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 PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION, 
 
 ^HE volume now presented to the Christian public, consists 
 as u'ill be observed, of four parts : the first is commended 
 to the candid consideration of those who have not j-et received 
 the truth of the premiUcnnial advent of our Lord Jesus Christ 
 the second and third take that truth as proved and granted! 
 and address themselves especially to those who, holding pre- 
 millennial views, are still looking for the manifestation of 
 Antichrist, prior to the visible advent of Christ, those who 
 adopt a literal interpretation of the Apocalyptic prophecies, 
 mcludmg their chronological features-in other words, to the 
 futurist school of prophetic interpreters. The fourth and last 
 part, which consists of an investigation into the system oj times 
 and seasons presented in tJie tvord and zuorlcs of " God, contains 
 not a few original observations and discoveries, wliich, if the 
 author mistakes not, throw fresh light on the whole subject of 
 Scripture prophecy, and which he thinks will be found of inter- 
 est to all students of the prophetic word, as well as, he trusts, 
 to all lovers of the Bible. Perhaps, he cannot better introduce 
 tlie book to the reader, than by giving a brief outline of its 
 history. 
 
 Imbued by education with the ordinary view, that a gradual 
 improvement in the present state of things was to be expected
 
 IV PREFACE. 
 
 till all the world should be converted, and a spiritual kingdom 
 of God be universally established on earth, and that no return 
 of Christ was to be looked for till the day of judgment at 
 the end of the world, — the author no sooner began to study 
 the Scriptures independently than he perceived, that this view 
 obliged him to interpret in a forced and non-natural manner 
 a vast variety of apparently clear and simple passages, both in 
 the Old and New Testaments. Unable to rest satisfied with 
 doing this, he was led to read a variety of works, both for and 
 against premillennial views, especially that most able treatise 
 ever penned against them, entitled '' Christ's Second Coming, 
 will it be Premillennial ? " by Dr. David Brown, of Aberdeen. 
 Unable to reach any decision satisfactory to himself by this 
 study of prophetic works, the author nearly twenty years ago 
 laid them all aside, and very carefully and critically read 
 through the entire Bible, marking, studying and considering 
 every passage bearing on the subject, with a view to collect 
 the full testimony of the Word of God respecting it. This plan 
 he would earnestly commend to those who may be in doubt as 
 to the truth on this fundamental point. It completely set his 
 own mind at rest, and his views have never been shaken since. 
 That a premillennial advent of Christ is clearly predicted in the 
 Word of God, the writer never afterwards doubted, or hesitated 
 to preach ; but the pressing claims of incessant evangelistic 
 labours for many years, forbad his looking further into pro- 
 phetic subjects. 
 
 A fuller acquaintance, acquired by personal observation, 
 with the condition of the Greek and other professing Christian
 
 PREFACE. V 
 
 Churches of Syria, Egypt, and Turkey, and of the effects of 
 Mohammedan rule in the East, and also with the Papal system 
 as developed in France and Spain, and with the Continental 
 infidelity to which it has given rise, subsequently led the 
 author to a careful study of the history of the Mohammedan 
 and Papal powers, and of the prophecies of Scripture believed 
 by many to relate to them. This resulted in a deep conviction 
 that THOSE Powers occupy in the Word of God, as pro- 
 minent A place as they have actually held in the 
 
 HISTORY OF THE ChURCH. 
 
 The remarkable events of the years 1S66-70, especially the 
 outbreak of the Franco-German war, which put a stop to 
 evangelistic efforts which the author had been for some time 
 making in Paris, led him not only still further to consider the 
 question of modern fulfilment of prophecy, but to prepare a 
 work on the subject, which he intended to have published 
 under the title of " Foretold and Fulfilled." This work advo- 
 cated the Protestant or historic system of interpreting the sym- 
 bolic prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse, and in doing 
 so had necessarily to consider the question which lies at the 
 base of the different views of unfulfilled prophecy taken by 
 Christians — the true meafiiiig of the chronological statemc7tts 
 contained in symbolic prophecy^ i.e., whether they are literal 
 or whether they are figurative. In studying the masterly and 
 exhaustive treatise of the Rev. T. R. Birks on this subject,* 
 
 * "First Elements of Sacred Prophecy, including an examination of 
 several recent Expositions, and of the Year-day Theory," by the Rev. T. 
 R. Uirks, Fellow of Trinity Collc^'c, Cambridge.
 
 vi PREFACE. 
 
 the author v/as deeply interested in a statement made on the 
 authority of a Swiss astronomer, ]\I. De Cheseaux, that the 
 leading prophetic periods of Scripture are demonstrably celes- 
 tial cycles ; that is, periods as definitely marked off as such by 
 celestial revolutions, as are our ordinary years or days. This 
 led him to examine the nature of these cycles, and to investigate 
 the connection between astronomic facts and Scripture chrono- 
 logy, and thus to the discovery that the epacts of the prophetic 
 periods of Scripture form a remarkable septiform series. 
 
 Practical duties of a pressing nature connected with the 
 foundation of the author's East London Institute for 
 Hor.iE AND Foreign Missions,* prevented the completion 
 of the intended volume, and the papers connected with the 
 astronomic vieasiars of the prophetic times lay by for some 
 years in the hands of the Rev. T. R. Birks of Cambridge. 
 
 But in 1 87 6-7, when the long impending Eastern question 
 came once more to the front, and attention was, by the tragic 
 and eventful scenes transpiring in European Turkey, again 
 directed to evident cotemporaneous fulfilments of prophecy, 
 the author was strongly impressed with the duty of giving to 
 his brethren without further delay, any light which God might 
 have given him on this sacred and deeply interesting theme ; 
 of adding his contribution, however small, towards the under- 
 standing of the prophetic word, and in spite of many difficulties 
 he has made leisure, during the last eighteen months, to com- 
 plete his researches into the subject, and prepare the present 
 volume for the press. 
 
 * See Appendix C.
 
 PREFACE. 
 
 vii 
 
 In order to secure correctness in his astronomic statements, 
 the author submitted a considerable portion of the fourth part 
 of this work to the criticisms of Professor Adams of Cambridge, 
 whose discovery of the planet Neptune by pure mathematical 
 calculation, has long given him a position of the very highest 
 eminence, as an authority in astronomic science. Professor 
 Adams was kind enough to allow the author to read to him 
 many (though not quite all) of his statements on " the connec- 
 tion of Times and Seasons natural and revealed/' and he also 
 verified some of M. De Cheseaux's calculations with reference 
 to the cyclical character of the prophetic Times. Finding M. 
 De Cheseaux's work in the British Museum, the author had it 
 carefully copied for his own use, and subsequently sent it to 
 Professor Adams that he might examine a point about wliich 
 he had expressed some doubt, relative to the times of the 
 equinoxes and of the summer solstice in the year of Daniel's 
 vision 552 B.C. 
 
 The following letter from Professor Adams shows ^I. De 
 Cheseaux to have been slightly in error on tliis point,— error 
 easily accounted for by the want, in his day, of such accurate 
 data as more modern science supplies— but which does not 
 in the least affect his conclusions as to the cyclical character of 
 the prophetic Times :— 
 
 Observatory, Cameridge, March iS, 1S78. ■ 
 My dear Sir, 
 
 I received the copy of De Cheseaux safely, and I ought ere this 
 to have sent you the result of my examination into the correctness of his 
 statements. Pray pardon the delay, which has been caused by my having 
 been so busy. I have calculated very approximately the times of the
 
 viii PREFACE. 
 
 equinoxes and solstices for the year B.C. 552, which is that given by De 
 Cheseaux as the year of Daniel's vision, and I find the following results, 
 expressed in mean time at Jerusalem, reckoned from midnight. 
 
 
 
 d. 
 
 h. 
 
 m. 
 
 Vernal equinox 
 
 March 
 
 ... 27 
 
 8 
 
 2 
 
 Summer solstice 
 
 June 
 
 ... 29 
 
 II 
 
 39 
 
 Autumnal equinox .., 
 
 Sept. 
 
 ... 29 
 
 II 
 
 51 
 
 Winter solstice 
 
 Dec. 
 
 ... 27 
 
 
 
 17 
 
 Hence the summer solstice and the autumnal equinox take place not far 
 from noon at Jenisalem, but the vernal equinox takes place about four hours 
 before noon. De Cheseaux's error appears to arise chiefly from his having 
 supposed that the excentricity of the earth's orbit was the same in the time 
 of Daniel as in his own time, whereas it was very sensibly greater. I have 
 added the time of the winter solstice also, though it is not required for 
 
 your purpose The fact is that the change of excentricity and place of 
 
 the apse of the orbit of any planet, is a compound phenomenon, due to the 
 combined action of all the other planets, and therefore the final result is 
 got by compounding together several variable quantities, which have quite 
 different and indeed incommensurable periods. I will return your copy of 
 De Cheseaux, which is quite beautifully done, immediately, either by post 
 or railway, as I have done with it. 
 
 I remain, dear sir, 
 
 Yours very tmly, 
 
 J. C. Adams. 
 
 As his letter did not reach the author in time to allow of 
 
 his adding Professor Adams's correction to M. De Cheseaux's 
 
 statement quoted on p. 404 of this work, he inserts it here.* 
 
 The modern solar and lunar tables employed by Professor 
 
 Adams, also showed some slight errors in M. De Cheseaux's 
 
 calculations, amounting 10 about an hour in the period of 1040 
 
 years (referred to on p. 403) but in nowise invalidating the 
 
 claim of that period to be considered a cycle harntonizing the 
 
 • The statement refcired to has been omitted in this editioii.
 
 PREFACE. ix 
 
 lunar month with the solar year, or the cyclical character of 
 the associated prophetic periods of 1260 and 2300 years, of 
 which it is the difference. 
 
 The author has also to acknowledge his indebtedness to 
 the kind and valued criticisms of his friends, the Rev. Henry 
 Brooke of Dovercourt, and Philip Henry Gosse, Esq., F.R.S., 
 of Torquay, who saw portions of the prophetic parts of this 
 work while it was passing through the press. Their accurate 
 acquaintance with the prophetic Scriptures, and deep reverence 
 for the Word of God, gave the suggestions they made a special 
 value in this principal branch of the subject dealt with. 
 
 There remains to the author the grateful task of acknowledg- 
 ing the very co?zsiderable help he has had in writing and revising 
 this volume from the practised pen of his beloved wife, for 
 many years the sharer of his toils in various efforts to spread 
 in different lands the knowledge of saving or of sanctifying 
 Truth. The part which — in spite of much wear}'ing labour 
 by day and often by night, as Honorary Secretary of the 
 East London Institute for Home and Foreign Missions 
 — she has cheerfully taken in the task of preparing this work 
 — however others may regard the result — will endear it to him 
 while memory endures. 
 
 And now the author commends this work to the candour 
 of the Christian Reader, and above all to the blessing of God ! 
 He alone knows how earnestly and incessantly the enlighten- 
 ings of his own Holy Spirit have been sought, in the course 
 of its preparation, how often the heartfelt prayer, " O send out 
 thy light and thy truth, let them lead me," has gone up amid
 
 X PREFACE. 
 
 the studies of which it is the result. The Bible has been the 
 main field explored, in the conviction, " in thy light we shall 
 see light ; " and in giving to the Church of Christ, the light on 
 this high and holy subject, which has, he humbly believes, 
 been granted in response to much prayer, he desires to ascribe 
 to the only wise God, the giver of understanding, all glory, 
 and honour, and praise. Of all his good gifts, knowledge, 
 true knowledge of Him, of his works, of his word, and of 
 his ways, is one of the best ; and we are commanded to grow 
 in such knowledge. 
 
 If this work lead his brethren in the ministry to an increased 
 study of the Prophetic Scriptures, the author will feel richly 
 rewarded, whether his own conclusions be received or not. 
 He is conscious that his researches into the Divine system of 
 times and seasons have gone hut a little way into tJie subject, 
 but his hope is that they may serve to indicate to abler minds 
 and pens, a vein of ore which will richly repay working. 
 
 To one feature of the investigation he begs to call special 
 attention. It deals not with theories but witpi facts : it 
 consists not of speculations about the future, which are alto- 
 gether foreign to it, and in which the writer has not the least 
 inclination to indulge ; it consists in a collection of facts, and 
 of inferences drawn from those facts. The author has endea- 
 voured to deal with the question. What are the facts of the 
 world's history and chronology ? What are the facts as to the 
 nature, the objects, and the fulfilment of Scripture prophecy? 
 What are the ascertained facts as to the plan of Providence ? 
 What "are the/c<r/i as to the system of Times and Seasons in
 
 PREFACE. xi 
 
 Nature — the periodicity of vital phenomena, and the majestic 
 revolutions of the worlds whose movements control the entire 
 progress of terrestrial time ? What are the links of connection 
 between these facts ? What are the laws which control them ? 
 What is the chronological system to which these chronological 
 elements belong ? The answers to these questions have been 
 sought with care, and patient reflection. The inductive method 
 has been followed throughorut ; the facts of revelation and the 
 facts of nature, have been collected and compared ; a broad 
 basis has been thus constructed; and the conclusions reached 
 have been limited, as far as possible, to legitimate infcraucs 
 from the facts considered. The author claims that a candid 
 consideration of the fourth part of this volume should prevent 
 its ever being confounded with a class of writings which pro- 
 perly fail to command the attention of sober-minded Christian 
 students. A wide distinction exists and should be recognised 
 between students and expositors of the Word and Works of God, 
 who humbly, soberly, and reverently searching into the facts 
 of Nature and Scripture, of providence and of prophecy, reacli 
 conclusions which sanctified common sense can approve, — and 
 speculators, who running away with isolated and mysterious 
 expressions, indulge in imaginations of their own, and become 
 prophets, instead of students of Divine prophecy. No employ- 
 ment of human intelligence is nobler, than an adoring inves- 
 tigation of the revealed purposes of God, " which things the 
 angels desire to look into," while few are so puerile, as a pre- 
 sumptuous pretence of predicting the future, apart from such 
 cautious and careful study of Divine revelation.
 
 xii PREFACE. 
 
 In conclusion, the author would strongly deprecate the false 
 and foolish popular notion, that all study of prophecy is un- 
 practical — a notion too often propagated by passing, but mis- 
 chievously-influential allusions to the subject, from pulpit, 
 platform, and press, made by those who know little either of 
 it, or of its effects. It ought to be a sufficient rebuke to the 
 levity that hazards such an assertion, or admits such an idea, 
 \ to recall the facts, that one-third of the Lible consists of 
 prophecy; and that our Lord and Master said, "Search the 
 Scriptures," not a portion of them. The apostle Peter ex- 
 ) pressly tells us that we do well to take heed to the " more 
 ' sure word of prophecy," as to a light shining in a dark place 
 until the day dawn and the day star arise. Is it unpractical 
 to make use of a good lantern on a pitch-dark night, in 
 traversing a dangerous road ? or is it not rather unpractical 
 and unreasonable to attempt to dispense with it? And 
 further, a special and emphatic blessing is attached to this 
 study in the closing book of the Bible : " Blessed is he 
 tliat readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, 
 and keep the things that are written therein, for the time is 
 at hand." 
 
 It is a reflection of the g'-avest kind on the wisdom of 
 God, to suppose that the study of a brapcli of truth lo v/Iiich 
 He has in his word accorded singular promiaence, should 
 have an injurious tendency, or be devoid of a directly sanc- 
 tifying eftect : and moreover it is a conclusion complei-cly ?t 
 variance with all the facts of histoiy and cxpevlcDce. Enoch 
 was a student of prophec}'. and of prophecy that is to ihis
 
 PREFACE. xiii 
 
 day unfulfilled, and Enoch was the saiuJiest of men, an 
 eminently holy and practical preacher, who walked with God 
 three hundred years, and was not, for God took him, and 
 before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased 
 God. Noah was a student of unfulfilled prophecy, and 
 Scripture presents no more practical preacher of righteous- 
 ness than he was. All the holy prophets were students, 
 and diligent students, too, of their own and of eadi other's 
 predictions, and especially cf iJu'rr chrono'oglral preiHciions. 
 "The prophets inquired and searched diligently, searching 
 what or lultat nmiuter of time the Spirit of Christ vrhich was in 
 them did signify, when it teslined beforehand the sufierings of 
 Christ, and the glories that should follow" (i Pet. i. lo, ii). 
 Daniel was a student of unfuliillcd prophecy, yet he was not 
 only a practical statesman, but a man of singular holiness, 
 classed with Noah and Job as one of the most righteous of rnen. 
 There is everything in the nature of the study to make those 
 who pursue it both practical and holy. It imbues the mind 
 with the counsels and judgment of God about the affairs and 
 events of earth ; it reveals what shall he, and thereby lessens 
 the inordinate power of that which is now, bringing the spirit 
 under the influence of things unseen and eternal, and thereby 
 weakening that of things seen and temporal. It aftbrds to 
 hope much needed food, lacking which we must languish 
 and grow feeble ; and to faith and love peculiar stimulus 
 and enjoyment. Without an intelligent acquaintance with the 
 teaching of the prophetic word, no man of God is or can be 
 thoroughly furnished to all good works, for it is part of the " all
 
 xiv PREFACE. 
 
 Scripture" given by inspiration, and profitable for the purpose 
 of rendering him so. 
 
 Perhaps one reason for the prevaiUng neglect of prophetic 
 expositions and preaching will be found on reflection, to lie, not 
 in the fact that it is /^//practical, but rather in the fact tliat it is , 
 %o peculiarly practical, that few have the boldness and courage 
 to face the ridicule, opposition, and contempt it is sure to 
 incur in the world. Jeremiah lived on the eve and in the crisis 
 of a day of judgment on the apostate professing people of God, 
 He was commissioned to deliver prophetic discourses full of 
 denunciations of coming judgment, and of chronological state- 
 ments of its proximity and duration. We know what Jere- 
 miah's lot was, and few are prepared to play his sad and thank- 
 less role in society ! 
 
 So far from the study and exposition of the prophetic word 
 being profitless and vain^ we believe it is impossible to esti- 
 mate the loss sustained by the Church, or the injury done to 
 the world, by the very general and unjustifiable neglect of it. 
 Is it not so that where one prophetic discourse is delivered, 
 ten thousand doctrinal and practical sermons are preached ? 
 By what authority do we thus shelve a line of truth to which 
 divine wisdom has given such prominence in Sci'ipture 7 Is it 
 not our duty to declare " the whole counsel of God " ? Those 
 who have carefully looked into this subject, solemnly and with 
 good ground beHeve, that the " word " we are commanded to 
 " preach " is full of evidence that the long predicted and long 
 delayed judgments on the Papal and Mohammedan powers, 
 which are not only already begun, but are fast accomplishing
 
 PREFACE. XV 
 
 before our eyes, are to issue, and that speedily, in such a 
 burning of " Babylon the Great," as will light up all Christen- 
 dom with its lurid glow, — the immediate precursor, if it be not 
 the accompaniment, of the glorious advent of the King of 
 kings. With all earnestness and sobriety of mind they assure 
 their brethren that it is their deep conviction that this t's 
 the testimony of sacred Scripture; yet multitudes of Christian 
 teachers, without even taking the trouble of examining into the 
 subject, still preach the contrary, or imply it in their preach- 
 ing ; not from well-grounded conviction of its truth, but from 
 educational prejudice, or mere force of habit. Is this right? 
 Ought not every minister of the word to study for himself the 
 teachings of Scripture, until he is satisfied that he has attained 
 the truth on this momentous theme ? 
 
 For if we are right — if there be unequivocal proof m the 
 inspired volume, proof that no previous generation of Christians 
 was in a position to appreciate as we are, that the day of 
 Christ is at hand — that the time for evangelising the nations, 
 and gathering in the church of the first-born is speedily to 
 expire — that the long day of grace to the Gentiles is all but 
 over, and that apostate Christendom, so long spared by the 
 goodness of God, is soon to be cut off by his righteous 
 severity — that the mystery of God is all but finished, and his 
 manifested rule about to be inaugurated — that the great closing 
 Armageddon conflict is at hand, and the complete overthrow 
 of the confederated hosts of evil — if we be right in believing 
 that scarcely a single prophecy in the whole Bible, relating to 
 events prior to the second advent of Christ remains unfulfilled
 
 xvi PREFACE. 
 
 — if we be right, — then surely every pulpit in England should 
 be ringing with timely testimony to these truths, — surely these 
 solemn and most momentous facts ought not, in the preaching 
 ot any of God's faithful witnesses throughout the world, to 
 be- passed by in silence. And who that has not studied the 
 subject can be in a position to say that we are not right — 
 that these things are not so ? 
 
 May such 'a spirit as the Bereans had of old, be granted 
 to the Christians of this generation, that they may diligently 
 search the "more sure word of prophecy," and draw directly 
 from that sacred fountain the Trutii as to the fast approach- 
 ing future, which God has graciously revealed ; and may this 
 volume, through his blessing, prove in such researches, helpful 
 to not a few. 
 
 East London Institute for 
 
 Home and Foreign Missions, 
 
 Harley House, Bow, E. 
 Mar. 2isf, 1878.
 
 r' 
 
 PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. 
 
 ^HE author has been glad to see, by the sale of the first 
 edition of two thousand copies of this work within eight 
 months of its publication, that the important subject of which 
 it treats is increasingly attracting the attention of students of 
 Scripture. In preparing the book for a second edition, he has 
 spared no pains in order to render it as accurate and as reli- 
 able as possible. 
 
 The present edition has been carefully corrected throughout, 
 and all the astronomic calculations have been verified by a pro- 
 fessional mathematician employed in one of the government 
 astronomical offices. 
 
 A considerable amount of astronomic detail, which is of 
 interest only to students, has been thrown into an appendix, in 
 order to relieve and simplify the latter part of the work, and to 
 adapt it for general readers. 
 
 Much additional matter, of a chronologic and historic 
 character, has been introduced, and several fresh discoveries, 
 of no small importance to the whole subject, are embodied in 
 this edition. As the result of further research, the truth as to 
 the Divine system of times and seasons has become more clear 
 to the author's own mind, and it is, he trusts, more clearly pre- 
 sented now than previously.
 
 xviii PREFACE. 
 
 There is added in an appendix a complete Calendar of 
 THE Times of the Gentiles, showing, in unbroken sequence, 
 the main events from the beginning of the Babylonian 
 monarchy (b.c. 747) to the present day. Tliis calendar gives 
 the names of the various monarchs of different dynasties, who 
 nave succeeded each other in the headship of the four great 
 empires symbolised by the fourfold image of Daniel, together 
 with their e.c. and a.d. dates, and the leading events of the 
 historj-. It commences, as will be observed, with the era of 
 Nabonassar, or date of the accession of the first king of 
 Babylon. This date is determined with certainty and exacti- 
 tude by a series of astronomic observations recorded by 
 Ptolemy, and is therefore one of the best ascertained dates of 
 remote antiquity. Prophetic students have long been divided 
 in opinion as to the point from which the great " seven times " 
 of prophecy should be dated. All agree that the terminus a 
 quo must lie somewhere in the rise of the Babylonian 
 monarchy, but there is difterence of judgment as to the exact 
 point. This calendar shows the remarkable fact — never, we 
 beUeve, observed before — that from the day of the accession oj 
 Nabonassar, the first kitig of Babylon, to the day of the fall of 
 Romulus Augustulus, the last emperor of Rome, tJiere elapsed 
 an interval of precisely 1260 lunar years. That tlie entire 
 duration of the four great Pagan Gentile empires (prior to the 
 tenfold division of the last) should thus measure, precisely 
 " time, times and a half," seems to indicate that the era ot 
 Nabonassar should be regarded as, at any rate, an initial 
 starting-point for the "Times of the Gentiles," though the
 
 PREFACE. :<;x 
 
 overthrow of the throne of Judah by Nebuchadnezzar is un- 
 doubtedly the full and final commencement of this great dis- 
 pensational period. This remarkable fact indicates also that 
 the Imiar measurement of time must not be overlooked in 
 researches as to the fulfilment of chronologic prophecy. Hence 
 the distance of each event from the starting-point is, in the 
 calendar, given not only in solar but also in lunar years. Like 
 the great " week," whose chronicle it presents, this calendar is 
 divided into two parts. The first gives the history of the 1260 
 years just mentioned, from the beginning of the Babylonian to 
 the end of the Roman empire ; and the second traces that of 
 the 1260 years which have elapsed between the era of the rise 
 and that of the fall of the Papal and Mohammedan powers. 
 The latter not only gives the chronologic distance of each 
 event from the era of Nabonassar — the commencement of the 
 whole " seven times " — but also from the rise of the apostasies 
 — the commencement of their second half. The Papal chrono- 
 logy is given in solar, and the Mohammedan in lunar years, 
 the Mohammedan calendar being lunar. 
 
 The chronology followed in the earlier part of the calendar 
 is that of the Canon ot Ptolemy, as verified by astronomical 
 researches, and elaborately set forth in Clinton's " Fasti 
 Helleuici." The chronology of the Roman empire, as far as 
 the reign of Herachus, is drawn from Clinton's "Fasti 
 Romani " ; intermediate and subsequent dates arc taken from 
 Blair's Chronological Tables, and its useful rearrangement in 
 Rosse's Dictionary of Dates, compared with various chrono- 
 logical works, ancient and modern. The chronology of recent
 
 XX PREFACE. 
 
 European history is given from Haydn's Dictionary of Dates, 
 while that of the most recent and current events is taken from 
 the annual register of the Times newspaper. 
 
 There is also added in an appendix a careful investigation 
 into the subject of the " seventy weeks " of Dan. ix., a chrono- 
 logical prophecy of the first importance, as being the only one 
 in Scripture indicating the period of the first advent of Christ, 
 and one whose fulfilment is an unanswerable argument for the 
 truth of Christianity. 
 
 The author sends forth this second edition with a deeper 
 conviction than ever that there is ample and satisfactory evi- 
 dence that we are indeed living in the closing years of this dis- 
 pensation — the time of the end ; and with a stronger desire 
 than ever that this solemn fact may be more widely perceived 
 and acknowledged by the Church of God, in order to the 
 increase of practical holiness, of joyful hope, and of earnest 
 activity in the work of the Lord. 
 
 April 2^i/i, 1S79.
 
 PREFACE TO THE FIFTH EDITION. 
 
 T N sending forth a fifth edition of this work within two 
 -■- years of its first pubHcation, we thankfully record the 
 fact, of which we have abundant evidence, that it has found 
 acceptance with a large number of earnest Christians, of 
 students of God's word, of ministers of the gospel, of saints 
 who love the hope of their Lord's appearing. From Christians 
 of various denominations and ranks in society, and of difterent 
 nationalities, letters have been received expressing substantial 
 and hearty agreement with the views it unfolds, and stating 
 that spiritual blessing has been experienced in its perusal. 
 For this, then, we give thanks to God, the alone Giver of 
 every good and perfect gift, and rejoice that our labour has 
 not been expended upon it in vain. I say we, for I associate 
 with myself in this my beloved wife, my fellow-labourer in the 
 gospel, whose valuable aid rendered in the preparation of this 
 book made it our joint work, and constitutes its success our 
 joint reward. 
 
 Very little alteration has been made in this edition ; a few 
 slight errors found in the fourth edition have been corrected, 
 and a footnote has been added on page 78, containing Dean 
 Alford's striking and valuable testimony to the correct inter- 
 pretation of Revelation xx., as establishing the literality of
 
 xxii PREFACE. 
 
 the first resurrection, and the premillennial character of the 
 Second Advent. 
 
 May grace be given to all who look for the speedy coming 
 of our Lord to prove they do so by their spirit, their labours, 
 and their lives ! " What manner of persons ought we to be 
 in all holy conversation and godliness ? " How should we 
 reflect upon a dark world the glow of the coming sunrise ! 
 How should we abound in our labours for the Lord, and 
 that '•'■so much the more'' as we more clearly "see the day" 
 *' approaching " ? 
 
 H. GRATTAN GUINNESa 
 Harley House, Eow, E., 
 February, iSSo.
 
 TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
 
 t3nrt I. 
 
 Progressive Revelation, 
 chapter i. 
 
 God's Revelation of Himself to Man has been a Progressive one.— Truth 
 in General has been Revealed Progressively.— Prophecy, the Divine 
 Ilistoiy of the Future, consists of a Series of Progressive Revelations. 
 — Practical Results of the Comprehension and Application of this 
 Principle « . /. I 
 
 CHAPTER 11. 
 Progressive Revelations as to the Relative Period of the Second Advent of 
 our Lord Jesus Christ /• 1 7 
 
 CHAPTER in. 
 Progressive Revelations as to the Millennium, the Resurrection, and tlie 
 Judgment . • /. 55 
 
 ^3nit II. 
 
 Progressive Interpretation. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 Huliian Comprehension of Divine Prophecy has been, and was intended to 
 be, Progressive. — Three Important Inferences from Dan. xii. 9. — There
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 is a Blameless and a Guilty Ignorance of the Fulfilment of Prophecy. 
 — Instances of each. — Reasons for a Partial and Temporary Obscurity 
 of Prophecy ; and Means by which Progressive Comprehension of its 
 Signification has been Granted . . . ^ . • /• 79 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 Consideration of certain Broad Principles on which the Apocalypse is to 
 be Interpreted. — It is a Symbolic Prophecy, and must be Translated 
 into Ordinary Language before it can be Understood . • /• 99 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 Tlie Apocalypse is a Continuous Prophecy, extending from its own Time 
 to the Consummation of all Things. — Importance of Historical Know- 
 ledge, in order to its Correct Interpretation. — It is a Prophecy con- 
 cerning the Experiences of the Christian Church in the World, and 
 not concerning those of the Jewish Nation . . . . /. i lo 
 
 prt III. 
 
 Foretold and Fulfilled. 
 
 chapter i. 
 
 Babylon the Great. 
 
 The Prophecies of " Babylon " and "the Beast." — Reasons for the Exami- 
 nation of these two Prophecies. — Fundamental, Divinely Interpreted ; 
 practically important. — Babylon the Great represents the Apostate 
 Church of Rome /• I39 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 The Man of Sin, or Antichrist. 
 
 A great Fourfold Prophecy of Fundamental Importance (Dan. vii. 7-27 ; 
 Rev. xiii. 1-9; Rev. xvii. ; 2 Thess, ii.). — The Roman Power. — Its 
 last Form as Predicted here. — Individual and Dynastic Use of the word 
 "King." — An Apostate, Blasphemous, and Persecuting Power, exactly
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 answering to the one here Predicted, has been in Existence for more 
 than Twelve Centuries, in the Succession of the Popes of Rome. — 
 Origin of this Power.— Its Moral Character.— Its Self-exalting Utter- 
 ances,— Its Self-exalting Acts.— Its Subtleties, False Doctrines, and 
 Lying Wonders.— Its Idolatries.— Its Dominion. — Its Persecution of 
 the Saints. — Its Duration. — Its Doom . . . .p. jOo 
 
 ^ait IV. 
 
 Inquiry into the Divine System of Times and Seasons, 
 Natural and Revealed. 
 
 SECTION I. 
 Solar and Lunar Dominion, Causal and Chronological. 
 
 CHAPTER I, 
 
 Chronology, Biblical and Natural. Is there Harmony between the Two ? 
 
 Solar and Lunar Dominion in the Inorganic World. 
 Soli-lunar Control of Terrestrial Revolutions. — Winds. — Rains. —Ocean 
 Currents. — Tides. — Electric and Magnetic Variations. . /. 230 
 
 CHAPTER IL 
 
 Soli-lunar Dominion in the Organic World. 
 Effects of Light and Heat on the Development and Distribution of Plants 
 and Animals, and of the Human Race. — Diurnal and Seasonal 
 Changes in Relation to Health and Disease . . . /. 245 
 
 SECTION II. 
 The Law of Completion in Weeks. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 The Week in Relation to the Periodicity of Vital 
 
 Phenomena. 
 
 Periodicity in the Development of Insects, Fishes, Birds, and Mammali.i. 
 
 Periodicity in the Growth and Functional Activity of Mankind in 
 
 Health and in Disease /• 25S
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 CHAPTER II, 
 
 The Week in Scripture. 
 
 There is a Chronological System in Scripture. — It is a System of Weeks. — 
 This System is Traceable throughout the Law, the Prophets, and the 
 Gospel. — The Week in the Mosaic Ritual. — The Week in Jewish 
 History. — The Week in Prophecy.— The Week of Days. — Of Weeks. 
 — Of Months. — Of Years. — Of Weeks of Years. — Of Years of Years. 
 Of Millenaries /. 270 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 The Week in History. 
 
 Scripture the Chart of History. — Preliminary Questions as to Historic and 
 Prophetic Chronology.— The Age of the Human Race. — Old Testa- 
 ment Chrpnology. — The Hebrew and the Septuagint Chronology 
 compared. — How are we to Interpret the Symbolic Periods of Pro- 
 phetic Chronology? — Exposition and Defence of the Year-Day System. 
 — Moral Features distinguishing the Three Great Dispensations, The 
 Patriarchal, The Jewish, The Christian. — Chronological Measures of 
 these Dispensations. — The Period of " Seven Times " shown to be the 
 Duration of the Last or Gentile Dispensation, and also of the Two 
 Earlier /. 2S4 
 
 SECTION III. 
 
 Soli-lunar Cycles, and their Relation to the Chrono- 
 logy OF History. 
 
