Horae Apocalypticae; or, A commentary on the Apocalypse, critical and historical; including also an examination of the chief prophecies of Daniel . A MARTYRS VASE OF BLOOD, IN THE CATACOMBS AT HOME. From Bokletli. CHAP, v.] THE FIFTH SEAL. 225 of Polycarp.^ But i)ehold, in contravention of such ex-pectations, it was delayed throiigli one, through two cen-turies, and more. From year to year, from reign to blood w\is again and again shed by their enemies,specially in this last and most terrible persecution by Dio-cletian. Then the voice seemed to them to wax louderand louder -. a
Horae Apocalypticae; or, A commentary on the Apocalypse, critical and historical; including also an examination of the chief prophecies of Daniel . A MARTYRS VASE OF BLOOD, IN THE CATACOMBS AT HOME. From Bokletli. CHAP, v.] THE FIFTH SEAL. 225 of Polycarp.^ But i)ehold, in contravention of such ex-pectations, it was delayed throiigli one, through two cen-turies, and more. From year to year, from reign to blood w\is again and again shed by their enemies,specially in this last and most terrible persecution by Dio-cletian. Then the voice seemed to them to wax louderand louder -. and, with a tone of murmuring and impa-tience mixt in it, as well as of suffering,—yea, and withalmost an im])eachment of Gods attributes of holiness andtruth, for having so long spared the guilty, and left hissaints to suffer,—to cry, How long, 0 Lord, holy andtrue, dost thou not avenge our blood on them that dwellon the earth?—In the catacombs at Rome, whither thepersecuted Christians there resident fled for concealmentin those days of trouble, memorials still exist, the most im-pressive and affecting, both of the marti/rs then slain, andof their blood crying as it w^ere from beneath
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