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Sreesanth, Shabbir dance with Munna Bhai
H2O for life: Providing clean water to schools
Soulful KK graces the telethon
Bad man stands up for a good cause
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The Giants aren't really, er, a heroic team, I guess and I can't lie, I am rather starved for heroics at the moment. (Remember when Edgar did things like hitting grandslams in key games against the Rockies? Those were the days, people.) Which is basically to say that if Rubén Amaro Jr. ever loses his mind for 24 hours and feels the desire to trade Halladay for a couple of low-A prospects, I would not be at all adverse to the idea.
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In one gust of thick blue smoke.
My hair- heck, any of me- is not what we would call "anaconda friendly".
Goodbye, dreams of my childhood. Unfortunately, Roy Halladay is not there to rescue me most of the time so I think I will have to avoid your land.
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I bought his dress online & I really should have listened to the other reviews. They were right, the shoulder cut outs make a complete mess of this dress. They dont fit right & you will spend the entire night adjusting them. The same day I got it I took it back & ended up finding something much better. Also the material is very thin & feels cheap.
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this a a very pretty bodycon dress. the only down side is how the cold shoulder cut is. maybe it is my arms but the straps seems to not be placed correctly. i tried on the small and everything fits. when i tried on the m, it was too big. I ended up getting the small and through the night when i wore it, i kept finding myself pulling up the sleeves to adjust the cut out cold shoulder. i would only recommend this dress to someone with very skinny arms.
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Love this dress! It fits in all the right places and is very sexy! I got this dress in the nude color! Love how the cut out shoulders make this dress pop. I wish it came in the peach/pink color for Spring or for VDay. Can't wait to wear it!!
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Great Little Black Dress
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Not what it appears!
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The baby weighed 6 lbs., 14.9 oz. and was 18 inches long.
The mother is the former Jana Hoffman of Yazoo City.
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One of the angels who had the vials, explains the meaning of the former vision of the antichristian beast that was to reign 1260 years, and then to be destroyed. (1-6) And interprets the mystery of the woman, and the beast that had seven heads and ten horns. (7-18)
Verses 1-6 Rome clearly appears to be meant in this chapter. Pagan Rome subdued and ruled with military power, not by art and flatteries. She left the nations in general to their ancient usages and worship. But it is well known that by crafty and politic management, with all kinds of deceit of unrighteousness, papal Rome has obtained and kept her rule over kings and nations. Here were allurements of worldly honour and riches, pomp and pride, suited to sensual and worldly minds. Prosperity, pomp, and splendour, feed the pride and lusts of the human heart, but are no security against the Divine vengeance. The golden cup represents the allurements, and delusions, by which this mystical Babylon has obtained and kept her influence, and seduced others to join her abominations. She is named, from her infamous practices, a mother of harlots; training them up to idolatry and all sorts of wickedness. She filled herself with the blood of the saints and martyrs of Jesus. She intoxicated herself with it; and it was so pleasant to her, that she never was satisfied. We cannot but wonder at the oceans of Christian blood shed by men called Christians; yet when we consider these prophecies, these awful deeds testify to the truth of the gospel. And let all beware of a splendid, gainful, or fashionable religion. Let us avoid the mysteries of iniquity, and study diligently the great mystery of godliness, that we may learn humility and gratitude from the example of Christ. The more we seek to resemble him, the less we shall be liable to be deceived by antichrist.
Verses 7-14 The beast on which the woman sat was, and is not, and yet is. It was a seat of idolatry and persecution, and is not; not in the ancient form, which was pagan: yet it is; it is truly the seat of idolatry and tyranny, though of another sort and form. It would deceive into stupid and blind submission all the inhabitants of the earth within its influence, except the remnant of the elect. This beast was seven heads, seven mountains, the seven hills on which Rome stands; and seven kings, seven sorts of government. Five were gone by when this prophecy was written; one was then in being; the other was yet to come. This beast, directed by the papacy, makes an eighth governor, and sets up idolatry again. It had ten horns, which are said to be ten kings who had as yet no kingdoms; they should not rise up till the Roman empire was broken; but should for a time be very zealous in her interest. Christ must reign till all enemies be put under his feet. The reason of the victory is, that he is the King of kings, and Lord of lords. He has supreme dominion and power over all things; all the powers of earth and hell are subject to his control. His followers are called to this warfare, are fitted for it, and will be faithful in it.
Verses 15-18 God so ruled the hearts of these kings, by his power over them, and by his providence, that they did those things, without intending it, which he purposed and foretold. They shall see their folly, and how they have been bewitched and enslaved by the harlot, and be made instruments in her destruction. She was that great city which reigned over the kings of the earth, when John had this vision; and every one knows Rome to be that city. Believers will be received to the glory of the Lord, when wicked men will be destroyed in a most awful manner; their joining together in sin, will be turned to hatred and rage, and they will eagerly assist in tormenting each other. But the Lord's portion is his people; his counsel shall stand, and he will do all his pleasure, to his glory, and the happiness of all his servants.
Revelation 17:1-18 . THE HARLOT BABYLON'S GAUD: THE BEAST ON WHICH SHE RIDES, HAVING SEVEN HEADS AND TEN HORNS, SHALL BE THE INSTRUMENT OF JUDGMENT ON HER.
As Revelation 16:12 stated generally the vial judgment about to be poured on the harlot, Babylon's power, as the seventeenth and eighteen chapters give the same in detail, so the nineteenth chapter gives in detail the judgment on the beast and the false prophet, summarily alluded to in Revelation 16:13-15 , in connection with the Lord's coming.
1. unto me--A, B, Vulgate, Syriac, and Coptic omit.
many--So A. But B, "the many waters" ( Jeremiah 51:13 ); Revelation 17:15 , below, explains the sense. The whore is the apostate Church, just as "the woman" ( Revelation 12:1-6 ) is the Church while faithful. Satan having failed by violence, tries too successfully to seduce her by the allurements of the world; unlike her Lord, she was overcome by this temptation; hence she is seen sitting on the scarlet-colored beast, no longer the wife, but the harlot; no longer Jerusalem, but spiritually Sodom ( Revelation 11:8 ).
2. drunk with--Greek, "owing to." It cannot be pagan Rome, but papal Rome, if a particular seat of error be meant, but I incline to think that the judgment ( Revelation 18:2 ) and the spiritual fornication ( Revelation 18:3 ), though finding their culmination in Rome, are not restricted to it, but comprise the whole apostate Church, Roman, Greek, and even Protestant, so far as it has been seduced from its "first love" ( Revelation 2:4 ) to Christ, the heavenly Bridegroom, and given its affections to worldly pomps and idols. The woman ( Revelation 12:1 ) is the congregation of God in its purity under the Old and New Testament, and appears again as the Bride of the Lamb, the transfigured Church prepared for the marriage feast. The woman, the invisible Church, is latent in the apostate Church, and is the Church militant; the Bride is the Church triumphant.
