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Extravagances of the Apocalyptics, Preadamites, Millenarians, etc.—He who would base extravagant opinions on Scripture, will, for example, base them on this. It is said that "this generation shall not pass till all these things be fulfilled."[236] Upon that I will say that after that generation will come another generation, and so on ever in succession.
Solomon and the King are spoken of in the second book of Chronicles, as if they were two different persons. I will say that they were two.
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Particular Types.—A double law, double tables of the law, a double temple, a double captivity.
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Types.—The prophets prophesied by symbols of a girdle, a beard and burnt hair, etc.
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Difference between dinner and supper.[237]
In God the word does not differ from the intention, for He is true; nor the word from the effect, for He is powerful; nor the means from the effect, for He is wise. Bern., Ult. Sermo in Missam.