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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 edition. Excerpt: ... ship shall be brought to nought; and the chariots of his glory shall be the shame of his lord's house, "for Jehovah hath spoken it." It is remarkable that the prophecy in Zechariah quoted above, which alludes to the Lord as "the corner, the nail, and the battle bow," proceeding out of Judah, ends with the words " every oppressor together." Here also there is an apparent allusion to this same antichrist who will combine in himself every species of oppression, and who will be destroyed when, the corner, the nail, and the battle bow of Judah is revealed from heaven as the deliverer of Israel, from the great Pharoah of the earth. CORDS. Some of the Cords were the charge and burden of the Merarites. (Num. iii. 37; iv. 32.) The rest of the Cords were the charge and burden of the Gershonites. (Num. iii. 26; iv. 26.) This is rather a remarkable exception to the arrangement made for the charge and burden of the Tabernacle, its curtains and hangings. In no other instance did the Merarites and Gershonites carry any similar portions of the Tabernacle, but the distribution of the burdens was in every Other case kept quite distinct. It may be that the object of God in thus altering the rule, was to give us a little intimation of a truth important to be remembered, viz., that however varied and different the gifts and occupations of His servants, yet they are members of the one body of Christ. There are mutual interests which link them on together. There are common ties which unite them firmly as one assembly of God's people. There are bands of brotherhood which inseparably bind them in one bundle of life. This same word "Cords" occurs with reference to the cords of a tent. "Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of...