3. the wilderness--Contrast her in Revelation 12:6 Revelation 12:14 , having a place in the wilderness-world, but not a home; a sojourner here, looking for the city to come. Now, on the contrary, she is contented to have her portion in this moral wilderness.
upon a scarlet . . . beast--The same as in Revelation 13:1 , who there is described as here, "having seven heads and ten horns (therein betraying that he is representative of the dragon, Revelation 12:3 ), and upon his heads names (so the oldest manuscripts read) of blasphemy"; compare also Revelation 17:12-14 , below, with Revelation 19:19 Revelation 19:20 , and Revelation 17:13 Revelation 17:14 Revelation 17:16 . Rome, resting on the world power and ruling it by the claim of supremacy, is the chief, though not the exclusive, representative of this symbol. As the dragon is fiery-red, so the beast is blood-red in color; implying its blood-guiltiness, and also deep-dyed sin. The scarlet is also the symbol of kingly authority.
full--all over; not merely "on his heads," as in Revelation 13:1 , for its opposition to God is now about to develop itself in all its intensity. Under the harlot's superintendence, the world power puts forth blasphemous pretensions worse than in pagan days. So the Pope is placed by the cardinals in God's temple on the altar to sit there, and the cardinals kiss the feet of the Pope. This ceremony is called in Romish writers "the adoration." [Historie de Clerge, Amsterd., 1716; and LETTENBURGH'S Notitia Curiæ Romanæ, 1683, p. 125; HEIDEGGER, Myst. Bab., 1, 511, 514, 537]; a papal coin [Numismata Pontificum, Paris, 1679, p. 5] has the blasphemous legend, "Quem creant, adorant." Kneeling and kissing are the worship meant by John's word nine times used in respect to the rival of God (Greek, "proskunein"). Abomination, too, is the scriptural term for an idol, or any creature worshipped with the homage due to the Creator. Still, there is some check on the God-opposed world power while ridden by the harlot; the consummated Antichrist will be when, having destroyed her, the beast shall be revealed as the concentration and incarnation of all the self-deifying God-opposed principles which have appeared in various forms and degrees heretofore. "The Church has gained outward recognition by leaning on the world power which in its turn uses the Church for its own objects; such is the picture here of Christendom ripe for judgment" [AUBERLEN]. The seven heads in the view of many are the seven successive forms of government of Rome: kings, consuls, dictators, decemvirs, military tribunes, emperors, the German emperors [WORDSWORTH], of whom Napoleon is the successor ( Revelation 17:11 ). But see the view given, which I prefer. The crowns formerly on the ten horns ( Revelation 13:1 ) have now disappeared, perhaps an indication that the ten kingdoms into which the Germanic-Slavonic world [the old Roman empire, including the East as well as the West, the two legs of the image with five toes on each, that is, ten in all] is to be divided, will lose their monarchical form in the end [AUBERLEN]; but see Revelation 17:12 , which seems to imply crowned kings.
4. The color scarlet, it is remarkable, is that reserved for popes and cardinals. Paul II made it penal for anyone but cardinals to wear hats of scarlet; compare Roman Ceremonial [3.5.5]. This book was compiled several centuries ago by MARCELLUS, a Romish archbishop, and dedicated to Leo X. In it are enumerated five different articles of dress of scarlet color. A vest is mentioned studded with pearls. The Pope's miter is of gold and precious stones. These are the very characteristics outwardly which Revelation thrice assigns to the harlot or Babylon. So Joachim an abbot from Calabria, about A.D. 1200, when asked by Richard of England, who had summoned him to Palestine, concerning Antichrist, replied that "he was born long ago at Rome, and is now exalting himself above all that is called God." ROGER HOVEDEN [Annals, 1.2], and elsewhere, wrote, "The harlot arrayed in gold is the Church of Rome." Whenever and wherever (not in Rome alone) the Church, instead of being "clothed (as at first, Revelation 12:1 ) with the sun" of heaven, is arrayed in earthly meretricious gauds, compromising the truth of God through fear, or flattery, of the world's power, science, or wealth, she becomes the harlot seated on the beast, and doomed in righteous retribution to be judged by the beast ( Revelation 17:16 ). Soon, like Rome, and like the Jews of Christ's and the apostles' time leagued with the heathen Rome, she will then become the persecutor of the saints ( Revelation 17:6 ). Instead of drinking her Lord's "cup" of suffering, she has "a cup full of abominations and filthinesses." Rome, in her medals, represents herself holding a cup with the self-condemning inscription, "Sedet super universum." Meanwhile the world power gives up its hostility and accepts Christianity externally; the beast gives up its God-opposed character, the woman gives up her divine one. They meet halfway by mutual concessions; Christianity becomes worldly, the world becomes Christianized. The gainer is the world; the loser is the Church. The beast for a time receives a deadly wound ( Revelation 13:3 ), but is not really transfigured; he will return worse than ever ( Revelation 17:11-14 ). The Lord alone by His coming can make the kingdoms of this world become the kingdoms of our Lord and His Christ. The "purple" is the badge of empire; even as in mockery it was put on our Lord.
decked--literally, "gilded."
stones--Greek, "stone."
filthiness--A, B, and ANDREAS read, "the filthy (impure) things."
5. upon . . . forehead . . . name--as harlots usually had. What a contrast to "HOLINESS TO THE LORD," inscribed on the miter on the high priest's forehead!
mystery--implying a spiritual fact heretofore hidden, and incapable of discovery by mere reason, but now revealed. As the union of Christ and the Church is a "great mystery" (a spiritual truth of momentous interest, once hidden, now revealed, Ephesians 5:31 Ephesians 5:32 ), so the Church conforming to the world and thereby becoming a harlot is a counter "mystery" (or spiritual truth, symbolically now revealed). As iniquity in the harlot is a leaven working in "mystery," and therefore called "the mystery of iniquity," so when she is destroyed, the iniquity heretofore working (comparatively) latently in her, shall be revealed in the man of iniquity, the open embodiment of all previous evil. Contrast the "mystery of God" and "godliness," Revelation 10:7 , 1 Timothy 3:16 . It was Rome that crucified Christ; that destroyed Jerusalem and scattered the Jews; that persecuted the early Christians in pagan times, and Protestant Christians in papal times; and probably shall be again restored to its pristine grandeur, such as it had under the Cæsars, just before the burning of the harlot and of itself with her. So HIPPOLYTUS [On Antichrist] (who lived in the second century), thought. Popery cannot be at one and the same time the "mystery of iniquity," and the manifested or revealed Antichrist. Probably it will compromise for political power ( Revelation 17:3 ) the portion of Christianity still in its creed, and thus shall prepare the way for Antichrist's manifestation. The name Babylon, which in the image, Daniel 2:32 Daniel 2:38 , is given to the head, is here given to the harlot, which marks her as being connected with the fourth kingdom, Rome, the last part of the image. Benedict XIII, in his indiction for a jubilee, A.D. 1725, called Rome "the mother of all believers, and the mistress of all churches" (harlots like herself). The correspondence of syllables and accents in Greek is striking; "He porne kai to therion; He numphe kai to arnion." "The whore and the beast; the Bride and the Lamb."
