place of antediluvian evil and wretchedness, in which the children of fallen Adam displayed their character: this closed by the judgment of water, that commenced by that of fire. In the reign of the Son man with his saints, “a king shall reign in righteousness.” In the blessedness of the second Adam, as head of the new race when God’s tabernacle is with men, therein “dwelleth righteousness,” its peaceful and constant habitation without force maintaining it. Partially the principles of these two states mingle, by virtue of the power and influence of the heavenly Jerusalem and its great bridegroom; and so we have Psalm lxxxv. accomplished: still are they different. Upon the close of the thousand years, Satan is let loose,—deceives the nations,—a separation takes place; and he brings up the deceived against the camp of the saints and the beloved city, to wit, the earthly Jerusalem. Then the devil is cast into the lake of fire, where the beast and the false prophet are already, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
The judgment of the beast and his armies, it appears to me, is not the judgment of Matt. xxv, nor is Matt. xxv. the judgment of the great white throne. That judgment in Matthew appears to me to be the judgment of the nations at large, when
