Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 64, No. 398, December 1848Various
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 64, No. 398, December 1848
Various
England -- Periodicals; Scotland -- Periodicals
This advance of many warriors upon the capital is an event which,
according to the prophecy, must be accomplished before a full number
of moons is completed, or, it would seem, within the year from the
date of the outbreak of the Revolution. These warriors are not said to
come from any foreign lands. May they be supposed--in accepting the
truth of the prediction--to refer to the march of the national guards
of the departments upon Paris, from all parts of France, at the time
of the outbreak of June? or do the words remain still to be verified
in a more striking manner? The period of the "ten times six moons, and
yet again six times ten moons," of which mention is about to be made,
is peculiarly vague and uncertain, as are the predictions, as far as
time is concerned, of all the events to come. According to the
calculation adopted, this period of time would be that of about nine
years and a quarter. Is the accomplishment of the awful prediction
that follows, to be delayed for such a space of time? An enlightened
churchman has conceived that this calculation of moons refers to the
past period, during which the church was oppressed, and the anger of
the Lord excited in the first French Revolution, when the "measure of
wrath was filled." But, then, is the desolation to come to be
accomplished also, like "the advance of the many warriors," before "a
full number of moons is completed"--_i. e._, within a year? This is
one of the mysterious obscurities already alluded to, which are the
attributes of all prophecy, and of which time alone can give a
solution--if a solution is to be given. The details relative to the
more immediately ensuing events are precise enough: it is only the
date of their accomplishment that seems involved in the dimness of
insolvable obscurity. Thus runs the denunciation--the prediction of
desolation to be poured out like another "vial of wrath" over the
doomed city of Paris.
"It is done! The mountain of the Lord hath cried in its affliction
unto God. The sons of Judah have cried unto God from the land of the
foreigner; and, behold! God is no longer deaf. What fire accompanies
His arrows! Ten times six moons, and yet again six times ten moons,
have fed His wrath. Woe to the great city! Behold the kings armed by
the Lord! But already hath fire levelled thee with the earth. Yet the
faithful shall not perish. God hath heard their prayer. The place of
crime is purified by fire. The waters of the great stream have rolled
on towards the sea all crimsoned with blood. Gaul, as it were
dismembered, is about to reunite. God loves peace. Come, young prince,
quit the isle of captivity. Listen! from the lion to the white flower!
come!"
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