of harlots--Greek, "of the harlots and of the abominations." Not merely Rome, but Christendom as a whole, even as formerly Israel as a whole, has become a harlot. The invisible Church of true believers is hidden and dispersed in the visible Church. The boundary lines which separate harlot and woman are not denominational nor drawn externally, but can only be spiritually discerned. If Rome were the only seat of Babylon, much of the spiritual profit of Revelation would be lost to us; but the harlot "sitteth upon many waters" ( Revelation 17:1 ), and "ALL nations have drunk of the wine of her fornication" ( Revelation 17:2 , Revelation 18:3 ; "the earth," Revelation 19:2 ). External extensiveness over the whole world and internal conformity to the world--worldliness in extent and contents--is symbolized by the name of the world city, "Babylon." As the sun shines on all the earth, thus the woman clothed with the sun is to let her light penetrate to the uttermost parts of the earth. But she, in externally Christianizing the world, permits herself to be seduced by the world; thus her universality or catholicity is not that of the Jerusalem which we look for ("the MOTHER of us all," Revelation 21:2 Isaiah 2:2-4 Galatians 4:26 ), but that of Babylon, the world-wide but harlot city! (As Babylon was destroyed, and the Jews restored to Jerusalem by Cyrus, so our Cyrus--a Persian name meaning the sun--the Sun of righteousness, shall bring Israel, literal and spiritual, to the holy Jerusalem at His coming. Babylon and Jerusalem are the two opposite poles of the spiritual world). Still, the Romish Church is not only accidentally and as a matter of fact, but in virtue of its very PRINCIPLE, a harlot, the metropolis of whoredom, "the mother of harlots"; whereas the evangelical Protestant Church is, according to her principle and fundamental creed, a chaste woman; the Reformation was a protest of the woman against the harlot. The spirit of the heathen world kingdom Rome had, before the Reformation, changed the Church in the West into a Church-State, Rome; and in the East, into a State-Church, fettered by the world power, having its center in Byzantium; the Roman and Greek churches have thus fallen from the invisible spiritual essence of the Gospel into the elements of the world [AUBERLEN]. Compare with the "woman" called "Babylon" here, the woman named "wickedness," or "lawlessness," "iniquity" ( Zechariah 5:7 Zechariah 5:8 Zechariah 5:11 ), carried to Babylon: compare "the mystery of iniquity" and "the man of sin," "that wicked one," literally, "the lawless one" ( 2 Thessalonians 2:7 2 Thessalonians 2:8 ; also Matthew 24:12 ).
6. martyrs--witnesses.
I wondered with great admiration--As the Greek is the same in the verb and the noun, translate the latter "wonder." John certainly did not admire her in the modern English sense. Elsewhere ( Revelation 17:8 , 13:3 ), all the earthly-minded ("they that dwell on the earth") wonder in admiration of the beast. Here only is John's wonder called forth; not the beast, but the woman sunken into the harlot, the Church become a world-loving apostate, moves his sorrowful astonishment at so awful a change. That the world should be beastly is natural, but that the faithful bride should become the whore is monstrous, and excites the same amazement in him as the same awful change in Israel excited in Isaiah and Jeremiah. "Horrible thing" in them answers to "abominations" here. "Corruptio optimi pessima"; when the Church falls, she sinks lower than the godless world, in proportion as her right place is higher than the world. It is striking that in Revelation 17:3 , "woman" has not the article, "the woman," as if she had been before mentioned: for though identical in one sense with the woman, Revelation 12:1-6 , in another sense she is not. The elect are never perverted into apostates, and still remain as the true woman invisibly contained in the harlot; yet Christendom regarded as the woman has apostatized from its first faith.
8. beast . . . was, and is not--(Compare Revelation 17:11 ). The time when the beast "is not" is the time during which it has "the deadly wound"; the time of the seventh head becoming Christian externally, when its beast-like character was put into suspension temporarily. The healing of its wound answers to its ascending out of the bottomless pit. The beast, or Antichristian world power, returns worse than ever, with satanic powers from hell ( Revelation 11:7 ), not merely from the sea of convulsed nations ( Revelation 13:1 ). Christian civilization gives the beast only a temporary wound, whence the deadly wound is always mentioned in connection with its being healed up the non-existence of the beast in connection with its reappearance; and Daniel does not even notice any change in the world power effected by Christianity. We are endangered on one side by the spurious Christianity of the harlot, on the other by the open Antichristianity of the beast; the third class is Christ's little flock."
go--So B, Vulgate, and ANDREAS read the future tense. But A and IRENÆUS, "goeth."
into perdition--The continuance of this revived seventh (that is, the eighth) head is short: it is therefore called "the son of perdition," who is essentially doomed to it almost immediately after his appearance.
names were--so Vulgate and ANDREAS. But A, B, Syriac, and Coptic read the singular, "name is."
written in--Greek, "upon."
which--rather, "when they behold the beast that it was," &c. So Vulgate.
was, and is not, and yet is--A, B, and ANDREAS read, "and shall come" (literally, "be present," namely, again: Greek, "kai parestai"). The Hebrew, "tetragrammaton," or sacred four letters in Jehovah, "who is, who was, and who is to come," the believer's object of worship, has its contrasted counterpart in the beast "who was, and is not, and shall be present," the object of the earth's worship [BENGEL]. They exult with wonder in seeing that the beast which had seemed to have received its death blow from Christianity, is on the eve of reviving with greater power than ever on the ruins of that religion which tormented them ( Revelation 11:10 ).
9. Compare Revelation 13:18 , Daniel 12:10 , where similarly spiritual discernment is put forward as needed in order to understand the symbolical prophecy.
