 | Terry Bisson - 1989 - 188 頁
...laid down the yoke he had borne for the sins of men, and that I should take it on and fight against the Serpent, for the time was fast approaching when...first should be last and the last should be first." Other signs in the heavens would show Turner when to begin. He understood that after seeing these signs,... | |
 | Jay Clayton, Eric Rothstein - 1991 - 364 頁
...laid down the yoke he had borne for the sins of men, and that I should take it on and fight against the Serpent, for the time was fast approaching when...first should be last and the last should be first" (Tragle 167). Here Turner recalls the eschatological prophecies of Revelation 20:1-10. For further... | |
 | Leon F. Litwack, August Meier - 1988 - 364 頁
...laid down the yoke he had borne for the sins of men, and that I should take it on and fight against the Serpent, for the time was fast approaching when...first should be last and the last should be first ." At this point Gray asked, "Do you not find yourself mistaken now?" And the man in chains answered... | |
 | Sara M. Evans, Harry C. Boyte - 1992 - 258 頁
...way to Nat Turner, an evangelical Christian who had been seeking a sign that the moment had arrived "when the first should be last and the last should be first." 18 White fears of independent black religious activity spread throughout the country. The Richmond... | |
 | Robert Earl Hood - 220 頁
...to his confessions, this same Holy Spirit directed him to take the yoke of Christ and "fight against the serpent, for the time was fast approaching when the first should be last, and the last should be first."59 After another dream showed him a sign — the eclipse of the sun — he prepared to fight... | |
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I heard a loud noise in the heavens, and the Spirit instantly appeared to me and said the Serpent was loosened, and Christ had laid down the yoke he had borne for the sins of men, and that I should take it on and fight against the Serpent, for the time... 
