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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on Ezekiel 17:23

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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · 19th-century historical commentary
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under it . . . all fowl--the Gospel "mustard tree," small at first, but at length receiving all under its covert (Mat 13:32); the antithesis to Antichrist, symbolized by Assyria, of which the same is said (Eze 31:6), and Babylon (Dan 4:12). Antichrist assumes in mimicry the universal power really belonging to Christ.
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