 CHAPTER L 
 
 Solar and Lunar Supremacy in the Ordering of Terrestriai 
 
 Time /. 3SS 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 Difficulty of Harmonizing Solar and Lunar Measures. 
 The Calendar and its History A 39^
 
 CONTENTS. xxvii 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 Cyclical Character of the Prophetic Periods of Daniel and 
 
 THE ArOCAIATSE. 
 Discoveries of M. dc Clicscaux 
 
 399 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 The PRoniETic Times and their Ei'acts . . , a 407 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 Soi.i-LUNAR Measures of our Lord's Earthly Lifetime, and op 
 Human History as a Whole . . /. 449 
 
 CHAPTER VI. 
 Concluding Remarks. 
 The Rearing of the Divine System of Times and Seasons ncrc Investigated 
 on the Futurist System of Interpreting the Prophecies of Daniel and 
 John ; on the Evidence of the Inspiration of Scripture, and on the 
 Chronological Point now reached in Human History, — tlie Nearness 
 of the End of the Age /. 461 
 
 APPENDIX A. 
 Relation of Levitical and Prophetic Chronology to Soli-lunar Revolutions. 
 — The Jubilee. — Chronology of the "Seventy Weeks." — The Mes- 
 sianic Cycle. — Secular Soli-lunar Cycles. — The Epact. 
 
 Calendar of the "Times of the Gentiles." 
 Part I. — Calendar of the Four Great Empires from the Era of Nabonas- 
 
 sar to the End of the Western Roman Empire. 
 Part II. — Calendar of the Rise, Course, Decline, and Fall of the Papal 
 and Mohammedan Powers .... . . . p. 509 
 
 APPENDIX B. . . . /. 673 
 
 APPENDIX C. . . . - /. 692
 
 CONTENTS OF APPENDICES. 
 
 APPENDIX A. 
 
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 I. Levitical chronology soli-lunar • » « . 509 
 
 II. Typical feasts regulated by lunations ... o ... . 509 
 
 III. Closeness of the adjustment 509 
 
 IV. Remarkable adjustment in the jubilee — the 6oo lunationa . . 510 
 
 V. Important analogous adjustment in the *' seventy weeks " — the 
 6000 lunations, or the correspondence between the time of 
 our Lord's death in the "seventy weeks," and that of the 
 day of atonement and liberation in the jubilee 511 
 
 VI. The grounds of the chronology here followed 513 
 
 1. As to the terminal point from which the "seventy weelcs" 
 
 are to be reckoned 5^3 
 
 2. The three eclipses recorded by Ptolemy in the reigns of 
 
 Cambyses and Darius 5'^ 
 
 3. The historic interval occupied by our Lord's life. Lind- 
 
 say : Chrono-astrolabe 5 ' 7 
 
 4. The date of the nativity. The eclipse which preceded the 
 
 death of Herod S'Q 
 
 5. Kepler's calculations as to the star of the nativity, and the 
 
 year B.C. 6, and Alford's comments 520 
 
 6. Alford on the date given in the Gospel of Luke for the 
 
 ministry of John 5^2 
 
 7. The date of our Lord's passion 5^3 
 
 8. Conclusiens as to the dates in the " seventy weelcs " of our 
 
 Lord's death, resurrection, and ascension 524 
 
 VIL The duration of our Lord's terrestrial life, and its agreement 
 with the 33 years 7 months and 7 days soli-lunar cycle in 
 which the sun gains on the moon one solar year .... 525
 
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 VIII. Confinnation of the chronology thus unfolded 530 
 
 1. As to the date of the ist of Nisan, B.C. 457. Evidence 
 
 afforded by the 2300 y. cycle 530 
 
 2. The "seventy weeks" as reckoned from this date with 
 
 sabbatical years. Table of sabbatic years in the 
 "seventy weeks " 530 
 
 3. That the last 70 years in the 490 commenced v.ith Herod's 
 
 capture of Jerusalem 532 
 
 4. Termination of the 2300 years sanctuary cycle as reckoned 
 
 from E. c. 457 in the 1260th year of the Mohammedan era. 
 Mohammedan calendar for 1S79 532 
 
 5. The twelve jubilees extending from the end of the "seventy 
 
 weeks," in A.D.34, to the commencement of Mohamme- 
 dan reckoning, A.D. 622 534 
 
 C. Objection to the ist Nisan, B.C. 45S, as the commencement 
 of the " seventy weeks " on the ground that it coincided 
 with the Jewish sabbath 534 
 
 7. Answer to the objection that the passovcr moon of March 
 
 18, A. D. 29, preceded the equinox 534 
 
 S. Coincidence of the commencement of the " seventy weeks," 
 
 March 20-21, i;.c. 457, with the vernal equinox . . 535 
 
 9. Harmony of the day of Ezra's reaching Jerasalem, first 
 day of the fifth montli, July 16, B.C. 457, with an im- 
 portant series of dates connected with the calamities and 
 deliverancesof Jerusalem and the Jewish people . . . 536 
 20. Coincidence of the termination of the 2300 years cycle as 
 reckoned from B.C. 457, vA'Ca. the termination of the 391 
 years predicted duration of the Ottoman " woe " . . . 540 
 
 11. Convergence of 2300 solar years from B.C. 457 and 2520 
 
 lunar years from the Babylonian subversion of the throne 
 of David, B.C. 602, dnd bi-section of the latter period by 
 the Hegira date, A.D. 622 540 
 
 12. Analogous 1260 lunar years, extending from the destruction 
 
 of the city and temple by Nebuchadnezzar, B.C. 5S7, to 
 the capture of Jerusalem by Omar, A.D. 637 .... 542 
 ^3- ^^lf> years cycle, one quarter of " seven times," extending
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
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 from the Babylonian commencement of the "times of 
 the Gentiles," B.C. 602, to the year of the supreme pass- 
 over, A.D. 29 544 
 
 14. Remarkable harmony of this chronology with that of the 
 four empires and " times of the Gentiles " as reckoned 
 from the era of Nabonassar, K.c. 747 545 
 
 IX. Important 107S years cycle, harmonizing the year, month, 
 
 and jubilee 546 
 
 X. The cycle of the precession of the equinoxes 550 
 
 XI. Cycle of the revolution of the solar perigee . ...... 559 
 
 XII. Cycle of the variation in the length of the seasons .... 560 
 
 XIII. Cycle of the excentricity of the earth's orbit "J^S 
 
 XIV. That the proportion which solar revolutions bear to lunar, and 
 
 diurnal to annual, is octave, or jubilaic . .- 566 
 
 XV. Growth of the epaci traced from its lowest cycles to its de- 
 velopment in the prophetic times 571 
 
 XVI. Calendar of the " times of the Gentiles " 5S0 
 
 Part I. Calendar of the four great empires from the era of 
 Nabonassar, — the beginning of tlic kingdom of 
 Babylon, to the fall of the western Roman empire 5S3 
 
 Part II. Calendar of the rise, course, decline, and fall of 
 
 the Papal and Moliammedan powers 607 
 
 APPENDIX B. 
 
 List of authors consulted in the preparation of this work . 673 
 
 APPENDIX C. 
 
 East London Institute for Home and Foreign Missions . . 692
 
 "The natural and moral constitution and government of the world are 
 so connected, as to make up together but one scheme : and it is highly 
 probable, that the first is formed and carried on merely in subserviency to 
 the latter ; as the vegetable world is for the animal, and organized bodies 
 for minds. But the thing intended here, is, without inquiring how far the 
 administration of the natural world is subordinate to that of the moral, 
 only to observe the credibility, that one should be analogous or similar to 
 the other; that therefore every act of Divine justice and goodness, may be 
 supposed to look much beyond itself, and its immediate object ; may have 
 some reference to other parts of God's moral administration, and to a 
 general moral plan : and that every circumstance of this his moral govern- 
 ment, may be adjusted beforehand with a view to the whole of it. Thus 
 for example : the determined length of time, and the degrees and ways, in 
 which virtue is to remain in a state of warfare and discipline, and in which 
 wickedness is permitted to have its progress ; the times appointed for the 
 execution of justice ; the appointed instmments of it ; the kind of rewards 
 and punishments, and the manners of their distribution ; all particular 
 instances of Divine justice and goodness, and every circumstance of them, 
 may have such respects to each other, as to make up all together, a whole, 
 connected and related in all its parts : a scheme or system, which is as 
 properly one as the natural world is, and of the like kind." 
 
 Bp. Butler.
 
 PART I. 
 
 PR GRESSIVE RE VELA TION. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 GOU'S REVF.LATION OF HniSELF TO MAN HAS BEEN A PRO- 
 GRESSIVE ONE. TRUTH IN GENERAL HAS BEEN REVEALED 
 
 PROGRESSIVELY. — PROPHECY, THE DIVINE HISTORY OF THE 
 FUTURE, CONSISTS OF A SERIES OF PROGRESSIVE REVEL.V- 
 TIONS. — PRACTICAL RESULTS OF THE CO.MPREHENSION AND 
 APPLICATION OF THIS PRINCIPLE. 
 
 GOD has been pleased to make thi^e great revelations 
 of Himself to man : his Works ; his Word ; and his 
 Son, and these revelations have been progressive in character. 
 Nature, the Law, the Gospel; a silent material universe, an 
 inspired Book, a living God-man ; these are the three great 
 steps that have led from the death and darkness of sin to that 
 knowledge of the true God which is eternal life. 
 
 A fourth revelation of God, fuller and more perfect than 
 any, is yet to come. The only begotten Son, who is in the 
 bosom of the Father, who is the brightness of his glory and 
 the express image of his person, who " declared Him " 
 when He came the first time in grace and humiliation, will de- 
 clare Him yet more fully when He comes a second time in 
 righteousness and in glory. Then the earth will be filled with 
 the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea. 
 
 Each of these revelations is in itself progressive. The earth 
 and all that is therein, attained perfection by six distinct stages, 
 
 6
 
 PROGRESSIVE REVELATION. 
 
 during the six days of creation. The angels followed with 
 adoring wonder the fresh unfoldings of Divine wisdom, good- 
 ness, and power, presented in the gradual formation of this 
 great globe, and in its myriad mysteries of vegetable and ani- 
 mal life, though to human eyes nature was presented perfect 
 and complete. But human eyes could see at first the surface 
 of things alone ; every advance in true science, enabling men 
 to penetrate more deeply into the hidden wisdom of the work 
 of God, has been a progressive revelation. And we have only 
 begun, even now, to understand the glory of God, manifested in 
 the universe. To us, more than to our ancestors, the heavens 
 declare the glory of God, and the earth showeth his handi- 
 work ; and to our children they will do so even more. 
 
 The Word of God is also a progressive revelation, and so 
 has been the Providence recorded in that Word. 
 
 The Bible is composed of sixty-three separate books, written 
 by forty various authors, during a period of 1600 years. The 
 sacred writings develop a revelation which was continually 
 unfolding itself through all those years ; and close with a book 
 bearing the divinely given title of " The Revelation of Jesus 
 Christ." 
 
 The third revelation of God, that afforded by the person 
 and work of our blessed Lord Jesus Christ, was also progres- 
 sive. The mere fact of his birth and existence in the midst 
 of a world of sinners, was in itself an evidence of God's love to 
 a guilty race. Each word He spoke, each act He performed, 
 each day He lived, unfolded more and more of God. They 
 who saw Him saw the Father, for He was his express image ; 
 and not until He, the Maker and Judge of all, was exposed on 
 the cursed tree, not till from his riven side flowed the water 
 and the blood, not till He bowed his head and gave up the 
 ghost, never till then, was the heart of God fully unveiled ; 
 " hereby perceive we the love of God." 
 
 And it will be the same in the future ; for since finite man 
 is destined through boundless mercy to an eternal advance in 
 the knowledge of the infinite God, that knowledge must needs
 
 PROGRESSIVE REVELATION. 
 
 be vouchsafed in progressive revelations, adapted to man's 
 ability to receive them. And herein will lie one of the joys of 
 heaven, to be ever learning more of Him, who is the Truth, and 
 from Him, of all things. 
 
 No student of Scripture can fail to be struck with the pro- 
 gressive character of its teachings. On no one subject was full 
 niformation given at the beginning ; all was revealed in germ 
 only, and in the lapse of ages unfolded by degrees. Take, for 
 instance, the doctrine of the Trinity : in the beginning God 
 taught the unity of his nature, and the other truth thatln the 
 one God there are three persons, was only intimated; suggested 
 by certain forms of expression, as the use of a plural noun with 
 a singular verb, which occurs several hundred times, as in 
 Gen. i. i, Ps. Iviii. n. There were besides expressions, the 
 accurate harmony of which with this truth, we who understand 
 it can appreciate, but which were not revelations to those who 
 were ignorant of it. Such for example is the divinely pre- 
 scribed threefold form of benediction in Numbers ; and such 
 the seraphs' threefold ascription of praise in Isaiah, followed by 
 the Lord Jehovah's question, " Who will go for 2{s ? " The later 
 prophets assume the doctrine as true (Isa. xlviii. i6, Isa. ix. 6) • 
 but the New Testament alone reveals it fully. 
 
 Or take again the law of love ; man's first duty towards his 
 brother man. To the antediluvian world no law on the subject 
 was given. To Noah, murder, the worst expression of hatred, 
 was forbidden ; through Moses the doing of any ill to the 
 neighbour was prohibited, either in his person, his property, his 
 reputation or his domestic interests. By the Lord Jesus the 
 feeling oi ?iXiy enmity was forbidden ; and not only so but posi- 
 tive love, even to the laying down of life itself for the brother, 
 commanded. AVhat an advance is the conception of love em- 
 ijodicd in i Corinthians xiii. on that derived from Sinai, or even 
 from the sermon on tlie mount. 
 
 Our present object is to trace this progress in connection 
 with the prophecies of Scripture, and more especially with those 
 of the New Testament.
 
 PROGRESSIVE RE VELA TION. 
 
 I. 7'he prophetic tcacliings of Scripture consist of a series of 
 
 p I vg) -essiz 'c ra cI at ions. 
 
 Its earliest predictions of any future event, have the character 
 of outUnes, later ones fill in the sketch, and the final ones 
 present the finished picture. It is first the bud, next the half 
 opened blossom, and lastly the flower in full bloom. 
 
 There was progress in the amount of truth revealed, as well 
 as in the fulness of revelation on each point. The little stream- 
 let of prophecy which sprang up in Eden and trickled down 
 through the antediluvian ages, swelled by continual accessions, 
 till it rushed a flowing Jordan through Israel's tribes, grew into 
 a mighty Euphrates during the Babylonish captivity, and opened 
 out into a vast delta around Patmos, whence its waters glide 
 calmly into the ocean of eternity. 
 
 Adam heard one brief enigmatical prediction from the voice oi 
 God Himself. Noah sketched, in three inspired sentences, the 
 "•reat features of human history. In the curse on Canaan was 
 contained in embryo the iniquity of the seven nations and their 
 conquest by Joshua ; the priority of blessing granted to Shem, 
 similarly contained the subsequent choice of his descendant 
 Abraham to be the heir of the world and father of the faithful. 
 In the promise of enlargement given to Japheth, was contained 
 the spiritual enlargement which took place when the Gentiles 
 were received into the new covenant, and the physical en- 
 largement accomplished in comparatively recent days by the 
 European colonization of America, and conquest of India, both 
 " tents of Shem." This prophecy spanned the stream of time 
 with a few gigantic arches ; carrying us over from the vineyard 
 of Noah to the Anglo-Saxon empires of our own day. 
 
 The patriarchs learned from God many additional particulars 
 as to the future : to Abraham was revealed the history of the 
 descendants of his two sons, Ishmael and Isaac ; the four hun- 
 dred years' affliction of his posterity ; the blessing of all nations 
 through his seed, etc. Abraham, Jacob, and Moses, all saw 
 Christs day and were glad ; Isaiah and Jeremiah revealed not
 
 PROGRESSIVE REVELATION. 
 
 only the proximate judgments and deliverances of Israel, but 
 also incarnation and atonement. The visions of Daniel pre 
 sent not only a comprehensive but an orderly and conse- 
 cutive prophetic narrative, of leading events, from his own da> 
 to the end of all things, a miniature universal history. The 
 fall of Belshazzar ; the rise of Cyrus, his conquests, the great- 
 ness of his empire ; his successors, Cambyses, Smerdis, and 
 Darius ; the character, power, and conduct of Xerxes ; the 
 marvellous exploits of Alexander the Great, his sudden death, 
 and the division of his empire ; the reigns of the Ptolemies 
 and Seleucidoe ; the character and conquests of the Roman 
 empire ; the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus ; the decay and 
 division of the Roman empire ; the rise of the Papacy and its 
 career ; its cruel persecutions of God's saints : all this and 
 much more is foretold by the man greatly beloved. 
 
 The " burdens " of the later prophets concern Syria, Egypt, 
 Edom,Tyre, Sidon, Moab, Philistia, Kedar, Elam, Babylon, Gog 
 and Magog, besides Judah and Ephraim. Enoch's prophecy is 
 comprised in one verse, and touches only one theme. Isaiah's 
 has sixty-six chapters, and touches on an immense variety of 
 topics. From our Lord and his apostles flowed additional 
 revelations, which opened up subjects previously veiled in mys- 
 tery, and cast a flood of light on every important feature of 
 the present and of the future. Thus the volume of proj)hecy 
 grew in bulk and in scope, with the ever increasing number 
 of individuals and of nations, and with the consequent com- 
 plexity and importance of the events to be announced by 
 inspiration. 
 
 Further, the prophecies of any one event have also a distinctly 
 progressive character ; they increase both in fulness and in 
 clearness as the period of fulfilment ai)proaches. A guide, 
 conducting a traveller to Chamcunix, before starting from 
 Geneva points out the glittering white mountain on tlie 
 horizon as the goal of the day's journey, and adds a few 
 general indications of the route. When the city and its 
 suburbs are left behind the guide ceases perhaps to speak
 
 PROGRESSIVE REVELATION. 
 
 much of Mont Blanc, tells rather of the height of the Saleve 
 round which the road winds ; from some eminence he points 
 out the towns and villages which dot the widespread plaia 
 beyond, and which must presently be passed; traces the 
 windings of the Arve, speaks of Bonneville and Sallenches 
 as marking stages of the journey, but allows the magnifi- 
 cent terminus of their wanderings to occupy for the time 
 a comparatively secondary place, minor but nearer objects 
 taking up his attention. At a later period of the day, when 
 the glorious vision of the ever nearing mountain breaks afresh 
 upon the traveller at Sallenches, the guide pours forth clear 
 and copious descriptions of its various parts ; other things 
 are forgotten now, they press on ; again the nearer hills 
 shut out the mountain summit, but the guide tells how each 
 turn of the last picturesque and winding valley will reveal 
 some new view of it. When it reappears the traveller is 
 startled by the nearer magnificence of the monarch of the 
 Alps, it rivets his eye, it absorbs his attention ; the guide enters 
 into minute particulars, describes the different "aiguilles" 
 and summits of the mountain, so that as he approaches them 
 one by one, the traveller recognises them. And now Cha- 
 mounix and the glaciers come in sight, and the traveller finds 
 as might have been expected, that what appeared, when fifty 
 miles off, a simple outline of uniform white, breaks up into a 
 series of jagged peaks, with awful shadows and frozen seas 
 lying in deep valleys between ; that the one mountain is in re- 
 ality half a dozen, and that what appeared at a distance merely 
 a feature of the wide horizon, has developed into a vast and 
 intricate region, in which he may wander for weeks without 
 exploring it all. Yet, as he gazes up at the great summit, he 
 realizes, that it is the very same mountain he first beheld from 
 Geneva. 
 
 Thus, from the fall onwards, the triitr.iplis of the Cross have 
 been the great theme of prophecy. Even in Eden the main 
 character and grand result of human history were foretold. 
 Enmity was to subsist between Satan and men, with all its fruits
 
 PROGRESSIVE RE VELA TJON. 
 
 of conflict and suffering ; ultimately, the serpent's head was to 
 be bruised, the author of evil destroyed, but the victory was to 
 be dearly bought, for the woman's seed by whom it should be 
 gained, should have his heel bruised in the battle. Here is the 
 ]3ible in embryo, the sum of all history and prophecy in a germ. 
 But what a mysterious enigma it was, what a slight shadowy 
 oudine, what a vague though blessed prospect ! Still it was a 
 light shining in a dark place ; its beams were feeble, but to the 
 eye of faith it was the one glimmer that irradiated the intense 
 gloom of the future. But what desires it must have left un- 
 satisfied, what questions unanswered ! How long was this sore 
 conflict to last ? By what means were the vanquished to be- 
 come the victors? Little could Adam and Eve know on these 
 points ; the one bright hope, like a glittering mountain top, 
 defined their horizon ; its form was rendered indistinct by the 
 mists of ignorance ; but it riveted their gaze, for the rest of 
 that horizon was blank, and nought but travail and sorrow and 
 labour in an accursed earth, lay between them and this hope. 
 
 To the view of Enoch, the seventh from Adam, this sin- 
 gle future became dual. This first prophet, announced not 
 only blessing, but judgment to come. He saw mankind divided 
 into two classes, the saints and the ungodly (Jude 14) ; and 
 he foretold a coming of the Lord with the former to execute 
 judgment on the latter. Here was an advance : the previously 
 revealed conflict reappears, and the previously revealed victory ; 
 but there shine out the additional truths that the conflict would 
 not be between man and Satan alone, but between men and 
 God, and that its termination would be effected only, by a 
 coming of the Lord Himself to earth. In the sanctifying 
 power of this truth Enoch walked in holy separation from the 
 ungodly, and in holy fellowship with God, for three hundred 
 vears, and " before his translation he had this testimony that 
 he pleased God." 
 
 To the patriaichs it was revealed that in their line should 
 arise the promised Seed of the woman, in wliom all the 
 families of the earth should be blessed, Jacob's dying 
 propliecy dcs;r:nated the very tribe in which He should
 
 PROGRESSIVE RkVELATION. 
 
 appear, and threw some light on his character and work. To 
 Moses it was made known that the promised Deliverer should 
 be a prophet, and David foretold that He should be a king and 
 the manner of his kingdom (Psalm Ixxii.). The promise of his 
 coming grew continually brighter and clearer ; but as yet it ap- 
 ])eared only ojie, a glorious advent of a royal and triumphant 
 Deliverer. What the bruising of the heel should be, was still 
 hidden in obscurity : the double nature of Christ, his true 
 character and work, his rejection, suffering and death, had 
 not yet been predicted ; they had been shadowed forth, it is 
 true, in typical actions and ordinances; but these were not 
 understood even by the actors in them. 
 
 In a wondrous historic preiiguration Abraham and Isaac, all 
 unconsciously to themselves, had symbolised the great truth that 
 the Eather would give the Son to be the sacrifice ; not know- 
 ing what he said, Isaac uttered the great question of all ages : 
 " Behold the fire and the wood ; but where is the Lamb for the 
 burnt offering ? " and Abraham gave the prophetic reply : " My 
 son, God will provide Himself a Lamb." But types like this, 
 and like that of Joseph's rejection by his brethren, and exalta- 
 tion to Egypt's throne, were not rcvclatio?is to the then exist- 
 ing generations of men, although we in the light of the antitype 
 can see them to have had a hidden meaning. Nor was the 
 paschal lamb in Egypt, nor the complex system of sacrifices 
 inaugurated by Moses, any revelation of the victim character of 
 Christ. David in the Psalms wrote of his sufferings as well as 
 his glories, but so little were these passages understood, that 
 our Lord and his apostles had to expound them even in their 
 day. 
 
 But when David had fallen asleep, and Solomon's typical 
 reign was over, when declension and decay set in, and Israel's 
 kingdom was on the wane, when a dark night of captivity 
 and dispersion was approaching, then revelations multiplied. 
 The star that had so long shone in the prophetic heaven, 
 and been regarded as one round orb, was seen to be a binary 
 star. The objecls and results of the first coming of Christ
 
 PROGRESSIVE REVELATION. 
 
 were announced, in such a way as to distinguish it from his 
 second coming, yet not so clearly but that difficulties still 
 left room for misconception. Many particulars and details 
 were also added ; He was to spring out of the stem of Jesse, to 
 be a virgin's son, and to bear the name Emmanuel ; his name 
 moreover was to be called The Mighty God, the Everlasting 
 Father, the Prince of Peace ; and there was to be no end of the 
 increase of his government. The charactei of his kingdom 
 was more fully described, and the fact revealed, that Gentiles as 
 well as Jews, should share in its blessings. And strange new 
 strains began to mingle in the music of the prophetic harp as 
 Isaiah touched its strings, mournful tones which told of suffer- 
 ing and rejection, of oppression and bruises and wounds, to be 
 inflicted on the coming One. He was to be a holy sinbearer, 
 a silent sufferer, a slaughtered lamb ; He was to pour out his 
 soul unto death ; He was to have a grave ; He was to be a sub- 
 stitute, a sin offering, an intercessor ; and only through experi- 
 ences such as these to be " satisfied " and exalted, " and divide 
 the spoil with the great." And Daniel, in full harmony, an 
 nounced that Messiah should be cut off but not for Himself, and 
 that his coming instead of bringing rest and glory to Israel, 
 would be followed by trouble, war, and desolation. By degrees 
 it thus became evident, that a long stretch of previously con- 
 cealed valley, lay between the double summit of the mighty 
 mountain, the hope of the coming and kingdom of Christ. 
 Micah foretold that He should come out of Bethlehem, 
 ! Zechariah that his feet should stand on the mount of Olives ; 
 
 ! but who suspected that at least 1800 years were to elapse be- 
 
 tween the two events ? The exact period when He should 
 come and be cut off was foretold, though in symbolic style ; and 
 in the same style, a glimpse was given of the interval to elapse, 
 before He came again to be " King over all the earth." Vast 
 i progress had been made when Malachi, closing the volume of 
 
 j Old Testament prophecy, spoke of the Lord coming suddenly 
 
 ! to his temple, and the Sun of righteousness rising with healing 
 
 ; in his wings. How amazingly more full and correct were the
 
 PROGRESSIVE RE VELA TION. 
 
 anticipations of Simeon and Anna than those of Adam and 
 Eve ! The earlier saints could only cast a wondering gaze 
 abroad over the earth, and up and down through unknown 
 ages ; the later — knew the country, the city, the very build- 
 ing i}i which, and the very date at which, the Consolation 
 of Israel should appear ; and when at last the aged saint held 
 in his arms the long promised woman's Seed, he spoke of 
 salvation, and of peace in believing, and of a sword that must 
 pierce the heart of the virgin mother, proving that the mys- 
 tery of the bruised heel was no dark one to his heart. But 
 yet the consummation was not come, the serpent's head was 
 all unbruised, his power seemed mightier than ever. The goal 
 receded as it was approached ; the kingdom of Christ was 
 come, but it was only in a mystery. Once more the light of 
 prophecy streams forth, the interval is filled in with copious 
 details by our Lord and his apostles. The King is to go into 
 a far country and to return ; the mystery not made known in 
 other ages is revealed by the Spirit, that the Gentiles should be 
 fellow-heirs and partakers in the promises; multitudinous fea- 
 tures of the future are delineated by the pen of inspiration ; but 
 the one grand old hope, the coming of Jesus Christ to rule, and 
 reign, and judge, and destroy the devil and his works, still rises 
 paramount to all the rest. Finally, in the Apocalypse the last 
 stretch of country is laid open to view, each milestone of this 
 closing stage of the journey may be as it were distinguished 
 and counted, the mists have cleared away, the intervening hills 
 and valleys have taken their proper places, and as each rapid 
 revolution of our globe brings us almost consciously nearer to 
 " that blessed hope," we gaze with ever growing admiration at 
 its vastness, at its glories, at its unutterable height, at its awful 
 shadows ; until as we see the old serpent, and death and hades, 
 cast for ever into the lake of fire, and the New Jerusalem 
 descend out of heaven, tliat the tabernacle of God may be ever- 
 more with men, we exclaim : "It is done; the v/oman'3 seed 
 hath bruised the serpent's head !" 
 
 Thus again, the prophecies respecting the resurrection of
 
 PROGRESSIVE RE VELA TION. 1 1 
 
 the dead, and the future judgment, are few and dark in the 
 Old Testament. Job anticipated resurrection personally, and 
 Daniel speaks of a resurrection of part of the dead. But we 
 have only to contrast these and similar hints, with the clear and 
 copious predictions of i Corinthians .\v. and i Thessalonians iv., 
 in order to be convinced of the progressive character of revela- 
 tion on this subject. It is Christ who has brought life and im- 
 mortality to light through the gospel. 
 
 Thus again, the past and future restorations of Israel, so often 
 blended in one prophecy in the Old Testament, are broadly 
 distinguished in the New, and the hidden mystery of the call- 
 ing of the Gentiles is interposed between them. Compare for 
 'instance Jeremiah xxx., xxxi., with Romans xi. : "the mystery 
 of Christ ... in other ages was not made known unto 
 the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles 
 and prophets by the Spirit, that the Gentiles should be fellow- 
 heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in 
 Christ by the gospel " (Eph. iii. 3-7). These words are an em- 
 phatic assertion of the principle of progressive revelation in 
 prophecy. 
 
 II. The prophecies of the A^c'di Testament ha7'c this progressive 
 character, and divide tlieinsclves into Jive series of predictions, each 
 series in t/te succession, being in advance of the preceding one. 
 There are : 
 
 1. The prophecies annnnciatory of Christ, by the angels, by 
 Zacharias, by Mary, by Elizabeth, by Simeon, and by John the 
 Baptist. 
 
 2. The earlier prophecies of Christ Himself on earth. 
 
 3. The later prophecies of Christ : Matthew xxii.— x.w., 
 Mark xiii., Luke xxi., John xiv. — xvi. 
 
 4. The prophetic teachings of the Holy Ghost through the 
 apostles, contained in the Acts and in the epistles. 
 
 5. The Apocalypse, or final revelation of Christ from heaven : 
 "the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to llim, to 
 show unto his servants the things which must shortly come to 
 pass."'
 
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 The first scries declared in general the character of Christ's 
 person and the grand objects and results of his mission ; but 
 they are silent as to all else. 
 
 The seco7id series, or early prophecies of Christ Himself, in 
 Matthew vii. and xiii., Mark iv., reveal the mysteries of the 
 kingdom of heaven, its foundation and gradual development, its 
 twofold character and its final issues. That this was an ad- 
 vance on all previous revelations may be gathered from the 
 words of our Lord in Matthew xiii. : "Blessed are your ears, 
 for they hear; for verily I say unto you that many prophets 
 and righteous men have desired to hear those things which 
 ye hear, and have not heard them.'" 
 
 The later prophecies of our Lord on earth, consist almost 
 entirely of new revelations. These embrace, the rejection of the 
 Jews on account of their unbelief, the destruction of their city 
 and temple, their dispersion among all nations, the treading 
 down of Jerusalem by the Gentiles, the persecution of the 
 Christian church, the world wide preaching of the gospel, and 
 his own second coming, with the signs and events atend- 
 ing it ; also his own approaching sufferings and departure to 
 the Father, and his return to receive his people to Himself, 
 with the coming and mission of the Holy Ghost during the 
 interval of his absence. Much as all this was in advance of 
 the Lord's previous prophecies. He added, after making these 
 revelations : " I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye 
 cannot bear them now; howbcit, when He the Spirit of truth 
 is come. He will guide you into all truth ; and He will show 
 you things to come." After all therefore that had been re- 
 vealed concerning the future, very much still remained to be 
 made known, and was to be made known by the teaching of 
 the Holy Ghost. 
 
 Here is another distinct announcement of the principle of 
 progressive revelation in prophecy. 
 
 With the expectations thus awakened we glance next at 
 
 The prophetic teachings of the Holy Ghost through the apostles. 
 Examining the epistles in their chronological order^ we find the
 
 PROGKESSI VE RE VELA TION. 
 
 two earliest, those to the church at Thessalonica, filled with 
 the subject of the Lord's second coming and revealing much 
 fresh truth in connection with it. It is to be accompanied by 
 the transformation of living saints, the resurrection of dead 
 saints, and their joint rapture to meet the Lord in the air ; the 
 manner of his return, and (negatively) the time of it, are an- 
 nounced. Copious and detailed descriptions of the apostasy 
 to be developed in the Christian church are given, as also the 
 history of the man of sin, in whose career that apostasy was 
 to culminate ; his Satanic origin, his lying wonders and 
 unrighteous deceptions, his consumption by the spirit of the 
 Lord's mouth, and his destruction by the brightness of his 
 coming, are all foretold for the first time. • 
 
 One or two years later, Paul wrote his first letter to the 
 Corinthian church, in which revelations are made fuller than 
 any previous ones, on the subject of resurrection ; its principles, 
 its manner, the nature of the bodies in which the saints will 
 rise, the instantaneous transformation of the living to be 
 effected at the sounding of the last trumpet, all these were 
 newly revealed features. "Behold, I show you a mystery : 
 we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a 
 moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump." 
 
 But, more important still, the order of this resurrection of 
 the saints with respect to other events is mentioned : " Christ 
 the firstfruits, afterward they that are Christ's at his coming. 
 Then cometh the end." The resurrection of saints was to be 
 subsequent to Christ's resurrection, prior to the end ; but how 
 long subsequent to the one, or how long prior to the other, is 
 not here revealed. 
 
 About a year after, in his epistle to the Romans, the apostle 
 clears up the mystery of Israel's future, and answers tlie ques- 
 tions whether God had cast off his ancient people, whether 
 they had stumbled that they should fall. He reveals that their 
 judicial rejection was but for a time ; that it should terminate 
 when the fulness of the Gentiles was brought in ; and that then 
 all Israel should be saved, and the Deliverer return to Zion
 
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 He thus " vindicates the ways of God to man," and shows that 
 his gifts and calUng, are without repentance. 
 
