unravel them,—here styled by Christ, according to their real nature, “depths of Satan.” “Depths,” as they speak or pretend. Ever since the times of these Jezebelites of Thyatira, and the still earlier times of those false teachers of Corinth, who withstood Paul with their professions of superior wisdom, the defenders and propagators of error have laid claim to deeper insight and profounder views. They are ever boasting of a progressive theology, a system more rational and in harmony with nature,
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