...good report " (Heb. xi. 2) ; and referred to by Isaiah, under the name ancients, in that passage, " Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed,...in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously" (Isai. xxiv. 23). According to this idea, the cherubim in Ezekiel are properly represented as under...

...changed as a vesture, and hide themselves from his sight. It answereth also to that prophecy of Isaiah, " Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed,...and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously " (Isai. xxiv. 23) ; as it is expanded and enlarged in the Ixvth of the same prophet, and appropriated...

...time, as appears from the same chapter, when " the Lord shall punish the kings of the earth," and " then the moon shall be confounded ' and the sun ashamed,...in Jerusalem and before * his ancients gloriously." (vv. 21 — 23.) This connects the signs in the luminaries, and the consumption decreed upon the Gentiles,...

...the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth that are on the earth," that " ed you, th'at cast you out for my name's sake, before his ancients gloriously." And in the following chapter the prophet speaks of the resurrection...

...gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited. . . 23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun...in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously. . ISAIAH, xxv. The prophet praiseth God for his judgments, and for his victorious salvation. 1 O LORD,...

...temple of it : for the glory of the God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof." (xxi. 22, 23.) " Then the moon shall be confounded, and the...in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously." (Isa. xxiv.22, 23.) " And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding...

...Gor. i. 19. Isai. Ixiv. 6. » Luke i. 52, 53. Jam. iv. 6. DCCCXC. THE REIGN OF CHRIST GLORIOUS. Isai. xxiv. 23. Then the moon shall be confounded, and the...reign in Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his antients, gloriously. THE chapter before us seems to refer to the destruction of the Jewish Church...

...that doeth good ; no not one." Then the glory of His brightness will eclipse every lesser light ; " then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed,...in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously." Then the wheat and the chaff will be thoroughly winnowed and separated. " The hail shall sweep away...

...not cause her light to shine. /*• - xiii. 10. Then (in the- puniihment of the kings of the earth) the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed,...in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously. I. ,n. xxiv. 23. I form the light, and create darkness (laid God), lia. xlv. 7- The sun and moon stood...

...he shall appear in his glory'." And great indeed will be the splendour of that day : " The moon will be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the Lord of Hosts shall reign in Mount Zion, and before his ancients, gloriously V] Yet let us not imagine that these blessings are so reserved for...