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The Vision of the Flying Roll
v. 1. Then I turned, after an interval of some time, and lifted up mine eyes and looked, and behold a flying roll, a book-scroll, or parchment, of great size, or consisting of many large leaves fastened together.
v. 2. And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I answered, I see a flying roll, a parchment loose or unrolled moving through the air; the length thereof is twenty cubits and the breadth thereof ten cubits, the dimensions approximately ten yards by five yards.
v. 3. Then said he unto me, without waiting for a question on the part of the prophet, This Is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth, as written on the roll; for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it, and every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to it, that is, the sinners who refuse to repent, who persist in their wickedness, must be cut off and removed; the holiness of God cannot rule in any other way.
v. 4. I will bring it forth, namely, the curse and the judgment in agreement with it, saith the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by My name, these two classes of sinners being named as representatives of all unrepentant transgressors; and it shall remain in the midst of his house, lodging there, dwelling there permanently, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof, not leaving a vestige of it. These words are properly expressive of the curse and of the punishment of God upon every form of deliberate transgression. The Lord is like a consuming fire upon everything that is called sin