 Peter wrote his first epistle about ten years later ; but though 
 he speaks of the revelation of Jesus Christ, and the appearing 
 of the Chief Shepherd, he added little to the sum of what was 
 already known on these topics. But in his second epistle, 
 written about the year 68, he unfolds the final doom of the 
 heavens and the earth that are now ; that they are to be burned 
 up, the t'iements to melt with fervent heat and to be succeeded 
 by a new heaven and a new earth wherein rigliteousness should 
 dwell. He mentions also some particulars of the approaching 
 apostasy, a subject on which Paul in his two letters to 
 Timothy dwells more fully. Both apostles paint a dark pic- 
 ture of the " last days ; " foretell scoffers, apostates, hypocrites, 
 false teachers seduced by evil spirits to teach doctrines of 
 devils, a form of godliness without power; and they speak also 
 of their own near departure. 
 
 Then finally, thirty years later than the writings of the other 
 apostles, and closing the inspired volume commenced by 
 Moses 1600 years before, we find ihe revelation made by Christ 
 in glory to John. It is the latest gift of a glorified Saviour to 
 his suffering church, and is entirely different in manner, scope, 
 and style from all that precedes it. It is all but wholly devoted 
 to prophetic truth ; it contains a full and orderly prophecy of 
 the events that were to transpire to the end of time ; it unveils 
 new scenes, and its dark sayings are full of glorious light. It 
 is evident that the prophetic matter of this book, was unrevealed 
 previous to the death and crucifixion of Christ ; for it is repre- 
 sented as contained in a seven-sealed book, written within and 
 on the back side. A strong angel cries with a loud voice, 
 " Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seven seals 
 thereof?" and none is found worthy save the ^'- Lamb as it had 
 been slain,'' who is in the midst of the throne. lie comes and 
 takes the book out of the riglit hand of Him that sits on the 
 throne, and lie opens its seven seals. 
 
 The descriptions contained in this book of the sufferings ol
 
 PROGRESSIVE RE VELA TION. 
 
 the faithful church under persecution : of the sins of Babylon 
 the great ; of the judgment to be poured upon it ; of the ad- 
 vent of Christ and of the first resurrection ; of the millennial 
 reign of Christ (barely mentioned elsewhere in the New Testa- 
 ment) ; of the universal revolt at its close ; of the judgments 
 which follow ; of the New Jerusalem ; of the new heavens and 
 the new earth ; and of the eternal state — have no parallel in the 
 whole compass of Scripture. 
 
 Being written subsequently to the destruction of Jerusalem 
 and the dispersion of the Jews, the Apocalypse omits reference 
 to these events treated by earlier prophecies ; and, being 
 addressed to the Christian church, it omits much found else- 
 where, that is exclusively Jewish. But as regards all that was 
 future to it, and of importance to the church of God, it pre- 
 sents a consecutive series of visions, combining and connecting 
 the separate revelations previously made, and adding much 
 never before revealed. 
 
 III. From these facts the following inferences may be de- 
 duced. 
 
 1, God docs not reveal all the future at any one time, but 
 gradually, as the knowledge of it may be needed and can be 
 received. 
 
 2. We must not expect earlier prophecies to be equally 
 comprehensive with later ones, nor endeavour to construct 
 from the gospels and epistles alone, the perfect map of coming 
 events. By its position as the last and fullest prophecy of the 
 Bible, the Apocalypse is in advance of all other revelations, 
 and a correct knowledge of the future is impossible apart from 
 the study of it. No difiiculties therefore, arising from its 
 symbolic style or apparent obscurity, should lead us to dispense 
 with its teachings. The testimony of later prophecies should 
 never be in the slightest degree distorted, nor anything sub- 
 tracted from tlicir fulness, in order to bring them into harmony 
 with earlier ones ; but, on the contrary, their copious details 
 and more com[)reliensive teachings, must be added to all pre-
 
 i6 PROGRESSIVE REVELATION. 
 
 vious revelations, and tlien allowed to modify the impressions 
 we have received from earlier and more elementary predictions. 
 
 3. We must not therefore reject any i)articular prophetic 
 truth because it is found " only in Revelation," but receive the 
 teachings of this final prophecy on its inspired authority alone, 
 when they are unconfirmed by other Scripture. 
 
 4. The Apocalypse being written for the church militant, 
 for the dispensation to which wc belong, and the days in which 
 we live, is indispensable to the man of God who would now 
 be thoroughly furnished to all good works. No portion of it 
 should be considered as unimportant, or treated as superfluous. 
 " Blessed is he that readeth and they that hear the words of 
 this prophecy, and keep those things that are written therein, 
 for the time is at hand." "If any man shall add unto these 
 things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written iii 
 this book ; and if any man shall take away from the words of the 
 book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the 
 book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things that 
 are written in tliis book" (chap. xxii. iS, 19). 
 
 5. The Apocalypse, as a precious and principal light, shining 
 in a dark place, until the day dawn and the Day Star arise, 
 should be allowed to cast its rich and final rays back over all 
 the prophecies on the subjects of which it treats, in the volume 
 which it closes ; and its consecutive visions should be employed 
 to bind together in their proper order, the separate links of such 
 earlier predictions.
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 PROGRESSIVE REVELATIONS AS TO THE RELATIVE PERIOD OF 
 THE SECOND ADVENT OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. 
 
 IN the light of this principle of Progressive Revelation, let 
 us now consider the most interesting and momentous 
 question in connection with the future, the relative period of 
 the return of our blessed Lord and Master. 
 
 Before examining the revelations of the Apocalypse on this 
 subject, we will briefly glance at the general testimony of Scrip- 
 ture with respect to it ; first that of the Old Testament, and 
 then that of the New. 
 
 It is impossible that those who " love his appearing " should 
 be indifferent as to the season of their Lord's return. Even the 
 prophets searched diligently what manner of time the Spirit of 
 Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified before- 
 hand, the sufferings of Christ and the glories that should follow. 
 With much more reason, wc, who in his sufferings see our 
 salvation, and in his glory our own eternal portion, ivc, who are 
 espoused as a chaste virgin to Christ, and have his parting 
 promise, " I will come again and receive you to Myself," may 
 inquire diligently, and long to know, when we may hope to see 
 Him as He is, and be for ever with our Lord. The more we 
 long for an event itself, the more anxious we are to ascertain 
 the probable period of its occurrence. It argues little love 
 to the Lord if we do not ardently desire his return ; and it 
 argues little desire for his return, if we never search the 
 Scriptures, prayerfully seeking to learn from them when wc 
 may expect it. It is true we are to let patience have her 
 perfect work; but our patience should be "the patience of 
 hope," not the patience of careless indifference; and lioi)C will 
 always suggest the inquiry, how long?
 
 1 8 PROGRESSIVE REVELATION. 
 
 •' How long, O Lord our Saviour, wilt Thou remain away ? 
 Our hearts are growing weary, that Thou dost absent stay. 
 Oh when shall come the moment, when, brighter far than morn, 
 The sunshine of Thy glory, shall on Thy people dawn?" 
 
 It is true that ever since apostolic days it has been the 
 bounden duty of the church to be ever watchful, ever waiting, 
 for the return of God's Son from heaven. The teaching of 
 Christ Himself and of his apostles, led the early generations of 
 Christians in a very real sense, to expect the speedy return of 
 their Lord. They took his promise " Lo, I come quickly," to 
 mean quickly according to human calculations; we have learned 
 by experience that it meant " quickly," counting a thousand 
 years as one day ; and unless we have something more explicit 
 than this by which to shape oicr expectations, we. Christians of 
 the nineteenth century, would have little indeed to sustain our 
 hope. A promise which has already extended over 1800 years 
 might well extend over 1800 more, and the epiphany for which 
 we wait be still ages distant. 
 
 But Scripture contains more than general promises on this 
 subject ; it contains many specific, orderly, and even chrono- 
 logical prophecies. We have full and explicit inspired predictions 
 by which to shape our expectations, and these numerous and 
 detailed prophetic statements, do not leave us like shipwrecked 
 sailors on a dark night, on a wild and stormy sea, deprived of 
 chart and compass and ignorant of their bearings. If we will 
 use them aright, they place us rather in the ppsition of a weary 
 crew, at the end of a long and dangerous voyage, exploring by 
 the morning twilight, the chart on which their track has been 
 marked down, noting the thousands of miles they have sailed, 
 recognising each high land and island they have passed on their 
 course, and all the lights and beacons long since left behind, 
 cheering each other as they observe that the faithful chart, 
 whose accuracy their long experience has demonstrated, shoivs 
 but two or three wayviarks ahead, — waymarks absolutely coming 
 into sight, — and rejoicing in hope of a speedy entrance into 
 a peaceful port.
 
 PROGRESSIVE REVELAl'ION. 19 
 
 But here we are met with an objection. Those who search 
 and study the prophetic word are often rebuked by the quota- 
 tion, " of that day and that hour knoweth no man." Now 
 though some students of prophecy have degenerated into pro- 
 phets, and have required to be reminded of these words, yet it 
 is a mistake t© suppose that they forbid investigation, or render 
 hopeless beforehand, any well grounded and intelligent conclu- 
 sions, as to the period of our Lord's return. The day and the 
 hour of this great event have not assuredly been revealed, but 
 its place on the general chart of human history, has as certainly 
 not been concealed. 
 
 The analogy of the Old Testament would lead us to expect 
 that dates would be given by which some approximation to 
 a knowledge of the period of Christ's second coming, might, 
 towards the close of the dispensation, be made. For however 
 dark earlier generations of Israel may have been, as to the timo 
 of his first coming, those who lived during the fivo centuries 
 immediately preceding it, had the light of distinct chronologi- 
 cal prophecy, to sustain their hopes, and guide their expecta- 
 tions. Though Daniel's prediction of the " seventy weeks "' was 
 expressed in symbolic language, and perhaps not under.'^tood 
 by the generation to whom it was iirst given, yet as a matter of 
 history, we know that it was correctly interpreted by later gene- 
 rations, that it formed a national opinion as to the probable 
 period of the appearance of Messiah the Prince, and that it 
 taught the faithful, like Simeon and Anna, to be waiting for l he 
 consolation of Israel. Is it not likely that the later generations 
 of the Christian church, which is indwelt by the Spirit of truth, 
 of whom Christ expressly said " He shall show you things to 
 come" should have as clear or clearer light, as to the period of 
 the second advent? — light, 7iot as to its day or hour, not as to 
 its month or year, but as to its period, and especially as to its 
 chronological relation, to other future events. From the fact 
 that the Lord Jesus, as the New Testament abundantly proves, 
 wished his disciples in all ages to be kept constant in love, 
 and vigilant in holiness, by means of the continual c\\)Cc\.:x{\on
 
 PROGRESSIVE RE VELA TION. 
 
 of his return, we may be sure beforehand, that the period of that 
 event, will not be clearly revealed iti plain words, either in the 
 Old Testament or the New. Any revelation on the subject, 
 will be sure to be characterized, by a marked and intentional 
 obscurity, and to be of such a character as that only " the wise 
 shall understand" it. On tlic other hand, as the second advent 
 must bear to other great future events, the relation either ot 
 antecedent or subsequent, (even if not of cause or of effect,) 
 its position relatively to thcni, must be more or less clearly 
 indicated. 
 
 For if there exist in Scripture, an orderly chronological pro- 
 phecy of future events, containing a prediction of the second 
 coming of Cnrist, as one link in the chain, its place, in reference 
 to all the other events, must of course be clear. And if such a 
 prophecy contain no direct mention of the second advent, yet 
 if it contain a mention of events, which, from other scriptures we 
 know to synchronize with that advent, (such as the resurrection 
 of saints, or the destruction of antichrist and his armies,) the 
 relative position of the advent will still be clear. 
 
 Such propliecies exist ; they are given for our study ; and 
 with the Holy Ghost as our guide we may confidently expect 
 to learn from them with certainty, the general order of the great 
 incidents, of the fast approaching end of the age. And not only 
 so, but we may also expect, to be able to gather from such pro- 
 phecies, read in the light of the whole revelation of God, an j 
 approximate knowledge of the actual period of the coming of the ; 
 Lord. Of this we are not, we cannot be, intended to remain ' , 
 in ignorance, for it is with regard to prophetic chronology that \ 
 it is expressly said, " the wise shall understand." | 
 
 Let us seek then to ascertain, first from Old Testament pro- 
 phecy, secondly from the more advanced teachings of the New 
 Testament, and lastly from the final testimony of the Apo- 
 calypse, the relative period of our Lord's return ; and, as far as 
 it is revealed, its actual point, in the course of the ages of human 
 history. 
 
 The second advent of Christ could not have been distinctly
 
 PROGRESSIVE REVELATION. 21 
 
 predicted in the Old Testament as a second; that would have 
 involved a premature revelation of Messiah's rejection by Israel, 
 of his death and re-ascension into heaven, and of the present 
 dispensation of grace to the Gentiles. Prophecies so clear as 
 either to procure ox prevent their own fulfilment, were never de- 
 livered by Divine inspiration. The two comings of Christ, at 
 that time both future, and having one and the same object — to 
 redeem and restore humanity and to destroy the works of the 
 devil — are seen as one, in early prophetic vision. 
 
 A coming of Christ is, however, extensively and clearly pre- 
 dicted in the Old Testament, of a character essentially different 
 from his past coming, and which is to be accompanied by 
 events of transcendent importance, none of which took place 
 in connection with his first advent. It is therefore a future 
 coining, and in relation to the first it is a secofid. He did come 
 in humiliation as a gracious Saviour ; He 7aiil come in glory as 
 a righteous Judge and King. In other words, without the ex- 
 pression being used, the second coming of Christ is foretold 
 and described in places too numerous to mention, in the law, 
 in the prophets, and in the psalms. 
 
 The Old Testament also largely prophesies, another great 
 future event ; it plainly teaches that before this world's history 
 is wound up, before time gives place to eternity, an age is to 
 occur, which is to be earth's sabbath, man's jubilee, Christ's 
 reign : the antitype of all sabbaths from Eden onward, the 
 antitype of Israel's jubilees, the antitype of Solomon's glorious 
 reign of prosperity and peace. Certain Scripture statements 
 and analogies, (apart from the Apocalypse,) lead us to suppose 
 that the duration of this period will be 1,000 years, whence it is 
 commonly called the millennium. 
 
 By the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began 
 God has announced these "times of refreshing." The Lord Jesus 
 when on earth alluded to this period, axid presented it as an ob- 
 ject or nope to his people. "\e wnu nave loiiowed Me," He 
 said on one occasion in reply to a question from Peter, " in the 
 regeneration, when the Son of man shall sit on the throne of
 
 22 PROGRESSIVE REVELATION. 
 
 his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the 
 twelve tribes of Israel;" to Nathanael He said, " Hereafter ye 
 shall see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending anif 
 descending on the Son of man." This age is called "the dis- 
 pensation of the fulness of times," in which God "will gather 
 together in one all things in Christ" (Eph, i. lo), in which 
 every knee shall bow to Jesus, and every tongue confess Him 
 Lord, to the glory of God the Father (Phil. ii. lo). It is the 
 oft foretold, oft promised kingdom of the Son of man ; noi 
 God's reign over the world in providence; that has existed from 
 the beginning, and could never therefore be the object either 
 of prophecy or of promise ; not Christ's present reign i n the 
 hearts of his people ; not the joresent period at all, for Satan is 
 at present usurping the throne of this world as king and God ; 
 two thirds of mankind still worship /lim in worshipping idols, 
 and are his obedient slaves and miserable victims ; the greater 
 part of the other third worship and obey him indirectly, in 
 serving sin ; and even Christ's people, the little flock who own 
 Him as Lord, fail to obey Him perfectly. 
 
 If Christ be king now, where is his honour ? How does 
 the dread majesty of his throne assert itself? He endures 
 with much longsuffering all manner of rebellion ; He allows 
 his authority to be insulted, and his name blasphemed. He 
 avenges not his own elect, who cry day and night unto Him ; 
 He permits the oppressor to triumph, and the wicked to prosper 
 in the earth. These things shall not be in the day of his 
 kingdom. Ps. Ixxii. presents the manner of that kingdom. Its 
 features are righteousness and judgment, flowing from Himself 
 as fountain head, and from all subordinate rulers as his 
 ministers ; the poor and needy delivered, and their oppressors 
 crushed ; complete and universal submission of all kings and 
 nations to Christ ; abundant peace and eternal praise. Cleariy 
 this kingdom is not come yet. and clearly therefore it is yet to 
 come. It is true that numerous passages speak of this present 
 dispensation as in a certain sense the kingdom of God ; but 
 the expression also designates a still future period, altogether
 
 PROGRESSIVE REVELATION. 23 
 
 distinct from the present in its character. This is the kingdom 
 of God in a mystery, that will be the kingdom of God in mani- 
 fest power and glory. 
 
 And let it be remarked, this kingdom is no part of the 
 eternal state which shall ensue when "the former things are 
 passed away." It is the kingdom of the So?i, the kingdom in 
 which Christ as Son of man is supreme ; but in the eternal 
 state the Son shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, 
 even the Father, and shall Himself be subject, that God may 
 be all in all (i Cor. xv. 28). Now the period during which the 
 Son possesses the kingdom, and the period which dates from 
 his delivering it up, cannot be the same. 
 
 Again, the dispensation in question, though blessed and 
 glorious beyond all that have preceded it, is yet government- 
 ally and nationally imperfect ; mankind will be still divided 
 into nations (Zech. xiv. 16), speak divers languages (Dan. vii. 
 14), be distinguished as Jews and Gentiles, and as governors 
 and governed (Ps. Ixxii.); whereas in the eternal state all will 
 be under the sole and immediate government of God. 
 
 And further, it is a period which, though characterized in the 
 main by righteousness, liftf and bliss, will yet be marred by sin, 
 death and judgment ; men wall still be mortal, and judgment 
 will follow every transgression (Isa. Ixv. ; Zech. xiv.), while in 
 the eternal state there will be no more sin, no more death, no 
 more curse (Rev. xxi. . 
 
 During this reign of Christ, He will have dominion from sea 
 to sea, and from the river to the ends of the earth (Ps. Ixxii. 8); 
 but in the eternal state there will be "no more sea." In short 
 the former will be a kingdom characterized by the gradual and 
 progressive subjugation of all things to Christ, in which " the 
 last enemy that shall be destroyed is death," while the eternal 
 state dates frorn death's destruction, and in it insubjection is 
 unknown. 
 
 This glorious age, is then a distinct one, which is \o folloic the 
 present period, and io precede the new heavens and the new earth, 
 in which the tabernacle of God shall be for evermore with men.
 
 PROGRESSIVE REVELATION. 
 
 We have therefore a great future event, and a glorious future 
 age, clearly predicted in Scripture, and it is a deeply momen- 
 tous question which of the two is to come first. Is the 
 millennial sabbath to be introduced by the coming of Christ, 
 or to be followed by it ? Ought the cliurch to be expecting the 
 millennium, or expecting her Lord first ? Is the Divine pro- 
 gramme of the future, first the millennium and then the advent, 
 or first the advent and then the millennium ? 
 
 It is strange that many children of God are content to leave 
 this great question an open one, and to continue in willing 
 ignorance on the subject. And it is doubly strange that too 
 many who ought, as teachers of the truth, boldly to declare 
 the whole counsel of God, should be content to promul- 
 gate through the entire course of their ministry, views which 
 they hold from education and from habit, rather than as the 
 result of research, and of strong conviction that they are the 
 truths views which they would be at a loss to sustain by solid 
 scriptural argument. They never perhaps preach on prophecy 
 at all, but they constantly make use of forms of expression, 
 and quote Scripture in connections, which tacitly and very 
 eftcctually teach error. They thuso endorse the vaguely held 
 traditional creed, that death is the certain prospect before each 
 individual, and that as regards the church at large and the 
 world, the present state of things will continue to improve 
 gradually, until it merges into that blessed period of righteous- 
 ness and peace, in which " the knowledge of the Lord shall 
 cover the earth, as the waters cover the sea." This is a serious 
 evil; scriptures misquoted are an efficient means of convey- 
 ing unscriptural views. Multitudes of persons who have never 
 studied the Bible on this subject, or received any direct in- 
 struction on it, have nevertheless, from this practice on the 
 part of their teachers, imbibed views directly contrary to the 
 truth. 
 
 And the views thus thoughtlessly imparted, and thoughtlessly 
 received, are yet firmly held ; for mental habits arc strong. 
 That whi"ch v.c have always heard and supposed to be true,
 
 PROGRESSIVE RE VELA TION, 
 
 that which most people appear to hold as true, assumes the 
 authority of ascertained truth in the mind, and the moment it is 
 attacked, prejudice rises in arms to defend it. The consequence 
 is, that notwithstanding the late large and rapid increase in 
 the number of those who look for the coming of Christ as 
 their own individual hope, and as the next great event in the 
 history of the church and of the world, the majority of pro- 
 fessing Christians, and especially those who have little or no 
 leisure for reading and study, still retain the opposite view, look 
 for death personally, and expect the coming of Christ to take 
 place, only at the end of the world. Yet that coming is the 
 grand motive uniformly presented in the New Testament 
 to love, to obedience, to holiness, to spirituality of mind, to 
 works of mercy, to watchfulness, to patience, to moderation 
 and sobriety, to diligence, and to all other Christian graces.* 
 "That blessed hope" is essential to the production of the 
 Christian character in its perfection. What consolation it 
 affords in bereavement and affliction ! What holy restraint it 
 is calculated to exercise, in prosperity and joy, and what an 
 incentive it supplies to exertion in the Christian work and 
 warfare ! 
 
 And who is to blame that its power is so little felt by 
 Christians in general ? How shall they hear without a teacher ? 
 If their ministers never directly teach them the truth on this 
 point, by expounding to them the numerous passages bearing 
 on it in the New Testament, but leave them in ignorance or 
 lead them indirectly into error, v/ill the Great Shepherd of the 
 sheep hold such under shepherds guiltless ? Earnestly would 
 we entreat all our brethren in the ministry, to "preach the word" 
 on this great subject, io give it in their ministry, the prominence 
 it has in tJi^ir Bibles; to bring it in, whenever and wherever 
 Scripture brings it in, and that is in connection with almost 
 every topic of Christian privilege and duty. 
 
 * I Thess. iii. 13 ; Col. iii. 4, 5; Titus ii. 11-13 ; i John ii. 2S, iii. 2.3; 
 Phil. iii. 20, 21 ; Matt. xvi. 27 ; Rev. xxii. 12; Matt. .\xv. 13: Luke xii. 
 35, xviii. 7 ; James v. 7, S ; i Pot. i. 13 ; ]\Iall. xxiv. 46 ; i I'et. v. 1-4.
 
 26 PROGRESSIVE REVELATION. 
 
 It is vain to urge that the uncertainty of life and the possible 
 nearness of death, ai'e motives as powerful as the coming of 
 Christ. Death can never be an object of hope to a Christian, 
 nor a source of consolation ; God never intended it to be such ; 
 it has lost its sting indeed to a believer, but it remains and 
 must ever remain, a painful, humbling, afflictive, repulsive pro- 
 pect ; salvation itself imparts no lustre to death. It must be 
 so ; " it is sin's great conquest, and Satan's chief work, the 
 fulness of sorrow and affliction, the triumph of corruption, the 
 fulfilment of the curse. Oh it is a strange delusion of Satan to 
 have made the capital curse of God eclipse the capital promise 
 of God ! Satan's consummated kingdom over the body to 
 take that place in our thoughts, which Christ's consummated 
 kingdom in the body and spirit, even the resurrection, was 
 meant to take." 
 
 Nor is it believers only who suffer from the habitual omission 
 of a cardinal doctrine of Scripture in the teaching they hear 
 from the pulpit. Who shall estimate the injustice done thereby 
 to unbelievers? The coining of the Lord drawcth 7iigh ! AVhy 
 is not the fact, the (for them) azoful fact, proclaimed aloud in 
 their hearing, and applied with all the earnestness of love, to 
 arouse the sleeper from his dream, to destroy the delusions of 
 the false professor, to unmask the hypocrite to himself, to warn 
 the wicked from his way ? The coming of the Lord draweth 
 nigh ; to them who know not God and obey not the gospel of 
 our Lord Jesus Christ, that coming must bring everlasting 
 destruction ; on them it must fall as a fiery vengeance. Should 
 they not be faithfully forewarned of their danger? Should 
 they have the right to reproach their teachers that they sounded 
 not the trumpet though they saw the sword approaching? 
 What saith the Lord ? " If the watchman see the sivord come, 
 and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned ; if 
 the sword come and take any person from among them, he is 
 taken away in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at the 
 watchman's hand " (Ezek. xxxiii. 6). 
 
 Let sinners be startled by the announcement " the Judge
 
 PROGRESSIVE REVELATION. 27 
 
 STANDETH AT THE DOOR," and not sootlicd by the sound, of a 
 sofdy approaching millennium. Let them be warned of tlie 
 speedy dawn of a day of retribution, and not led to conclude 
 it, at least a thousand years distant. If the preachers of the 
 word will fling carelessly aside, one of the bdst weapons in the 
 armoury of truth, can they wonder that their work is not as 
 effective as it might be? If they would fain see conversions 
 numerous as in apostolic days, let them preach the apostolic 
 preaching, in which not only the past, but the future advent of 
 Christ, had a grand and prominent place. 
 
 The two prophets of the Old Testament who furnish tlie 
 most conclusive evidence on this subject are Daniel and 
 Zechariah. The former, a royal captive from 'Judxa, was a 
 pure and faithful witness for God in the corrupt, gentile 
 court of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, during the time 
 of the Babylonish captivity of Israel. There is something 
 singularly magnificent and massive in this prophet's interpret- 
 ation of Nebuchadnezzar's divinely sent dream. Unencum- 
 bered by detail, the grand outline of this fundamental and far- 
 reaching prophecy, is sketched with the few but firm and telling 
 touches of a master hand ; like the blue vault of heaven, 
 "majestic in its own simplicity," and embracing in one vast 
 span the whole extent and circumference of earth, it seems to 
 arch in the entire future of the world, with celestial ease and 
 stability. 
 
 It starts from the time then present, and tcnninatcs on the 
 verge of eternity. Its language is intelligible, and indeed can 
 scarcely be misunderstood. Brief and condensed in the ex- 
 treme, it lights only on the salient points, the mountain tops as 
 it were, of human history ; but in so doing it must of course 
 light on its most elevated and important summit, the glorious 
 epiphany of the great God and our Saviour Jesus ChrisL 
 Whereabouts in the chain does it place that summit? This 
 is the point on which we now seek its testimony. Let the 
 reader ponder it and reply.
 
 28 PROGRESSIVE REVELATION. 
 
 The Vision of Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, to 
 WHOM God had given universal dominion. 
 
 1. Thou, O king, sawest and behold a great image. 
 
 2. His head was of fine gold ; 
 
 3. His breast and his arms of silver ; 
 
 4. His belly and his thighs of brass ; 
 
 5. His legs of iron, and his feet part of iron and part of clay. 
 
 6. A stone vv'as cut out without hands ; 
 
 7. // smote the image on Jiis feet ; 
 
 8. It brake in pieces the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, 
 
 and the gold ; 
 
 9. It became a great mountain ; 
 10. It filled the whole earth. 
 
 The Interpretation. 
 
 1. Thou art this head of gold ; 
 
 2. After thee shall arise another kingdom ; 
 
 3. And a third kingdom of brass ; 
 
 4. And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron • 
 
 5. That kingdom shall be divided ; 
 
 6. In the days of these kings, 
 
 7. The God of heaven shall set vpa kingdom; 
 
 8. It shall never be destroyed, 
 
 9. It shall consume all these kingdoms, 
 10. It shall stand for ever. 
 
 The dream is certain and the interpretation thereof is sure. 
 
 A succession of four similar universal earthly empires is fore- 
 told, and that tliey are to be followed by a fifth, the empire 
 of the stone. The first four would be established and ruled 
 by men, the last by " the God of heaven." The first four 
 would be destroyed, the last would destroy them. The first 
 four would be smitten and broken in pieces, the last would 
 never be destroyed. The first four would form one great
 
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 image ; the last would become a great motaitain, and fill the 
 whole earth. The first four would be consumed and carried 
 away ; the last would stand for ever. 
 
 By the universal consent of the church of all ages, and of all 
 sections, the first four are allowed to be the Babylonian, the 
 Persian, the Grecian, and the Roman empires ; and the last 
 the still future kingdom of the Son of man. The internal 
 scriptural and historical evidence in favour of this interpret- 
 ation, is so overwhelming, and the agreement of all students 
 and commentators, of the early church, of the Greek and 
 Roman Catholic churches, and of all Protestant churches, so 
 complete, that the few who have of late years ventured to 
 call it in question, must be regarded as rash, unsafe, presump- 
 tuous guides, who would destroy the very basis of all sound 
 and solid interpretation of Scripture prophecy. It were super- 
 fluous to argue the point in a work like this; those who 
 require it can easily find abundant evidence, and that of a 
 most convincing character and edifying nature.* 
 
 We take it for granted therefore that this vision presents us 
 with a brief historic outline, of the four great empires which 
 have in succession held universal sway. It presents the last 
 of the four, in two successive stages, first as legs of pure iron, 
 secondly as ten toes composed ot a mixture of iron and clay; 
 representing under these emblems, first the Roman empire in 
 its undivided imperial strength, and secondly the same empire 
 in its divided condition. 
 
 During this last stage of the last empire, occurs a super- 
 natural and tremendous revolution. All the previous changes 
 had followed each other in the ordinary and natural course, 
 and the kingdoms were in some senses a continuation of each 
 other, for the great image is one. But now a kingdom that is 
 no part of the image, that owns a supernatural origin, smites 
 the image, grinds it to powc^er, takes its place, blots it out of 
 
 Sec Uiiks' "tlcmcnli of I'lophccy
 
 30 PKOGRESSJVE REVELATION. 
 
 existence, and fills the whole earth. This fall of the stone cut 
 out without hands, must symbolise something immensely more 
 important and fundamental, than any political change the 
 world has ever seen. Tremendous critical revolutions, such 
 as the overthrow of Babylon by Cyrus, and of Persia's power 
 by Alexander the Great, have in this prophecy been portrayed 
 simply by the quiet change from one metal to another, in the 
 parts of an unbroken image. What then is the great event 
 symbolised hy i\\c fani?!g of the stone, which puts an end to the 
 image altogether, and precedes the establishment on earth of 
 the kingdom of the God of heaven ? 
 
 Is it, as some assert, the first advent of Christ, to establish 
 Christianity ? Impossible ! for the stone falls 07i i/ie feet of the 
 image. The first advent took place in the time of the undivided 
 imperial iron strength of the Roman empire, not after its decay 
 and division into many kingdoms. Christianity had already 
 been established for centuries, as the religion of the Roman 
 empire, before the state of things symbolised by the ten toes of 
 iron and clay arose. 
 
 Besides, the destruction of the image is attributed to the fa/l 
 of the stone, not to its gradual expansion into a great mountain 
 which fills the whole earth. Now Christianity did not destroy 
 all earthly monarchy, at the time of its advent, or in its early 
 ages. On the contrary ! Its Founder suffered under Pontius 
 Pilate the Roman governor, and his apostles were martyred by 
 Nero and Domitian. Nothing whatever answering to the 
 crushing, destructive fall of the stone took place at that time. 
 The development of the stone into a mountain does not I'egin 
 till the image /las />een " broken to pieces together, and become 
 like the chaff of the summer threshing-floor." Now the gra- 
 dual growth of Christianity has been taking place while the 
 image still stands, and cannot therefore be the thing intended 
 by this striking symbol. Besides this, the spiritual kingdom of 
 God now established in the hearts of men, is in no respect 
 similar to the great universal earthly empires which form the 
 four first of this series. It is not of the world ; it employs not
 
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 the sword of conquest ; it does not embrace as its subjects all 
 within a certain territory ; it is invisible, spiritual, heavenly. 
 The empire of the stone is a fifth analogous to the other four, 
 though of supernatural origin, wider extent, and longer dura- 
 tion ; it is the universal empire of earth ruled directly by the 
 God of heaven. 
 
 What then must be the transcendent event symbolised by 
 the falling from above, with destructive force, on the feet of 
 the image, (or final form of earthly monarchy,) of a stone cut 
 out without hands ? What can it be but the second coming of 
 Christ with all his saints, to execute judgment on the ungodly, 
 and to reign in righteousness and glory ? 
 
 The symbol employed, a stone cut out without hands, is a 
 most appropriate emblem of Christ and his church ; thai 
 church which, as other scriptures show, is to be associated 
 with him in the work of judgment. A stone cut out without 
 hands is a miracle ; Christ in his birth, in his resurrection, 
 was such ; and we his people are even now, " born not of 
 the will of man, or of the will of the flesh, but of God " as to 
 our spiritual natures, and our bodies are to be in the resur- 
 rection " quickened by his Spirit which dwelleth in us." 
 Many other emblems present Christ and his people as one. 
 They form one vine, one body, one temple; so here, one 
 stone. Our Lord applies this emblem to Himself, in a way that 
 seems almost an allusion to this prophecy : " whosoever shall 
 fall on this stone shall be broken, but on whomsoever it shall 
 fall it will grind him to powder." Peter applies it to the saints, 
 " ye also as living stones." And Paul speaks of believers under 
 the same figure as "builded together' for an habitation of God 
 through the Spirit." For more than 1800 years this mystic 
 stone has been in process of cutting out. When " the trumpet 
 shall sound and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we 
 shall be changed," the separation will be complete, and the 
 stone will/?// on the feet of the image; that is, the Lord will 
 come "with ten thousands of his saints, to execute judgment 
 upon all." Earthly jjolities will then crumble for ever into
 
 PROGRESSIVE REVELATIO.W 
 
 dust ; empires, monarchies, and republics alilce, will become as 
 the chaff of the summer threshing-floor ; " the Lord shall be 
 king over all the earth," and alone exalted in that day. 
 
