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merce and intercourse of peace and war, Moab, 

 and Egypt and Babylon, in a word, the Jewish 

 w^orld;* (for so both the Hebrew and Greek 

 words usually translated the Earth and the 

 AVorld, are often in Scripture-language contracted 

 and limited by the matter in hand) : and, conse- 

 quently, the City of Confusion, which is broken 

 down, a city turned chaos again, as the Hebrew 

 imports. Chap. xxiv. 10; — the city turned into a 

 heap, or a ruin ; nay, in tumulum, as the vulgar 

 Latin, or lU yj^if^oc, as LXX. translate it, into one 

 great sepulchre to itself, buried in its own rub- 

 bish, Chap. XXV. 2; — the lofty city laid low, even 

 to the ground, and abased in the very dust. Chap, 

 xxvi. 5 ; — the city desolate and forsaken, and left 

 wilderness and desert all over. Chap, xxvii. 10. 

 are but so many variations of the phrase, and sig- 

 nify all the same thing, the burning of Jerusalem 

 by Nebuchadnezzar, or Titus, or (as some will 

 have it) by both. 



This sad devastation the Prophet first beholds 

 \n speculo prophetico, sees it from far in his pro- 

 phetic telescope, as clearly and distinctly as if it 

 were. before his eyes, and describes it here and 

 there the whole sermon throughout, but chiefly. 

 Chap. xxiv. in so lofty a language, ,that many 

 have mistaken it for the end of the world, and 

 the consummation of all things. But then, to 

 sweeten so sad a theme, he assures them, it shall 



