The Sacred Calender of Prophecy (Volume 3) - Softcover

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: ... times and a half or 42 months or 1260 days: so to each is assigned the very same origin; for each is declared to have come up from the waters of the troubled sea. Such various points of coincidence cannot belong to two different and unconnected symbols: jointly, therefore, they establish, beyond a possibility of dispute, the identity of the two ten-horned wildbeasts. 2. But the second and chief object, which St. John had in view when he mentioned the emergence of the apocalyptic wild-beast from the sea, was to give us a decisive mark by which his chronological continuance might be ascertained; a matter, nevertheless, respecting which a gross error has been very generally prevalent. The emergence of the ten-horned wild-beast, which Daniel beheld, can only denote, as all commentators agree, the rise of the Roman Empire under its martial founder Romulus. Hence, by every rule of consistent interpretation, the exactly similar emergence of the self-same ten-horned wildbeast, which St. John beheld, must denote the selfsame circumstance also. But, if, in the emergence of the ten-horned wild-beast, St. John beheld the rise of the Roman Empire under Romulus; then the symbol before us must chronologically denote the Roman Empire, from its earliest rise to its final dissolution. (1.) Accordingly, the construction of the symbol itself imperiously requires this arrangement; and absolutely forbids us to fix the emergence of the ten-horned beast to the commencement of the latter 1260 years, though the present vision treats of his exploits only during the lapse of that period. The configuration of the symbol, compounded as it is of the Babylonian lion and the Medo-Persian bear and the Macedonian leopard, demonstrates it to represent the Roman Empire as extending to its ut...