seven heads and seven mountains--The connection between mountains and kings must be deeper than the mere outward fact to which incidental allusion is made, that Rome (the then world city) is on seven hills (whence heathen Rome had a national festival called Septimontium, the feast of the seven-hilled city [PLUTARCH]; and on the imperial coins, just as here, she is represented as a woman seated on seven hills. Coin of Vespasian, described by CAPTAIN SMYTH [Roman Coins, p. 310; ACKERMAN, 1, p. 87]). The seven heads can hardly be at once seven kings or kingdoms ( Revelation 17:10 ), and seven geographical mountains. The true connection is, as the head is the prominent part of the body, so the mountain is prominent in the land. Like "sea" and "earth"and "waters . . . peoples" ( Revelation 17:15 ), so "mountains" have a symbolical meaning, namely, prominent seats of power. Especially such as are prominent hindrances to the cause of God ( Psalms 68:16 Psalms 68:17 , Isaiah 40:4 , 41:15 , 49:11 , Ezekiel 35:2 ); especially Babylon (which geographically was in a plain, but spiritually is called a destroying mountain, Jeremiah 51:25 ), in majestic contrast to which stands Mount Zion, "the mountain of the Lord's house" ( Isaiah 2:2 ), and the heavenly mount; Revelation 21:10 , "a great and high mountain . . . and that great city, the holy Jerusalem." So in Daniel 2:35 , the stone becomes a mountain--Messiah's universal kingdom supplanting the previous world kingdoms. As nature shadows forth the great realities of the spiritual world, so seven-hilled Rome is a representative of the seven-headed world power of which the dragon has been, and is the prince. The "seven kings" are hereby distinguished from the "ten kings" ( Revelation 17:12 ):the former are what the latter are not, "mountains," great seats of the world power. The seven universal God-opposed monarchies are Egypt (the first world power which came into collision with God's people,) Assyria, Babylon, Greece, Medo-Persia, Rome, the Germanic-Slavonic empire (the clay of the fourth kingdom mixed with its iron in Nebuchadnezzar's image, a fifth material, Daniel 2:33 Daniel 2:34 Daniel 2:42 Daniel 2:43 , symbolizing this last head). These seven might seem not to accord with the seven heads in Daniel 7:4-7 , one head on the first beast (Babylon), one on the second (Medo-Persia), four on the third (Greece; namely, Egypt, Syria, Thrace with Bithynia, and Greece with Macedon): but Egypt and Greece are in both lists. Syria answers to Assyria (from which the name Syria is abbreviated), and Thrace with Bithynia answers to the Gothic-Germanic-Slavonic hordes which, pouring down on Rome from the North, founded the Germanic-Slavonic empire. The woman sitting on the seven hills implies the Old and New Testament Church conforming to, and resting on, the world power, that is, on all the seven world kingdoms. Abraham and Isaac dissembling as to their wives through fear of the kings of Egypt foreshadowed this. Compare Ezekiel 16:1-63 , 23:1-49 , on Israel's whoredoms with Egypt, Assyria, Babylon; and Matthew 7:24 , Matthew 24:10-12 Matthew 24:23-26 , on the characteristics of the New Testament Church's harlotry, namely, distrust, suspicion, hatred, treachery, divisions into parties, false doctrine.
10. there are--Translate, "they (the seven heads) are seven kings."
five . . . one--Greek, "the five . . . the one"; the first five of the seven are fallen (a word applicable not to forms of government passing away, but to the fall of once powerful empires: Egypt, Ezekiel 29:1-30:26'; Assyria and Nineveh, Nahum 3:1-19 ; Babylon, Revelation 18:2'Jeremiah 50:1-51:64'; Medo-Persia, Daniel 8:3-7 Daniel 8:20-22 , 10:13 , 11:2 ; Greece, Daniel 11:4 ). Rome was "the one" existing in John's days. "Kings" is the Scripture phrase for kingdoms, because these kingdoms are generally represented in character by some one prominent head, as Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar, Medo-Persia by Cyrus, Greece by Alexander, &c.
the other is not yet come--not as ALFORD, inaccurately representing AUBERLEN, the Christian empire beginning with Constantine; but, the Germanic-Slavonic empire beginning and continuing in its beast-like, that is, HEATHEN Antichristian character for only "a short space." The time when it is said of it, "it is not" ( Revelation 17:11 ), is the time during which it is "wounded to death," and has the "deadly wound" ( Revelation 13:3 ). The external Christianization of the migrating hordes from the North which descended on Rome, is the wound to the beast answering to the earth swallowing up the flood (heathen tribes) sent by the dragon, Satan, to drown the woman, the Church. The emphasis palpably is on "a short space," which therefore comes first in the Greek, not on "he must continue," as if his continuance for some [considerable] time were implied, as ALFORD wrongly thinks. The time of external Christianization (while the beast's wound continues) has lasted for centuries, ever since Constantine. Rome and the Greek Church have partially healed the wound by image worship.
11. beast that . . . is not--his beastly character being kept down by outward Christianization of the state until he starts up to life again as "the eighth" king, his "wound being healed" ( Revelation 13:3 ), Antichrist manifested in fullest and most intense opposition to God. The "he" is emphatic in the Greek. He, peculiarly and pre-eminently: answering to "the little horn" with eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things, before whom three of the ten horns were plucked up by the roots, and to whom the whole ten "give their power and strength" ( Revelation 17:12 Revelation 17:13 Revelation 17:17 ). That a personal Antichrist will stand at the head of the Antichristian kingdom, is likely from the analogy of Antiochus Epiphanes, the Old Testament Antichrist, "the little horn" in Daniel 8:9-12 ; also, "the man of sin, son of perdition" ( 2 Thessalonians 2:3-8 ), answers here to "goeth into perdition," and is applied to an individual, namely, Judas, in the only other passage where the phrase occurs ( John 17:12 ). He is essentially a child of destruction, and hence he has but a little time ascended out of the bottomless pit, when he "goes into perdition" ( Revelation 17:8 Revelation 17:11 ). "While the Church passes through death of the flesh to glory of the Spirit, the beast passes through the glory of the flesh to death" [AUBERLEN].
is of the seven--rather "springs out of the seven." The eighth is not merely one of the seven restored, but a new power or person proceeding out of the seven, and at the same time embodying all the God-opposed features of the previous seven concentrated and consummated; for which reason there are said to be not eight, but only seven heads, for the eighth is the embodiment of all the seven. In the birth-pangs which prepare the "regeneration" there are wars, earthquakes, and disturbances [AUBERLEN], wherein Antichrist takes his rise ("sea," Revelation 13:1 , 13:8 , Luke 21:9-11 ). He does not fall like the other seven ( Revelation 17:10 ), but is destroyed, going to his own perdition, by the Lord in person.
12. ten kings . . . received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings . . . with the beast--Hence and from Revelation 17:14 Revelation 17:16 , it seems that these ten kings or kingdoms, are to be contemporaries with the beast in its last or eighth form, namely, Antichrist. Compare Daniel 2:34 Daniel 2:44 , "the stone smote the image upon his feet," that is, upon the ten toes, which are, in Daniel 2:41-44 , interpreted to be "kings." The ten kingdoms are not, therefore, ten which arose in the overthrow of Rome (heathen), but are to rise out of the last state of the fourth kingdom under the eighth head. I agree with ALFORD that the phrase "as kings," implies that they reserve their kingly rights in their alliance with the beast, wherein "they give their power and strength unto" him ( Revelation 17:13 ). They have the name of kings, but not with undivided kingly power [WORDSWORTH]. See AUBERLEN'S not so
one hour--a definite time of short duration, during which "the devil is come down to the inhabitant of the earth and of the sea, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time." Probably the three and a half years ( Revelation 11:2 Revelation 11:3 , 13:5 ). Antichrist is in existence long before the fall of Babylon; but it is only at its fail he obtains the vassalage of the ten kings. He in the first instance imposes on the Jews as the Messiah, coming in his own name; then persecutes those of them who refuse his blasphemous pretensions. Not until the sixth vial, in the latter part of his reign, does he associate the ten kings with him in war with the Lamb, having gained them over by the aid of the spirits of devils working miracles. His connection with Israel appears from his sitting "in the temple of God" ( 2 Thessalonians 2:4 ), and as the antitypical "abomination of desolation standing in the Holy place" ( Daniel 9:27 , 12:11 , Matthew 24:15 ), and "in the city where our Lord was crucified" ( Revelation 11:8 ). It is remarkable that IRENÆUS [Against Heresies, 5:25] and CYRIL OF JERUSALEM [RUFINUS, Historia Monachorum, 10.37] prophesied that Antichrist would have his seat at Jerusalem and would restore the kingdom of the Jews. JULIAN the apostate, long after, took part with the Jews, and aided in building their temple, herein being Antichrist's forerunner.
