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commotion. The captivity of the righteous is turned, and with sweet
and solemn whisperings they say to each other, “We are delivered. It
is the voice of God.” With solemn awe they listen to the words of the
voice. The wicked hear, but understand not the words of the voice of
God. They fear and tremble, while the saints rejoice. Satan and his
angels, and wicked men, who had been exulting that the people of God
were in their power, that they might destroy them from off the earth,
witness the glory conferred upon those who have honored the holy
law of God. They behold the faces of the righteous lighted up, and
reflecting the image of Jesus. Those who were so eager to destroy the
saints, could not endure the glory resting upon the delivered ones, and
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they fell like dead men to the earth. Satan and evil angels fled from
the presence of the saints glorified. Their power to annoy them was
gone forever.
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