 Here then we have the first distinct answer to our inquiry, 
 as to the relative position of the second advent. 
 
 On the authority of this prophecy alone we may boldly 
 assert, that it is destined to occur at the close of the i)resent 
 divided state of the Roman empire, and prior to the establish- 
 ment of the millennial reign of Christ. And moreover, as the 
 parts of the image bear a certain proportion to each other, we 
 have some data by wdiich to form an approximation to its actual 
 period ; for the tenfold division of the Roman empire having 
 already existed twelve or thirteen centuries, a strong presumpr 
 tion arises that its close must be at hand. 
 
 We turn now to the second great prophecy of Daniel in the 
 seventh chapter of his book. The following are the leading 
 points of the vision and of the interpretation respectively. 
 
 Daniel's Vision of the Four Great Beasts. 
 
 1. Four great beasts came up from the sca^ diverse one from 
 another. 
 
 2. The first like a lion, another li!:e a bear, another like a 
 leopard. 
 
 3. A fourth beast, dreadful, and terrible, and strong exceed- 
 ingly. 
 
 4. It was diverse from all the beasts that were before it, and 
 it had ten horns. 
 
 5. There came up among them another little horn. 
 
 6. In this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a 
 mouth speaking great things, 
 
 7. The same horn made war with the saints and prevailed 
 against them. 
 
 8. Until the Ancient of Days came, and 
 
 9. Judgment was given to the saints of the Most High ; and 
 10. The time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.
 
 PROGRESSIVE REVELATION. 33 
 
 The Interpretation. 
 
 1. These great beasts which are four, are four kingdoms. 
 
 2. The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth. 
 
 3. The ten horns are ten kings (or kingdoms) that shall 
 irise. 
 
 4. Another shall arise after them, diverse from the first 
 (ten). 
 
 5. And he shall speak great words against the Most High. 
 
 6. He shall wear out the saints of the Most High; 
 
 7. They shall be given into his hand, until a time, and times, 
 and the dividing of time. 
 
 8. But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away 
 his dominion. 
 
 9. The kingdom shall be given to the people of the saints 
 of the Most High ; 
 
 10. Whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom. 
 
 Nebuchadnezzar beheld the former vision, and Daniel 
 interpreted; now the prophet beholds, and an angel inter- 
 prets. 
 
 The subject is in both visions in the main the same ; but the 
 second has many additional features. The four great empires 
 of earth, appear under strangely contrasted symbols, to the king 
 and to the prophet. 
 
 In the former case a worldly idolater looked up, and beheld 
 a great fourfold image of earthly dominion; it was terrible, 
 yet attractive to him in its brilliancy. In the latter case a man 
 of God looked down, and beheld four great beasts, terrible only 
 in their fierce brutality. 
 
 Power is a dazzling object of ambition ; dominion has a 
 fascinating attraction for men ; but the humblest saint of God 
 can afford to look down on earthly glory, as from a lofty 
 elevation, in the calm consciousness of undeniable and immea- 
 surable superiority. Four great beasts : that was all the earth 
 produced to the eye of the holy Daniel ! 
 
 D
 
 34 PROGRESSIVE REVELATION. 
 
 The divinely selected symbols have an evident allusion to 
 the two leading characteristics that have marked the four great 
 Gentile empires, in contrast to the Jewish theocracy, and in 
 still darker contrast to the coming kingdom of Christ. Image 
 -.i'orship and inJiuman cruelty, idolatry and persecution, have 
 been their characteristics. The image embodies the one thought, 
 the wild beast the other. Nebuchadnezzar made an image, 
 probably ^/ the image he had seen, and demanded for it world- 
 wide worship, persecuting even to the fiery furnace, those who 
 refused to bow down to it ; and Daniel experienced the wild 
 beast character of the second great empire, when condemned 
 to the lions' den for his piety toward God. 
 
 That the four empires symbolised in this vision are the 
 same four previously symbolised in the image can hardly be 
 questioned. " The number is the same, four in each. The 
 starting point is the same, for each was given while Babylon 
 was the ruling power. The issue is the same, for both are 
 immediately followed by the visible kingdom of Christ. The 
 order is the same, for the kingdoms in the first vision, as all 
 admit, are successive ; and in the other there are no less than 
 seven or eight clauses which denote a succession in time. There 
 is the same gradation, for the noblest metal and the noblest 
 animal take the lead in each series. Further, the kingdoms 
 in each vision are described as occupying the whole space, till 
 the dominion of the saints of God . . . The first empire is 
 that of Babylon, for to the king of Babylon it was said, 'thou 
 art this head of gold.' If we require the names of the two 
 next kingdoms, the angel Gabriel continues the message of the 
 prophet : ' The ram having two horns are the kings of Media 
 and Perslv . , . the rough goat is the king of Grecl\.' If 
 we ask the name and character of the fourth empire the evan- 
 gelist supplies the answer, ' there went out a decree from C/ESar 
 Augustus that all the world should be taxed ' ; ' if we let Him 
 alone, all men will believe on Him, and the Romans will come 
 and take away both our place and nation.' Four supreme and 
 ruling kingdoms, and four only, are announced by name in the
 
 PROGRESSIVE REVELATION. 
 
 word of God, from the time of Daniel to the close of the 
 sacred canon." * 
 
 The raani difference is that the latter prophecy, like a tele- 
 scope of higher power, presents an enlarged and more detailed 
 view, especially of the fourth empire. The image showed that 
 It had two distinct stages : one pure iron, unmixed and undi- 
 vided ; the other iron and clay mixed, the metallic parts divided. 
 In this fourth beast we discern a new clement, the dommion of 
 the link horn ; and we thereby learn the moral reason for the 
 judgment, which, in both visions alike, falls on the fourth em- 
 pire in its last state. In connection with this last vision, the 
 coming of Christ to judge is expressed in a clearer form, and 
 the share which his people shall have in his reign. But the 
 evidence it affords as to the relative period of the second advent, 
 is in unison with that of the earlier vision. It places it at the 
 end of the last phase of the fourth empire, and determines its 
 immediate object to be the execution of judgment, and its ulti- 
 mate object, the establishment on earth of the everlasting king- 
 dom of the Most High, in which dominion shall be given to 
 the saints. It thus announces that the coming of Christ, will be 
 prior to his reign over the earth, in company with his saints , 
 and it furnishes more accurate data also as to the actual 
 period of the second advent. This latter however cannot be 
 adduced in the present stage of our inquiry, since it is con- 
 nected with two points of disputed interpretation, the considera- 
 tion of which must be adjourned to the second part of this 
 work. For the same reason the evidence of Daniel's last 
 visions must here be presented but very mipcrfectly, and with- 
 out any attempt to enter into detail. 
 
 We observe merely that the very comprehensive, (and con- 
 sequently complicated,) prophecy of the " things noted in the 
 Scripture of truth " (Dan. xi.), announces one unbroken series 
 of wars, revolutions, persecutions, apostasies, disasters, and de- 
 solations, as occupying the whole scene of vision, until Daniel's 
 
 *Eirk-,' " First Two Visions,"' p. 20.
 
 36 PROGRESSIVE REVELATION. 
 
 people should be delivered, and many of the dead arise (Dan. 
 xii. 1-3). Now these two events, the deliverance of Israel 
 from their great tribulation, and the resurrection of the just, 
 are invariably associated in the prophecies with the personal 
 coming of Christ (Zecli. xiv. 5 ; i Thess. iv., i Cor. xv.). 
 Therefore, though Daniel does not mention a second advent 
 of Christ, for reasons before alluded to, yet he marks its place 
 in this series, by the position assigned to the events which 
 synchronize with it. Thus a third time he places it, at the 
 close of the four great empires, or of the times of the Gentiles, 
 at the close of Israel's dispersion and tribulation, and prior to 
 the commencement of that kingdom, in which "they that be 
 wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament, and they 
 that turn many to righteousness, as the stars for ever and ever," 
 — at the close of the fourth empire and before the millennial reign. 
 The reign of Christ on earth is distinctly predicted in 
 Zechariah xiv. 9, and many of its peculiar features are men- 
 tioned in verses which follow. This is an orderly and de- 
 tailed prophecy, of the events that shall usher in that reign ; 
 and we have a definite statement, that foremost among those 
 events, " the Lord viy God shall come, and all the saiiits with 
 thee: . . . and the Lord shall be king over all the earth ; 
 in that day there shall be one Lord, and his name one." In 
 other words, we have in this prophecy a clear declaration that 
 the advent \\\\\ precede the millennial reign. 
 
 Again it is written " when the Lord shall build up Zion 
 He shall appear in his glory." The building up of Zion, 
 that is the restoration and conversion of Israel, must of course 
 precede the millennial reign of Christ, over Israel and the earth, 
 since it is inconceivable that Israel's dispersed and desolate 
 condition, could continue during its course. A glorious epi- 
 phany of the Son of God, is to accompany according to this 
 prophecy, the building up of Zion, — a premillennial event. 
 The second advent of Christ, therefore takes place before the 
 millennium. 
 
 The history of Israel is a typical history, prefiguring alike in
 
 PROGRESSIVE RE VELA TIOX. 
 
 its broad outline and in its minor features the history of the 
 church. What is the general outline of that history? Is it a 
 gradual and steady progress from bad to good, and from good 
 to better, culminating at last in something very good and 
 glorious ? Nay, but the very reverse ! It is a downward progress, 
 a succession of backslidings and apostasies, from the days of 
 Solomon to the Babylonish captivity, and from the restoration 
 to the fall of Jerusalem under Titus, and the final judgment 
 and dispersion of the ancient people of God. Now there would 
 be no analogy, but a most marked and marvellous contrast 
 between the type and the antitype, if the history of the church 
 were to be a gradual rise from the state of things we now have, 
 into a millennial condition of blessedness, purity, and peace. 
 It would do violence not only to the analogy -which exists 
 between these two dispensations, but to the general moral 
 analogy of all God's dispensations. Without exception hitherto 
 every dispensation has ended in apostasy and judgment. Eden 
 ended thus ; the antediluvian world ended thus ; the theocracy 
 of Israel ended thus ; the kingdom of Israel ended thus ; the 
 ministry of the prophets ended thus ; the ministry of Christ in 
 person ended thus ; the ministry of the Spirit by the apostles 
 ended thus, in the full and final rejection of Israel and in the 
 giving of the kingdom of God to the Gentiles. So far the 
 Gentile church has pursued a precisely similar course, and 
 trodden the downward road of apostasy ; and can it be believed, 
 that the last stage of her course is to aftbrd a total contras!: to 
 all previous analogies, and culminate in a millennium of moral 
 perfection and physical glory? No ! "when the Son of man 
 Cometh shall He find faith on the earth " ? that is the question. 
 
 When we turn to the pages of the New Testament the con- 
 clusions to which these ancient prophecies have led us are in 
 the fullest way confirmed. 
 
 There are in the New Testament, apart from tiie Apocalypse, 
 about a hundred passages, in which the second coming of Christ 
 is more or less fully presented. About half of these afford no 
 clear information on the subject we are considering, though
 
 38 I'ROCRESSIVE REVELATION. 
 
 indirect premillennial arguments might be drawn from most of 
 them. About twenty passages teach- with various degrees of 
 explicitness, that the coming of Christ will precede " the times 
 of the restitution of all things " ; and there are four or five, which 
 at first sight appear to favour an opposite view, but which on 
 closer examination are found to harmonize with the rest. We will 
 briefly review the leading passages of these two latter classes. 
 
 The most cursory survey of them as a whole, however, 
 suggests two iXxow^ prima facie arguments in favour of the pre- 
 millennial view. It is a remarkable fact, that while in these 
 scriptures, tlie return of the Lord Jesus is everywhere prominent, 
 the truth of a millennium to come is scarcely asserted. It is 
 assumed as an acknowledged hope in one or two places, and 
 alluded to in a few others ; it is implied in some of our Lord's 
 parables, but nowhere distinctly predicted, nowhere described, 
 or presented as an object of hope. What is the natural in- 
 ference ? That no millennium is to occur ? No ! but that 
 something else is to occur before it ; and that the intervening 
 event is the one, which the Holy Ghost would keep before the 
 eye of the church, that intervening event being the glorious 
 epiphany of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ. 
 
 For, supposing for a moment that a thousand years of 
 righteousness and rest, purity and peace, ^aere designed in 
 the counsels of God, to succeed this age of sin and strife and 
 suffering, before the oft promised return of the Lord Jesus, how 
 unaccountable, how incredible that so little should be said 
 about it ! Supposing it were to occur on the other hand after 
 that return, and consequent upon it, how perfectly natural, that 
 in prophecies designed to comfort and guide the church during 
 the interval of Christ's absence, it should be scarcely mentioned. 
 Its character had been described in the Old Testament, and 
 was well imderstood by Jewish Christians and by the early 
 church. They expected its commencement indeed, in con- 
 nection with Christ's first coming : "wilt Thou at this time restore 
 again the kingdom to Israel ?" and would never have entertained 
 the thought, that it could occur during his absence. The
 
 PROGRESSIVE REVELATION. 39 
 
 events that should transpire during that absence, and the return 
 that should introduce the kingdom, were therefore naturally 
 the great subject matter of the prophecies of Christ and his 
 apostles ; the subsequent millennial reign, taken as it were for 
 granted, occupied a very subordinate place. The silence of 
 the Lord Himself, and of the whole New Testament about the 
 millennium, can be explained on no other supposition. 
 
 The period of the millennial reign is long ; its character is 
 glorious, its events gigantic, its sphere universal ; it will be 
 no less than the subjugation of the entire world to Christ, the 
 putting down of " all rule, and all authority and power,'" by the 
 Son of God. If all this he to take place prior to his second 
 coming, how impossible that He should overlook or omit it, in 
 all his great prophetic descriptions of the entire course of the 
 present dispensation. 
 
 In Matthew xxiv. Christ describes his second personal advent 
 and the great events which shall precede it. He reveals the 
 course of this evil age, and its close. He foretells wars, 
 famines, pestilences, earthquakes, persecutions, false prophets, 
 iniquities, apostasies, the preaching of the gospel "as a wit- 
 ness " to all nations, false signs and wonders, desolations, 
 woes, including the great tribulation, and then He adds, " Im- 
 mediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be 
 darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars 
 shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be 
 shaken ; and then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in 
 heaven, and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and 
 they shall see the Son of ma?i coming in the clouds of heaven, ivitli 
 power and great glory, and He shall send his angels with a 
 great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his 
 elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other." 
 
 That these words describe his personal advent in glory is 
 certain, and equally certain is it, that this comprehensive pro- 
 phecy, contains no allusion to a millennium of blessedness and 
 peace. Can this be reconciled with the view that our Lord 
 expected that golden age previous to his coming? The
 
 40 PROGRESSIVE REVELATION. 
 
 same thing may be said of the series of prophetic parables in 
 Matthew xiii. They certainly describe his second personal 
 advent, and as certainly portray the leading features of the age 
 which shall end with that event ; but they speak of no millen' 
 nium. They describe exactly what we see around us, exactly 
 what we know has characterized the past eighteen hundred years, 
 a partial spread of truth, a vast upgrowth of apostasy and corrup- 
 tion in the professing church, a gathering out of the great sea 
 of humanity a mingled mass of good and bad ; but no subju- 
 gation of the entire world to Christ, no signs of righteousness 
 from shore to shore. If any one asserts that the parable of the 
 lea^lpi. foretells a universality of godliness in this dispensation, 
 let him reflect, that in order to give his assertion any value he 
 must ivcsX. prove that the "leaven " means good and not evil (a 
 disputed point),* and secondly, that the " three measures of 
 meal " means the entire human race, and not a defmite part of 
 it : licit Jicr of which can he proved. This is a parable without an 
 inspired interpretation ; men can do no more than surmise its 
 meaning ; such surmises should accord, not clasJi, with clearer 
 revelations, and with the Lord's own interpretation of the para- 
 ble of the tares and the wheat. 
 
 The same thing may be said of all the prophetic passages in 
 the epistles of Paul : take for example that in the Second 
 Epistle to the Thessalonians. He first describes the second 
 coming of Christ with his mighty angels in flaming fire, to be 
 glorified in his saints, and to take vengeance on the wicked. 
 He then foretells the great antecedent to that comicg. What 
 is it ? A millennium of righteousness? No ! a mystery of iniquity, 
 the rise of the 5on of perdition, the manifestation of the man 
 of sin, the fearful reign of Antichrist. Had he expected a long 
 day of millennial light before Christ's return, how could he have 
 foretold nothing, but a long night of spiritual darkness ? 
 
 To Peter, Paul, Jude, and John, the future of this dispen- 
 sation was overshadowed with portentous gloom. They gaze 
 
 Indeed, it may be remaiked that in every other ph-re in Scripture 
 where "leaven " is spoken of. it clcaily signifies evil.
 
 PROGRESSIVE REVELATION. 41 
 
 with sorrowing hearts into its dark depths; they warn the 
 church ot approaching apostasy, and nerve it to meet coming 
 persecution, encouraging it to hope for rehef from both, only at 
 the coming of the Lord (2 Thess. i. 7). Had they foreseen the 
 Christian dispensation gradually developing into universal 
 brightness, how would the blessed prospect have chased their 
 sorrow and lit their countenances with smiles of gladness ! 
 But no ! their looks brighten only, as they turn from the present 
 dispensation to its close, and catch a glimpse of the rising of 
 the Sun of Righteousness, " looking for that blessed hope and 
 the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviou^^^s 
 Christ." If then the apostles expected no millenniunV'^^rc 
 the second advent of Christ, why should we ? 
 
 The second argument suggested by a glance at the general 
 tenour of these prophecies is stronger, for it is positive rather 
 than negative. The Lord and his apostles not only do not 
 foretell a millennium of blessedness before the second coming, 
 but they do foretell a series of events which could not co- 
 exist with such a millennium. They predict a succession of 
 wars, famines, plagues, earthquakes, persecutions, apostasies, 
 and corruptions, the working of a mystery of inicjuiiy, wliich 
 culminates in the manifestation of the man of sin. Can these 
 coexist with a millennium, whose characteristics are the absence 
 of war, peace to the ends of the earth, universal jnosperily of 
 the righteous, times of refreshing, the subjugation of all kings 
 to the " King of kings," the putting down of all rule and 
 authority and power, the subjugation of his enemies beneath his 
 feet, the triumphant reign of his saints, the filling of the world 
 with the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea ? 
 If the former series of events are to characterize the entire 
 course of this dispensation, which is clearly the teaching of 
 Scripture, the latter cannot ; they mutually exclude each other. 
 There can therefore be no millennium before Christ comes. 
 
 There are a number of passages in which tlie duty of constant 
 watchfulness, is urged on the church. Take tliat in Luke xii. 
 as a specimen. The Master bids us be like men tliat wait for
 
 42 PROGRESSIVE REVELATION. 
 
 their lord, pronounces a blessing on such as shall be found 
 ''watching" speaks of the uncertainty as to the time of his 
 coming, whether it should be in the second, or in the third 
 watch, uses the illustration of the thief, and adds, "be ye there- 
 fore ready also, for the Son of man comcth at an hour when ye 
 think not." 
 
 Now, though it may be difficult, to watch and wait for an 
 event, the time of whose occurrence is altogether uncertain, and 
 may be very distant, yet it is not impossible. But it is impos- 
 sible to watch and wait for an event which we hioTU cannot 
 ^during our lifetime, nor during that of our children, nor 
 ly, many, subsequent generations. The millennium has 
 not commenced yet ; we know it is to run a long course of a 
 thousand years. If we know it is to precede our Master's return, 
 how can we be, like men that wait for their Lord ? The thing is 
 nnpossible, and Christ never commanded an impossibility; 
 therefore we must expect the millennium after his coming and 
 not before. The early church Avith one consent placed the mil- 
 lennium revealed by St. John, after the advent, and felt it con- 
 sequently no hindrance to their obedience to the Lord's com- 
 mand, " be ye ready also." An interval nearly twice as long, has 
 it is true actually elapsed, and was of course foreknown to our 
 Lord. But it was not revealed, and though a portion of it is 
 prophetically announced, it is announced in such symbolic 
 language as to secure its not being understood, until the under- 
 standing of it would be no hindrance to watchfulness. The 
 Lord Jesus knew that fifty or sixty generations of men would 
 live and die ere He would come again ; and He wished each 
 one, to pass the time of its sojourning here, under the hallow- 
 ing and cheering influence of " that blessed hope." He cannot 
 consequently have revealed anything, that would justify the 
 conclusion, "■ my Lord delayeth his coming." The thousand 
 years of blessedness that He did reveal in the Apocalypse, 
 through John, must consequently be subsequent to his return. 
 
 The apostle Paul twice uses the expression "we who are 
 alive and remain, unto the coming of the Lord " : whether we
 
 PROGRESSIVE REVELATION. 43 
 
 regard these words, simply as the natural utterance of his own 
 feelings, or as dictated by the Holy Ghost, they bear equally 
 strong testimony to the fact, that the coming of Christ, and 
 not the millennium, is the event for which Christians should 
 look and wait. Taken as the language of Paul merely, they 
 show how thoroughly imbued he was with the expectation that 
 the then living generation of saints, his own cotemporaries, 
 might witness the second advent. Clearly he expected no 
 millennium first, unless he also expected to live beyond the 
 age of Methuselah ! And why after the lapse of eighteen 
 hundred years, should we regard the coming of the Lor^'^s 
 more distant from us, than he did from him ? Taking- the^ 
 words as an inspired expression, placed by the Holy Ghost in 
 the lips of each successive generation of Christians, they are 
 still more conclusive. It is a Divine warrant to all, to expect 
 M'hat Paul expected. The sorrowing mourners around each 
 successive sleeper in Jesus, are to take up the glad strain, " ive 
 who are alive and remain, shall be caught up together with them 
 in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air, and so shall we ever 
 be with the Lord." The hope was never to lie in abeyance, 
 never to be out of date ; but to be ever glowing, bright and 
 warm, in living hearts. Therefore the Holy Ghost cannot have 
 revealed a millennium, before the second coming of Christ; 
 for such a revelation must render the hope of that coming dim 
 and distant, and comparatively powerless, for the purposes of 
 consolation to which it is here applied All the Christians that 
 have yet lived, would have been unable to use the words of 
 Paul; and since the millennium has not begun yet, thirty or 
 forty generations more, must be equally incapable of adopting 
 the language ; only those in fact who shall live in the tenth and 
 last century of the millennium, could do so. 
 
 Again the apostle Paul (Rom. viii. 18) uses two remarkable 
 expressions, "the sufferings of this present time" and "the 
 glory which shall be revealed in us." They respectively apply 
 to tJiis dispcjisation, and to the millennial a^c. He sj^eaks of this 
 present time as a period of suffering, not only to the sons of
 
 44 PROGRESSIl'J:: REVELATION. 
 
 God, but to the whole creation, which is under the bondage of 
 corruption and subject to death. He speaks of that future age 
 as a time of the manifestation of the sons of God, a time of 
 " glorious liberty." He says that the whole creation groans and 
 travails in pain together, and that we ourselves, in like manner 
 groan within ourselves, while awaiting that period. He defines 
 the point at which the transition from the one state to the other 
 will take place, the point at which the millennium will com- 
 mence, the point for which we wait. It is " the redemption of 
 our BODY '"' that is the resurrection. But the resurrection will 
 not, come till Christ comes, we know these two events syn- 
 chropize even to the twinkling of an eye. Therefore the millen- 
 7mun loill not come till Christ comes, and Christ will come before 
 the millcntiium. This conclusion can only be avoided by assert- 
 ing, that during the millennium, the saints and the whole crea- 
 tion will be groaning and travailing in pain together, and with 
 " earnest expectation " awaiting a better state of things. 
 
 In 2 Thessalonians ii. 8, in speaking of the destruction of the 
 man of sin, the apostle declares that it will be effected by the 
 brightness of Christ's coming, the inK^avi'ia t?]s Tt-apova-ias. Either 
 therefore the man of sin, the great enemy of Christ, will live 
 and reign throughout the millennium, which is incredible, or 
 Christ will come before the millennium and destroy him. 
 
 The loving words of our Lord, " Ye now tlierefore have 
 sorrow, but 1 will see you again and your heart shall rejoice," 
 though they may have found a fulfilment, in the joy that filled the 
 disciples' hearts, when they saw the Lord after his resurrection, 
 have yet a prophetic bearing on the effect of his future coming. 
 They harmonize with all the scriptures which represent the 
 church as an espoused bride awaiting an absent bridegroom, 
 and teach us that for the church that loves her absent Lord, 
 joy can come only with his return. Either then prolonged 
 sorrow, deep unsatisfied yearnings of soul, a painful sense of 
 loneliness and bereavement, are consistent with millennial bliss ; 
 or else there can be no millennium for the church, till after 
 the coming of Christ.
 
 PROGRESSIVE REVELATION. 45 
 
 The millennium will be a peculiar period, unlike any period 
 that has as yet been known on carlh. If it were immediately 
 to precede the coming of Christ, it would surely have been 
 mentioned among the signs of that great event which we are 
 exhorted to note. But it is never so mentioned ; // is nrccr 
 mentioned at all in connection zuith an advent following it. In 
 no one single passage of Scripture can the two events be found 
 in this order ; nor can a single text be produced in which 
 the second advent of Christ is spoken of, in connection 7i'ith 
 a preceding millennium. We must therefore conclude that the 
 millennium is \.o follow the coming of Christ.* ,.»^ 
 
 Having thus reviewed some of the general tcachings%f 
 Scripture, both in the Old and New Testaments, concerning the 
 relative period of the second advent, we now turn to the final 
 prophecy of the Bible, in the expectation of finding there, 
 fuller and clearer light on the subject. The conclusion we have 
 reached is abundantly confirmed by the general tenour of the 
 Apocalypse, and by the direct evidence of its closing visions. 
 
 This book presents the church as exposed to tribulation, 
 and having need of patience, as bearing a painful and danger- 
 ous testimony to Christ, and as enduring temptation and per- 
 secution, right up to the time of the advent. Its author was 
 in his own person, a representative of the church in these 
 respects. " I John, who also am your brother, and companion 
 in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, 
 was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and 
 for the testimony of Jesus Christ." Never in the whole course 
 of the book do we see the saints exalted and reigning, until after 
 the second advent. The sweet picture of heavenly glory in 
 chap, vii., occurs in unbroken sequence after a succession ot 
 war, famines, plagues, martyr deaths, and political convulsions. 
 No period of holiness and peace on earth is mentioned as inter- 
 vening. The seven trumpets announce an uninterrupted series 
 of judgments, up to the moment when it is said "the kingdoms 
 
 * The order of the visions in Rev. x.\. is no exception to t'.iis rule, as 
 shown in the following pages.
 
 46 J'KOGRESSIVE REVELATION. 
 
 of this world are become the kingdom of our Lord and of his 
 Christ, and He shall reign for ever and ever" (xi. 15). The 
 trumpets clearly represent, not millennial blessings, but pro- 
 vidential judgment ; they leave no room for a millennium 
 before the coming of Christ. But any remains of doubt ought 
 to be dispelled by the closing visions of this book. There, 
 bright, clear, full, and harmonious -with every previous pre- 
 diction, stands out on almost the last page of inspiration, 
 a grand and detailed description of the epiphany of Christ. 
 It is a symbolic description it is true, for the revelation in 
 which it occurs is a symbolic prophecy , but its symbols, inter- 
 preted by other scriptures, can hardly be mistaken ; they 
 serve rather as the steps of a ladder, to enable the mind to 
 mount to the majesty of the theme. And there too, immedi- 
 ately succeeding it, stands out a second prophecy of the 
 REIGN of Christ and his saints, symbolic too, yet simple in its 
 symbolism, and Avith even its simple symbols explained to 
 make them simpler. As we look into these last unveilings of 
 the counsel of God about the future, once more we ask the 
 question, what is the prospect before us ? A thousand years of 
 bliss on earth, and then our Lord from heaven ? or our Lord 
 from heaven first, and then a thousand years of bliss ? We re- 
 member as we await the reply, that it is the last testimony we 
 can have, till the event itself give an answer, the last prophetic 
 utterance of the Holy Ghost on the subject. 
 
 The Vision of the Advent of the King of Kings. 
 
 And I saw heaven opened, 
 
 And behold a white horse ; 
 He that sat on him was called Faithful and True : 
 In righteousness He doth judge and make war : 
 
 His eyes were as a flame of fire ; 
 
 On his head were many crowns : 
 He had a name written that no man knew but He Himself) 
 He was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood ; 
 
 His name was called the Word of God.
 
 PROGRESSIVE REVELATION. 47 
 
 And the armies which were in heaven followed Him, 
 
 Upon white horses ; 
 Clothed in fine linen white and clean ; 
 Out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword ; 
 That with it He should smite the nations ; 
 And He shall rule them with a rod of iron. 
 He treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of 
 
 Almighty God, 
 He hath on his vesture and on his thigh, a name written, 
 King of Kings and Lord of Lords. 
 
 Rev. xix. 
 
 Every clause of this magnificent vision, determines the rider 
 on the white horse to be Jesus Christ and none other. Heaven 
 was opened to give Him exit; a door in heaven had been 
 previously opened for John to gaze on its hidden mysteries ; 
 now heaven itself opens, and its armies follow their great 
 Captain. He bears a fourfold name ; He is called Faithfuf and 
 True; who can He be but "Jesus Christ the faithful and 
 true witness"? He has also a name thai no man kno7C's but 
 He Himself; who can He be but the Son, whom "no man 
 knoweth but the Father," the one, who of old said to Manoah, 
 " Why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it is secret?" His 
 name is called "the Word of God" ; who can He be but He 
 who in the beginning was with God and was God ? And on 
 his vesture and on his thigh, are emblazoned the unmistakable 
 words, '' King of kings and Lord of lords." 
 
 He comes to do a threefold work, each part of whicli be- 
 longs to Christ and to Christ alone, as other scriptures abund- 
 antly prove. "/« righteousness He doth Judge and make war " 
 against the Beast and his armies (ver. 20). Who can He be 
 but the Lord who shall consume that wicked son of perdition 
 and man of sin, with the spirit of his mouth and the brightness 
 of his coming? (i Thess. ii. 8.) 
 
 " He shall rule the nations iviih a rod of iron.''' Who can He 
 be but the only begotten Son of God, to whom are addressed
 
 4S PROGRESSIVl: REVELATION. 
 
 tlie words of the second Psalm, " ask of Me and I shall give 
 Thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts 
 of the earth for thy possession. Thou shalt break them with 
 a rod of iron " ? 
 
 ^^ He treaddh the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of 
 Almighty God." Who can He be, but the glorious One, mighty 
 to save, who says " I will tread down the people in mine anger," 
 and " trample them in my fury " (Isa. Ixiii.) ? His vesture 
 dipped in blood identifies Him with this red-apparelled Con- 
 queror and solitary Saviour. 
 
 " His eyes are as a flame of fire," as were the eyes of the one 
 like unto the Son of man, seen by John in the first vision of 
 this book. Who can He be but that God who is of purer eyes 
 than to behold evil, and cannot look on iniquity? that God 
 who searches the heart and tries the reins, and from whom no 
 secrets are hid ? " On his head were many crowns^'' for " domi- 
 nion and glory and a kingdom are given Him, that all nations 
 and languages should serve Him." Who can He be but that 
 Son of man who is also the Ancient of days, Israel's long looked 
 for Messiah, earth's oft desired King, the King of righteousness, 
 the King of Salem, which is the King of peace? On his head 
 were many diadems : the royal crown, the victor's crown, the 
 priestly crown, the nuptial crown, all befit his blessed brow; 
 and on it rest the many diadems which recently adorned the 
 bestial horns, united now on the head of Him who has van- 
 quished them all. Who can He be but the One to whom 
 every knee shall bow, and every tongue confess, the One who 
 has received a name above every name ? He is followed, not 
 by angelic hosts, but by the saintly armies of heaven ; who can 
 He be but the one, of whom Enoch prophesied, " the Lord 
 cometh, with ten thousands of his saints " ; the one of whom 
 Zechariah wrote, " The Lord my God shall come, and all the 
 saints with thee " ; the One who shall be glorified in his 
 saints, and admired in all them that believe, in that day ? 
 
 And this vision can be a vision of nothing else but di persona! 
 advent of Christ. It cannot be a vision of a spiritual coming.
 
 PROGRESSIVE REVELATION. 49 
 
 ' every clause forbids the thought. For such a coming, it needs 
 
 not that heaven should be opened ; for such a coming it needs 
 not attendant armies of saintly warriors. The coming of the 
 Lord zvith ten thousa?ids of his saints has been regarded even 
 from antediluvian ages, as his personal appearance to execute 
 judgment on the ungodly. 
 
 It cannot be a vision of a providential coming; the previous 
 chapters of this book, afford illustrations of the kind of Divine 
 interference in the affairs of earth, which is intended by this 
 expression. In the opening of the seven-sealed book, in 
 the scattering of the coals of fire on the earth, in the sound- 
 ing of the seven trumpets, Christ is seen acting provi- 
 dentially. But He is seen in heaven; thence He directs his 
 various angelic and other agencies, for his providence needs 
 not his personal presence on earth. "The heavens do rule " in 
 providence on behalf o^ iht saints, not /;/ conjunction with them, 
 whether man perceive it or not. If this vision represent merely 
 a providential coming, to what end the opened heaven, and 
 the forth issuing armies, following the King of kings ? No- 
 where is it promised or prophesied, that the saints shall share 
 with Christ his present providential government ; but it is 
 promised that they shall share his future work of judging and 
 ruling the world. 
 
