The Sacred Calendar of Prophecy (3)General Books LLC, 2009 - 248 pages This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1828 Excerpt: ... his political extinction by the mortal wound inflicted upon his seventh head, is very clearly distinguished from the rise, which St. John beheld at the commencement of the present vision. For the second rise succeeds the death of the short-lived seventh head, and immediately precedes the final destruction of the beast: whereas the rise, which St. John beheld at the commencement of the present vision, precedes the whole period of the 42 prophetic months, and is therefore many ages prior to his final irremediable destruction 1. III. Having now shewn that the ten-horned wild-beast of the Apocalypse is the Roman Empire in its greatest geographical extent and in its entire chronological duration, I proceed to consider the seven heads by which the portent is so conspicuously distinguished. '1. In the symbol itself, the Apostle beholds all the seven heads existing together; nor perhaps was it possible for the hieroglyphic to be any other wise constructed: but, from the verbal interpretation of it, we learn, that, although the seven forms of j supreme government, represented by the seven heads, may, after a certain manner, have been partially synchronical; yet, from their respective chronological rise to their respective chronological fall, they were not perfectly so: for, in the time of St. John, five had already fallen, one was then in actual existence, and another was still future. 1 Compare Rev. xvii. 8, 11, with xiii. 1, . VOL. III. N On this point, it will be necessary to acquire some clear ideas: because, otherwise, in consequence of the many political variations which occurred in the frame of the Roman Commonwealth, we shall find it difficult to make out a statement altogether satisfactory. By any given nation any particular form of government may be adopte... |
