1 Kings 18:39 And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, The LORD, he is the God; the LORD, he is the God. "There was a time, towards the close of the fifteenth century, when the devoted monk and martyr, Savonarola, seemed to have set up the kingdom of Christ in his beloved city of Florence. How he remodelled the Republican government; how he tamed the mischievous boys of the city; how at his bidding the people kindled in the great Piazza, during the Carnival of 1496, the strange Bonfire of Vanities; how the watchword of Florence became, 'Viva Gesu Cristo, nostro Re' — Long live Jesus Christ, our King: there are few histories like it. It was an Italian theocracy. It was a day of heaven on the earth. 'So much joy was there in all hearts,' one of the chroniclers tells us, 'that the glory of Paradise seemed to have descended to this lower world.' The pity is that the Golden Age of Florence was so transient and brief-lived." (Sunday School Teacher.) Parallel Verses KJV: And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, The LORD, he is the God; the LORD, he is the God. |
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