 But further ; if it were a figurative, spiritual, or providential 
 coming that is here represented, its character antl its objects 
 must needs be in harmony with those of all the spiritual and 
 providential comings with which we are acquainted. In other 
 words, if the coming here prefigured be an event belonging in 
 any sense to this dispensation, it should harmonize with the 
 known actions and operations of Christ during this dispen- 
 sation. It does not do this ; it is on the contrary in abrupt 
 and violent contrast to them. The line of action here ascribed 
 to the Lord Jesus, and the line of action which we know Him 
 to have been pursuing ever since incarnation, are so antago- 
 nistic, as to preclude their characterizing one and the same 
 .dispensation. In the vision, " in righteousness He doth judge ; "
 
 50 PROGRESSIVE REVELATION. 
 
 in Ihis age, in grace He refuses to judge, saying "I came not to 
 judge " ; " man, who made INIe a judge over you ? " "I judge no 
 man "; "neither do I condemn thee." In tlie vision, in right- 
 eousness He makes war ; in this age, in grace He makes peace : 
 He came to bring peace on earth, " He is our peace," " He is 
 the Prince of peace." In the vision, " out of his mouth goeth 
 a sharp sword, that with it He should smite the nations " ; in 
 this dispensation we are not smitten, but renewed by the 
 word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever ; the gospel 
 does not smite the nations but quickens and blesses them. 
 In the vision, "He ruleth the nations with a rod of iron"; in 
 this age Christ does not ostensibly " rule the nations " at all, 
 for Satan is the God of this world; but if He did. He 
 would rule them in grace and by love, even as He rules his 
 church, and not by the iron rod, of inflexible righteousness ; 
 He spares the nations, He is kind to the unthankful and 
 unworthy, his longsufifering is salvation. In the vision, " He 
 treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty 
 God," that is, He executes the holy indignation of God 
 agairLst sinners. In this dispensation. He manifests the 
 love of God to a guilty world, He receives gifts even for the 
 rebellious, He beseeches sinners to be reconciled to God. 
 \\\\o would ever think of describing Christ's present actions 
 in the words of this vision ? The coming here prefigured, can- 
 not then be an event of this age at all, it is the inauguration of 
 a future age. 
 
 But it is argued this vision cannot prefigure a literal per- 
 sonal advent, its symbolic language proves that a figurative 
 one only is intended. This is virtually to assert that a 
 prophecy of the second advent of Christ is impossible in the 
 Apocalypse ; for it is throughout a book of symbols, it is 
 written in the language of symbols, if it contain a prophetic 
 vision of the second advent, it must therefore be expected to 
 be a symbolic vision. Now seeing the second advent is the 
 one chmax to which cvery'diing in the book tends, can we 
 suppose, that there exists in it no description of the great event
 
 PR GRESSIVE RE VEL A TIO.Y. 
 
 itself? Impossible! This then must be it, for there is no 
 other. 
 
 There is nothing in the nature of symbolic language to 
 preclude its being used in describing literal events. The lan- 
 guage of symbols is in this respect, on a par with any other 
 language. The Egyptian hieroglyphics formed a symbolic 
 language, but are the events of Egyptian history narrated and 
 preserved in that language therefore figurative? on the con- 
 trary, plain, substantial, literal, history is recorded in those hiero- 
 glyphics, and plain, substantial, literal, events may in like 
 manner be predicted in hieroglyphic or symbolic prophecy. 
 Now a literal personal advent could not be predicted more 
 clearly in the language of symbols than it is here. 
 
 Besides which, the judgment scene immediately succeeding, 
 requires this vision to be a real personal advent. Scripture is 
 ever harmonious with itself, elsewhere we find the work of 
 judgment is committed by the Father to the Son, and that the 
 Son executes it personally, not by proxy ; He does not dele- 
 gate the task to others, though He employs the assistance of 
 saints and angels. The husbandman who sowed the seed, 
 comes himself to put in the sickle, when the harvest is ripe ; 
 the lord of the vineyard comes himself to tread the wine- 
 press ; so here. In former parts of the Apocalypse angels had 
 been extensively employed. But now the Lord of hosts pre- 
 pares Himself for the final battle, and comes personally to in- 
 augurate by the judgment of the living, — the destruction of the 
 antichristian hosts, — that great day of judgment, and day of 
 the Lord, which lasts a thousand years, and ends with the final 
 assize of the great white throne. 
 
 In short, a personal advent of Christ, is the theme, the main 
 theme, of the whole Bible. The past advent did not accom- 
 plish the full results predicted ; since // became history, a 
 second advent has been the dominant note in every prophetic 
 strain, and in the Apocalypse it becomes more prominent than 
 ever. From the "behold He cometh with clouds" of the first 
 chapter, to the "behold I come (|uickly " of the last, tliis theme
 
 52 PROGRESSIVE REVELATION. 
 
 prevades the book. The Apocalypse is a grand drama, the 
 epiphany is its dimax. " Hold fast till I come," is Christ's 
 own word to Smyrna; "behold I come quickly," his encourage- 
 ment to Philadelphia ; the redeemed in heaven, rejoice in 
 the prospect, " we shall reign on the earth." On the sound- 
 ing "of the seventh trumpet, the elders fall down in worship 
 before God, because the moment is at last come, when He is 
 to take his great power and reign on earth. Under the sixth 
 vial the Lord repeats the warning note, " behold I come as a 
 thief" ; and the Apocalypse, yea the Bible itself, ends with the 
 same promise, " surely I come quickly." 
 
 " Now the present vision is the passage, and the only passage, 
 where such a glorious advent of our Lord is distinctly de- 
 scribed. Till then He is seen in spirit, as the Lamb in the 
 heavenly places, as the priest at the heavenly altar, as the 
 mighty angel, the mysterious messenger of the covenant, while 
 the hour of mystery still continues, and still repeats the warn- 
 ing 'behold I come.' Here in the vision heaven is opened, and 
 He is seen to come, in manifest glory as the Word of God. 
 After this He is spoken of as already come. In the very 
 scene where the powers of evil have just been overthrown, and 
 from which Satan has just been banished, his people 'reign 
 v.'ith Christ a thousand years.' When the white throne is seen, 
 He is seen already present to occupy it ; and not a word is 
 "•iven to indicate a fresh arrival, of Him who sits to execute the 
 judgment. All converges on the advent before this vision, 
 all centres on a personal advent of the Word in the vision it- 
 self, all implies a previous advent in the visions which follow. 
 And hence the internal evidence that the real advent is here 
 described, is complete."* Now this vision which presents 
 Christ and his saints coming forth to judge and to reign is 
 followed by others which present the judgment and the reign ; 
 i.e., the destruction of the hosts of Antichrist, and the millen- 
 nial reign of the risen saints with their Lord. We have there- 
 
 • " Outlines of Unfulfilled Prophecy,' Birks, p. 83.
 
 PROGRESSIVE REVELATION. 53 
 
 fore in the last prophecy on the subject, the clearest proof that 
 the second coming of the Lord is to be premillennial. "Will 
 any one assert that a millennium, unnoticed and vndcscrihed in 
 the Apocalypse, has preceded this advent vision ? ^^'hat ! the 
 glorious times of restitution of all things, passed over in 
 silence, as unworthy of a place in the great chart of the future ? 
 Impossible ! and even granting it possible, whereabouts 
 could we insert a millennium, in the long list of evil event 
 and sore judgments of which the book consists? and even 
 if any one find room for it, and satisfy himself by conceiving 
 it may come in here or there, what then will he do with 
 the millennium that is noticed and described after this advent 
 vision? Are there to be two millennia? Docs the word of 
 God sanction such a thought? Are we to have a spiritual 
 millennium preceded by a spiritual coming, and then a literal 
 millennium preceded by a literal coming ? To ask the ques- 
 tion is to answer it ! The whole Bible forbids the notion of 
 a third advent and second millennium ! 
 
 The only other alternative, is to deny that this is a vision of 
 a personal advent of Christ at all. But then ivJiat is it? It 
 cannot, as we have seen, be a figurative coming. JV/iat caji it 
 be? Does it describe nothing at all? Is the most magnifi- 
 cent vision in the book destitute of signification ? Is it con- 
 ceivable, that the greatest event in the future history of our 
 world is not made the subject of a vision in the Apocalypse at 
 all ? Where else can we find it ? Nowhere ! Christ acts on 
 earth afterwards, He does not come to earth. This then is the 
 ADVENT VISION, or — there is none ! And why should we doubt 
 that this is its character ? Does it clash with any previously 
 revealed truth ? Nay, but it harmonizes most sweetly with all ! 
 He is to come after the resurrection, for He brings the risen 
 saints with him. Here the marriage of the Lamb, that perfect 
 union of Christ and his people, which cannot take place prior 
 to resurrection, immediately precedes this advent vision. He 
 is to come to destroy Antichrist and to take vengeance on 
 those that know not God and obey not the gospel. Here this
 
 54 PROCRESSJVE REVELATION. 
 
 destruction of Antichrist and the kings of the earth and their 
 armies, immediately follows this advent vision. 
 
 Suppose for a moment, that the place occupied by it were 
 left a blank, that the prophecy passed at once, from the mar- 
 riage of the Lamb, to the destruction of the antichristian 
 host. OtJia- scriptures would force us to place the second coining 
 of Christ between those two scenes. The destruction of the 
 beast and the folse prophet, demand a previous epiphany, ac- 
 cording to 2 Thessalonians ii. ; and the rapturous marriage of 
 the Lamb in heaven, the meeting in the air of Christ and 
 his saints, requires a subsequent manifestation, according to 
 2 Thessalonians i. lo. 
 
 When therefore we find a vision, symbolising in the most 
 consistent and magnificent way, a personal advent of Christ, 
 just where we might have expected to find it, just where all 
 prophecy would conspire to fix its place, just where its ab- 
 sence would render it impossible to harmonize multitudes of 
 other predictions ; when we find it written large in letters of 
 light, and stamped with a sublimity of symbol and circumstance 
 worthy of such an event, and too grand for any other, we bow 
 to this final testimony of the prophetic word, and admit that 
 Scripture leaves no room to doubt, that the Lord Jesus will 
 come again in ])erson. to this earth, before the millennium, in 
 other words, that the second advent will be premillennial.
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 PROGRESSIVE REVELATIONS AS TO THE MILLENNIUM, THE 
 RESURRECTION, AND THE JUDGMENT. 
 
 'E turn now to consider the teachings of the Apocalypse 
 as to the events to succeed the second advent of 
 Christ, and it is here that the appHcation of the principle of 
 progressive revelation becomes of peculiar importance. 
 
 That principle requires, as we have seen, that we receive the 
 teachings of this inspired prophecy on its authority alone, when 
 they are unconfirmed by other Scripture ; and it requires also 
 that we be prepared to modify impressions derived from 
 earlier and more elementary predictions, whenever this latest 
 revelation of the future demands it. No author expects to have 
 the latest and fullest edition of his book corrected by an earlier 
 and less explicit one; no author but would wish on the contrary 
 that early editions should be read in the light of the last. The 
 Apocalypse contains undoubtedly, the last and the fullest reve- 
 lation of God on these subjects, the final expression of his 
 purpose ; prior statements must be conformed to this, and not 
 this to prior statements. 
 
 The advent vision is followed by a vision of the judgment 
 on Antichrist and his associates, and immediately after this we 
 have 
 
 The Vision of the Millennium. 
 
 And I saw an angel come down from heaven, 
 Having the key of the bottomless pit, and a great chain in his 
 
 hand ; 
 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the 
 
 Devil and Satan,
 
 56 PROGRESSIVE REVELATION. 
 
 And bound him a thousand years, and cast him into the bot- 
 tomless pit, 
 And shut him up, and set a seal upon him, 
 That he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand 
 years be fulfilled, 
 And after that he must be loosed for a little season. 
 
 And I saw thrones, and they sat on them ; 
 And judgment was given unto them ; 
 And I saw the souls of them that were beheaded. 
 For the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God ; 
 Who had not worshipped the beast, nor his image ; 
 Neitlier had received his mark in their foreheads, or in their 
 hands ; 
 And tiiev lived and reigned with Christ a thousand 
 
 YEARS. 
 
 But the rest of the dead lived not again, 
 Until the thousand years were finished ; 
 This is the first resurrection. 
 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection ; 
 On such the second death hath no power. 
 But they shall be priests of God and of Christ, 
 And shall reign with Him a thousand years. 
 
 The twentieth chapter of Revelation, as is evident to every 
 student of Scripture, contains several new predictions peculiar 
 to itself 
 
 The broad fact that there is to be a reign of Christ and his 
 saints on earth is not new. Though little is said about it in 
 the gospels and the epistles, for the reason previously assigned 
 that they occupy themselves rather with the previous advent, 
 yet the law, the psalms, and the prophets, teem with predic- 
 tions of this irign of Christ. 
 
 But that it should be introduced by a binding of Satan, that 
 it should last a thousand years, these facts, dimly intimated 
 elsewhere, are revealed \\t\Q.for tJic first and only time.
 
 PRO.GRESSIl'E REVELATION. 57 
 
 Are we therefore to stand in doubt about them, or try to ex- 
 plain the revelation in some non-natural sense ? God forbid ! 
 The God who cannot lie, inspired this single prediction of them; 
 is not that enough? We need not hesitate to believe what 
 God says, even if He say it only once ; and indeed we might 
 reject most of the revelations of the Apocalypse, if we adopt 
 the maxim, of doubting all that is only once predicted. 
 
 Not only does this prophecy require us to believe two nac 
 revelations, but it also necessitates a modification of previously 
 entertained views, on two familiar and all important points 
 of our creed, the resurrection of the dead and the judg- 
 ment TO COME. It reveals, what had never previously been 
 clearly made known, that both are to be accomplished in two 
 successive stages, with a thousand years between tliem, and 
 not in one great act, as, but for this chapter, we might have 
 supposed. 
 
 Are we then to distort the declarations of this chapter, in 
 order to bring them into harmon}', not with previous predic- 
 tions, but with the impressions we have derived from pre- 
 vious predictions ? No ! but we must bring our impressions 
 into harmony with the joint teaching of earlier and later reve- 
 lations, which, seeing both are Divine, cannot be contradictory. 
 No one would dream of doing otherwise, in the case of an 
 earlier and later communication from some superior authority. 
 Say, for instance, that the Admiralty issue a notice, that a cer- 
 tain squadron is to sail next month for the IMediterranean. 
 After a few weeks a subsequent order provides, that three ves- 
 sels are to leave on the ist of the month, for Besika Bay; and 
 three more on the 30th, for IMalta. Shall the commanders 
 hesitate about giving credence to the later sailing orders, be- 
 cause they had received from the earlier notice an impression 
 that all the ships were to start simultaneously, and for one and 
 the same destination ? Clearly not ! There is no discrepancy 
 or inconsistency in the orders ; the difference is simply, that 
 the later directions are more ample and detailed than were 
 the earlier. From the earlier, the commanders received the
 
 58 PROGRESSIVE REVELATION. 
 
 erroneous impression they entertained; an impression they 
 would of course abandon immediately the second order arrived. 
 
 But as regards these later visions of the Apocalypse, too 
 many act in an opposite way. *' We thought," they say, " that 
 Scripture foretold one sim.ultaneous resurrection of all mankind, 
 to take place at the end of the world, and to be immediately 
 followed by the general judgment, the final separation of the 
 righteous and the wicked, and the eternal state. What ? two 
 resurrections? two judgments? and a thousand years apart? 
 What ? Christ and his risen- saints, reigning over mortal men 
 on the earth, for an entire age, while the rest of the dead lie in 
 their graves ? Impossible ! The Bible never says so anywhere 
 else ! And Satan to be imprisoned for a thousand years, before 
 he is cast into the lake of fire ? This cannot be, we never 
 gathered this from any other part of Scripture ! Either these 
 visions do not teach such heterodox novelties, or they are not 
 inspired ! True, they say this, but they must j?iean something 
 else, for such doctrines are quite contrary to our creed, alto- 
 gether at variance with the impressions we have derived from 
 previous revelations on the subject." 
 
 Such reasoning is not true wisdom, it is prejudice, and it is a 
 denial of God's right to m:xke p7'ogrcssive 7-evclations. Wisdom, 
 while perceiving clearly the discrepancy, would say ; " Con- 
 trary as these new revelations are to the impressions derived 
 from previous scriptures, let us see if any real variance exist, 
 and if not, let us abandon our imperfect and consequently 
 erroneous ideas, and receive with meekness, all the light on 
 these subjects graciously granted by God." 
 
 We propose therefore first to examine what the peculiar 
 teachings of these visions arc, and secondly whether these 
 teachings, taken in their most obvious and natural sense, are 
 indmsistcnt with other scriptures, or merely iii advance of them. 
 
 Let it be noted then, first, that this is not a vision of the 
 resuiTCCtion of saints, but of their enthronement and reign. As 
 far as they are concerned, the resurrection is past already be- 
 fore this scene opens.
 
 PROGRESSIVE REVELATION. 59 
 
 Other scriptures definitely fix the moment of the resurrection 
 of saints. " They that are Christ's " rise at his coining; his 
 saints meet their Lord in the air, and come with Him to the 
 earth (Col. iii. 3, i Thess. iv.). The resurrection must there- 
 fore have taken place before Xha advent described in the previous 
 vision. What was the immediately preceding act in this Divine 
 drama ? 
 
 Multitudinous voices in heaven, are heard asserting, that 
 Christ has assumed his kingly power, and that the marriage of 
 the Lamb is come. Now this marriage, celebrated by the glad 
 hallelujahs of heaven, can be nothing else than that full union 
 of Christ and his church which is to take place at the resur- 
 rection. The angelic host describe the bride, as made "ready," 
 as arrayed in fine linen clean and white which is the righteous- 
 ness of saints, and John is instructed to write down " blessed ' 
 those who are called to the marriage supper. Now not till after 
 resurrection, can Christ present his church to Himself "a 
 glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing, 
 but holy and without blemish," according to this scene : rcs2i7-- 
 rection must therefore have preceded this vision of the marriage 
 sitppcr. No vision of it is given in the Apocalypse ; how could 
 there be ? It is the event of less than a moment, it occupies 
 only the twinkling of an eye. It could not be represented as 
 an occurrence on earth, for the risen saints are, in a second, 
 caught up to meet their Lord in the air ; nor as an occurrence 
 in heaven, for it is connected with the earth and the air. The 
 precise locality of the nuptial feast is not indicated, a veil of 
 privacy is thrown around the meeting of bridegroom and bride; 
 it takes place, and this is all that we know. Whether any in- 
 terval elapse between the resurrection rapture and the glorious 
 epiphany, is not revealed to us here. But the epiphany has 
 occurred; and the church, under the symbol of the armies 
 that were in heaven, has shared in the work of judging the 
 antichristian hosts, before this millennial vision opens. In it, con- 
 sequently, we have not the resurrection, but the enthronement, 
 of the risen saints. The expression " this is the first resurrec-
 
 6o PKOGRESSIVE REVELATION. 
 
 tion" is not a note of time, but of character: it is tantamount 
 to, this is the company who rise in the first resurrection, 7wt 
 this is the chronological point at which the first resurrection 
 takes place ; and the company here spoken of, like those called 
 to the marriage supper, are declared blessed ajid holy. 
 
 There is similarly no vision of the second stage of the 
 resurrection in verse 1 2 ; tlie dead are presented as already 
 raised, and standing before God. But though these verses 
 give no vision of either the first or the second stage of the 
 resurrection, tlicy give much new light about it ; they distinctly 
 reveal, that there is naxr to take place, a sinmltancous resurrec- 
 tion of all mankind, but that on the contrary, the distinction so 
 marked in this life, between the godly and the ungodly, is 
 to be more marked still in the resurrection. It shows us that 
 the righteous shall rise before the wicked; rise to live and 
 reign for a thousand years with their risen royal Lord ; and 
 that the "rest of the dead " rise not again till the thousand 
 years be fulfilled. 
 
 "And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment 
 was given unto them." To whom ? To Christ and his risen 
 saints, to the King of kings, and to the armies which were in 
 heaven; for we must go back to the 13th verse of chapter xix. 
 for the occupants of these thrones. There intervenes no 
 plural or collective noun, for which this pronoun they could 
 stand. We may therefore paraphrase the words thus : " I saw 
 Christ and his risen saints enthroned and governing the 
 world." John noticed especially among the latter, the martyrs 
 and confessors who had figured so prominently in previous 
 stages of this long drama ; their cries, and groans, and suffer- 
 ings, and blood, had been main features of its different stages, 
 and they are therefore singled out from among their brethren 
 for a special mention, which marks the unity of this scene with 
 the whole Apocalypse. In this final righting of the wrongs of 
 ages, the sufterers are enthroned beside the great Sufferer, the 
 overcomers sit with Him in his throne, the faitliful witnesses 
 of Christ, reign with their I..ord, the oppressed and slaughtered
 
 PROGRESSIVE REVELATION. 6i 
 
 saints, judge the world. But this mention of a special class 
 is by the way : the main stream of the prophecy continues 
 thus : " I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was 
 given unto them, and they lived and reigned with Christ a 
 thousand years; but the rest of the dead lived not again until the 
 thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection." 
 
 Subsequently, the " rest of the dead " are seen standing in the 
 last assize, before the great white throne, to be judged. " I 
 saw the dead small and great stand before God." The dead 
 are thus divided into two portions ; there are the dead who 
 rise and reign, and the dead who rise not and reign not with 
 them. There are the dead who rise to judge the world with 
 Christ, and there are the dead who rise to be judged according 
 to their works by God. There are the dead who rise to sit on 
 thrones, and the dead who rise to stand before the great white 
 throne. There are the dead who rise with spiritual bodies; 
 how else could they last a thousand years ? and the dead who 
 rise as they died, to die a second death. There are the dead 
 who rise emphatically "blessed and holy," and the dead who 
 rise only to be tried, condemned, and cast into hell. There 
 are the dead who rise immortal, for on them the second death 
 hath no power, and the dead who rise only to become its 
 victims. Throughout, these two classes are presented in 
 marked and intentional contrast ; the latter are beyond all 
 question literal dead, so therefore are the former. 
 
 This passage then teaches that the resurrection of die dead 
 will take place in two stages, with a thousand years between. 
 Taken in its apparent, most natural, and consistent meaning, 
 nothing else can be made of it. Why then has it been made 
 the victim of more distortion than almost any passage in the 
 Bible ? And why, after the ablest champions of the truth, have 
 in unanswerable argument, defended its right to mean what it 
 seems to mean, why to this day, do multitudes still read it with 
 the coloured spectacles of preconceived opinion, so as to 
 change its clear blue of heavenly doctrine, into tlie muddy
 
 62 PROGRESSIVE REVELATION 
 
 grey of mystical unmeaningness ? Why will multitudes still 
 derange its majestic harmonies, so as to produce ungrateful 
 discord ? why make of this graciously given clue to the laby- 
 rinth of previous prophecy, a snare to entangle our feet the 
 further, in a maze of doubt and difficulty ? Let an intelligent 
 cliild, or any one who simply understands the terms used, read 
 these verses attentively, and then answer the question, " will 
 the dead all rise at the same time?" We will venture to 
 assert they would unhesitatingly answer : " No ! this passage 
 declares the contrary, the righteous will rise a thousand years 
 before the wicked." 
 
 Such is the obvious meaning of the prophecy, and the more 
 closely it is analysed, the more clearly is it perceived to teach 
 this doctrine. The difficulty arises from the mistaken attempt 
 to put new wine into old bottles, to reduce the fulness of a 
 last revelation to the dimensions of a more elementary one. 
 Let us reverse the process, and applying the principle of pro- 
 gressive revelation, let us see whether every previous prophecy 
 on the subject of resurrection, may not without any distortion 
 at all of the text, be harmonized with this latest prophecy. 
 
 There is but little in the Old Testament on the subject of 
 resurrection, for it was Christ who brought life and immor- 
 tality to light \ but, though revealed only dimly in the olden 
 time, they tvcre revealed. Isaiah wrote : " Thy dead men shall 
 live, . . . my dead body, they shall arise ; awake and 
 sing, ye that dwell in dust." Can this allude to a resuirection 
 of others than saints? Shall "the dead, small and great," 
 sing before the great white throne ? But, to pass by other less 
 clear statements of the doctrine of resurrection in the Old 
 Testament, we find in Daniel xii. a passage more quoted than 
 almost any other, in support of the idea that the resurrection 
 of the righteous and of the wicked will be at one and the 
 same moment. " ]\Liny of them that sleep in the dust of the 
 earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame 
 and everlasting contempt." The time of this resurrection ij 
 fixed in the previous verse to be the time of the deliverance
 
 PROGRESSIVE REVELATION. 63 
 
 of Daniel's people from their great tribulation, that is, the 
 time of Israel's restoration, Antichrist's destruction, and the 
 second advent. 
 
 It seems to require some ingenuity to make out a contradic- 
 tion between this prophecy and that of John. It places resur- 
 rection at the same /^/V// in the great chart of the future; it 
 makes the same moral distinction, and in the same order, as 
 our Lord in John v., and it omits in the same way all allu- 
 sion to a chronological interval. It neither specifies nor ex- 
 cludes one, as was natural in a prediction so brief and ele- 
 mentary, of an event at that time so distant. The apparent 
 discrepancy is clearly caused by difcct of detail in this early 
 prophecy ; and we have only to add to its statement, the new 
 particulars given in the later revelation, to produce perfect 
 harmony. 
 
 Some expositors, however, render the original of this verse 
 differently from our authorized version ; translating it " the 
 many," or " the multitude of," which is equivalent to all. 
 Others consider that it will not bear this version, but rather 
 that the two classes contrasted in the latter part of the pro- 
 phecy refer to the many who rise, and to the '' ccst of the 
 dead," whose resurrection is not here mentioned, but who are 
 destined to shame and everlasting contempt.'- Whichever view 
 may be the true one, neither, it is evident, presents any im- 
 portant variation from the Apocalypse ; the two predictions 
 harmonize as far as the first goes. No contradiction can be 
 alleged between them ; we must not wonder that we do not 
 find in the pages of Daniel, that which we cannot discover 
 even in the gospels, a doctrine that it was reserved for the 
 final prophecy of Scripture, to reveal. 
 
 The passage of Scripture whicli more fully tlian any other 
 
 * " I do not doubt that the ri,q;ht translation of tliis verse i^, — ' ami many 
 from amoncj the slcej^ers of the dust ot tlie earth shall awake, tliese shall lie 
 unto everlasting life, but lhoi;e (the rest of tlie sleepers who do not awake 
 at this time) shall be unto shame and cverkistiiii; contempt.' " — 'rrcgellcb on 
 Daniel, p. 102.
 
 64 PROGRESSIVE REVELATION. 
 
 dwells on the subject oi the resurreciion, the passage which has 
 illumined the darkness of death to successive generations of 
 Christians, and like the bow in the cloud, thrown a gleam of 
 glory over ten tliousand graves, is the fifteenth chapter of the 
 First Epistle to the Corinthians. 
 
 To the sound of its majestic and marvellous strains, we 
 commit to the dust, those whom we bury in sure and certain 
 hope of a glorious resurrection. But why does an intelligent 
 and conscientious Christian, shrink from sounding over the 
 grave of the ungodly those triumphant and heart cheering 
 strains ? 
 
 Because that chapter treats exclusively of the 7rsurrcctio?i of 
 those that are Christ's at his coiniiii::;! There is no assertion 
 here of a simultaneous rising of all mankind ! In vain we 
 search for any allusion at all to a resurrection of the 7oickcd. " It 
 is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption ; it is sown in 
 dishonour, it is raised in glory ; it is sown in weakness, it is 
 raised in power ! " Believers only can be included in the state- 
 ment. " We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed ; 
 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump ; 
 for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised, 
 incorruptible, and we shall be changed ; for this corruptible 
 must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immor- 
 tality " ; that death may be swallowed up in victory, and we 
 obtain the victory, through our Lord Jesus Christ. There is 
 nothing here at variance with the vision we have just con- 
 sidered ; on the contrary, there are two distinct harmonics with 
 its teachings. 
 
 1. The resurrection of those tliat are Christ's is spoken of 
 as a distinct event. " Christ the firstfruits, afterward they that 
 are Christ's" (not "afterward all mankind"). 
 
 2. This resurrection is said to be, not at the end of the world, 
 but "<?/ his coming," which, as we have seen, is looo years be- 
 fore the end of the world. 
 
 It is added "■ thc?i comcth the end," and as well nigh two 
 thousand years have already intervened between the first two
 
 PROGRESSIVE REVELATION. 65 
 
 events here predicted, it is doing no violence to the pas- 
 sage to assert, that one thousand years will intervene (accord- 
 ing to the twentieth chapter of Revelation), between t/ie last 
 two. The prediction marches with majestic step, measuring 
 millenaries, as it passes from one scene of resurrection to an- 
 other. 
 
 1. Christ the firstfruits. 
 
 2. Afterward, they that are Christ's, at his coming. 
 
 3. Then cometh the end. 
 
 Three great epochs of resurrection : that of Christ, that of 
 Christians, that of the ungodly ; the latter not being named or 
 described here, though its chronological point is intimated, it 
 is at the end.* 
 
 It is the same with the other great statement of our hope in 
 I Thessalonians iv. It speaks of a resurrection of the dead in 
 Christ, and of such 07ily at his coming ; and thus suggests, what 
 the Apocalypse ^/<7/a, that "the rest of the dead live not again" 
 till after an interval of whose length it says nothing. 
 
 In Acts xxvi. 1 5, Paul, stating his own faith and that of the 
 Jewish nation on this point, says " there will be a resurrection 
 of the dead, both of the just and of the unjust." The vision 
 we are considering shows this double resurrection, and adds 
 the information, that its chronology is as twofold as its charac- 
 ter, that the resurrection of the just, will take place a thousand 
 years before the resurrection of the unjust. There is no con- 
 tradiction here. 
 
 In Philippians iii. 1 1, Paul, — expressing his o\vn ardent desire 
 and aim, — says, " if by any means I might attain, to the resurrec- 
 tion of the dead." Had he put before himself as an object 01 
 attainment, and of difficult attainment too, a resurrection com- 
 
 • In the typical " feasts of the Lord " (Lev. xxiii.) there wore timilarly 
 THREE INGATHERINGS. The Jirst/niit shcnf, on the morrow after tlie jiaschal 
 sabbath ; seven weeks later i\\cfirstj'niUs oftlic kai-jcst, " two wave loaves"; 
 and at the cud of the Jewisli sacred year, tlie inj^'atliering of all the fruits of 
 the earth, including the vintage. These were tlie tluee feasts, in which all 
 Israel's males were to appear before God. "Thrice in the year shall all 
 thy males appear before God " (Exod. xxiii. 14-17). 
 
 F
 
 65 PROGRESSIVE REVELATION. 
 
 mon to all mankind, and consequently inevitable for him ? No ! 
 but d. peculiar resurrection ! A resurrection which was to his 
 heart, as the pole to the magnet, a resurrection U ru>v veKp^p, 
 "from amo7i^ " the dead, the first resurrection, in which only 
 the blessed and holy have part. In the same way our Lord 
 spoke of being "recompensed at the resurrection of the just ; 
 could He have used such language if there were no distinction 
 between the resurrection of the just and that of the unjust ? 
 
 In John V. 28, 29, our Lord says, " the hour is coming, in 
 which all that are in the graves, shall hear his voice, and shall 
 come forth ; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of 
 life, and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of 
 judgment." 
 
 It must be admitted that if we were obliged to take the word 
 " /lour " here in its most limited sense, this passage would un- 
 doubtedly teach, a simultaneous resurrection of all the dead. 
 But we are not. The word aipa admits of wide extension, its 
 primary meaning is " season," and our Lord Himself, in a sen- 
 tence immediately preceding this, employs it to cover the whole 
 of this gospel dispensation, in which the spiritually dead are 
 being quickened to life by his voice. If it admit of extension 
 to eighteen hundred years in the twenty-fifth verse, it may well 
 include a thousand in the twenty-eighth, and this is all that is 
 requisite, to make it agree perfecdy, with the apocalyptic vision. 
 This grand and solemn prediction of our Lord announces that 
 mOiXilly there will be two resurrections, first of the just, and 
 secondly of the unjust ; the twentieth chapter of Revelation 
 adds, that chronologically also there will be two, first of the 
 just, and secondly of the unjust. There is no discord here, 
 but there is on the contrary a marked harmony. 
 
 There is a parallelism also between the spiritual resur- 
 icctions that are going on in this "hour," and the bodily 
 resurrections that shall occur in that " hour." Neither are 
 simultaneous ; though the latter according to the Apoca- 
 lypse, take place only at two epochs, at the beginning, and 
 at the close, of the millennium ; while the former are, as
 
 PROGRESSIVE REVELATION. 67 
 
 experience teaches, still less simultaneous, and take place 
 day by day, throughout the whole course of the dispensa- 
 tion. Would our Lord have used the two striking, distinct, 
 names He does use, had He foreseen one general resurrection ? 
 Would He have spoken of " the resurrection of life " and " the 
 resurrection of damnation " ? 
 
 These are the main passages in the Bible bearing on the 
 doctrine of resurrection. We now inquire, where does Scrii> 
 ture teach a simultaneous resurrection of all mankind ? And 
 echo answers, where ? Yet many have so strong an im- 
 pression that it is a fundamental doctrine of the Christian 
 faith, that they feel bound to evade in some way, the simple 
 obvious conclusions to be drawn from the visions we arc con- 
 sidering. 
 
