The Second Exodus; Or, Reflections On the Prophecies: Relating to the Rise ...
The Second Exodus; Or, Reflections On the Prophecies: Relating to the Rise ...
W Ettrick
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The conquering barbarians very soon tasted and became fully sensible of the advantages of civilization and the roman arts ; and they were amalgamated, and - be« came one people with the conquered.. By sending to the armies numerous levies of bold and hardy soldiers, they for a long time Digitized by CjOOQ IC 358 supplied additional strength and renovated vigour to the effemiiiate romans, and actually- postponed the fall of the empire. They were, in short, so beneficially at this critical time m...ingled with them, and so totally absorbed in the larger body, as to be soon undistin- guishable from the native romans. The mixture of clay with iron in this pas- sage, undoubtedly does mean an admixture 6f two sorts of people of very different de- scription, and with such an effect as the pro- phet mentions, of an 'intimate combination, but without any principle of cohesion and unity common to them both. — ^ Tbey shall mingle themselves with the seed of men^ im- plies as much. The seed of men being in w remarkable a manner contrasted with the race which mingle themselves among them, yet without cleaving one to another^ denotes a very strong opposition of character^ and a con^ trariety of interests and views ^ notwithstand- ing their intimate and universal intermixture, through the whole, papal or catholic empire.
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