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“‘If, however, any shall endeavor to allegorize [prophecies] of this kind, they shall not be found consistent with themselves in all points, and shall be confuted by the teaching of the very expressions [in question] ….
Now all these things being such as they are cannot be understood in reference to super-celestial matters; ‘for God,’ it is said, ‘will show to the whole earth that is under heaven thy glory.'”