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
The fall of the Dragon from Heaven

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ib.

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ib.

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The Woman's flight into the wilderness-at what time accomplished

The Dragon casts a flood of waters after the Woman

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
Beast, i. e., he is the Roman Empire after its division into ten
Kingdoms

Authorities in support of this interpretation

196

Enumeration of the Ten Primitive Horns of the Beast, or Western

Roman Empire

201

The Seven Heads of the Beast signify the successive forms of govern-

ment of the Roman Kingdom

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
of this Work abandoned as erroneous

The Seventh Head is the Christian Imperial Power

That head wounded to death at the fall of the Western Empire

The Eighth form is Decemregal, consisting of Ten Gothic Kingdoms

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 Dragon gave him his seat

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

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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
How the prophecy was fulfilled in the exclusion from the common
charities of life, of all who dissented from the Latin Church

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CHAPTER XIV.

ON THE PROPHETICAL PERIOD OF TWELVE HUNDRED AND
SIXTY YEARS-GENERAL STATEMENT OF THE SUBJECT

-SIX SCRIPTURAL PROPOSITIONS LAID DOWN
There is frequent mention in chap. xi., xii., and xiii., of the Apocalypse,
of a mysterious period of triumph to the enemies of the Church
It is mentioned in seven different texts of Daniel and the Apocalypse
And alluded to in two others

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ib.

ib.

253

254

ib.

256

The period, though differently expressed, is one and the same, viz., 1260
days
Arguments to prove that these 1260 days signify a period of 1260 years
The great importance of this period

.

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'
times and laws into the hand of the little horn
The little horn being the Papacy, the giving of the Saints into its hand,
must be by a formal act of the secular power
Such an act was issued by the Emperor Justinian, in March, A.D., 533
This is consequently the true era of the 1260 years

The supposed act of Phocas, conferred no new title on the Pope
The period of 1260 years being computed in current time, which is the
principle adopted in the Scriptures, having commenced in 533, must
have expired, and actually did expire in 1792

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
Inference from the Series of Events which began at the Fall of the
French Monarchy in 1792, that the judgment then began to sit

When the witnesses put off their sackcloth, the 1260 years are ended
When the Woman, the Church, begins to emerge from the wilderness, that
period is elapsed

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

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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
in Luke xxi. 25 begin
On the difficulty of interpreting our Lord's discourse on the Destruction
of Jerusalem

That prophecy was given in answer to certain questions of four disciples
The Jewish nation then expected the Messiah as a temporal deliverer
Our Lord gradually prepared his disciples to receive the doctrines of
the Cross

Still they clung to the expectation of a temporal kingdom

What the Apostles had in their minds when they asked the questions
recorded in Matt. xxiv. 3
Remarks on the Greek word, Av, rendered World, and its correspond-
ing Hebrew word

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ib.

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ib.

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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
The eclipse of the sun and moon, and fall of the stars

Distress of nations, the sea roaring, men's hearts failing them for fear
The signs predicted by our Lord are to continue till his Advent with
clouds
Concluding division of our Lord's discourse

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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

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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
SIXTY YEARS CONCLUDED

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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
Persians
The year, A. C. 536, was the date of the establishment of that Empire,
but its rise was in A. C. 559

.

ib.

The date of the Vision cannot be prior to 536.
Reasons for fixing the commencement of the Vision in the reign of
Darius Hystaspis, and in the year A. C. 508
Daniel sees a he Goat, the symbol of the Macedonian empire, which
overthrows the ram

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
This horn is a symbol of the Roman power in the East

ib.

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The rise, progress, and exploits, of the Roman power in the East, ex-
actly answered the character of the horn
Chronological coincidence between the rise of the horn, and that of the
Roman power in the territories of the Macedonian Empire
The number of 2,300 days in Daniel viii. 14, which ends at the cleansing
of the sanctuary, is the whole length of the Vision

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.