13. one mind--one sentiment.
shall give--So Coptic. But A, B, and Syriac, "give."
strength--Greek, "authority." They become his dependent allies ( Revelation 17:14 ). Thus Antichrist sets up to be King of kings, but scarcely has he put forth his claim when the true KING OF KINGS appears and dashes him down in a moment to destruction.
14. These shall . . . war with the Lamb--in league with the beast. This is a summary anticipation of Revelation 19:19 . This shall not be till after they have first executed judgment on the harlot ( Revelation 17:15 Revelation 17:16 ).
Lord of lords, &c.--anticipating Revelation 19:16 .
are--not in the Greek. Therefore translate, "And they that are with Him, called chosen, and faithful (shall overcome them, namely, the beast and his allied kings)." These have been with Christ in heaven unseen, but now appear with Him.
15. ( Revelation 17:1 , Isaiah 8:7 .) An impious parody of Jehovah who "sitteth upon the flood" [ALFORD]. Also, contrast the "many waters" Revelation 19:6 , "Alleluia."
peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues--The "peoples," &c. here mark the universality of the spiritual fornication of the Church. The "tongues" remind us of the original Babel, the confusion of tongues, the beginning of Babylon, and the first commencement of idolatrous apostasy after the flood, as the tower was doubtless dedicated to the deified heavens. Thus, Babylon is the appropriate name of the harlot. The Pope, as the chief representative of the harlot, claims a double supremacy over all peoples, typified by the "two swords" according to the interpretation of Boniface VIII in the Bull, "Unam Sanctam," and represented by the two keys: spiritual as the universal bishop, whence he is crowned with the miter; and temporal, whence he is also crowned with the tiara in token of his imperial supremacy. Contrast with the Pope's diadems the "many diadems" of Him who alone has claim to, and shall exercise when He shall come, the twofold dominion ( Revelation 19:12 ).
16. upon the beast--But A, B, Vulgate, and Syriac read, "and the beast."
shall make her desolate--having first dismounted her from her seat on the beast ( Revelation 17:3 ).
naked--stripped of all her gaud ( Revelation 17:4 ). As Jerusalem used the world power to crucify her Saviour, and then was destroyed by that very power, Rome; so the Church, having apostatized to the world, shall have judgment executed on her first by the world power, the beast and his allies; and these afterwards shall have judgment executed on them by Christ Himself in person. So Israel leaning on Egypt, a broken reed, is pierced by it; and then Egypt itself is punished. So Israel's whoredom with Assyria and Babylon was punished by the Assyrian and Babylonian captivities. So the Church when it goes a-whoring after the word as if it were the reality, instead of witnessing against its apostasy from God, is false to its profession. Being no longer a reality itself, but a sham, the Church is rightly judged by that world which for a time had used the Church to further its own ends, while all the while "hating" Christ's unworldly religion, but which now no longer wants the Church's aid.
eat her flesh--Greek plural, "masses of flesh," that is, "carnal possessions"; implying the fulness of carnality into which the Church is sunk. The judgment on the harlot is again and again described ( Revelation 18:1 , 19:5 ); first by an "angel having great power" ( Revelation 18:1 ), then by "another voice from heaven" ( Revelation 18:4-20 ), then by "a mighty angel" ( Revelation 18:21-24 ). Compare Ezekiel 16:37-44 , originally said of Israel, but further applicable to the New Testament Church when fallen into spiritual fornication. On the phrase, "eat . . . flesh" for prey upon one's property, and injure the character and person, compare Psalms 14:4 , 27:2 , Jeremiah 10:25 , Micah 3:3 . The First Napoleon's Edict published at Rome in 1809, confiscating the papal dominions and joining them to France, and later the severance of large portions of the Pope's territory from his sway and the union of them to the dominions of the king of Italy, virtually through Louis Napoleon, are a first instalment of the full realization of this prophecy of the whore's destruction. "Her flesh" seems to point to her temporal dignities and resources, as distinguished from "herself" (Greek). How striking a retribution, that having obtained her first temporal dominions, the exarchate of Ravenna, the kingdom of the LOMBARDs, and the state of Rome, by recognizing the usurper Pepin as lawful king of France, she should be stripped of her dominions by another usurper of France, the Napoleonic dynasty!
burn . . . with fire--the legal punishment of an abominable fornication.
17. hath put--the prophetical past tense for the future.
fulfil--Greek, "do," or "accomplish." The Greek, "poiesai," is distinct from that which is translated, "fulfilled," Greek, "telesthesontai," below.
his will--Greek, "his mind," or purpose; while they think only of doing their own purpose.
to agree--literally, "to do" (or accomplish) one mind" or "purpose." A and Vulgate omit this clause, but B supports it.
the words of God--foretelling the rise and downfall of the beast; Greek, "hoi logoi," in A, B, and ANDREAS. English Version reading is Greek, "ta rhemata," which is not well supported. No mere articulate utterances, but the efficient words of Him who is the Word: Greek, "logos."
fulfilled--( Revelation 10:7 ).
18. reigneth--literally, "hath kingship over the kings." The harlot cannot be a mere city literally, but is called so in a spiritual sense ( Revelation 11:8 ). Also the beast cannot represent a spiritual power, but a world power. In this verse the harlot is presented before us ripe for judgment. The eighteenth chapter details that judgment.


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Born: 31 January 1928
Elected ARA: 25 April 1968
Elected RA: 26 April 1973
Royal Academician
Robert Clatworthy studied at the West of England College of Art from 1945 to 1946, at Chelsea School of Art, London from 1947 to 1949 and at the Slade School of Fine Art, London from 1950 to 1951. He went on to teach at the Royal College of Art, London from 1960 to 1972, and at the West of England College of Art from 1967 to 1971. He was Governor of St Martin's School of Art from 1970 to 1971, and was Head of the Department of Fine Art at the Central School of Art & Design, London from 1971 to 1975.
Clatworthy was represented by the Hanover Gallery, London during the 1950s, his first solo exhibitions being held there in 1954 and 1956. Subsequent solo shows were held at Waddington Galleries, London (1965), Basil Jacobs Fine Art, London (1972), Royal Academy of Arts, London (Diploma Galleries, 1977) and the Quinton Green Gallery, London (1986). More recently he has exhibited at Austin/Desmond Fine Art, London and at the Keith H Chapman Gallery, which represents him. Among his major public commissions are Bull commissioned by the GLC for Roehampton, London and Horseman & Eagle, originally commissioned for 1 Finsbury Avenue and currently situated at Charing Cross Hospital, London. His work is held in many public and private collections around the world.
