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In 1730, Jonathan Edwards acquired a book-like, leather-bound manuscript containing an interleaved printed edition of the King James Version of the Bible. Over the next three decades, Edwards proceeded to write in the manuscript more than five thousand notes and entries relating to biblical texts (though paradoxically he called the manuscript his “Blank Bible”). Only a fraction of the entries has...

18:20. “Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets, for God hath avenged you on her.”] The saints will rejoice in seeing vengeance executed on their enemies, upon several accounts. 1. Because they will herein see glorious justice executed, which they will have a more lively sense of in the punishment of that wickedness by which they have so extremely suffered. In that, they will have a more lively sense of the wickedness, for their suffering so much by it. 2. They will rejoice,
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