on earth[1] in the crisis among the Jewish people.[2] The next characteristic was, “power was given him over all kindreds, tongues and nations:” this still was characteristic. It was to be the dominant power on the earth, assuming and giving authority over the various subject nations.
There was another point connected with this manifestation not exactly characteristic as given to him, but a consequence, a resulting fact. All the dwellers upon earth should worship him. Their character we have already noticed; those who, living within the sphere of the application of the word and its light, the formed scene of God’s revealed moral providence, have not their πολίτευμα ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς, are not dwellers in heaven, and as strangers and pilgrims seek a country, but “dwell upon the earth.” These were not written (for such was the security of the others) from the foundation of the world, in the book of life of the Lamb that was slain; characterized, not only by the book of life, but the sufferings[3] of the Holy One—with whom they were associated as strangers and
