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Never, Oh! our Lady! never, Oh! our Mother! shalt thou fall again into the crime of idolatry.
Was ever blindness like unto this blindness?
I can imagine but one way of making it seem possible, namely, that this round square or rectilineal curve--this honest Jesuit, I mean--had confined his conception of idolatry to the worship of false gods;--whereas his saints are genuine godlings, and his 'Magna Mater' a goddess in her own right;--and that thus he overlooked the meaning of the word.
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254.
The entire text of the Apostle is as follows:--'Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, that ye be not soon shaken in mind', &c.

(2 Thess.
ii.

1-10.) O Edward Irving! Edward Irving! by what fascination could your spirit be drawn away from passages like this, to guess and dream over the rhapsodies of the Apocalypse?
For rhapsody, according to your interpretation, the Poem undeniably is;--though, rightly expounded, it is a well knit and highly poetical evolution of a part of this and our Lord's more comprehensive prediction, 'Luke' xvii.
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297.
On the ordinary ideas of the coming of Christ in glory and majesty, it will doubtless appear an extravagance to name the Jews, or to take them into consideration; for, according to those ideas, they should hardly have the least particle of our attention.
In comparing this with the preceding chapter I could not help exclaiming; What an excellent book would this Jesuit have written, if Daniel and the Apocalypse had not existed, or had been unknown to, or rejected by, him! You may divide Lacunza's points of belief into two parallel columns;--the first would be found to contain much that is demanded by, much that is consonant to, and nothing that is not compatible with, reason, the harmony of Holy Writ, and the idea of Christian faith.