Her child is the Mystic Christ-or Christ formed in his members He is a symbol of the body of true converts within the Roman Empire The Man-child being caught up to the throne of God explained The Dragon is the Devil enthroned in the Roman Empire The Woman flies into the wilderness War in Heaven between Michael and the Dragon Remarks on the different interpretations of this war Reasons for applying it to the same events as the gestation of the Woman 177 ib. ib. The Dragon makes war with the remnant of the Woman's seed The fourth beast of Daniel is the Roman Empire The Apocalyptic Ten Horned Beast is the same with Daniel's Fourth Authorities in support of this interpretation 196 Great diversity of sentiment as to the Seventh and Eighth Forms Abstract signification of the Symbols of Seven Heads and Ten Horns The interpretation of the Seventh and Eighth Forms in the first edition The Seventh Head is the Christian Imperial Power That head wounded to death at the fall of the Western Empire These kingdoms formed a sort of federal republic, the rise of which was, the political fulfilment of the prophetic character of the Beast, that he was, and is not, and yet is The healing of the wound of one of the Heads considered 214 ib. The history of the Roman Empire offers also the phenomenon of a spiritual Resurrection, and how fulfilled 216 The description of the Beast, that he was, and is not, and yet is, belongs to him only under his last or eighth shape In his eighth form he goes into perdition The ascent of the Beast from sea, and the Abyss, is one and the same The worship paid to the Beast His mouth speaking blasphemies His war with the Saints His end is to be slain with the sword CHAPTER XIII. THE TWO HORNED BEAST OF THE EARTH AND THE IMAGE 227 The second Beast is the Papacy 228 He exerciseth the power of the first Beast before him Original solution of the number given by Irenæus adopted, viz., that it is contained in the Greek letter of the name Lateinos, Aruves Mr. Faber has receded from that interpretation and adopted another Mr. Clarke's objection to the former solution stated The more modern and usual, as well as the original orthography of the name Latinus, ascertained 243 Both solutions harmonized and adopted-that of Irenæus as founded on the original-that of Dr. Clarke on the more modern orthography Reasons against Mr. Faber's interpretation 244 The name of the Beast must be chorographical or national 246 247 CHAPTER XIV. ON THE PROPHETICAL PERIOD OF TWELVE HUNDRED AND -SIX SCRIPTURAL PROPOSITIONS LAID DOWN 252 ib. ib. 253 254 ib. 256 The period, though differently expressed, is one and the same, viz., 1260 . Six Propositions laid down, containing the Internal Scriptural Marks of its commencement and end The commencement of the 1260 years, is to be marked by the giving the Saints' The supposed act of Phocas, conferred no new title on the Pope PROPOSITION SECOND, At the termination of the Twelve Hundred and Sixty Years, the Ancient of Days comes, and the judgment is to sit to take away the dominion of the little horn, to consume and destroy it unto the end Until the French Revolution the judgment had not begun to sit When the witnesses put off their sackcloth, the 1260 years are ended There have been three eras of light in the Church, the third, being the 'present period, bears all the marks of the time when the witnesses put off their sackcloth, and the woman returns from the wilderness d 280 281 285 Reasons for this conclusion Inference therefrom that the 1260 years are expired The exact Apocalyptic period when the woman begins to return from the wilderness shown PROPOSITION FIFTH. ib. The 1260 years end at the sounding of the Seventh Trumpet 286 That trumpet sounded in 1792, therefore the 1260 years then expired ib. PROPOSITION SIXTH. The times of the Gentiles, or 1260 years end, when the signs in the heavens That prophecy was given in answer to certain questions of four disciples Still they clung to the expectation of a temporal kingdom What the Apostles had in their minds when they asked the questions 290 ib. 291 ib. 292 293 ib. 294 The questions of the disciples were three in number 296 The first part of the discourse was intended to correct the notion, that the glorious reign of the Messiah was at hand 297 The next part of the discourse declares the sign which shall immediately precede the destruction of Jerusalem The third division of the discourse, contains the signs which shall precede the second Advent 299 These signs are in the symbolical and not the natural heavens 300 By what events these signs have been fulfilled 301 Passage from the charge of Bishop Porteus in 1794 ib. Character of these events as drawn by a Writer of the present day Distress of nations, the sea roaring, men's hearts failing them for fear 306 310 311 A discussion of the clause, "This generation shall not pass till all these things be fulfilled" ib. Mede's solution of this difficulty stated and rejected 312 The true solution consists in a close attention to the proper sense of the The inference from the whole prophecy is, that the times of the Gentiles, or 1260 years, ended in the year 1792 320 Another inference, that the celestial signs predicted by our Lord, synchronize with the Seven Apocalyptic Vials CHAPTER XV. ON THE PROPHETICAL PERIOD OF TWELVE HUNDRED AND 322 324 An argument to be now offered, founded on the number in Daniel viii. 14, in aid of the conclusions of the preceding chapter . Daniel's Vision of a Ram, the symbol of the Empire of the Medes and . ib. The date of the Vision cannot be prior to 536. The division of the empire of Alexander, symbolized by the four horns of the goat ib. Daniel sees a little horn come out of one of the four horns of the goat ib. 331 The rise, progress, and exploits, of the Roman power in the East, ex- The cleansing, or justification of the Sanctuary, begins at the sounding of the Seventh Trumpet 339 Therefore, the 2,300 years must end precisely at the same time as the 1260 years, i. e. in 1792 This conclusion confirmed, by calculating the 2300 years backwards from 1792 340 An objection to the above conclusion, founded on Daniel xii. 5-13, discussed The end of the 1290 days revealed in that passage, may probably be marked by the begun restoration of Judah 343 The end of that period is in 1822 ib. The argument of Mr. Faber, founded on the above passage, considered and answered 345 The mistake of the Author, as to the date of the expected Restoration of Judah, acknowledged The event which signalized the intermediate period, between the 1260 and 1290 days of Daniel, appears to have been the great preaching of the Gospel of the present age ib. |