys strkjv @066:011:008 And their corpses shall lie in the streetes of the great citie , which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt , where our Lord also was crucified . amp ; remissionibus .» So by one act he committed two wrongs against Christ , both abolishing his truth by restoring the type of the Jubile , and triumphing over his members by wicked superstition . O religious heart ! Now that we should understand the things of Rome , John himself is the author , both after in the seventeenth chapter almost throughout , and also in the restriction now next following , when he says , it is that great city (as he calls it ) ( Rev_17:18 ) and is spiritually termed Sodom and Egypt : and that spiritually (for that must here again be repeated from before ) Christ was there crucified . For the two first names signify spiritual wickednesses : the latter signifies the show and pretence of good , that is , of Christian and sound religion . Sodom signifies most licentious impiety and in the most confident glorying of that city , as it were in true religion , being yet full of falsehood and ungodliness . Now who is ignorant that these things do rather , and better fit Rome , than any other city ? The commendations of the city of Rome for many years past , are publicly notorious , which are not for me to gather together . This only I will say , that he long since did very well see what Rome is , who upon leaving , used these verses : «Roma vale , vidi , Satis est vidisse : revertar , Quumleno , meretrix , scurra , cinadus ero .» «Now farewell Rome , I have seen thee , it was enough to see : I will return when as I mean , bawd , harlot knave to be »(:note ) street of the great city , which After a more secret type of meaning and understanding . spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt , Namely in his parts , as also he said to Saul in ( Act_9:5 ) where also our Lord was crucified . * And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies (note :)That is , for three years and a half : for so many years Boniface lived after his Jubile , as Bergomensis witnesses .(:note ) three days and an half , and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves . * And they that dwell upon the earth (note :)So much the more shall they by this occasion exercise the hilarity of their Jubile .(:note ) shall rejoice over them , and make merry , and shall send gifts one to another ; because these two prophets The gospel of Christ is the affliction of the world , and the ministry of it , the savour of death to death , to those that perish , ( 2Co_2:16 ). tormented them that dwelt on the earth . * * And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them , (note :)They were called by God into heaven , and taken out of this wicked world , into the heavenly Church , which also lies hidden here in the earth , to exercise their calling secretly : of whom this wretched world was unworthy ; ( Heb_11:38 ). For the church of the wicked is by comparison called the earth , or the world : and the Church of the godly , heaven . As it was in ancient times among the godly Israelites : so among the Jews in the days of Manasseh and other kings , when the earth refused the heirs of heaven , we read that they lay hidden as heaven in the earth .(:note ) Come up hither . And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud ; Yet they could not hinder the secret ones of the Lord (as the Psalmist called them ) ( Psa_83:3 ) but they prospered in his work . and their enemies beheld them .

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