_The burden of Babylon_ THE PROPHET’S BURDEN Whenever we find the word “burden” in this association it means oracle, a speech of doom; it is never connected with blessing, hope, enlarged opportunity, or expanded liberty; it always means that judgment is swiftly coming, and may at any moment burst... [ Continue Reading ]
_I will make a man more precious than fine gold_ DEARTH OF MEN A JUDGMENT FROM GOD When God caused His scythe to swing through the harvests of Babylon it was not expected that a single ear would be left in the devastated field. Thus the utterance is a menace, a judgment; it is not part of a lectu... [ Continue Reading ]
_Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them_ THE MEDES The Medes care not for gold, but for blood, though it be the blood of boys and infants. (_Sir E. Strachey, Bart._) THE MEDES AND GOLD “Ye Medes and others who now hear me, I well know that you have not accompanied me in this expedition w... [ Continue Reading ]
_Babylon. .. shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah_ THE RE-ENTRIES OF NATURE All this we may say is historical and local. On the other hand, all this is moral and suggestive. This process may take place in the Babylon of the mind. The greatest mind is only safe whilst it worships. The... [ Continue Reading ]