 So far from being at variance with previous inspired teachings 
 on the subject, the fresh revelations of the Apocalypse enable 
 us to perceive the Divine accuracy of many delicate touches in 
 earlier scriptures, which would have remained unperceived but 
 for our knowledge of this truth. Such, for instance, is the 
 discriminating use of the four Greek expressions, rendered in- 
 differently in our version "the resurrection of the dead." 
 Moses Stuart says: "after investigating this subject, I have 
 doubts Avhether the assertion is correct that such a doctrine as 
 that of the first resurrection, is nowhere else to be found in 
 Scripture. The laws of philology oblige me to suppose, that 
 the Saviour and St. Paul have both alluded to such a doctrine." 
 The Greek expressions used may be literally translated " resur- 
 rection of dead ones," "resurrection from among dead ones," 
 "the resurrection : that one from among dead ones," and " the 
 out resurrection of or from the dead." The Greek expressions 
 are not used indiscriminately ; and it is evident that, had they 
 been uniformly translated by exactly corresponding phrases, 
 the thought of a resurrection of some of the dead, and not of 
 all the dead, would have been a familiar one to students of 
 Scripture. The phraseology employed on tlic subject is, in 
 other words, precisely what would naturally be scleclcd by the
 
 PROGRESSIVE RE VELA TION. 
 
 Holy Spirit, if resurrection were foreseen to consist of two 
 stages ; but unaccountable, if it were all to consist in one 
 act.* 
 
 It should be remembered also that a resurrection of some, 
 which leaves others behind, is the only kind of resurrection of 
 which we have any example. Such were the three resurrec- 
 tions miraculously wrought by our Lord ; such was his own 
 resurrection, and such was the rising which took place, when 
 " many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of 
 the graves, after his resurrection, and appeared unto many." 
 Why should not that which has happened on a small scale 
 happen on a large ? 
 
 The Final Judgment. 
 
 The commonly received opinion on this subject, that the 
 whole race ot man will appear simultaneously before the great 
 white throne of God, to be judged according to their works, at 
 the coming of the Lord, is based upon a great many passages 
 of Scripture, and is tenaciously held, with a conviction that any 
 departure from it is grave heresy. But this twentieth chapter 
 of Revelation, taken in its context and in its natural sense, 
 requires a modification of this theory. It does not deny that 
 the whole human family will appear before the judgment seat 
 and throne of God ; but it teaches that they will not do so 
 simultaneously, that the act of judgment, like that of resurrec- 
 tion, will take place in two stages, divided by an interval of a 
 thousand years. 
 
 * The expression " out of " or " from " the dead is never used in the 
 New Testament except of a resurrection in which others are left behind; 
 it is used thirty-five times of the resurrection of Christ (and save in two 
 passages where tlie Ik is omitted for the sake of euphony no other is used). 
 The natural inference is that when tliis expression or a stronger one is 
 applied to the resurrection of Christ's people, it implies a resurrection of 
 some in which otiiers are left behind. One who has examined this subject 
 very fully says : " I am prepared to affirm that whenever tV or t'^ is used in 
 connection with dvdo-Tacris, it is the resurrection of the just that is referred 
 to ; or at least, a resurrection in which some are left behind." — See Wood's 
 "Last Things," p. 59.
 
 PROGRESSIVE REVELATION. 69 
 
 The Vision of the Final Judgment. 
 And I saw a great white throne, and Him that sat on it ; 
 From whose face the earth and the heaven fled away, 
 
 And there was found no place for them. 
 And I saw the dead small and great, stand before God ; 
 
 And the books were opened. 
 And another book was opened which was the book of life, 
 
 And the dead were judged 
 Out of those things which were written in the books 
 
 According to their works. 
 
 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it ; 
 
 And death and hades 
 Delivered up the dead which were in them ; 
 And they were judged, 
 Every man according to his works. 
 And death and hades were cast into the lake of fire. 
 
 This is the second death. 
 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life 
 Was cast into the lake of fire. 
 
 This passage taken in its natural obvious sense, and with ita 
 context, is clearly a sequel to the previous vision, and can be 
 interpreted only in connection with it. 
 
 The "rest of the dead," who lived not again then, do live 
 again now ; those that had done good, rose in the bright 
 morning of this day of the Lord, to the resurrection of life, 
 those that have done evil, rise now at its lurid close, to the 
 resurrection of judgment. 
 
 The expression " the dead small and great " includes all who 
 were dead, at the inauguration of this great session of judg- 
 ment : not only the " rest of the dead " left behind at the time 
 of the first resurrection, but all cut off during the course of the 
 millennium, as well as the immense company of rebels, de- 
 stroyed by fire from heaven, at its close. 
 
 A little rencction will convince the thoughtful of the impos-
 
 70 PROGRESSIVE REVELATION. 
 
 sibility, that the church of the firstborn should be summoned 
 to this bar of judgment. They have already been tried, con- 
 demned, and executed, viz., in the person of the Surety. Rom. 
 vi. 7, (Gr.) " He that has died is justified from sin (guilt) :" 
 death exhausts the penalty. Ever since the mauiage of the 
 Lamb, a thousand years before, they have been publicly owned 
 as the bride of Christ, one with the occupant of the great white 
 throne, united to Him, not only secretly by faith, but publicly 
 in the eyes of the universe. They are his body, a part of Him- 
 self; because He lives, they live also. And will He summon 
 his dearly loved, blood-bought, long glorified bride, to be 
 judged amid "the dead small and great"? Shall the saints 
 stand and be tried, in company with their enemies and perse- 
 cutors ? Why, Christ Himself is their righteousness, they are 
 pure as He is pure ; shall they mingle again in the common 
 herd of the fearful, and the unbelieving, and the abominable, 
 and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters 
 and liars, from whom grace made them, ages ago, to differ ? 
 God covenanted with them to remember no more their sins 
 and iniquities, and to blot out as a thick cloud their transgres- 
 sions. Shall they now be called to account for the long 
 cancelled score ? Ages since, they received the gift of God, 
 eternal life ; shall He now call in question their right to his 
 own gift ? For a thousand years they have been, by the Divine 
 Judge himself, vindicated from every shade and suspicion of 
 guilt, before the holy angels and the entire universe ; and shall 
 they now descend from their priestly thrones, and with "blessed 
 and holy " inscribed on their brilliant brows, and clad in their 
 fine linen clean and white, as no fuller on earth can white it, 
 stand amid the throng of the unholy and impure, to be Judged, 
 and judged according to their works? To what end shoul'd 
 they mingle with the " lost," from w-hom conversion long since 
 severed them, and with the dead, from whom resurrection long 
 since divided them ? To be afresh acquitted, say some, and 
 to hear again the " Well done, good and faithful servant." Be 
 it so ! but then w/iy is neither their presenec, nor their aequittal,
 
 PROCRESSIP^E REVELATION. ji 
 
 7wr their eternal portion, even so much as alluded to in the vision ? 
 Why is there no mention of these ? Why do we read only of 
 " the dead small and great," and of their condemnation alone ? 
 The answer is clear. Because the dead only are there ! They 
 seek in vain, who seek the living among the dead ! 
 
 Such then is the apparent teaching of this vision, on the 
 subject of judgment. It remains to be examined, whether the 
 strong impression in the minds of many, that this doctrine is 
 not only additional to, but contrary to, the doctrine of other 
 parts of Scripture, is well grounded or not. 
 
 We must, then, inquire on what passages this strong convic- 
 tion is based» and whether they do definitely teach a simulta- 
 neous ]n^gmQnt of the just and of the unjust. Let it be borne 
 in mind that this is the point ; not the broad truth that both 
 classes are to be judged. " It is appointed unto men once to 
 die, but after this the judgment," is a rule without exception, 
 as far as we learn from Scripture. " Every one of us shall give 
 account of himself to God." ''We shall all stand before the 
 judgment seat of Christ." There is no possibility of mistaking 
 the all-inclusive character of these and similar assertions ; but 
 they leave untouched the question we have to consider. The 
 statements, " the commander in chief will review the army," 
 "he will review every regiment," "every officer and every 
 private will pass in review before him," prove that all are to be 
 reviewed, but not that all are to be reviewed at the same time. 
 Those who are forced by its internal evidence to deny that the 
 judgment vision of Revelation xx. includes the righteous, are 
 not thereby forced to assert, that the righteous are to go 
 unjudged. The point to be decided is exactly similar to 
 that we have considered in connection with resurrection ; do 
 earlier scriptures oblige us, by unequivocal assertion of simulta- 
 neousness, to give a non-natural interpretation to these final 
 prophecies ? or do they, in the light rellectcd back from these 
 latest revelations, accommodate themselves naturally to a 
 different sense ? 
 
 The close connection which exists between resurrection and
 
 72 PROGRESSIVE REVELATION. 
 
 judgment, would lead us to expect that what has proved true 
 in the one case, will do so in the other. The resunection of the 
 dead and eternal judgment, are never separated by any consider- 
 able or defined interval. If therefore the former is proved to 
 be divided into two widely distant stages, the presumption is 
 strong, that this will be the case also with the latter. The two 
 resurrections indeed receive their distinctive appellations from 
 the results of the judgments which accompany them ; the 
 " resurrection of life," and " the resurrection of damnation." 
 
 In reviewing the testimony of other scriptures on this 
 subject, we are likely to find — in harmony with the principle of 
 progressive revelation — many statements of the, broad funda- 
 mental doctrine of future judgment, which fall in equally well 
 with either view ; some few which at fiirst sight seem to teach 
 simultaneousness, but which on closer examination will be seen 
 to leave the point undecided ; and some, which can only be 
 fairly interpreted, or fully understood, by assuming two epochs 
 and scenes of judgment. 
 
 Of the first class are such passages as, " we must all appear 
 before the judgment seat of Christ, that every one may receive 
 the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, 
 whether it be good or bad." " God will render to every man ac- 
 cording to his deeds" (Rom. ii. 5). "The Son of man shall 
 come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then shall 
 He reward every man according to his works" (Matt. xvi. 27). 
 
 ]\Iany such passages exist ; it is not needful to multiply 
 quotations, no argument can be built on them, in favour of 
 either view. Without further revelation we should doubtless 
 have understood them to teach a simultaneous judgment ; 
 with further revelation, we can read them as broad compre- 
 hensive statements, made by One who knew, but did not at 
 the time wish to rara/, modifying details. Such passages men- 
 tion the universality of the judgment, the twofold result, the 
 fact that it is to follow our Lord's return, and tliey show that 
 in either case tlie issues will be eternal ; but they do not touch 
 the question of si nuliancoiisness.
 
 PROGRESSIVE REVELATION. 73 
 
 With the closing parable of Matthew xxv. it is otherwise. 
 This is the leading passage, of the second class above alluded 
 to ; those which seem at first sight distinctly to teach a simul- 
 taneous judgment of the righteous and the wicked. On 
 any theory this passage is one difficult of interpretation, owing 
 to its peculiar semi-parabolic form ; the difficulty of deciding 
 whether it is a judgment of the dead or of the living; the 
 principle of the judgment, — 7uorIcs, — taken in connection with 
 the eternity of the issues in either case; the limited nature 
 of the test, on which the great award is made to depend ; its 
 relation to the previous parables ; its likeness to, yet dissimi- 
 larity from, other parallel scriptures ; and other features. But 
 the following considerations seem to make it clear, that the 
 scene here described is not identical with that in Revelation 
 XX. 12. This presents an award only, that an investigation, for 
 " the books were opened and the dead were judged out cf 
 those things written in the books ;" this presents the righteous 
 and the wicked, and mentions the eternal portion of each , 
 that, is silent altogether as regards the righteous ; this parable 
 in describing those gathered before the Son of man, makes 
 use of an expression applicable to the living, iravra to. tBvq, " all 
 nations" or " the Gentiles ;" while the vision in the Apocalypse 
 shows only the dead, " the dead small and great " ; in the 
 former, the wicked are condemned en masse, on the negative 
 ground of what they have not done ; in the latter, as indi- 
 viduals, on the positive ground of what they hare done, 
 "the things written in the books." 
 
 If this parable does describe a judgment of the dead, (which 
 is most unlikely,) then we are compelled by the later revelation 
 to apply to it the same rule, as to the first class of passages, 
 and to conceive that our Lord presented the judgment as a 
 great whole, and was purposely silent, as to the interval be- 
 tween its two stages. Other great and important events had 
 to intervene ; the moral effect to be produced on the minds of 
 his disciples by this truth of judgment to come, was the same, 
 whether it were to take place at once, or at intervals ; and the
 
 74 PROGRESSIVE REVELATION. 
 
 object He had in view did not require that He should enter 
 into details, for which they were not prepared. The same 
 Divine reticence, which had purposely hid from their view 
 the interval between his own approaching departure and his 
 return, hid also the interval between the stages of this judg- 
 ment. In this view of the passage the first session of the 
 judgment is at the advent, when the righteous are rewarded 
 with the kingdom ; the whole millennium is included under the 
 phrase, " then shall He sit on the throne of his glory "' ; and 
 the concluding session of the judgment is at its close, when 
 the wicked are doomed to everlasting fire. 
 
 A considerable part of the impression of simultaneousness 
 which it produces on the mind, is to be attributed to the 
 parabolic form of this prophecy. Divested of this, and trans- 
 lated into a plain declaration of the future, it would seem as 
 natural, to apply to it, as to any other passage on the subject, 
 the principle of prophetic perspective.* 
 
 Our Lord's parables in Matthew xiii. are also adduced as 
 teaching the simultaneousness of the judgment, but the same 
 
 * Professor Eirks, of Cambridge, to whose writings on prophecy frequent 
 reference is made in tliese pages, while holding that there will be two re- 
 surrections of the dead, the first at the beginning and the second at the end 
 of the thousand years of Revelation XX., la^-s stress on the simidtancoiisiicss 
 of tlie judgment of the saints and that of the ungodly, as involved in the 
 discriminaiing character of the iirst resurrection. In a letter to the author, 
 written after he had read the first four hundred pages of this work, I'rofessor 
 IJirks says : " I agi"ce fully with almost every sentence in the first four hundred 
 pages, except one small section, pp. 68-78. I think the vision from Revelation 
 xvii. I toxxi. 8 is one integral part of the prophecy. I fully agree with M'hat 
 you write on the first resurrection, but I think you overlook the fact that this 
 resurrection is a public act of Divine acquittal to those included in it, and by 
 the distinctness of the two resun^ections is implied sentence of condem- 
 nation to those excluded from it. This account of final judgment then I 
 tlius hold to be parallel to Matthew xxv., and that thesimultaneousnessof the 
 twofold judgment is more strongly affirmed here than even there ; but with 
 regard to tlie judgment on degrees of glory or of punishment, this extends 
 over the whole day of judgment of a thousand years, and the two parts be- 
 long to its evening and its morning. 
 
 " ]\Iay God give an abundant blessing to your work, which I think to be 
 one of great im]Jortancc and interest to the Church, from the amount ol 
 precious and important truth which it unfolds. "
 
 PROGRESSIVE REVELATIO^T. 
 
 75 
 
 thing is true of them. Their object is to unfold the present 
 mixed state of thing^s in the kingdom of heaven, in contrast 
 with the pure state of things that shall exist af:er the end of 
 this age. The division between the wheat and the tares, 
 between the good fish and the bad, which takes place as we 
 are expressly told at the end of this age, is a division effected 
 at the advent, among the living not the dead ; it is a severing 
 between real believers, and false professors ; between the true, 
 and the apostate church. The tares are still growing with 
 the wheat in the harvest field; "the field is the world." 
 The fish are still struggling together in the gospel net ; there is 
 no thought here of a resurrection of the dead, it is a sever- 
 ance among the living. Other scriptures teach us that a 
 resurrection of dead saints will take place at the advent, but 
 that is not alluded to here. The tares are gathered in bundles 
 to be burned, and the wlieat is gathered into the garner. 
 "One shall be taken and another left." '• We who are alive 
 and remain shall be caught up in the clouds to meet the 
 Lord in the air." The parables of Matthew xiii. present the 
 thought of severance, and not that of judicial investigation and 
 award. 
 
 We next look at the passages which teach more directly tlie 
 truth, that judgment to come will take place in two stages. 
 Foremost among them is our Lord's own memorable decla- 
 ration, John V. 24 : " Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that 
 heareth my word and believeth on Him that sent Me, lialh 
 everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation, but is 
 passed from death unto life." It is well known that the word 
 here translated condemnation, (fp/o-ty, xw^dcci^ judgment, and is so 
 translated in the verse but one previous. The believer shall not 
 come into judgment, when judgment is to be to condemnation. 
 Not, he shall not be condemned in the judgment, but he shall 
 not even come into it. The same word is used in verse 21 
 and again in verse 29, where it is translated " damnation." 
 Now this resurrection of damnation, or resurrection to judgment, 
 is clearly that spoken of in Revelation xx. ; and into tliat, our
 
 76 PROGRESSIVE REVELATION. 
 
 Lord Himself declares his people shall not come. There shall 
 be a reckoning of Christ with his people, as many passages 
 which shall be examined presently teach ; but this is not judg- 
 ment. Alford says : " the reckoning which ends with ' Eu ayaOt 
 SovXf,' is not ' Kplais,' the reward is of free grace. In this 
 sense the believers in Christ will not be judged according to 
 their works. They are justified before God by faith, and dy 
 God; efof 6 SiKaicjp — Tis 6 KaraKplvav; Their passage over from 
 death to life, has already fahen place, — from the state of spiritual 
 death, to that ^coiy aldivios which they {\ovcn already. It is to 
 be observed that our Lord speaks in very similar terms of 
 the unbelieving being co/idemned already, in chapter iii. i8. 
 The perfect sense of yLerafii^r^Kiv must not be weakened or 
 explained away." Let those who hold that there will be a 
 simultaneous judgment of the just and of the unjust explain 
 this statement of our Lord. He does not say that believers 
 shall not be condemned in the judgment, but that they shall not 
 come into it. Can anything be clearer than this ? 
 
 Into what judgment then shall they come ? Into one, dis- 
 tinct alike in its objects, principles, results, and period, from 
 the judgment of Revelation xx. 12. 
 
 In the judgment of sinners the object is to determine their 
 eternal destiny; in the judgment of saints ///(?/> eternal destiny 
 is already determined ; they are, from the moment they believe, 
 indwelt by the Holy Ghost, one with the Lord Jesus, possessors 
 of eternal life, and heirs of eternal glory. The resurrection 
 which precedes their judgment has manifested this ; for when 
 Christ their life appears, they appear with Him in glory, they 
 see Him and are like Him, conformed to the image of God's 
 50n. Now it is clear, that when these already glorified saints 
 stand before the judgment seat of Christ, the point to be 
 investigated and settled is not whether they deserve and are 
 to have eternal life and glory ; grace has already given them 
 these, though they deserved eternal condemnation : but the 
 point to be investigated and decided is, how far they have 
 been faithful servants and stewards of their absent Lord ; how
 
 PROGRESSIVE REVEL ATI OX. -j-j 
 
 far their works, as saved persons, can stand the test of Christ's 
 judgment, and what measure of reward each is to enjoy. 
 Their common possession of eternal Ufe does not forbid 
 degrees in glory, and the fact that they are saved by grace 
 does not forbid that they shall be rewarded according to their 
 works. That this is a very different thing, from the eternal 
 destiny of each individual, being made to depend on his own 
 works, is evident. 
 
 The judgment of sinners is on the ground of " rendering to 
 every man according to his works," — justice ; the judgment 
 of saints is on the ground of grace, for it is grace alone that 
 rewards any of our works. 
 
 The judgment of sinners ends in the blackness of darkness 
 for ever; the judgment of saints ends in "then shall every man 
 have/z'^/Vi? of God." The one is a judgment oi pcrsofis, the 
 other of loorJzs only. The one as we have seen is prefigured 
 in symbolic vision in Revelation xx. ; the other is spoken of in 
 various places, in the epistles addressed to the early church. 
 "Every man's work shall be made manifest, for the day shall 
 declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire ; and the fire shall 
 try every man's work, of what sort it is " ; that is, the search- 
 ing, penetrating, soul-discerning judgment of Christ, shall put 
 the works of his people to the test, and only the perfectly pure 
 shall abide the test. Some works, like wood, hay and stubble, 
 will be destroyed by this "fire" ; but, even so, the man who did 
 them shall be saved; his works may perish but he shall ''never 
 perish " according to his Saviour's promise. In Romans xiv. 
 Christians are urged in view of this judgment, not to judge 
 each other, "for we shall all stand before the /3vhi or Ju^Ja* 
 ment seat of Christ," not the " throne," as in Revelation xx. 
 
 The period of the judgment of sinners before the great white 
 throne, is a thousand years or more after the coming of the 
 Lord. The period of the judgment of saints is fixed to be at 
 the coming of the Lord, i Corinthians iv. 5 : " therefore judge 
 nothing before tlie time, nntll the Lord come, who both will 
 bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make
 
 78 PROGRESSIVE REVELATION: 
 
 manifest the counsels of the hearts, and then shall every man 
 have praise of God." 
 
 We conclude therefore that these two judgments cannot be 
 the same, and that so far from being at variance with other 
 inspired prophecies, the twentieth chapter of Revelation enables 
 us to understand and combine previous statements, and sheds 
 new light on many also. Judgment will no more be simultane- 
 ous than resurrection ; both will take place at two grand epochs, 
 marking respectively, the morning and the evening, of the day 
 of the Lord ; the former will be a resurrection and a judgment 
 unto life, the latter a resurrection and a judgment unto condem- 
 nation. 
 
 Whence then has arisen the exceedingly prevalent opinion 
 to the contrary ? From the littleness of the finite mind, that 
 comprehends with difficulty the vast, far reaching, and complete 
 designs of the Infinite ; from the lack in us of the patient 
 continuance of searching the Scriptures ; from the irreverent 
 neglect with which the last prophecy of the Bible is too often 
 treated ; and from the not giving it, even when studied, its 
 due authority — the non-recognition of the principle of Pro- 
 gressive Revelation. 
 
 From Dean Alford's Commentary on the New Testament we extract the 
 followinj; testimony to the doctrine of two distinct resurrections of the dead. 
 
 "I cannot consent to distort its words (Rev. xx.) from their ^Inin sense .nnd chrono- 
 logical place in the prophecy, on account of any considerations of ditficulty, or any 
 risk of abuses which the doctrine of the millennium may brint; with it. 'iiiosc who lived 
 next to the apostles, and the whole Church for 300 years, understood them in tlio 
 plain literal sense ; and it is a strange sight in these days to see expositors who arc 
 among the first in reverence of antiquity, complacently casting aside the vii^st cni^ent 
 instance pf consensus ivliich primitive antiquity presents. As regards the text itself, 
 7to leeritiviate treatment 0/ it will extort -Mhat is knoum as the spiritual interpreta- 
 tion no'M in fashion. If, in a passage where t-,vo resurrections are mentioned, where 
 certain ^vxoj- €i'T]jaP at the first, and the rest of the veKpol ilyjcruv only at 
 
 THE ENt) OF A SPECIFIED PERIOD AFTER THAT FIRST,— if in SUch a paSsaL'C the firSt 
 
 resurrection may be understood to mean spiritual rising with Christ, while the second 
 means literal rising from the grave : then there is an end of all significance of language, 
 and Scripture is wiped out as a definite testimony to anything. If the first resurrection 
 is spiritual, then .so is the second, which I suppose none will be hardy enough to main- 
 tain ; but IF THE SECOND IS LITERAL, THEN SO IS THE FIRST, 7('/«V/i in Common luitll 
 the '.yhole priwitivc Church and many of the best vtodern expositors, I 7rtainiain and 
 receive as an article of faith and hope." 
 
 E.ND OF Part I.
 
 PART II. 
 PR GRESSIVE INTERPRE TA TION. 
 
 CHAPTER 1. 
 
 EUMAN COMPREHENSION OF DIVINE PROPIIECV HAS PEEN, AND 
 WAS INTENDED TO BE, PROGRESSIVE. — THREE IMPORTANT 
 INFERENCES FROM DANIEL XII. 9. — THERE IS A BLAMELESS 
 AND A GUILTY IGNORANCE OF THE FULFILMENT OF PRO- 
 PHECY. — INSTANCES OF EACH. — REASONS FOR A PARTIAL 
 AND TEMPORARY OBSCURITY OF PROPHECY; AND MEANS 
 BY WHICH PROGRESSIVE COMPREHENSION OF ITS SIGNIFICA- 
 TION HAS BEEN GRANTED. 
 
 WE have seen that God has been pleased to reveal the 
 future to men only by degrees ; that both in the num- 
 ber of subjects on which the light of prophecy has been per- 
 mitted to fall, and in the clearness and fulness of the light 
 granted on each, there has been constant and steady increase, 
 from the pale and solitary ray of Eden, to the clear widespread 
 beams of Daniel, and to the rich glow of the Apocalypse. 
 
 We now proceed to show that human comprehension of 
 Divine prophecy has also been by degrees ; and that in certain 
 cases it was evidently intended by God to be so. Light to 
 understand the prophetic word, is as much a Divine gift as that 
 word itself. The sovereignty of God was exercised in the 
 selection of the matters to be revealed by prophecy, the time 
 of the revelation, and the individuals to whom, and through 
 whom, it should be communicated. And it is equally exercised
 
 8o PROGRESSIVE INTERPRETATION. 
 
 in the determination of the degree to which, and the time at 
 which, the true meaning of certain prophecies shall be un- 
 veiled, as well as in the selection of the individuals to whom 
 the interpretation shall be given. " The Lord hath not only 
 spoken by dreams and visions of old, but He speaketh also 
 every day, even as often as He enlighteneth the minds of his 
 servants, that they may be able to search out the hidden truth 
 of his word, and bring it forth unto the world." * 
 
 Prophecy, being essentially a rroelation of the future, is of 
 course designed to be understood ; but it does not follow that it 
 is designed to be understood immediately on its being given, 
 nor by all who become acquainted with its announcements. 
 The Most High has various ends to answer in predicting the 
 future ; and though we may not always be able to discern his 
 reasons for making revelations before He intends them to be 
 comprehended, yet in some cases they are sufficiently clear. 
 
 In foretelling, for instance, the first advent of his Son, God 
 might have been pleased to predict its results, in as clear and 
 unmistakable a manner as He predicted the event itself. But 
 plainly to have foretold the rejection and crucifixion of the 
 Lord Jesus by Israel, would have been to interfere with the 
 free ac^ency of man ; it must either have had the effect of pre- 
 venting the crucifixion of Christ, or else have given the Jews a 
 valid excuse for killing the Prince of life. 
 
 Not to have foretold the actual results at all, on the other 
 hand, would have been to deprive Christianity of one of its 
 main pillars of evidence, the fact that the events of the life and 
 death of Jesus of Nazareth were predicted centuries before they 
 took place ; it would have been to give some ground for pre- 
 sent Jewish unbelief The alternative was to reveal the suffer- 
 ing and death of Christ, but to reveal them i?i such a maiiner 
 that " both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and 
 the people of Israel," when banded together to carry out their 
 own wicked wills, were quite unconscious that they were therein 
 
 • See preface to Brighlman's " Revelation of the Revelation," 1615.
 
 PROGRESSIVE INTERPRETATION. 8i 
 
 doing, what his hand and his counsel had " determined before 
 to be done." This secured the good, and avoided the evil ; the 
 predictions were full and definite, and yet capable of being mis- 
 understood : as a fact, they were not understood even by the 
 disciples at first, nor are they understood to this day by the 
 Jewish nation. They ought to have known Him, but " because 
 they knew Him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets whicJi are 
 read cvciy sabbath day, they fulfilled them in condemning 
 Him." 
 
 Thus it is possible to possess prophecies of cerlain events, to 
 read them diligently all our lives, and yet not to understand 
 their fulfilment, even when it takes place before our own eyes. 
 This is sinful unbelief; but there is a temporary inability to 
 understand Divine predictions, which is entirely free from sin, 
 which is inevitable, and indeed ordained of God. 
 
 The book of Daniel is one of the fullest revelations of the 
 future contained in the Bible ; it is unequalled for the variety 
 and minuteness of its historical detail, and for its breadth ol 
 range, both chronological and geographical. It is closed by 
 this remarkable injunction, (which applies, however, //iai/dy to 
 the last prophecy in the book) : " But thou, O Daniel, shut up 
 the words, and seal the book, ruen to the time of the cud ; many 
 shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased . . . 
 none of the wicked shall understand, but the wise shall under- 
 stand." 
 
 This passage seems to warrant three inferences of import- 
 ance. 
 
 1 . That though God for certain reasons saw fit to give this 
 revelation of the future to Daniel at a certain date. He did not 
 intend it to be understood for centuries ; since, whatever may be 
 the exact limits of the " time of the end," it could not include 
 more than the course of this dispensation, and the commence- 
 ment of this dispensation was several centuries distant, when 
 Daniel wrote. 
 
 2. That even when in the lai)se of ages the meaning of this 
 prophecy should become apparent to some, even when " know-
 
 82 PROGRESSIVE INTERPRETATION. 
 
 ledge '■' should " be increased " and the wise understand, it was 
 the will of God that it should still remain a dark mystery to 
 others, that "none of the wicked should understand." 
 
 3. And thirdly that the comprehension or ignorance of this 
 prophecy, when the time for its being understood at all arrived, 
 would depend rather on the moral than on tlie intellectual state 
 of those who should study it. The 7visc alone should under- 
 stand it ; the luicked should not. 
 
 The first of these inferences is confirmed by i Peter i. 10 : 
 " The prophets inquired and searched diligently . . . what 
 manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did sig- 
 nify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the 
 glory that should follow. Unto whom it was revealed that not 
 luito themselves, hut unto us they did minister the things . . . 
 the angels desire to look into."' Peter here alludes evidently 
 to this very passage of Daniel who *' inquired and searched 
 diligently" about the time of the events revealed to him, ("O 
 my Lord, what shall be the end of these things ? ") but he lays 
 it down as a general principle, applicable to other prophets as 
 well, that when they " testified beforehand, of the sufferings of 
 Christ and the glories that should follow," they ministered not 
 unto themselves but unto us. That is, they revealed not a 
 proximate future, interesting themselves and their brethren of 
 the Jewish economy especially, but a more distant future, per- 
 taining to another dispensation altogether, and not designed to 
 be understood till that dispensation daiuncd. 
 
 The second of these inferences, tliat even when light was 
 vouchsafed it would be partial, is confirmed by the words of 
 our Lord, " it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the 
 kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given." " Thou hast 
 hid these things from the wise and prudent, and revealed them 
 unto babes." 
 
 The third inference, as to the moral character of those 
 who receive prophetic light, is also confirmed by his words, 
 " if any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine." 
 It is " scoucrs walking after their own lusts " who are rcprc-
 
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 scnted as saying " where is the promise of his coming ? " and 
 as being " wilUngly ignorant " of the purpose of God as ex- 
 pressed in type, and in prophecy about the future. 
 
 It is evident therefore that there may be sucli a thing as a 
 blameless ignorance of the meaning of prophecy, as well as a 
 blameworthy and guilty ignorance of it. The prophets were 
 not to be blamed, for not understanding what God did not in- 
 tend them to understand. Jews and infidels now, are to be 
 blamed for a guilty unwillingness to perceive, the accomplish- 
 ment of Old Testament prophecies, in New Testament events. 
 
 Take as an instance of blameless ignorance, that of the 
 apostles, even after Pentecost, as to the calling of the Gentiles. 
 This, though in one sense a hidden mystery (Eph. iii. 9), had 
 as a matter of fact, long been a revealed purpose of God. 
 It had been foretold in type, in prophecy, and in promise, 
 so that in Romans xiv. the apostle makes no less than four 
 quotations in succession, to prove that // ^cas zurittai, and in 
 Acts XV. James admits that " to this agree the words of the 
 prophets." It was revealed, but not designed to be understood 
 till a certain time, and then a special vision was sent to Peter, 
 and a special revelation on the subject granted to Paul (EjjIi. 
 iii. 3), to prepare their minds for the fulfilment of these long 
 extant predictions, and to induce them to preach among the 
 Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ. 
 
 Take as an instance of guilty ignorance, in the face of actual 
 fulfilment, Jewish misunderstanding respecting the prophecies of 
 the rejection and death of Messiah the prince. These events 
 v/ere, as we have seen, distinctly revealed ; lie was to be " de- 
 spised and rejected of men," "led as a lamb to the slaughter," 
 "cut off yet not for Himself"; but the revelation was under- 
 stood neither by " wise " nor " wicked " for a time. When the 
 event had fulfilled and interpreted these predictions, the risen 
 Saviour had still to address, to the two disciples going to Ein- 
 maus, that rebuke which assumes both the fact of the revelation 
 and of their duty to understand it : " O fools and slow of heart 
 to believe, all that ihc prophets have si)okeii ; ought not Christ
 
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 to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?" 
 To this day, those who have their minds still blinded 
 through Jewish unbelief, find " a vail untaken away in the read- 
 ipg of the Old Testament " and cannot perceive the accom- 
 plishment of the Messianic prophecies in the life and death 
 ot Jesus of Nazareth. 
 
 Our Lord Himself revealed much that He knew his dis- 
 ciples did not and could not understand at the time ; though 
 He also withheld much that they were unprepared to re- 
 ceive. '"Destroy this Temple, and in three days I will raise 
 it up." It was not till after He was risen from the dead, 
 that they caught the deep meaning of those pregnant words. 
 " I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot 
 bear them now." " The Comforter which is the Holy Ghost, 
 shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remem- 
 brance, whatsoever I have said unto you." 
 
