Anf-03 iv.vi.xiii Pg 7
Rev. xviii. 4. [He understands this of Rome.]
we are called away; much more then from its pomp. The rabble, too, are crowned, at one time because of some great rejoicing for the success of the emperors; at another, on account of some custom belonging to municipal festivals. For luxury strives to make her own every occasion of public gladness. But as for you, you are a foreigner in this world, a citizen of Jerusalem, the city above. Our citizenship, the apostle says, is in heaven.433 433
Anf-03 v.x.ii Pg 17
Rev. xix. 4.
And in other passages: “The children of Israel are my household servants; these are they whom I led forth from the land of Egypt:8243 8243 The words in the Septuagint are: ὃτι ἐμοὶ οἱ υἱοὶτ ᾽Ισραὴλ οἰκέται εἰσίν, παῖδές μου οὗτοί εἰσιν οὕς ἐξήγαγον ἐκ γῆς Αἰγύπτου.
I am the Lord your God. Ye shall not make you idols fashioned by the hand, neither rear you up a graven image. Nor shall ye set up a remarkable stone in your land (to worship it): I am the Lord your God.”8244 8244
Anf-03 v.viii.xxv Pg 5
Rev. xviii.
and that the beast Antichrist with his false prophet may wage war on the Church of God; and that, after the casting of the devil into the bottomless pit for a while,7458 7458
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 18
VERSE (4) - Ge 19:12,13 Nu 16:26,27 Isa 48:20; 52:11 Jer 50:8; 51:6,45,50