Clatworthy's work has also been exhibited regularly in group shows since 1952, including Modern Sculpture at the ICA (1955), British Sculpture in the '60s at the Tate Gallery, London (1965), British Sculptors '72 at the Royal Academy of Arts, London (1972) and 20th Century British Sculpture, Beaux Arts Gallery, Bath (1986).
Robert Clatworthy lives and works near Dyfed in Wales.
Robert Clatworthy RA - Selected CV
Recent Solo Exhibitions
2010 Keith Chapman Gallery, London
2003 Thompson's Gallery, London
1998 Austin/Desmond Fine Art in association with Keith H Chapman, London
1996 Keith H Chapman Gallery, London
1994 Keith H Chapman Gallery, London
1992 Keith H Chapman Gallery, London
1990 Austin/Desmond Fine Art, London -
Selected Collections
Tate Gallery, London
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Arts Council of Great Britain


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When innovative Apple founder Steve Jobs spoke, the world listened. Here are some of his more memorable quotes.
''It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy.'' Steve Jobs 1982, From the 1987 book "Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple"
''We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn't build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren't going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build."- Playboy Magazine, February 1985Kimberly White/Reuters
''The problem is I'm older now, I'm 40 years old, and this stuff doesn't change the world. It really doesn't. I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. ... But it's a disservice to constantly put things in this radical new light — that it's going to change everything. Things don't have to change the world to be important.''- Wired Magazine, February 1996
''I wish him the best, I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow. He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger," - On Bill Gates, The New York Times, January 1997
''That's been one of my mantras — focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.''- BusinessWeek, May 1998
''The cure for Apple is not cost-cutting. The cure for Apple is to innovate its way out of its current predicament.''- Apple Confidential: The Real Story Of Apple Computer, Inc., May 1999
"I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what's next."- NBC Nightly News, May 2006
''Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything. … One is very fortunate if you get to work on just one of these in your career. Apple's been very fortunate it's been able to introduce a few of these into the world.''Announcement of iPhone, January 2007
"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle."Stanford University commencement speech, 2005
"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart."- Stanford speech 2005
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Jeffery Blair, 48, was identified as the shooting victim. Law enforcement officials are searching for Jerry M. Kincaid, 43, according to Bob Gault, media relations coordinator for Bradley County Sheriff's Office.
The shooting occurred at a Burris Lane residence, which is located just off Frontage Road in Charleston, according to reports.
Charleston Police Department and Bradley County Sheriff's Office deputies responded to the scene after a call to 911 dispatchers that a man had suffered a gunshot wound.
According to 911 reports, the victim appeared to have been shot at least once in the lower left abdomen.
According to Gault, investigators learned Blair and his girlfriend, who was Kincaid's sister, got into an argument and Kincaid allegedly pulled a handgun and shot Blair.
Bradley County Emergency Medical Service initially called for LifeForce helicopter to transport the victim; however, paramedics canceled air medical units and transported him via ambulance to Erlanger Medical Center for treatment.
Details were few this morning surrounding the incident, according to Bob Gault, media relations coordinator for BCSO.
Gault indicated Criminal Investigations Division detectives worked throughout the night documenting the crime scene and following up on information concerning the suspect.
Gault confirmed that Kincaid hasn't been located as of this morning and is still being sought.
Investigation is continuing.
Kincaid was described in 911 reports as being 5 feet, 8 inches tall, weighing between 200-220 pounds and having short, gray hair. He was last seen wearing cutoff shorts and a baggy sweater.
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The Important Role of the Board of Directors in Democratically-operated Organizations
Now well into my fifth year as President of the ITF, I am proud of the progress we have made toward becoming a more democratically-operated organization.
The ITF Constitution requires that the ITF and its affiliated organizations operate on a democratic basis, and the leaders of the ITF have publicly declared that it will be run democratically. So our members expectations are very high, and others are watching to see if the ITF will be successful as a democratic organization.
From my meetings with ITF members in many countries and the feedback received from individual members, instructors, and ITF organizations at all levels, I know that you agree that we are moving in the right direction.
In addition, membership is increasing as the ITF continues to attract new individual members and various groups who have looked at the other Taekwon-Do organizations and decided they prefer an organization that is run democratically.
As you know from reading previous Presidents Messages, democracy and human rights are very important for me. I believe democracy is the best system to ensure that an organization operates with fairness for all its members, and the Board of Directors is certainly a key factor in the democratic operation of any organization.
The Role of a Board of Directors
A Board of Directors has primary responsibility for ensuring that the Constitution and By-Laws of the organization are respected and, therefore, that the organization is run democratically. The Board has the power to make decisions that affect the organization and to make rules about operations and administrative matters, but those decisions must be made in conformity with the Constitution and By-Laws of the organization.
The Board of Directors is composed of 6 officers elected at the official general meeting (Congress) every four years, as well as 5 delegates elected by their continental federation. Generally, the Constitution and By-Laws of an organization describe the role and responsibilities of each member of the Board, and the structure and operations of the organization are based on those official documents. Board members have a legal responsibility to respect the Constitution and to work for the good of the organization and its members. If they do not do this, they will lose all credibility with the members and probably will not be re-elected.
On the other hand, it is not the role of a Board of Directors to micro-manage the organization. Each member of the Board carries out his or her duties and reports to the Board at regular meetings. Standing Committees, supplemented by ad hoc committees when necessary, may be given specific mandates; they also report to the Board. The Board should carefully consider the reports and recommendations of those committees before making their decisions.
For example: The ITF Board of Directors does not make changes to the technical standards or tournament rules. That is the responsibility of the Technique & Instruction Committee As well as the Tournament & Umpire Committee. The members of these committees have been appointed because they have the knowledge and experience to make informed recommendations. And the Board listens to them, discusses their proposals, and gives its approval.
Responsibilities of Board Members
Board members must always be chosen for what they can contribute to the organization: their knowledge, skills, and experience. Very often we find that an organizations needs for various types of knowledge, skills, and experience in the members of its Board evolves as the organization develops.
To be successful in business, it is essential to identify the people with the skills you need and put them in a position where they can use those skills. The same applies to a not-for-profit organization like the ITF. Each member of the ITF Board of Directors has a unique background and abilities, but together they form a team that is capable of operating an international organization.
When it comes to the boards of ITF organizations, in the martial arts tradition, we owe respect and recognition to all holders of advanced Black Belt degrees. However, it is not necessary to automatically choose them to be members of the Board of Directors of an ITF Taekwon-Do organization. Black Belt holders certainly have an important contribution to make to the realization of the goals of all ITF organizations but not necessarily as members of a Board of Directors.
The members of a Board of Directors have a responsibility prepare adequately so that they can be active participants in the Boards meetings. They also have a responsibility to follow up on the decisions of the Board that fall under their specific responsibilities.
The official work of the Board of Directors is done at the Board meetings subjects of interest are discussed, actions are proposed, and decisions are made so meetings must be run efficiently and fairly. The ITF has adopted Roberts Rules of Order to ensure this, and all ITF-affiliated organizations are encouraged to do the same.