 Even after the resurrection had taken place we read, "as yet 
 they knew not the scriptures that He should rise again from 
 the dead." They were familiar with the words " Thou wilt not 
 leave my soul in hades, neither wilt Thou suffer thine Holy One 
 to see corruption "; but, even standing beside the empty sepul- 
 chre, the true meaning of the words failed to penetrate the mists 
 of Jewish prejudice, which darkened their minds. After Pente- 
 cost however, when Peter had not only the inspired prophecy, 
 but the inspiring Spirit to interpret it, how lucid and authorita- 
 tive his explanation of these words : " men and brethren, let me 
 freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead 
 and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day. . . . 
 He being a prophet, spake of tlie resurrection of Christ, that 
 Ids soul was not left in hades, neither his flesh did see cor- 
 ruption. This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are 
 witnesses." On the same occasion he asserts that the pentecostal 
 effusion of the Spirit, at which his audience were ignorantly 
 marvelling, was the fulfilment of Joel's familiar but little un- 
 derstood prediction: ^UJiis is that which Avas spoken by the 
 prophet Joel." How did he know it ? The " untoward gene-
 
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 ration " whom he addressed thought not so, nor dreamed that 
 they were witnessing the fulfih-nent of a Divine prophecy. 
 Their account of the matter was very different ; "these men 
 are full of new wine." This proves that spiritual e7iliohtenmcnt 
 is reqiiiredjor the perception of the fulfilment oj prophecy, even iJi 
 startling events wJiich may be taking place before our eyes. 
 
 It is not too much to assume that the Apocalypse of St. John 
 was also designed to be progressively understood ; that it forms 
 no exception to the general rule, but was given to rascal the 
 future by degrees, and only in proportion as the understanding 
 of it might conduce, to the accomplishment of God's purposes, 
 and the good of his people. Analogy forbids us to suppose, 
 that such a prophecy could be clear all at once, to those to 
 whom it was first given, and it equally forbids the supposition 
 that it was never to be understood or interpreted at all. Can 
 we not perceive reasons why God should in this case, act 
 as He had so often acted before, and progressively reveal its 
 meaning ? and can we not also perceive means by which such a 
 progressive revelation of the meaning of this propliecy, might, 
 as time rolled on, be made ? 
 
 These questions may be unhesitatingly answered in the 
 aflirmative. There are evident and weighty reasons why, in 
 this prophecy above all others, the truth should not have been 
 all at once apparent ; and although this book was the last work 
 of the last apostle, and closes the canon of Scripture, it is not 
 difficult to see the means by which God Himself might unveil 
 its signification, at an advanced period of the dispensation. 
 
 Let it be granted for a moment, (as it shall we hope be sub- 
 sequently proved) that this prophecy contains an outline of all 
 the great events of interest to the church of God, which were 
 to happen prior to the second advent of Christ, as well as of 
 that advent itself, and subsequent events ; and that not only 
 are the events themselves predicted, but that the actual chrono- 
 logy of some of them is predicted also, the duration for instance 
 of the antichristian apostasy for a period of 1260 years. Sup 
 posing this to be the case, it is clear that God, though giving
 
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 the prophecy in the apostohc age, caniiot have intended it to 
 be understood for many many subsequent generations. It 
 was the express will of Christ that the church should be ever 
 waiting and watching for her Lord, uncertain as to the time of 
 his return. The Holy Spirit could therefore no more have 
 revealed clearly to the early church 1260 years of apostasy prior 
 to the return of Christ, than He could have revealed a thousand 
 years of millennial blessedness ; which as we have previously 
 shown would have been inconsistent with his purpose. 
 
 Must we therefore conclude : '■^ iJiis iJicn cannot be iJic character 
 of the Apocalypse ; the same argument that proves that the mil- 
 lennium must succeed the advent, proves also that no long period of 
 apostasy can he predicted as to precede it " ? No ! but we con- 
 clude hence, that if such a period be revealed, it must be in a 
 mysterious form, not intended or adapted for comprehension 
 at the time. If an apostasy of such duration be predicted, it 
 must be so predicted as that the true, full, meaning of the pre- 
 diction, should not be obvious for centuries, and yet be evident, 
 as soon as altered circumstances should render the understand- 
 ing of the prediction, desirable for the glory of God and the 
 good of the church. 
 
 A consideration of the problem shows, that the very same 
 end that was to be attained by the church's ignorance of the 
 true nature and duration of the apostasy in early ages, will in 
 these last days be better attained by her acquaintance with 
 both ; and will lead us to admire the wisdom and the grace of 
 Him, who in this prophecy secured for her that ignorance while 
 it was best, and laid up in store for her that knowledge, against 
 the time when it should, in its turn, be most beneficial. 
 
 " Known unto God are all his works from the beginning;" the 
 real history and length of this dispensation were of course not 
 only foreseen, but foreordained of God. For certain reasons 
 Christ never mentioned them to his disciples, and the Holy 
 Ghost revealed but little about them to Peter and Paul. What 
 were those reasons ? To keep alive loving expectation of the 
 Lord's second coming, to encourage believers to constant
 
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 watchfulness, to cheer them by a present hope, and to weaken 
 the power of temptation to earthliness and worldUness, by 
 stamping on all things here uncertainty and evanescence. 
 Her ignorance of the time of the ]\Iaster's return, is made a 
 motive to " patient waiting for Christ." The first generation 
 of believers took all the promises of his speedy return literally, 
 and lived in the hope that they might remain to the blessed 
 moment, and not sleep but be changed. The Holy Ghost did 
 not undeceive them to any considerable extent ; in one case, 
 where the due balance of patience and hope had been in 
 measure lost, express revelations of intervening events were 
 given to restore that balance, but no periods were assigned to 
 these events (2 Thess. ii.) ; the hope was left vivid as ever, if 
 not quite so close at hand. But this hope was born of inexpe- 
 rience ; blessed and beautiful as it was, it was destined to wither 
 away and be disappointed. The cold logic of facts proved it 
 ill founded and mistaken, but did not render it the less sancti- 
 fying and cheering : blessed be God, there is another kind of 
 hope, born of patience and experience, and founded not on 
 ignorance, but on knowledge. This hope dawned on the church, 
 as the other sank beneath the horizon, and has gradually 
 brightened ever since ; and it is a hope that shall " not make 
 ashamed." Now it is clear, that had God revealed the duratior\ 
 of the long antichristian apostasy to the early church, they 
 tv'ould at once have been deprived of their holy, happy, hope. 
 What help or consolation could the suftercrs and martyrs of 
 early days have found, in gazing forward through well-nigh two 
 thousand years of pagan and papal persecutions, of decay and 
 death, and spiritual corruption ? The appalling prospect was 
 in mercy hidden from their view, foreshortened almost to a 
 point ; and the advent which was to close it all, was the grand 
 object presented to their gaze. How could they have watched 
 for an advent two thousand years off? what present ])ractical 
 influence could it have exerted over their lives ? Tlieir igno- 
 rance v/as evidently best for them, and God in mercy did not 
 remove it. They held in their hands the prophecy, big with
 
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 the mournful secret ; but they guessed not its burden, in their 
 bhssful and blameless ignorance they concluded that the " I 
 come quickly" of their absent Lord, meant "quickly" according 
 to human calculations. To leave them in their ignorance was 
 the gracious purpose of God, and his motive was their comfort 
 and sanctification. 
 
 But it is equally clear that for us, believers of the nineteenth 
 centur}', the case is reversed. A knowledge of the limits of the 
 great antichristian apostasy, would not now deprive ns of hope, 
 but the very contrary : in fact we need some such revelation to 
 sustain our faith and hope to the end of the long delay; without 
 the chronological data afforded us by the prophecies of Daniel 
 and John, 7C'e should be in a position of fearful temptation to 
 doubt and despair. They were entirely ignorant of tJic IcngiJi 
 of the interval which we hnozv to have occurred, and this know- 
 ledge absolutely prevents the general promises of the nearness 
 of the second advent, from having the same power over us that 
 they had over them. Those statements cannot convey to us, 
 after a lapse of well-nigh two thousand years, the impressions 
 they conveyed to the primitive saints. They seemed to justify 
 them in expecting the coming of Christ in their own day ; but 
 each succeeding generation would have less and less ground 
 for such an expectation ; and when the promise was already 
 one thousand years old, who could avoid the reflection, " since 
 it has included one thousand years it may include another " ? 
 We, after nearly two thousand years, could not, as we read the 
 promise, escape the conviction, that having already included 
 two thousand years, it was perfectly possible that two thousand 
 more were yet to come. Each century of delay would thus 
 increase the heart-sickness of hope deferred, and the church 
 of these last days, might well hang down her head in the sor- 
 rowful but irresistible conviction, that her redemption might 
 still be at an immeasurable distance ; she could have no well 
 grounded hope that the Lord was in any strict sense "at hand." 
 
 Now one generation of his saints is as dear to God as 
 another ; we may be sure He did not secure tlie holiness and
 
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 haj^piness of the early church, at the expense of ours, nor con- 
 ceal what might be a blessing to us, because the knowledge 
 might not have been a blessing to them. No ! He provided 
 some better thing for us, than that we should float uncertainly on 
 the stream of time, not knowing whether we were any nearer to 
 the future than to the past advent of Christ. He revealed, but 
 revealed in a mystery, all the main events of this dispensation, 
 and nearly two-thirds of its duration ; He revealed them, in just 
 such a way, as best to secure a renewal of hope that should give 
 consolation, and revive in these last times a " patient waiting 
 for Christ." Since continued ignorance of the true nature and 
 length of this dispensation^ as determined beforehand in the 
 counsels of God, would have produced the very opposite effects 
 designed by the permission of temporary ignorance, we have 
 every reason to conclude, that God would in due time replace 
 this latter by knowledge, and give a gradually increasing 
 understanding of the inspired predictions. 
 
 And if it be asked Jiotu this could be done, since inspira- 
 tion has passed away and apostolic explanations can no longer 
 be enjoyed, we reply, by the same means by which the in- 
 terpretation of earlier prophecies was given to Peter, by their 
 fulfilment before otir eyes, and by the teaching of the Holy Ghost, 
 enabling us so to discern the true nature of events, as to 
 recog7iise the correspondence between them and the long familiar 
 predictions. When the heart is docile, and the mind free from 
 prejudice, a comparison of inspired prediction and historic 
 fulfilment, is sufficient to show the relation between them ; to 
 whatever extent prejudice exists, spiritual perception is blunted; 
 where it reigns supreme, as in the case of the Jewish nation, 
 "blindness in part has happened," and the ignorance being 
 wilful, is necessarily a guilty ignorance, like that of Israel in 
 apostolic days. Oh, how it behoves Christians to take heed, 
 that they be not thus ignorant of the real meaning of apoca- 
 lyptic prophecy ! 
 
 Another observation may confirm our conviction, that it was 
 the intention of God in the earlier parts of the Apocalypse, to
 
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 conceal for a time the real nature of the events, and the true 
 length of the periods, therein revealed. The future, which for 
 the sake of the early church required to be hidden under a 
 veil of mystery, was of course only the future of tJiis dispensa- 
 tion. No prolonged interval was to be interposed between 
 the church and her hope, — the return of her Lord ; but the 
 same concealment was not requisite as regards subsequent 
 events and their duration. If then the principle for which we 
 contend be true, there will be found an air of mystery about 
 the times and seasons mentioned prior to the advent vision, 
 and an absence of it subsequently. This is exactly what 
 exists. There are eight passages in the earlier part of the 
 book, where periods of time, are named by phrases which are 
 obviously uncommon, not the ordinary or natural mode of 
 designating the period they seem to suggest, but all having 
 an air of mystery. In the vision which immediately follows 
 that of the advent, on the contrary, a period is six times over 
 mentioned in tJic simplest possible form, " a thousand years." 
 Why this difference ? The real length of t/iis age of sin and 
 suftering was to be hidden for a time ; but there was no need to 
 hide the real length of the blessed age of purity, peace, and joy 
 which is to succeed it. 
 
 We conclude then, that since God has constantly acted on 
 this principle, of gradually revealing the meaning of his own 
 predictions, both in the Old and New Testaments, since we 
 can see special reasons why He should do so, and a simple 
 means by which He could do so, in this case, and since the 
 construction of the book affords internal evidence of such an 
 intention, that there is the strongest presumption that the 
 meaning of the apocalyptic prophecies was designed to become 
 clear to the church only by degrees. 
 
 We conclude, that though the Apocalypse was not, like the 
 visions of Daniel, to be supplemented by later revelations, and 
 understood only in the light reflected Imck from these, yet it 
 was to receive explanation from other sources, so that while it 
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 91 
 
 its own meaning gradually, during the course of the dispensa- 
 tion, and become increasingly clear and consequently increas- 
 ingly precious, in the last days. 
 
 We conclude also, that like Daniel's predictions and all other 
 prophecy, it is not intended ever to become self-evidcntly clear, 
 that even when understood by " the wise," its meaning will still 
 be hidden from the world, and that consequently the true 
 interpretation, whenever it shall arise, will have many adver- 
 saries, and be rejected with contempt by "■ the wicked," even 
 while it is being fulfilled before their eyes. 
 
 These legitimate conclusions will lead us to expect the 
 primitive interpretation of the premii/ennial visions of the Apo- 
 calypse, to be the least correct ; though it might be, probably 
 would be, right as to events subsequent to this dispensation. 
 They prepare us to weigh with candour, the interpretations of 
 later times, and forbid us to reject, on the ground of novelty, 
 any view that attaches to these mysterious predictions a mean- 
 ing worthy of Divine inspiration, and calculated to accomplish 
 good in the church, even though it may have been unknown to 
 the fathers, and even though it may be rejected and ridiculed 
 by multitudes. These conclusions will lead us to expect the 
 true interpretation to arise only after many many centuries of 
 the church's history had rolled away, when the bright hope 
 of early days had quite died out ; and to have the effect of 
 quickening the church afresh to the patient waiting for Christ. 
 But we should expect also that the true clue to the mysteries 
 of the Apocalypse, once discovered, would not be immediately 
 applied correctly ; so that it would never practically have the 
 effect of leading the church to think the Lord's return a very 
 distant event, however much it might, theoretically considered, 
 seem likely to do so. In other words, that God would not 
 suddenly illuminate these predictions and so translate the church 
 at a bound from perfect ignorance to perfect knowledge of the 
 fore-appointed length and character of this dispensation ; but 
 that He would enlighten her da?-kncss gradually, by leaving a 
 measure of obscurity till towards the close ; would allow her
 
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 still, as at the first, to expect the great consummation long 
 before its predestined date, and sustain her by revealing fresh 
 grounds of hope, based on more accurate apprehension of the 
 truth, as each erroneous anticipation was disappointed by the 
 event. We shall consequently expect to find every generation 
 of saints, after the true key to the book has once been found, 
 7naki7ig adva7iccs on the last, and the discrcpamics existing be- 
 tween their z'iezcs will not stumble us, or lead us to reject them all 
 as ungroimdcd. We shall trace the vein of truth growing wider 
 and deeper ; we shall watch the ever brightening dawn of the 
 true light ; and far from deeming this gradual discovery of the 
 meaning of the ai)ocalyptic prophecies, with its consequent 
 inevitable discrepancies, a proof that they have no meaning, or 
 none worth seeking, we shall accept it as a proof, of the pur- 
 pose of God to act, still, as ever, on the principle of progressive 
 revelation. 
 
 Now on reviewing the history of apocalyjjtic interpretation 
 we find that the early church were right in their interpretation 
 of the visions which follow the second advent, they understood 
 correctly, that which it was not the purpose of God to conceal 
 from them. All the primitive expositors and teachers 7aere fre- 
 millennialists. With the exception of Origen, who spiritualized 
 everything, and of a few who denied the inspiration and 
 apostolicity of the book, all the early fathers up to the time 
 of Constantine, including Justin Martyr, Irenxus, Tertullian, 
 Hippolytus, Victorinus, Methodius, Lactantius, held that the 
 first resurrection of Revelation xx. was a literal resurrec- 
 tion, prior to a personal reign of Christ on earth. The ex- 
 pectation of a spiritual millennium, to precede the coming of the 
 Lord, grew up only in the more corrupt ages of the church, 
 after her union with the world in the days of Constantine.* 
 
 As to the previous predictive visions of the book, the 
 numerous commentaries on the whole, and the almost in- 
 numerable explanations of parts of it, which have appeared, 
 
 * EllioU, " liorrc," vol. iv., p. 306.
 
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 93 
 
 may be :uTaii;.^c(l in iIul-l- distincl classes, which for conve- 
 nience' sake have been dentjininaled I'retcrist, Futurist, and 
 J'resentist schemes of inter])retali(jii ; each of these classes 
 embraces a great variety of exiJ(jsitions, but tiie interpretations 
 of each class have a //^«^/,'////;r//'Ai/ resemblance to each other, 
 and d'Aicx fiindamr/ila/Iy from those of the other two. 
 
 'Hie first or J'rk'ikkist scheme, considers these prophecies 
 to have been fulfilled in the downfall of the Jewish nation and 
 tlic (j1(1 Rtjuiaii empire, limiting their range thus to the first 
 six centuries of the Christian era, and making Nero Antichrist. 
 
 'I'his sclieme originated with the Jesuit Alcazar towards the 
 end of the sixteenth century ; it has beyn held and taught 
 under various modifications by Orotius, Hammond, I'.ossuet, 
 JMchhorn and other (German commentators, Moses Stuart, and 
 Dr. Davidson. It has ic\'i supporters now, and need not be 
 described more at length. Moses Stuart bases it on the denial 
 ol the very principle for which we arc contending; he takes it 
 for granted that tiie writer had an " iinincdiatc object in view 
 when he wrote the book," and that the orii^incii readers of the 
 Apocalypse icndcrstood il ; and argues that it must therefore 
 treat of such matters as they could understand. Jjut his only 
 reason for this assertion is that he cannot conceive how " a 
 sensible man " could write a book " which would be unin- 
 telligible to those to whom it wai; addressed ; " and lie proceeds 
 to admit that there is no evidence extant to show that the early 
 C'iiristians understood it. Further on he says that "very soon 
 after this age, it was so interiireted that grave obstacles were 
 raised to the reccjjtion of the book as canonical." And looking 
 back from the end of the eighth century, after reviewing all the 
 previous expositors of Revelation, he says "we find that no 
 real and solid advances were yet made " towards a satisfactory 
 explanation of the book. 'J'hus he assumes that its first readers 
 were intended to understand il, and assumes that they did tlo 
 so, while admitting that there is not the .slightest proof to 
 support (.'itlKT assumption, and that the light if ever jiossossed, 
 was very (luickly lost. J lis work evinces much learniiv; but
 
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 little spirituality, and treats the Apocalypse too much as a 
 merely human production ; his views are happily not shared by 
 many. 
 
 The second or Presentist interpretation, is that historic 
 Protestant view of these prophecies, which considers them to 
 predict the great events to happen in the world and in the 
 church, from St. John's time to the coming of the Lord ; which 
 sees in the Church of Rome, and in the Papacy, the fulfilment 
 of the prophecies of Babylon and of the Beast, and which inter- 
 prets the times of the Apocalypse on the year-day system. 
 
 This view originated about the eleventh century, with those 
 who even then began to protest, against the growing corruptions 
 of the Church of Rome. It grew among the Waldenses, Wick- 
 liffites, and Hussites, into a consistent scheme of interpretation, 
 and was embraced with enthusiasm and held with intense con- 
 viction of its truth, by the Reformers of the sixteenth century. 
 In their hands it became a powerful and formidable weapon, 
 to attack and expose the mighty apostasy, with which they were 
 called to do battle. From this time it spread with a rapidity 
 that was astonishing, so that ere long it was received as a self 
 evident and fundamental truth, among Protestant churches 
 everywhere. It nerved the Reformers of England, France, 
 Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, and Sweden, and animated 
 the martyrs of Italy and Spain ; it decided the conscientious 
 and timid adherents of the Papacy to cross the Rubicon, and 
 separate from the so called Catholic Church ; and it has kept 
 all the Reformed churches since, from attempting reunion with 
 Rome. 
 
 It was held and taught by Joachim Abbas, Walter Brute, 
 Luther, Zwingle, IMelanchthon, Calvin, and all the rest of the 
 Reformers ; by BuHinger, Bale, and Foxe ; by Brightman and 
 Mede, Sir Isaac and Bishop Newton, Vitringa, Daubuz and 
 Whiston, as well as by Faber, Cunningham, Frere, Birks and 
 Elliott ; no two of these may agree on all questions of minor 
 detail, but they agree on the grand outline, and each one has 
 added more or less to the strength and solidity of the system,
 
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 by his researches. During the last seven centuries this system 
 has been deepening its hold on the convictions of the Christian 
 church, and has been embraced by some of her wisest and 
 best guides and teachers. It originated with martyrs and con- 
 fessors, exerted a sanctifying and strengthening influence over 
 those who received it ; it tended to revive the hope of the 
 premillennial coming of the Lord, which had long lain in abey- 
 ance, leading naturally to many false anticipations of that event, 
 which have been disproved by time, as well as to many very 
 remarkable approximations to the truth, as to the time of othel 
 events. It met of course with intense and bitter opposition 
 from the church it branded as Babylon, and the power it de- 
 nounced as Antichrist, and to this day is rejected by all who 
 in any way maintain or defend these, as well as by some who 
 do neither. 
 
 The third or Futurist view, is that wliich teaches that the pro 
 phetic visions of Revelation, from chapters iv, to xix., prefigure 
 events still wholly future and not to take place, till just at the 
 close of this dispensation. It supposes '• an instant plunge ot 
 the apocalyptic prophecy, into the distant future of the con- 
 summation." "' This view gives the literal Israel a large place in 
 the Apocalypse, and expects a personal infidel Antichrist, who 
 shall bitterly oppress the saints for three years and a half, near 
 the date of the second advent, thus interpreting time as well as 
 much else in the Apocalypse, literally. 
 
 This view is, in a certain sense, the most ancient of the tlirce 
 ■for the primitive fathers agree in several of these latter points. 
 In its present form however it may be said to have originated 
 at the end of the sixteenth century, with the Jesuit Ril^era, who, 
 moved like Alcazar, to relieve tlie Papacy from the terrible 
 stigma cast upon it by the Protestant interpretation, tried to do 
 so, l-)y referring these prophecies to tlie distant ///////r, instead 
 of like Alcazar to the distant /rt-^/. For a considerable period 
 this view was confined to Romanists, and was refuted by several 
 
 • Elliott, iv., 561,
 
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 masterly Protestant works. But of late years, since the com- 
 mencement of this century, it has sprung up afresh, and sprung 
 up strange to say among Protestants. It was revived by such 
 writers as the two jNIaitlands, Burgh, Tyso, Dr. Todd, the 
 leaders of the " l^rethren " generally, and by some Puseyite 
 expositors also. It is held thus by extreme parties ; by those 
 who though Protestants, are ashamed of the Reformation, speak 
 of it as an unwarrantable schism, and verge as closely on Rome 
 as is possible ; and by those, who though Protestants, deem the 
 glorious Reformation to have stopped grievously short of the 
 mark, and see so much of Babylon still, in the Reformed 
 churches, that they refuse to regard them as having come out 
 of Babylon, or as victors over Antichrist. It is held under a 
 greater variety of modifications than the other two, no two 
 writers agreeing as to what the symbols do prefigure, but all 
 agreeing that they do Jiot prefigure anything that has ever 
 yet taken place. 
 
 Those who hold this view support it, among other arguments, 
 by the authority of the primitive church. They say : "the fathers 
 had apostolic tradition ; they had no controversial bias ; their 
 opinion ought to have great weight; the historical interpret- 
 ation was unknown in the church for one thousand years or 
 more ; our view is the original view of the early Christians 
 T/iey expected that Antichrist would be an individual man ; 
 so do 7l'c: They expected him to be an infidel atheistic blas- 
 phemer, not a Christian bishop ; so do we. Tlicy believed his 
 tyranny would last three years and a half immediately prior to 
 the coming of Christ ; so do we. They took the days, weeks, 
 and months of the Apocalypse literally ; so do weT 
 
 Now we readily admit this agreement (though indeed it is 
 by no means so perfect as is implied"'''), and reply that herein 
 lies a very strong presiiniptlon against the Futurist scheme. 
 It is a return io^ that early interpretation of the prophecies, 
 which 'was necessarily defective and erroneous, seeing it was not 
 
 Sec Elliotl, " lIoiK Apocalyptica;," vol. iv., p. 612,
 
 PROGRESSIVE INTERPRETATION. 97 
 
 the purpose of God, to permit a premature comprehension of the. 
 nature and length of this dispensation. It is a view which re- 
 jects the light as to tlic purposes of God, which experience 
 of the providence of God has afforded. It exalts the im- 
 pressions of ignorance, above the ripe results of mature 
 knowledge, and claims prestige for primitive views, on points 
 where posterior views are necessarily preferable. It treats in- 
 experience as wisdom, and despises as folly the wisdom 
 acquired by eighteen hundred years' experience, of the most 
 wonderful providential dealings of God. It recommends 
 those who are of full age to return to the opinions of child- 
 hood, forgetting that errors excusable in children are inex- 
 cusable in men. The early church knew nothing of the mar- 
 vellous ecclesiastical phenomena with which we are acquainted ; 
 their ignorance of the true scope of the prophecy was unavoid- 
 able ; we have seen the awful apostasy that has lorded it for 
 more than twelve hundred years in the church of God; similar 
 ignorance in us is without excuse, for experience ought to 
 teach. The Futurist view denies progressive ixvelation, and 
 asserts that the early church understood the Apocalypse better 
 than the church of after-times, which is contrary to tlie ana- 
 logy of Scripture, and to the apparent purpose of God. 
 
 Two main systems of interpretation of this final revelation 
 of Scripture, are then before us : which is likely to be the true ? 
 The one characterized the infancy of the church, the other was 
 the offspring of mature experience : the one sprang up amid 
 utter ignorance of the actual purpose of God ; the other in view 
 of his accomplished providence : the one can never be brought 
 to any test ; the other at every point exposes itself to critical 
 examination : the one was and is held by the apostate and perse- 
 cuting church of Rome ; the other by multitudes of confessors 
 and a glorious army of martyrs : the one leaves us to form our 
 own opinion of the greatest fact in the history of the church, 
 the papal system of ecclesiastical corruption and tyranny ; the 
 other gives us God's infallible and awful judgment about it : the 
 one was never more than a barren speculation ; the otlier has 
 
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 • 93 PROGRESSIVE INTERPRETATION. 
 
 been and is, a inigJity potoer for good : the one leaves us in 
 dismal doubt as to our place in the prophetic calendar ; the 
 otlicr makes us lift up our heads, to catch the glow of the 
 coming sunrise. 
 
 The presumption is surely against the modern revival of the 
 primitive view. A return to primitive doctrine is good; no 
 progressive revelation of the dogma of justification by faith, 
 for instance, was to be expected ; innovation in questions of 
 faith is condemned ; we are " earnestly to contend for the 
 faith once delivered to the saints." But prophecy is not doctrine, 
 and its very nature implies that it must be capable of receiving 
 elucidation from the course of providence. The Protestant 
 historical system of apocalyptic ititerpretation is based on this 
 fact, and has consequently a strong presumption in its favour. 
 But presumption is not proof; and the question is of such im- 
 portance that a fuller examination must now be attempted. 
 
 Three main points require to be settled before we can hope to 
 arrive at the meaning of the prophecies of the Revelation. 
 
 1. Is the Apocalypse to be understood literally? and if not, 
 on what principle is it to be interpreted ? 
 
 2. Is it a fulfilled or partially fulfilled prophecy ? or does it 
 refer to events still future? 
 
 3. Is it a Christian or a Jewish prophecy? That is, does it 
 bear to the church, and to her fortunes in the world, the same 
 relation that earlier prophecy bore to Israel, and to their 
 fortunes in the world ? These questions will be considered^ in 
 the chapters which follow.
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 CONSIDERATION OF CEP^TAIN EROAD PRINCIPLES, ON WHICH 
 THE APOCALYPSE IS TO EE INTERPRETED. — IT IS A SYM- 
 BOLIC PROPHECY, AND I\IUST BE TRANSLATED INTO ORDINARY 
 LANGUAGE BEFORE IT CAN EE UNDERSTOOD, 
 
 T is clear that before a student can understand a given 
 work, he must be acquainted with the language in which 
 the book is written ; and he must read it as written in that 
 language, not in another. If the work be in French, he will 
 fail to decipher its meaning if he reads the words as Latin or 
 as English. 
 
 In what language is the Apocalypse written ? Is it to be 
 understood literally ? If not, on what principle is it to be in- 
 terpreted ? 
 
 It is obvious to the most superficial reader, that in its actual 
 texture and construction, the Apocalypse is a record of visions 
 that are past. All allow that it is nevertheless, as to its mean- 
 ing, a prophecy of events that are future, or zuejx future at the 
 time that the visions were granted to St. John. The angel 
 calls the book a prophecy, " seal not the sayings of the pro- 
 phecy of this book, for the time is at hand." Of its prophetic 
 character there can therefore be no more question, than that 
 lis form is a record of past visions. In the strictest sense then 
 no one understands the book literally ; for the statement, " I 
 saw a beast rise up out of the sea," taken literally, is in no 
 sense whatever a prophecy ; it is a narrative of a past event, 
 not a prediction of a future one. 
 
 Such literalism as this is divinely excluded. John beheld 
 things which were to take place " hereafter," but the future 
 was signified to the apostle in a series of visions. 
 
 The book is " The Revelation of Jesus Chrii^t, which God
 
 loo PROGRESSIVE INTERPRETATION. 
 
 gave to Him, to show unto his servants things which must 
 shortly come to pass ; and He sent and signified it by his 
 angel, unto his servant John." 
 
 To " signify '"' (o-Tj/xatVw) is to show by signs, to intimate your 
 meaning, not in plain words, but by signs and symbols. 
 
 Now it were clearly folly, to confound the sign ivith the thing 
 signified. In a language of signs, each sign and each combina- 
 tion of signs, has a definite meaning. The first verse of the 
 book therefore answers our first question about it : is it to be 
 understood literally ? No ! it is a book of sigxs. Its true 
 meaning is veiled under significant figures, and a process of 
 translation must take place, ere that true meaning can be 
 reached. Each symbol used, must be separately studied, and 
 its force gathered, from its context, from comparison with 
 other scriptures, from its own nature, and from such explana- 
 tions as are given in the prophecy itself, before we can expect 
 to discover the mind of the Spirit of God in this book. 
 
 If on opening a letter from a friend, the first sentence that 
 met the eye was "I write in Latin in order that my letter may 
 not be understood by all," we should at once be prepared to 
 translate as we read ; we should not pore over a certain com- 
 bination of letters and syllables, trying in vain to make some 
 intelligible English word out of them ; we should say the tuord 
 is so and so, but the meaning is so and so. In reading the 
 symbolic portion of the Apocalypse, we are bound to do the 
 same ; on no other principle can anything like a consistent 
 interpretation be attained. The nature of the case forbids it. 
 And yet an opposite maxim of interpretation is often laid down ; 
 it is said, take everything literally unless you are forced by 
 impossibility in the nature of things, to give a symbolic signifi- 
 cation. This is like saying, if you can find any combination 
 of letters or syllables in this Latin letter, that will form any 
 English word, take it as English, but where you cannot pos- 
 sibly make anything out of them as English, then no doubt 
 ihey are Latin. What a singularly lucid communication would 
 be the result of such a system of interpretation 1 And yet,
 
 PROGRESSIVE INTERPRETATION. loi 
 
 alas ! it is in connection with the Apocalypse too common, 
 among some, whose spirituality and intelligence ought to be 
 fruitful of more wisdom. Such interpreters argue in defence 
 of the monstrosities evoked by their hybrid system, somewhat 
 in this way : " The Nile was once literally turned to blood, we 
 doubt not therefore that this prediction, Revelation viii. 8, ' the 
 third part of the sea became blood,' means just what it says; 
 God, who wrought the one miracle, can accomplish the other." 
 Undoubtedly : the question is not what God can do, but what 
 He here says He tvill do. Now Exodus is a literal history; 
 when it says the river became blood it vicaiis it ; Revelation is 
 a symbolic prophecy, when therefore it says " the third part of 
 the sea became blood," it does not mean it., but it means some- 
 thing entirely different ; and it is needful not only to substitute 
 a future for a past time, but to translate these symbols into 
 plain language, in order to ascertain what tJie meaning really is. 
 
 It would be ludicrous, were it not painful, to contemplate 
 the absurdities and inconsistencies, which have arisen from a 
 neglect of this simple and almost self-evident maxim of inter- 
 pretation, demanded by the opening verse of the book, as 
 well as by its whole construction. To overlook it is to turn 
 the most majestic and comprehensive prophecy in the Bible, 
 into a chaos of vague monstrosities, unworthy of being attri- 
 buted to inspiration ; it is " to degrade the highest and latest 
 of God's holy revelations, into a grotesque patchwork of un- 
 meaning prodigies."* 
 
 Prophecy like science has its own peculiar language ; for 
 understmidiug the prophecies, therefore, as Sir Isaac Newton justly 
 observes, we are in the first place to acquaint ourselves with the 
 figurative language of the prophets. " In the infancy of society 
 ideas were more copious than words ; hence . . . men were 
 obliged to employ the few words which they possessed, not only 
 in their natural and direct sense, but likewise in an artificial 
 and tropical sense. . . . Half civilized nations abound in 
 
 • Bilks.
 
