5/22/2023 0 Comments Set a watchman![]() ![]() ![]() It signified, however, what should really be done afterward, namely, when the Medes and Persians should march to besiege and attack Babylon. The first chapter of Go Set a Watchman was published at the weekend in the Guardian, 55 years to the day after To Kill a Mockingbird, and embargos have already been broken by reviewers. The reader will observe, that as the command to set a watchman was given to the prophet in a vision, so it was executed by him only in a vision. This emblem exhibits to us the prophet commanded by God to set a watchman, in this verse and, in what follows, the consequence of the execution of the command, namely, that the watchman attended accurately to the least motion of the nations against Babylon, and, after long expectation, had discovered” what is afterward related. ![]() “The Holy Spirit, to make Isaiah, and, by him, the church, most certain of this memorable event, confirms the preceding revelation by an elegant emblem, offered to the prophet in vision. For thus hath the Lord said unto me - I speak only what God hath caused me to see and hear in a vision, the particulars whereof are related in the following verses. ![]()
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