All the powers of the world were confederate against Israel, when first God made her a church. And all the powers of the world were confederate when first the gospel was made known. Hell hath been up in arms against it from the beginning. But what a final and decisive answer hath Jehovah given to all the foes of the cross, Psalms 2:1, etc. The distress of foes to the gospel of Christ is here set forth under strong images; as the pains of a woman in travail, willing to flee from the sorrow, but unable.; and the case of the most stately vessels on the water, whose magnitude and strength become as nothing before the violence of the winds and waves: so all foes to Jesus and his Zion must prove. The stone cut without hands must become a mountain and fill the earth; Daniel 2:34.
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Psalms 48:4-7
4 For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.
5 They saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled, and hasted away.
6 Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
7 Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.