FOOTNOTES:
[1] Delivered to the American Christian Missionary Society, Cincinnati, October, 1860.
[2] This is an exact literal version of Rebotayim alphey shenan. The Targum says, "The chariots of God are two myriads—and two thousand angels draw them." A myriad is 10,000—two myriads 20,000. "To know this," Adam Clarke says, "we must die."
[3] So we have always translated this term, in this passage.
[4] From "Sermons for the New Life," published by Charles Scribner's Sons.