s, the reference by some of the most eminent of their bishops
to the latter-day blessedness, as even then about fulfilling. The state of
things was such, Eusebius tells us, that it looked like 'the very image of
the kingdom of Christ.' The city built by the emperor at Jerusalem, beside
the new and magnificent Church of the Holy Sepulchre,--the sacred capital,
as it were, to the new empire,--might be, perhaps, he suggested, the New
Jerusalem, the theme of so many prophecies. Yet again, on occasion of the
opening of the new church at Tyre, he expressed in the following glowing
language, not his own feelings only, but those, we may be sure, of not a
few of the congregated Christian ministers and people that heard him:
'What so many of the Lord's saints and confessors before our time desired
to see, and saw not, and to hear, and heard not, that behold now before
our eyes! It was of us the prophet spake when he told how the wildernesses
and solitary places should be glad, and the desert rejoice and blossom as
the lily. Whereas the church was widowed and desolate, her children have
now to exclaim to her, Make room, enlarge thy borders! the place is too
strait for us. The promise is fulfilling to her, In righteousness shalt
thou be established: all thy children shall be taught of God: and great
shall be the peace of thy children.' "--_Horae Apoc._, v. i., pp. 230-1.

They rejoiced over the downfall of the dragon as over "the Accuser of our
brethren, who accused them before our God day and night." The phrase "our
brethren," proves that those who unite in this song are the living saints
on the earth. The reference to Satan as an Accuser bears a close
resemblance to Zech. 3:1, where Joshua, as a symbol of the people of
Israel, is represented as standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan
standing at his right hand to resist him.--"{~HEBREW LETTER SHIN~}{~HEBREW LETTER TET~}{~HEBREW LETTER FINAL NUN~} Satan signifies an
_adversary_. {~HEBREW LETTER RESH~}{~HEBREW LETTER SHIN~}{~HEBREW LETTER TET~}{~HEBREW LETTER NUN~}{~HEBREW LETTER VAV~} _lesiteno_, to be his adversary or accuser."--_Dr.
Clark._

Satan's most common work is to invent false accusations against those
whose efforts tend to frustrate his designs. The Christians had endured
false accusations and bitter persecutions, and therefore rejoiced the more
over the defeat of the Pagans.

The Flight of the Woman.

"Woe to the inhabitants of the earth, and of th