The one place in the corpus where the eruption is read off the news rather than out of an individual, and it is worth holding separately for exactly that reason. Faced with the unrest of the late sixties — the young erupting not in our country alone, in Europe, in Tokyo, and were it known, in Russia — Neville refuses both of the available readings. It is not politics: these kids think that they’re going to change the world. No, to those who understand, they aren’t changing the world. And it is not prophecy about battlefields: so Armageddon is not taking place in the battlefields of the world. Interpret them all to be eruption. What he puts in their place is his own word used at civilisational scale: there’s a tremendous eruption of the truth in the hearts of men, against the entrenched traditions of men, and not confined to Christian lands — truth is not confined that way; it’s confined to God. The young against the old is read straight out of Matthew 10 (man against his father, daughter against mother, daughter-in-law against mother-in-law), so the generational shape of the unrest is taken as the scriptural signature rather than as a social fact. Two things keep it honest. He does not pretend the cost is nothing — on this level as a tax payer you resent the fact they’re burning down these buildings that cost money, and that people who go there to be educated cannot be — and he holds both views at once, because seen from above they’re rejoicing. And the actors are excused rather than praised: they don’t know what they’re doing, they’re only symbols, with Luke 23:34 quoted over them. The remnant arithmetic is the detail that shows he means it structurally: there’s only always at any one time a remnant who erupts, but with three and a half billion alive against a few hundred million two thousand years ago, the same percentage is a far larger crowd. It closes on the clergy — involved in politics, thinking they can buy off the eruption with money — and on the only thing that can inflame the mind, which is someone telling it from experience. BOUNDARY. [in-the-fullness-of-time-it-erupts] is the eruption in a person. This is the same verb applied to a population, and the attach lane (507) deliberately kept these passages off that motif for that reason. Told in one lecture across six passages, which is why it is coined rather than held: it is argued for the whole evening, not mentioned. PROVENANCE. Coined out of sequence at the request of the attach lane, which found the passages while attaching other motifs and reported that nothing in the catalogue held them. The canonical and the occurrences below were read in full before coining; the rest of the corpus-wide set was supplied by the lane and is attached, not read, so the occurrences here carry confidence 0.95 rather than 0.99.
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There’s a tremendous eruption of the truth in the hearts of men
So Armageddon is not taking place in the battlefields of the world
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LectureThe Battle of Armageddon
So Armageddon is not taking place in the battlefields of the world. Interpret them all to be eruption.
Span from: 0
to: 102
Passage revision:
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LectureThe Battle of Armageddon
Today we see the young—that’s only a symbol—erupting not in our country alone, erupting all over the world, in Europe, in Tokyo, and were it known, in Russia.
Span from: 54
to: 212
Passage revision:
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LectureThe Battle of Armageddon
There’s a tremendous eruption of the truth in the hearts of men. It’s not just confined to this platform.
Span from: 118
to: 223
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LectureThe Battle of Armageddon
they’re rejoicing that there’s an eruption of the truth in the hearts of men
Span from: 144
to: 220
Passage revision:
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LectureThe Battle of Armageddon
But whoever is telling it is telling it from an experience. That’s the only thing that can inflame the mind. You can’t go on adding to the traditions of men for that’s dead letters, all dead.
Span from: 206
to: 397
Passage revision:
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LectureThe Battle of Armageddon
Rejoice that in a large section of the world the Word, which is the sword of the Spirit, has erupted and the armies are on the march.
Span from: 243
to: 376
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