separation must be made, for God had begun to judge her. She had already fallen from power; the seductive power of wealth and corruption. She still, it seems, said in her heart, she should be a queen and see no sorrow—still maintained her pride, though she was fallen; and the Church knew God was now judging her.[1] The desolation of all the temporal prosperity of the great city, is sorrow and trouble to the kings of the earth. This seems a distinct thing from the ten horns, hating her and burning her with fire. The kings of the earth are not these specific ten horns; and indeed the. horns were the power of the kingdoms, exercised by the then ruling power, perhaps; but all those who had been dwelling in the security of the settled and ordered earthly system,—the kings of the earth, as the inhabitants of the earth,—those who had been committing fornication with the great whore,—these bewailed her burning.[2] The ten were a definite class, brought forward with the beast, in his last actings against the Lamb, for the accomplishment of which God puts it into their heart to get rid of the
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