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On Matt. xxv. 41. 245
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stiek their lives , and their caVcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven , and for the beasts of the earth , and I will make this city desolate ; and an hissing , every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss ,
because of the plagues thereof , and I will cause them to eat the flesh cf their sons ^ and the flesh of their daughters ^ and th £ y shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness , wherewith their enemies , and they that seek their lives shall straiten them . Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go
with thee and shalt say unto them , Thus saith the Lord of Hosts , Even so will I break this people , and this city , as one hreaketh a potter ' s vessel that cannot be made whole again + and they shall bury them in Tophtt ^ till
there be no place to bury * Thus will I do unto this place , saith the Lord , and to the inhabitants thereof , and even make this city as Tophet ; and the housos of Jerusalem , and the houses of the kings of Judah , shall be defiled
as the place of Tophet ^ because of all the houses upon whose
roofs they have burnt incense unto all the host of heaven , and have poured out drink-offerings unto
other Gods . " These prophecies were fulfilled in the siege of Jeru * salem , and therein that ot Ezekiel , chap . vi . 5 . iC And I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel before th < ir i < U > ls , and I will scaiter your bones round about your altars /'
I his valley of Hinnom ^ as we have sivn , is the hell of the New Tesianumt , and Tophet its ever * lasting fire , into which , at the great uuy oi retribution , the
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wicked are to depart ; and may we not conclude , from our Lord ' s denominating the place of future punishment , gehetma , the valley of Hinnom , that as the place of the idolatry and wickedness of the children of Israel was to be the
place of their punishment , and God threatened to make their city as Tophet : so this world , which has been the scene of the idolatry and wickedness of the children of men , will also be the scene of
their punishment ; that by an universal conflagration the world will be converted into a lake of fire , be made as Tophet and as gehemiy the valley of Hinnom , agreeably to the words of Peter / who says , that " the heavens and earth which
are now , are kept in store , reserved unto firt , against the day of judgment ^ and perdition of un . godly men ; '' and again , that God 6
* Turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes , condemned them with an overthrow , making them an ensample unto those that should after live un .
godly ; " or , as Jude expresses it , setting them forth for an example , * suffering the vengeance of eternal fire ; " and , consequently , that the punishment of the wicKed will be by a real , a complete , and an irreparable
destruction . Let us now return to the pas . sage under consideration , and endeavour to ascertain to what our Lord alludes in the Jewish Scriptures , and from whence the
language of the passage is borrowed . That our Lord alludes here to the valley of Hinnom as the place of punishment , 1 think from what has been already sa ? d , cannot be doubted ; and if so , ii will admit of as little doubt , that the Ian *
On Matt. Xxv. 41. 245
On Matt . xxv . 41 . 245
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1810, page 245, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02051810/page/29/
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