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The genuine reading gives in the first place the translation "the man of lawlessness" that is, the man who came out from a lawless state, from a state in which the ecclesiastical and political laws have been overthrown. For this purpose we must give the following hints: "And the Beast that was and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition. Revel. xvii: 11.
For nineteen hundred years the Church has thus execrated and anathematised Judas Iscariot, Pontius Pilate, the High Priests, the whole Jewish nation and the Roman Empire, and consigned them to eternal perdition, the tormenting flames of an eternal hell, and scattered the Jews to the four quarters of the earth, never ceasing its horrid persecutions, in many places even to this day; and all for what?
On the morning of the 7th, beyond the river, he drove back a large column, capturing General Irwin Gregg. That was a brave resistance made by the old army of Northern Virginia, reader, as it was slowly advancing into the gulf of perdition. Beyond Farmville there was no longer any hope. All was plainly over. I shrink from the picture, but here is that of one of my friends.
He was no longer the credulous yokel who believed the Yankees were only slightly modified devils, ready at any instant to return to their original horn-and-tail condition and snatch him away to the bluest kind of perdition; he knew, apparently quite as well as his master, that they were in some way his friends and allies, and he lost no opportunity in communicating his appreciation of that fact, and of offering his services in any possible way.
This is that deplorable posture, wherein thou mayest perceive most men at the very point of perishing eternally, who are within the pale of the visible church, some dancing themselves headlong in all haste into the lake of fire and brimstone, some so much concerned in things which have no connexion with their happiness, as to drop unconcernedly into the pit, out of which there is no redemption; and others dreaming themselves into endless perdition: and all of them unite in a deriding at, or despising the means used, and essays made, in order to their recovery.
"Down on your knees and swear!" thundered the prince, and the trembling wretch obeyed like a true Russian slave. "Return," added the tyrant, pointing the way, and the next instant he was alone. "Perdition catch me, but this is dreadful. What can have become of that document?" he mused, as he threw himself into his chair. "Who could have taken it?
"You don't know him," said Singleton, biting his lips. "He's nearer being a devil than any other human being." It was a feeling of bitterness, of the deadly wrong done him, that forced him to sarcasm. "The great the good Jordan Morse bah!" he sneered. "If he's 'good, so are fiends from perdition." He sent the last words out between his teeth as if he loathed the idea expressed in them.
And Count Victor, finding all his pleasant anticipations of the character of this baronial dwelling utterly erroneous, mentally condemned Bethune to perdition as he stumbled behind the little grotesque aping the soldier's pompous manner. The door that lent what illumination there was to his entrance was held half open by a man who cast at the visitor a glance wherein were surprise and curiosity.
Well here we all are, as happy as larks; and what we've really done, I suppose, is to take a woman's character away, and give her another push to perdition." "She hadn't any character!" cried Alice Wigram indignantly. "And she would have gone to perdition without us, and taken that poor youth with her. Oh, I know, I know! But morals are a great puzzle to me.
We are under the power and command of Satan, who leadeth us out of the way, yea, and driveth us forward in the wrong way, to our perdition. These things are plain and undeniable, and need no further confirmation; though, alas! it is little believed or laid to heart by many. For the second, how Christ answereth this our case and necessity.
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