Roberts Rules of Order
Roberts Rules of Order were developed as a reference for organizations using parliamentary procedure. This means all organizations that hold a meeting of members to elect the officers and make decisions affecting the organization.
Roberts Rules of Order have been used for almost one hundred years by organizations in countries around the world. They have become the standard reference because they are logical, fair, and easy to understand. In addition, they cover most situations that can arise in meetings and are updated frequently. Obviously, it is essential that the Board or committee member chairing the meeting have a good knowledge of the rules and how to apply them.
Some Advice for Members of Boards of Directors
During my long career in Taekwon-Do and in business, I have had the privilege of serving as a member of the Boards of Directors of a number of organizations. I am pleased to be able to share my experience with you and would like to take this opportunity to offer a few words of advice to those who are serving as members of boards and to those who may be considering taking on that responsibility.
When does an organization need a Board of Directors?
The ITF and each of its affiliated organizations must be legally constituted entities with a Board of Directors. This is a requirement of the ITF Constitution. But what if an instructor starts a Taekwon-Do school and he is the only owner? Does he need a Board of Directors? Not necessarily. However when he is ready to expand and applies for funding from governments or other organizations, they may require that an elected board of Directors be formed to oversee the operations of the school, particularly the financial aspects.
Even if it is not a requirement to have a Board of Directors, anyone taking on the responsibility of a Taekwon-Do school or any other big project would do well to consider having a Board of counselors to help and advise him.
Another example would be the organization of a major Taekwon-Do competition. There is a lot of work to be done and finances to take care of. In this case, the organizing committee acts as a Board of Directors. The responsibilities of each member of the committee are defined and everyone works together to make the event a success.
Would you like to learn more?
Recently, I have been reading some interesting books about business theory, including a number that focus on the important role of the Board of Directors. I have also been looking at successful organizations and how they are run. This research has reinforced my belief that the only way to ensure that an organization grows, makes progress, and is successful is to operate it on democratic principles.
Here are the a few books and Websites I can recommend:
For more information about Roberts Rules of Order, visit the Website at www.robertsrules.com.
The Ultimate Board Members Book: A 1-Hour Guide to Understanding and Fulfilling Your Role and Responsibilities, by Kay Sprinkel Grace. Published by Emerson & Church, Medfield MA USA. 2007
The Perfect Board by Calvin K. Clemons. Published by Synergy Books, Austin TX USA. 2005
The Imperfect Board Member: discovering the seven disciplines of governance excellence, by Jim Brown. Published by Jossey-Baas
Reinventing Your Board: A step-by-step Guide to implementing Policy Governance, by John & Miriam Carver. Published byJossey-Baas
(You can buy the books referred to above on line using the website www.amazon.com. These books are in the section on good governance or you can find them by doing a search for Board of Directors.)
There is the link to the Website of the Dalhousie University (Nova Scotia, Canada) Continuing Education for Non-Profit Sector Leadership. This Website has lots of information about governance and board development, including sample policies and forms.
This link takes you to the Free Management Library which offers links to hundreds of informative articles and sample documents. These include: a series of articles about what it means to be a member of the board of a not-for-profit organization, a five-part series on how to build a strategic-thinking Board of Directors, an article titled Ethical Guidelines for Board Members of Not-for-Profit Organizations, and many more.
At www.managementhelp.org/boards/boards.htm you will find The Free Complete Toolkit for Boards with interesting articles about all aspects of the Board of Directors and useful links.
I have only suggested a few Websites but each of them has links to many more sites. Why not do your own Internet search for an expression such as board of directors, board governance or Roberts Rules? You are sure to find a wealth of useful information.
The following are PowerPoint presentations used by Dr. Janel Gauthier, former Chair of the ITF Ethics & Discipline Committee, presented at two seminars :
In Conclusion
Applying democratic principles in their operations is quite new for the ITF and for its affiliated organizations, but I am absolutely convinced that this is the only way to ensure that the ITF progresses.
By making these changes we will be ensuring that the ITF will continue to fulfill its mission to promote Taekwon-Do around the world. We will be working together to build a better world.
It will make me very happy if, after reading this message, you become more interested in the work done by your Board of Directors. I do hope that each of you will consider how you can make a contribution to your organization. Please consider using your skills, your experience, and your time so that the ITF and its affiliated organizations will be able to offer more quality services to its members.
Sincerely yours,
Master Trân Triêu Quân, President


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Chrysler Pacifica Real World MPG
arrie Posts: 312
qbrozen Posts: 17,848thanks for the clarification. that's still pretty good, i think. like i said, chevy's are notorious for that. no need to get testy.
we're not thrilled with our Pac's mileage, either. Our Pilot did quite a bit better.'14 CTS Vsport; '15 Fit LX 6-spd; '98 Volvo S70 base; '14 Town&Country Limited
Jason5 Posts: 440Still managing to make mid 20's when ALL highway driving (last trip of 600 miles was 24.2MPG at fairly high speeds). In mixed driving to work (about 5 miles in town and 15 on highway), making about 18.8. I have never gotten close to the 16mpg city listed. Perhaps in town, in summer with AC on I'll get closer to that.
locnard Posts: 3I have a 05 fwd touring with the T package. Bought used Carfax stated it was a rental. Checked the computer and saw average mpg was just 16 and freaked. But that was a rental and only had 15K on the clock.I now have had it for nearly two years and have 55K on it. Consitently get between 21 and 23.5 mpg. I seldom run the 89 usually 87. Found the car does not like 93 so dont waste the money. Most of my driving is freeway I have a 100 mile a day commute.With bad traffic I drop to 19 but thats rare. BTW this is in Southern(very hilly)California.
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nuruc7 Posts: 98Sofar mpg seems a lot better, car seems to stay at 2k rpm on the highway even doing a pretty good clip. Now I am determined to see what upgrades I can install on the car. I want
ATC to replace the manual TC (might require some additional wiring and sensors?)
Automatic Headlights (I think they work in conjunction with the auto dimming mirror)
Autodimming rear view mirror ( dunno if this can be installed as I checked up in the overhead console and the additional wire like in my 05, did not appear - the liner has the hole for the wire but the wire I did not find?)
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waterdr Posts: 307I just recently check my mpg against the cars computer. The weather has been cold and snowy and the car has been sitting a lot ideling and also a lot of short-trips around town.
My calculations were 18.3 mpg and the car showed 18.5 mpg.
