“It is easy for God to destroy his foes…..Behold Pharaoh, his wise men, his hosts, and his horses plouting and plunging, and sinking like lead in the Red Sea. Here is the end of one of the greatest plots ever formed against God’s chosen. Of thirty Roman emperors, governors of provinces, and others high in office, who distinguished themselves by their zeal and bitterness in persecuting the early Christians, one became speedily deranged after some atrocious cruelty, one was slain by his own son, one became blind, the eyes of one started out of his head, one was drowned, one was strangled, one died in miserable captivity, one fell dead in a manner that will not bear recital, one died of so loathsome a disease that several of his physicians were put to death because they could not abide the stench that filled his room, two committed suicide, a third attempted it, but had to call for help to finish the work, five were assassinated by their own people or servants, five others died the most miserable and excruciating deaths, several of them having an untold complication of diseases, and eight of them were killed in battle, or having after been taken prisoners. Among those was Julian the apostate (Flavius Claudius Julianus) . In the days of his prosperity he is said to have pointed a dagger to heaven defying the Son of God, whom he commonly called the Galilean. But when he was wounded in battle he saw that all was over with him, and he gathered in his clotted blood, and threw it into the air, exclaiming, ‘Thou has conquered, O Thou Galilean.*’ Voltaire has told us the agonies of Charles IX of France, which drove the blood through the pores of the skin of that miserable monarch, after his cruelties and treachery to the Huguenots.”
Quote on Psalm 2:5,9 in C.H.S.’s Treasury of David (Exposition of the Psalms)
*Battle of Samarra in 363 AD
Wings of the Wind
Quotes#5…William S. Plumer 1867
September 15, 2025“It is easy for God to destroy his foes…..Behold Pharaoh, his wise men, his hosts, and his horses plouting and plunging, and sinking like lead in the Red Sea. Here is the end of one of the greatest plots ever formed against God’s chosen. Of thirty Roman emperors, governors of provinces, and others high in office, who distinguished themselves by their zeal and bitterness in persecuting the early Christians, one became speedily deranged after some atrocious cruelty, one was slain by his own son, one became blind, the eyes of one started out of his head, one was drowned, one was strangled, one died in miserable captivity, one fell dead in a manner that will not bear recital, one died of so loathsome a disease that several of his physicians were put to death because they could not abide the stench that filled his room, two committed suicide, a third attempted it, but had to call for help to finish the work, five were assassinated by their own people or servants, five others died the most miserable and excruciating deaths, several of them having an untold complication of diseases, and eight of them were killed in battle, or having after been taken prisoners. Among those was Julian the apostate (Flavius Claudius Julianus) . In the days of his prosperity he is said to have pointed a dagger to heaven defying the Son of God, whom he commonly called the Galilean. But when he was wounded in battle he saw that all was over with him, and he gathered in his clotted blood, and threw it into the air, exclaiming, ‘Thou has conquered, O Thou Galilean.*’ Voltaire has told us the agonies of Charles IX of France, which drove the blood through the pores of the skin of that miserable monarch, after his cruelties and treachery to the Huguenots.”
Quote on Psalm 2:5,9 in C.H.S.’s Treasury of David (Exposition of the Psalms)
*Battle of Samarra in 363 AD
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