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34. That the believer ought not to live
like the Gentile.
In Jeremiah: “Thus saith the Lord,
Walk ye not according to the way of the Gentiles.”4393
Of
this same thing, that one ought to separate himself from the Gentiles,
lest he should be a companion of their sin, and become a partaker of
their penalty, in the Apocalypse: “And I heard another
voice from heaven, saying, Go forth from her, my people, lest thou be
partaker of her crimes, and lest thou be stricken with her plagues;
because her crimes have reached even to heaven, and the Lord God hath
remembered her iniquities. Therefore He hath returned unto her
double, and in the cup which she hath mixed double is mingled for her;
and in how much she hath glorified herself and possessed of delights,
in so much is given unto her both torment and grief. For in her
heart she says, I am a queen, and cannot be a widow, nor shall I see
sorrow. Therefore in one hour her plagues shall come on her,
death, grief, and famine; and she shall be burned with fire, because
the Lord God is strong who shall judge her. And the kings of the
earth shall weep and lament themselves for her, who have committed
fornication with her, and have been conversant in her
sins.”4394
| 4394
Rev. xviii.
4–9. The Oxford
text reads “deliciis” instead of
“delictis,”—making the last clause, “and have
walked in delicacies.” | Also
in Isaiah: “Go forth from the midst of them, ye who bear
the vessels of the Lord.”4395
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