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nuruc7 Posts: 98Well, no luck on any of the upgrades except potentially foglight and even that might be a maybe! I like the performance of the car but I do miss the leather seat (can do), sunroof (can do), autodimming rear mirror (need to get harness), ATC ((need to replace entire AC system according to the dealer.), Mini-trip computer and compass (not installed according to my dealer.) I am gonna do some additional research but it may be tough even with the parts in some cases. :surprise: :confuse:
nuruc7 Posts: 98Well, i looked over the service reocrd my dealeer gave me and it indicatted that on my EVIC the Tire Pressure Sensor system isnot installed. Well that is not true, as when I picked the car up, the EVIC was telling me that 3 tires were low. I showed the salesman as i was leaving with the vehicle and told him I would fill the tires. I did and initially 2 tires dropped off the alarm display, then I found the last tire and then the displatye cleared for that one. Howeve rit was clear from the behavior of my EVIC, it definitely monitors and reports any issues with Tire Pressure. Noww my Dealer's Service Team did not see that, and they told me that they could change the Country code, as it was not an available item. So I am left with thinking that maybe I need to get a cheap version of the CAN tool and see what is there or not.
miser1 Posts: 6Hers the scoop new 2 board. I just purchased 2007 fwd touring Pac. Took a couple to the Metro airport in Detroit Mich. from Ontario Canada. approximately 1 hour 30 minute trip mostly all highway miles but had to stop for shopping (the wifes were in the car) using regular gas worked out to 24.8 mpg. If no stops made would have made 25mpg easily. Speed averaged 60-65 mph with a very smooth and comfortable ride. Read other posts regarding transmission problems but at highway speeds ran like a gem. When at low speeds sometimes you can feel tranny shifting maybe just me not used to the 6 speed transmission. Good luck on your purchase.
tumbleweed_bif Posts: 1Has anyone compiled a table of real world mileage at various speeds?
I am quite interested in know the difference in mpg going 55mph, 60, 65, 70, and 75.
On a routine trip of 20 miles, the time to drive in those speed ranges spans just over 6 minutes difference, with 55mph taking 21.82 min and 75 mph taking 15.6 mins. But what is the cost difference in fuel efficiency? Does anyone know? -
kf5 Posts: 1Hey. I want to get a pacifica. But I can't decide with one. I am looking at an 06 and 07 AWD. Both are the signature series and equipped nice. I want to hear yours thoughts as I am having trouble deciding. MPG is important to me as well. The 07 cost more. The 06 has the dark interior I like. But, the 07 has the better engine and trans. Help. Kevin
farout Posts: 1,609kf5: I have a 07 PAC Touring AWD. WE really like it! The huge difference is the engine and transmission between the two. The 07 has a 4.L engine and a 6 spped Automatic. the )^ has either the 3.5 or 3.8 L engine mated to the 4 speed Auto trans. The gas mileage is really a big diference. The 06 will be lucky to get 16 to 18 mpg, and the 07 is pretty consistant 19 to 26 mpg is our exerience in 14,000 miles.
There is a lifetime warranty powertrain for the 07 if it's new. There has been some 07 that have had a shuddering or lugging problem at very low RPM's in 6 gear. Chrysler has replaced the Tourque Conveters and had a reflash on the TCM. For us this is the very best vehicle we have ever owned! The PAC is the biggest vehicle inside and outside over the Chrysler 300 or the SRT. The power of this 4.L engine ia amazing and so is the fuel mileags, we have reached a high of 27.3 mpg on a trip. For us thats fantastic. Hope that helps you...my opinion buy the 07.
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ibthesnd Posts: 2I have an 07 FWD Touring, 4.0 6 speed, and the computer says I get between 22-25 mpg at 75 mph and 25-28 at 60. In town I pull between 12-19 depending on route and traffic.
Are there any inexpensive upgrades to improve my mpg? I have found Hypertech ($379) and Jet Performance chips($320), a K&N filter, plus a bunch of items in Ebay that I am leary of. Has anyone tried these or anything else? Are there any cold air intake kits? -
farout Posts: 1,609Better check out if you added any of these "upgrades" if that might voil your warranty. How much better do mpg you want? Gee at 75 to get 22 to 25 mpg pulling a load that is nearly 4,700 lbs that is real darn good! AS you say that 60mph is where you get super good mpg, so that's the "sweet spot" for you PAC and mine as well!.
The only thing that could save you anything is the K&N filter, as the Chrysler one is about $20. and if you held onto the PAC eventually it would pay for it's self. I don't think these other so called gas savers will add engoug to pay for the cost in a million miles.
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waterdr Posts: 307I just went on a 450 mile trip and got 24.4 mpg. The computer showed 25.3 mpg. I drove at about 72 mph and has tires inflated to 45 lbs. Pressure was up a bit due to warmer weather. I am going to pull about 5 lbs.
Chips? I have a lot of experience with chips and tuning as I drag race and have spent a lot of time around dynos.
Here are my thoughts:
1 - You could absolutely get better mpg with the correct tune. The fact that the computer reads high, means that the car is running richer then the manufactur intended. In my case, I could probably pick up 2 to 3 mpg on my PAC. It will vary from car to car.
2 - Buying a chip or hand-held tuner with a "mail-order" tune will be a shot in the dark. The ONLY way to get this right is to put the car on a dyno to get the perfect tune. With a mail order tune, you might pick-up 1 mpg, loose 2 mpg, or mess-up the tune all togther and create problems. Pacificas are not exactly a car that people dyno a lot, and thusly, the data base is poor.
3 - A proper chip or hand-held tuner with a custom dyno tune will cost about $600.
4 - ONLY buy a reputable device such as a Diablo or SCT. Hypertech is "ok". Don't waste your time with anything else. A good tune cost money....PERIOD. If you have a local reputable dyno tuner that uses another product, that is ok too.
5 - I have an SCT 4 position switch chip. It allows me to have 4 custom tunes....so you can have tunes for different octanes of fuel or types of driving. The added cost for each tune is minimal once you have the car on the dyno. I pick-up 30 hp on my tune by running 93 octane, or can run on 91 octane to save fuel $ when I don't care much about power. (BTW, this is on a 450 hp Mustang, not on the PAC. Hp increases will be less on the PAC).
6 - Now for the kicker.....if you care about your warranty, DON'T MOD THE CAR. Changing the tune will void the warranty if you get caught. If you install a chip, this is a blatant voiding of the warranty. If you use a hand-held "flash" style tuner, you might be able to get away with it by installing the stock tune before taking the car to the shop each time.
7 - Using a CAI (Cold Air Intake) can help with power and mpg especially with a custom tune. They can also pose warranty issues. One way around this is if Mopar sells one and you have the dealer install it. K&N filters are fine.....no warranty issues with this. I plan to purchase one for my PAC. I use them on all my cars. -
smokedemt1 Posts: 4When I got my 04 Pacifica three months ago it read 21 MPG on the gauge. I reset the readout and since have been getting 18.5 18.6. Last weekend I towed my 2000# pop-up camper on about a 400 mile trip. 1/2 way through my mileage readout was 18.9!!! I checked it with the fill-up and sure enough was getting almost 20 MPG. It showed 18.9-19 on the way back. Anyone else seen simillar results. Or am I getting WAY too little mileage without the trailer. I am considering towing the trailer all the time to see how much I can gain...
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bqdarling Posts: 1I recently purchased an 07 Limited AWD with 12K miles. Over the past three weeks, I've been driving around town in northern Virginia. Standard suburban driving, no highway, no towing, regular stuff. I'm getting 11.1 mpg which I consider pretty pathetic. Anyone else experiencing this?