 I02 rROGRESSIVE INTERPRETATION. 
 
 metaphor and allegory. . . . A\"hy is it that a Cherokee 
 warrior talks of burying the hatchet and of lighting the pipe ? 
 . . His meagre language cannot supply him with the various 
 terms, which the precision of modern diplomacy has rendered 
 familiar to Europeans, and therefore he expresses the making 
 of peace by allusion to certain well known ceremonies attend- 
 ant upon it. . . . If such then of necessity was the language 
 of defective civilization, such also would be the first rude at- 
 tempt to express it in writing. The earliest manuscripts were 
 neither more nor less than pictures, but these pictures closely 
 followed the analogy of spoken language : . . . hence they 
 were partly proper, and partly tropical. A member of a half 
 civilized community, who wished to express to the eye the naked 
 idea of a man, would rudely delineate the picture of a man, 
 ... a brave, and ferocious, and generous man, he was already 
 accustomed to detioniinaie a lion, if therefore he wished to ex- 
 press such a man in writing, he would delineate a lion. . . . 
 Nation bears to nation, the same relation, that individual bears 
 to individual. Hence, according to their attributed character- 
 istics, this nation would be t/ie Jion ; that would be the bear ; 
 and that would be the tiger. . . . The general prevalence of 
 the science of heraldry in all ages, under one modification or 
 another, perpetuated and extended the fomi of speech to which 
 it owed its origin. Thus the dove was the ancient banner of 
 the Assyrian empire. . . . Such is the principle on which 
 is built the figurative language of prophecy. Like the ancient 
 hieroglyphics, and like those non-alphabetic characters which 
 are derived from them, it is a language oj ideas rather than of 
 words. It speaks by pictures, quite as much as by sounds , . . 
 Nor is this derogatory to the all-wise spirit of prophecy . . . 
 when God deigns to converse with man, He must use the lan- 
 guage of man. The Scriptures were designed for the whole 
 world ; hence it was meet, that their predictions should be couched 
 in what may be termed a universal language. But the only 
 universal language in existence, is the language of hieroglyphics. 
 To understand this character, we have not the least occasion to
 
 PROGRESSIVE INTERPRETATION. 103 
 
 understand the spoken language of the nation who uses it, . . . 
 not being alphabetic it is the representative, not of words but 
 of things. . , . Let the conventional mark be extended to the 
 whole world, and we have forthwith a written universal language. 
 Our common numerical cyphers, so far as they extend, form 
 a universal language ; for the figures i 2 or 3 convey the 
 same ideas to each person that uses them, by whatever different 
 na?nes the numbers themselves may be called. In the use of 
 this language there is by no means that obscurity and uncer- 
 tainty which some pretend. They might just as reasonably 
 throw aside a Chinese inscription as incapable of being de- 
 ciphered. Without a key neither can be understood, but 
 when the key is procured, the book will very readily be 
 opened. Noia the key to the scriptural hieroglyphics, is fur' 
 nisJied by Scripture itself, and when the import of each hiero- 
 glyphic is thus ascertained, there is little difficulty in translating, 
 as it were, a hieroglyphical prophecy, into the unfigured phraseo- 
 logy of modern language. . . . When once it is known that 
 a wild beast is the symbol of an idolatrous and persecuting 
 empire, and when the empire intended, has been satisfactorily 
 ascertained, it matters not whether this deed or that deed be 
 verbally ascribed to the empire, or symbolically ascribed to 
 the wild beast. Either mode of speech is equally intelligible. 
 . . . In any case the elements of a language must be first 
 learned, but when that has been accomplished, the rest will 
 follow of course, whether the language in question be verbal or 
 hieroglyphical."* 
 
 It is hardly needful to add that there are exceptions to this 
 rule as to every other. Plain predictive sentences and literal 
 explanatory clauses are interspersed here and there, amid the 
 signs of this book. They stand out from the general text, as 
 distinctly as a few words of English introduced hero and there 
 in a page of a Greek book would do ; it needs no signpost to 
 say " adopt a literal interpretation here." They speak for them- 
 
 Fabci-'s '-Sacred Calendar of Prophecy, " vol i., chap. i.
 
 I04 
 
 PROG RES SI VE LYTERPRE TA TION. 
 
 selves, common sense dispenses with critical canons, and re- 
 cognises them unaided. 
 
 Any system of interpretation that violates this fundamental 
 law of the book is thereby stamped as erroneous. The system 
 that says : " Babylon means Babylon ; and the literal ancient 
 Babylon will, we are bound to believe, be revived," must be 
 false. In the Apocalypse, Babylon does not mean Babylon, 
 nor Jerusalem Jerusalem, nor a Jew a Jew, nor the temple the 
 temple ; the system therefore that says " all this Jewish 
 imagery proves that the book has reference to the future of the 
 Jewish nation, and not to the future of the church," must be 
 false. All this Jewish imagery is symbolic ; these things are 
 used as signs. Everything connected with Israel was typical 
 of things connected with the church. The thiiigs signified must 
 therefore be Christian, otherwise the sign and the thing signi- 
 fied, would be one and the same. The system that says the 
 New Jerusalem is a literal city, 1500 miles square and 1500 
 high (!), made of gems and gold, must be false; the New Jeru- 
 salem is a sign ; the thing signified, is the glorified church of 
 Christ, as comparison with other Scripture proves.* 
 
 The Divine explanation attached to some of the earliest 
 symbols employed in the book, furnish the key by which much 
 of its sign-language is to be interpreted. They are to the sym- 
 bology of the Apocalypse, what the Rosetta stone was to the 
 hieroglyphics of Egypt. " The seven stars are the angels of 
 the seven churches, and the- seven candlesticks which thou 
 sawest are the seven churches." The seven branched candle- 
 stick, was one of the most important emblematic vessels in the 
 tabernacle " which was a figure for the time then present " of 
 spiritual realities. John saw seven separate candlesticks, and 
 saw Christ the great High Priest, walking in their midst, like 
 
 * "The application of symbols literally seems to me to be very false in 
 principle, and a very unsuitable mode of interpretation. It is ihe denial 
 that they are symbols. I believe the language of symbols to be as definite 
 as any other, and always used in the same sense as much as language is." 
 — ^J. N. Darby, " Notes on Revelation," p. 31.
 
 PROGRESSIVE INTERPRETATION. 
 
 Aaron, trimming his lamps. He tells John what the emblem 
 represents ; the seven candlesticks symbolised the seven 
 churches of Asia. This explanation authorizes us whenever we 
 meet the same symbol of a candlestick, to attach to it the same 
 signification; and it does more. The candlestick was one 
 feature of the tabernacle and temple economy, in which roery 
 feature was typical of heavenly things ; many other symbols 
 borrowed from the same system, appear in the Apocalypse : 
 tJiis ojie key unlocks them all. We have no right to say that the 
 ark of the covenant, the altar, the sea of glass, the temple of 
 the tabernacle of the testimony, the court, the holy city, the 
 New Jerusalem, the priests and their garments, or the worship- 
 pers, are to be taken literally. We are bound on the contrary 
 to interpret them all on one harmonious principle. The seven 
 candlesticks mean seven Christian churches, that is, they are a 
 perfect representation of the Christian church. A Christian 
 and not a fewish sense, then, must attach to all the rest. The 
 seven stars are not a part of the tabernacle system, but they 
 are equally symbols, standing for a reality of an entirely 
 different nature. Whatever the angels of the churches were, 
 they were not stars ; and whenever we meet witli this symbol 
 in the book, we may be sure from the Lord's translation of it 
 here, that it will 7wt mean literal stars, but rulers, governors, 
 chief men, messengers, or something analogous. " The seven 
 stars are the angels of the seven churches." What sort of con- 
 sistency would there be in th^ book, if a star in one place 
 meant a ruler, and in the next a literal star ? Language used 
 in so indeterminate and inexplicable a way, would cease to 
 answer the purpose of language , no definite meaning could 
 attach to it. The study of the Apocalypse might well be 
 abandoned, as more hopeless than that of the hicroglypliics, or 
 the arrow-headed inscriptions of remotest antiquity ; for these 
 we possess keys, for the Apocalypse none, // oiir Lord's otvn 
 expla7iations are irjccted as such. There is another indication 
 of the same kind in the twice repeated ex])ression, " whicli say 
 they are Jews and are not, but do lie." The parties alkidcd
 
 lo6 PROGRESSIVE LYTERPRETATIOy. 
 
 to, clearly were literal Jews, but being unbelievers, our Lord 
 here denies to them the name, thereby taking from '■'■Jtiv'' 
 thenceforth, its old literal meaning and confining it to a higher 
 sense. " He is not a Jew which is one outwardly, neither is 
 that circumcision which is outward in the flesh : but he is a 
 Jew which is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the 
 heart." These explanations and indications at the commence- 
 ment of this prophecy, are like a Divine warning against the 
 error of taking these Jewish emblems literally ; in the Apoca- 
 lypse they must uniformly be interpreted as sigJis of other things. 
 
 In every part of Scripture it is the spirit, and not the letter, 
 that is life and light giving ; how especially must this be the 
 case in a part where the letter, that is the outward form and 
 expression of the truth, is so mysterious, so enigmatical, so 
 unspiritual, as in the Apocalypse ? Popery has surely read the 
 church of Christ a lesson, as to the danger of a false literalism ; 
 and yet if there be an apparently simple sentence in the Bible 
 it is surely " this is my body." How can they who object to a 
 literal interpretation of these words, consistently claim one for 
 the strange supernatural symbolisms of the Apocalypse? " That 
 literalism is to be renounced which involves a contradiction to 
 the purified reason, or narrows and contracts the messages of 
 God below the instincts of a holy and spiritual mind."* 
 
 Another argument for the symbolic and Christian nature of 
 this book may be drawn from the fact that it is written by 
 John. A unity of character and style generally attaches to the 
 different writings of the same author ; and, subordinate to the 
 higher unity of inspiration, this may be detected in the writings 
 of the New Testament. One who is familiar with the style of 
 Paul, for instance, would find it hard to believe that any one 
 else was the author of the epistle to the Hebrews ; and one 
 who has entered into the peculiar matter and manner and 
 spirit of John's gospel would, even were they anonymous, 
 assign his three epistles to him. 
 
 • Ciiks, " Elements," p. 25c.
 
 PROGRESSIVE INTERPRETATION. 107 
 
 They are characterized by the same selection of high and 
 deep truth ; by the same spirituaHty and uneartlihness ; by 
 the same profound simpHcity of style ; by the same massive 
 divisions, which overlook all minor distinctions ; by the same 
 unguarded breadth ot statement, which leaves aside qualifying 
 limitations ; by tlie same marked, abrupt,, contrasts ; by the 
 same ignoring of the Jews, and disowning of everything Jewish, 
 based on the great lact stated at the commencement of the 
 gospel, " He came unto his own, and his own received Him 
 not "; and by a recurrence of many of the very same ideas and 
 forms of expression. It may safely be asserted that John, is 
 the least Jewish and the least earthly of all the apostles, and of 
 all the writers of the New Testament. 
 
 The Apocalypse is written by this same John ; not only it 
 claims to be so, and is proved by external evidence to be so, 
 but it bears internal evidence of the fact. Though in very 
 different connections, we meet' with too many of the peculiar 
 thoughts and expressions of John, to admit of any doubt as to 
 the authorship of the book. " Tire Word of God," " the light," 
 " a voice," "the Lamb of God," "the witnesses," the ascending 
 and descending angels, the temple, the temple of his body, the 
 living water, the shepherd leading the sheep ; these and many 
 such points of resemblance, recall continually, that the apostle 
 favoured to receive the Revelation of Jesus Christ, was " that 
 disciple whom Jesus loved," and of whom He said, " if I will 
 that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee ? " 
 
 Now, if we take the Revelation as a symbolic prophecy, 
 predicting the fortunes of the Christian churcla throughout this 
 dispensation, it is harmonious with all the rest. The strange 
 outward material symbols are only signs ; the things signified 
 are mighty spiritual realities ; the book is one grand contrast 
 throughout ; it traces the long and deadly conflict between the 
 Lamb and the' Beast, Br^plov and apvlov, and their respective 
 armies, between the whore associated with the Beast, and the 
 bride of the Lamb, the false and faithless church, and the true 
 and faithful church. In spite of all the Jewish symbolism,
 
 lo8 PROGRESSIVE INTERPRETATION. 
 
 (which is natural from the typical character of the Jewish 
 economy, and the antitypical character of the Christian) the 
 Jews and their fortunes, are scarcely glanced at in the book • 
 which, starting from a period subsequent to the final destruction 
 of Jerusalem, and to the dispersion of the Jews, occupies itself 
 entirely, with the history of that church in which is neither Jew 
 nor Gentile. The whole drama as it is enacted before us, 
 recalls such words of John's earlier writings as, *' ye are from 
 beneath, I am from above "; " ye seek to kill Me "; " ye are of 
 your father the devil "; the time comcth that whosoever killeth 
 you will think that he doeth God service "; " in the world ye 
 shall have tribulation, but be of good cheer, I have overcome 
 the world "; "O righteous Father, ///^ 7tvr/^ hath not known 
 Thee, but //^a^ have known Thee"; "art Thou a king then? 
 for this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the 
 world"; "behold your king"; "he is antichrist that denietli 
 the Father and the Son "; " the world passeth away "; " it is 
 the last time "; " when He shall appear we shall be like Him ", 
 " for this purpose was the Son of God manifested, that He 
 might destroy the works of the devil "; " boldness in the day 
 of judgment, because as He is so are we in this world "; 
 "this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith "; 
 "he that hath the Son hath life, and he that hath not the Son 
 of God hath not life." 
 
 These and many other thoughts, familiar to us from the 
 gospel and epistles of John, shine out with their old lustre in 
 their new surroundings ; reading Revelation as a symbolic 
 prophecy, we feel that it is as characteristic of the soaring, 
 eagle eyed, spiritual apostle, as any of his writings. 
 
 But if it be a record of mere material wonders to happen 
 after the Christian church has been removed to heaven, in 
 connection with a future Jewish remnant, how singularly unlike 
 is it, to anything John was ever inspired to \Vrite ! What a 
 rude and incomprehensible contrast, would exist between this 
 and all his other productions ! 
 
 And finally tlie principle of progressive revelation, demands
 
 PROGRESSIVE INTERPRETATION. 109 
 
 that these visions should not be taken as literal predictions of 
 a coming crisis at the end of the age. Other previous prophe- 
 cies, had already brought down the chain of events to the 
 destruction and fall of Jerusalem, and our Lord Himself in 
 treating of it, passed on to the final crisis, of which it was a 
 precursor. The one and only period, unillumined by prophetic 
 light was i/ie church's history on earth. Our Lord had revealed 
 little, save its general character as a time of tribulation ; the 
 other apostles had foretold certain events which were to 
 characterize its course ; it remained for the Revelation of Jesus 
 Christ which God gave to Him, and which He now sends, as 
 his last gift to the churches, to map it out in detail, and pre- 
 sent in a mystic form, all its leading outlines. If the Apo- 
 calypse merely went over again, the events of the final crisis, it 
 would not be an advance on all previous revelation, as its place 
 in the canon of Scripture warrants our concluding that it is. 
 To be this, it must be a symbolical history of the Christian 
 dispensation.
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 THE APOCALYPSE IS A CONTINUOUS PROPHECY EXTENDING FROM 
 ITS OWN TIME, TO THE CONSUMMATION OF ALL THINGS. — IM- 
 PORTANCE OF HISTORICAL KNOWLEDGE, IN ORDER TO ITS 
 CORRECT INTERPRETATION. — IT IS A PROPHECY CONCERNING 
 THE EXPERIENCES OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, IN THE WORLD, 
 AND NOT CONCERNING THOSE OF THE JEWISH NATION. 
 
 VERY serious are the consequences of a refusal to admit 
 uniformly and consistently, this symbolic character of the 
 visions of the Apocalypse. Like most errors it brings further 
 error in its train, and renders almost impossible any advance 
 in the comprehension of the book. It answers beforehand, 
 independently of investigation, the question whether the pro- 
 phecies of the Apocalypse are fulfilled or not. It stands to 
 reason, that if these emblematic visions are read under the im- 
 pression that these things are to come to pass literally, the 
 conclusion that the book consists entirely of unfulfilled prophe- 
 cies is inevitable, for most assuredly no such things ever have 
 come to pass. 
 
 Litcralists must therefore ht futurists, and the abandonment 
 of the first error, is almost certain to lead to the abandonment 
 of the Second. The moment we begin to translate the sym- 
 bolic into ordinary language, the prediction assumes such a 
 very different shape, that it is no longer a self-evident fact that 
 it must be unfulfilled. The inquiry is on the contrary awakened, 
 has this happened ? and wc turn to history for an answer. If 
 a fulfilment have taken place, we shall then be on the road 
 to discover it ; one such fulfilment clearly established will be 
 a clue to others ; and every fulfilment so discovered, will be 
 an argument for the truth of that system of interpretation which 
 led to the discovery.
 
 PROGRESSIVE INTERPRETATION. iii 
 
 Here we .are met by an objection ; some are found rash 
 enough to condemn that system of interpretation which leads 
 to the comparison of prophecy with history, on the ground that 
 it does so. The sun, say they, requires no candle to show that 
 it shines ; the Bible requires no light from history ; history is 
 merely human ; we are told to search the Scriptures, but we 
 are nowhere told to search Eusebius, or Gibbon, or Hallam. 
 God is his own intrepreter ; He can explain his own word 
 without human help ; history was not written in heaven, it is 
 the wisdom of this world, foolishness with God, and so on. 
 
 Now this reasoning, though often advanced in the most 
 oracular way as if it settled the question, is shallow, and based 
 on fallacies ; and yet, alas ! it misleads many, calculated as it is 
 to flatter ignorance, to foster indolence, and to encourage dog- 
 matism, by throwing the reins on the neck of imagination, 
 which is by it left free, to invent future facts and fulfilments, as 
 it lists. A little reflection will show the superficial nature of 
 the objection. 
 
 A knowledge of history is needful to the intelligent compre- 
 hension of prophecy. The Bible itself contains a large amount 
 of history, from which alone we learn the fulfilment of many of 
 its earlier prophecies, and without which we might still be ex- 
 pecting a fulfilment, which look place hundreds of years ago. 
 What are the four gospels, and the book of Acts, but histories, 
 divinely inspired histories of course, but under the point of view 
 we are now considering, their inspiration is mainly important as 
 securing their accuracy and authenticity. They are authentic 
 records of a series of facts, which took place eighteen hundred 
 years ago, in a distant land ; for a knowledge of which conse- 
 quently we vitist be indebted to the testimony of others. By the 
 help of such testimony we compare the facts that have occurred, 
 with the predictions of prophecy, and perceive the marvellous 
 and accurate fulfilment. Without such testimony we never 
 could have done this ; and to be ignorant of the existence and 
 nature of such testimony, is to be practically without it. But 
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 paradise, does not, like Bible prophecy, reach on to the coming 
 of the Second Adam in glory to re-establish paradise on earth. 
 It ends about a.d. 6o, and we have only uninspired though 
 authentic records of all that has happened since. Now accord- 
 ing to these objectors, we are not to make use of these ; not to 
 compare New Testament prophecy witli profane history. Either 
 then there must be absolutely no prophetic light thrown by the 
 Holy Ghost on the last eighteen hundred years, or else God does 
 not intend us to have the benefit of it. Supposing a fulfilment 
 clear as daylight to have taken place, we must remain in igno- 
 rance of it,- unless God were pleased now to add an appendix 
 to the Bible, to record facts which many trustworthy historians 
 have already recorded. Revelation never teaches things which 
 common sense is sufticient to discover. For instance, a tenfold 
 division of the Roman empire was predicted by Daniel, prior 
 to the establishment of the kingdom of Christ on earth. 
 The Roman empire was still existing in its integrity when 
 John closed the canon of Scripture by his prophecy, which 
 repeats the prediction. Blot out now all historical records, 
 deprive the church of the help of all uninspired testimony, 
 and Christians must to this day remain in ignorance of the 
 solemnly momentous fact, that this prediction has been ful- 
 filled during the last twelve hundred years, and the strong 
 presumption to be derived therefrom that the coming of the 
 Lord is nigh, even at the doors. Nor will it do to say, ah, but 
 that is a notorious fact, evident to our senses without historical 
 testimony. No : our knowledge of it depends upon uninspired 
 testimony, historical or otherwise ; and the question is not, to 
 what extent may we make use of uninspired records to elucidate 
 inspired predictions, but, may we make use of them at all? 
 The answer is clear, zue must, or for ever remain ignorant, 
 whether the holy prophecies of the word of God regarding post 
 canonical events, are fulfilled or not. 
 
 A still more rash assertion is also made ; it is said that no 
 events of this parenthetical church dispensation (save those of 
 its closing crisis) are, or could be, subjects of prophecy.
 
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 That this statement is not true is proved by the above 
 instance, and by many more that might be alleged. But it is 
 evident that a knowledge of history is needful to warrant the 
 statement ! How without such knowledge, can it be ascer- 
 tained that the visions of Revelation for instance, do 7iot 
 present a connected outline of the leading events between the 
 past and future advents of Christ ? A knowledge of what has 
 actually taken place is as needful to justify a denial, as an 
 assertion of the fact. We must know a person as well before 
 we can pronounce that a certain portrait does not resemble 
 him, as in order to assert that it does. 
 
 This prejudice against the use of history in the interpreta- 
 tion of prophecy, seems frequently to be based on a confusion 
 which is made, between the facts recorded by historians and 
 the opinions of the historians who record them. Grant that the 
 latter being merely human are worthless, the former are none 
 the less important. Trustworthy historians record events which 
 ///rj' neither invented nor caused, but which occurred under God's 
 providential government ; it was He who caused or permitted 
 these events ; they are in one sense as Divine, as prophecy ; 
 that is, both proceed from Him. Prophecy is God telling us 
 beforehand what shall happen ; authentic history is men teUing 
 us what has, in the providence of God, taken place. In truth 
 each is best understood in the light of the other ; the moral 
 features of events, occupy the main place in the prophecy, so 
 that by its study we learn to weigh things in God's balances, 
 to judge of men and systems by a Divine standard. Eut the 
 history also elucidates the prophecy ; when we see what has 
 been allowed to occur in fulfilment of a prediction, we learn 
 what was intended in the announcement, and understand the 
 perhaps previously mysterious form, in which it was made. 
 Apparent contradictions are reconciled, difficulties are re- 
 moved, and we are filled with admiration and awe at the 
 foreknowledge and wisdom evinced in predictions, over which 
 the ignorant can only puzzle or speculate. Authentic history 
 ought not to be deprecated as merely the wisdom of this 
 
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 world ; it is something more, it is a record of God's pro- 
 vidential government of the world. Besides it is vain and 
 foolish to deny, that mental cultivation in general, an acquaint- 
 ance with ancient languages and literature, with history and 
 with science, are a help, in the understanding of Scripture 
 and especially of prophetic Scripture. They are not needful 
 to a spiritual apprehension of saving truth, thanks be to God, 
 nor to growth in grace and in the experimental knowledge of 
 the Lord, God can and does dispense with them, but He 
 can and does also sanctify and use them, for the elucidation 
 of his word. By themselves they are worthless, for they deal 
 only with the letter; but, sanctified and used by the Holy 
 Ghost, they are invaluable, as helping to explain the letter, in 
 and through which we grasp the spirit. 
 
 It is a strange estimate to form of the dignity of the in- 
 spired book of the all-wise God, that those ignorant of his 
 works in nature and providence, are as capable of understand- 
 ing it, as those familiar with them. It is true that the un- 
 learned Christian has, equally with the learned, the indwelling 
 Spirit to guide him into all truth. But it is also true that 
 he needs in addition ministry, human teaching; else why 
 has Christ given teachers to his church ? Books are but 
 wTitten ministry. Ignorance is an infirmity, an unavoidable 
 one with many it is true, and one for which help is provided ; ' 
 but it is as much an infirmity of the mind, as blindness or 
 lameness is of the body. We blame not the blind and the 
 lame for not seeing and walking, but we should blame them 
 for refusing the help of those who possess the powers of which 
 they are deprived. We blame not the ignorant for their 
 ignorance when it is unavoidable ; but we should blame them 
 for refusing assistance, and for glorying in that ignorance as a 
 peculiar advantage. The ignorant Christian must be indebted 
 to the learned in many ways ; but for the labour of such, he 
 would indeed have no Bible ; for what could he learn from the 
 original text? and if the translation put into his hands be 
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 n; 
 
 remedy the defect ? This is surely designed of God, and is 
 one of the ways in which "the whole body, compacted to- 
 gether by that which every joint supplieth, according to the 
 efifectual working in the measure of every part, maketh in- 
 crease of the body unto the edifying of itself in love." It is 
 impossible to assign any reason, why the wisdom and knowledge 
 derived from historical research, should not be made available, 
 as well as every other kind of science, for the elucidation of 
 Scripture. 
 
 We dare not for these reasons exclude the light afiorded 
 by history, in the endeavour to answer the questions sug- 
 gested above, is the prophecy of the Apocalypse fulfilled or partly 
 so, or is it still entirely iuifiilfilled ? and is it in its general scope 
 Christian or Jewish? The two inquiries are so closely re- 
 lated, that it is impossible to pursue them apart ; it is 
 evident that if the Revelation be partially fulfilled, it is in 
 the history of the Christian church we shall be able to trace 
 the fulfilment, seeing the Jewish nation was already cast 
 away, — "broken off" for a time, — before this prophecy was 
 publislied ; and it is equally evident that if it relate to the 
 future history of restored Israel, no fulfilment can have yet 
 commenced, seeing Israel is still scattered, and Jerusalem 
 trodden down of the Gentiles, 
 
 We have therefore to ascertain from the internal evidence of 
 the prophecy itself, and from the external evidence of analogy 
 and history, the truth as to these two closely connected points. 
 And first what says the Apocalypse of itself? To whom is 
 it addressed ? This is a fair and fundamental question ; it is 
 thus that we judge of the object and scope of the epistles 
 of the New Testament, and of the " burdens " of the ancient 
 prophets. The epistles are addressed "to the saints and to the 
 faitliful in Christ Jesus," or "to the church" in such and such 
 a place. Observing this, we argue, the Jews and the ungodly 
 have no right to appropriate the contents of these letters; 
 they are for believers in Christ alone ; confusion will result if 
 unbelievers t;ike to themselves these Divine mcssa!:;es. The
 
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 argument applies with equal force to the Apocalypse. It is 
 addressed to Christ's "servants," "to the seven churches of 
 Asia." This is reiterated ; the expressions occur both at the 
 opening and at the close, of the book. "The Lord God of 
 the holy prophets sent his angel to show unto his servants 
 things which must shortly be done." "I Jesus have sent mine 
 angel to testify unto you these things, in the churches^ On 
 reading these distinct declarations, simple unsophisticated 
 minds would surely conclude, that the Jews and unbelievers 
 in general, have no more to do with this prophecy than they 
 have with the Epistle to the Ephesians. They may possibly 
 be alluded to in the one, as in the other, but it is not for 
 them, it is not mainly concerned with them ; it is for us ; 
 Christians alone were Christ's servants in the days of Domitian, 
 when John saw and heard these things ; to Christians alone 
 was it sent, the seven churches represented the %uhole church, 
 the prophecy is for the Christian church, and they take the 
 children's bread to give it to outsiders, who would rob the 
 church of her Lord's last gift. 
 
 It is no use to say, yes ! but though given to the church, 
 it might still be a revelation of the counsels of God about 
 others than herself It might; the Epistle to the Ephesians 
 might have been a treatise on the state and prospects of 
 the lost ten tribes, but it was not; the vision of Nebuchad- 
 nezzar, might have been a vision of the restoration of Israel, 
 but it was not ; the visions of Daniel might have been visions 
 of the seven churches in Asia, but they ivcre not, nor was it 
 likely that they would be, nor is it likely that the Lord Jesus 
 in his last prophetic communication to his cherished church, 
 from whom for eighteen hundred years He was to be hid- 
 den, would have nothing more pressing, personal, and impor- 
 tant to reveal to her, than the destiny of a future Jewish 
 remnant, with which she has nothing in common, and the 
 final judgments on a world, from wliicli she is already de- 
 livered, and from which, according to this theory, she will have 
 been previously removed. Did she need no guidance, no
 
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 comfort, no sustainment with the cordial of hope, for the years 
 of earthly pilgrimage that lay before her ? True, He had 
 before, revealed in broad outline the sufferings that awaited 
 her, and the glories that should follow ; but had He, who knows 
 the end from the beginning, and who foresaw all that has 
 since happened, no further words of warning and of cheer for 
 his long-to-be-tempted, and sorely-to-be-persecuted church ? 
 Strange, that such an idea should find place in Christian 
 hearts ! What ! shall our Lord be less kind and careful than 
 an earthly friend or parent ? A father sends forth his young 
 son into a world which he must face alone, into circumstances 
 in which he cannot further communicate wath him for some 
 years ; he foresees that the separation will be far longer than 
 the lad conceives, that his son will be exposed to temptations 
 and snares, into which he will be only too prone to fall, 
 that he will meet a crafty, specious, dangerous, deadly foe, 
 in the guise of a friend, and that he will have to undergo 
 sufferings that will be hard for him to bear, before he regains 
 the paternal roof. He puts a long prophetic letter into his 
 hand as they part, with solemn, earnest, repeated, injunctions 
 to him to read and mask its contents. In distant lands and 
 dreadful difficulties, the son opens this letter, and finds— suited 
 advice and encouragement ? helpful warning and direction ? 
 Oh no ! but an elaborate description of what his father intends 
 to do for his younger brother, after his own return home ! 
 What should we say of the wisdom or tenderness of such a 
 parent ? Do these interpreters indeed believe that God inspired 
 this prophecy, and that Christ loves his churcli ? 
 
 Farther, what does the Apocalypse say about its own scope, 
 and about the time to which it refers ? Again the first verse 
 of the book supplies a simple and direct answer. It was given 
 to show to Christ's servants " tilings that must shortly come to 
 pass" and the next verse urges the study of the book, on the 
 ground that ''the time is at hattd." In the last chapter the 
 angel speaks of these things as " things that must shortly be 
 done," and commands John not to seal the sayings of the pro-
 
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 phecy, for the same reason, " M^ time is at hand.''' These 
 words may measure time by the thousand-years-to-a-day scale, 
 may not mean "at hand" accordmg to human, but only according 
 to Divine chronology. But it is not likely that this is the case, 
 because in another closely related prophecy, we have expres- 
 sions of aft exactly opposite character, which can be proved to 
 measure' time by tlie oi-dinary standard. Daniel is twice or 
 thrice told to shut up and seal certain parts of his prophecies, 
 which related to events to take place in this dispensation, " even 
 to the time of the end," because " the time appointed was 
 great " and " the vision for many days." Now the most dis- 
 tant of those events was near if measured by the Divine scale, 
 distant only according to the common computation. If these 
 cxpressio7is in Daniel are used in their merely human sense, we 
 have every reason to suppose that it is the same with the similar 
 expressions in Revelation. To Daniel, Christ said, " shut up 
 the words and seal the book even to the time of the end," 
 and to John, when these things had already begun to come to 
 pass, the angel says, " seal not the sayings, for the time is at 
 hand." It would not have been at hand in the ordinary sense, 
 if the prophecy relates mainly to still, future events. We have 
 every reason therefore to believe, that it relates, on the contrary, 
 to events that began soon after the apostle received the revela- 
 tion, and that the fulfilment has been in progress ever since. 
 
 Another strong presumption that the visions of the Apocalypse 
 form a continuous prophecy, stretching over the whole of this 
 dispensation, exists in their analogy with the prophecies of 
 Daniel. The resemblance between these two is marked and 
 close ; both are in the symbolic language, both were given to 
 aged saints who were greatly beloved, who were confessors and 
 all but martyrs ; the " Man clothed in linen and girded witli 
 the gold of Uphaz, whose face was as lightning, whose eyes 
 were as fire, and whose voice was as the voice of a multitude," 
 who addressed Daniel, on the banks of the Hiddekel, is un- 
 questionably the same Divine Being who addressed John in 
 Patmos. The prophecies were in both cases communicated
 
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 when the temple was in ruins, and the Jews dispersed ; and 
 both Daniel and John, had been trained in a school of pecu- 
 liar experiences, to fit them to become recipients of these 
 sacred revelations. We take then the symbolic prophecies of 
 Daniel, as those likely to afford the most direct analogy to the 
 symbolic prophecies of the Apocalypse, and we ask, do they 
 date from contemporary events, or from a far distant future ? 
 and do they present a continuous sketch of the interval they 
 cover, or do they dwell exclusively on salient and distant 
 crises ? 
 
 The question scarcely 'needs a reply. The fourfold image 
 seen by Nebuchadnezzar begins with the Babylonian monarchy 
 of which he was the first great head. " Thou art this head of 
 gold." It pursues its even course down through all the times 
 of the Gentiles, and ends with the millennial kingdom of Christ. 
 
 The second prophecy of Daniel, that of the four great beasts 
 or empires, was given forty-nine years later, in the first year of 
 Belshazzar, that is towards the end of Israel's captivity, when 
 the days of Babylon's glory were fast drawing to a close, when 
 the time was rapidly approaching for the kingdom to be num- 
 bered, finished, divided, and given to others. Accordingly, 
 while the first beast is still the Babylonian empire, the first 
 particular noticed in the prophecy, is the plucking of the 
 eagle's wings, on the lion's back. The prophecy thus starts 
 from the diminished glory of the latter end of Babylon, rather 
 than from the golden splendour of its commencement, that 
 is, from contemporary events. It presents a second and fuller 
 sketch of the political history of the Gentile world, (for the 
 spiritual power, the little horn, is glanced at principally in its 
 political aspects,) and traces the main features of the times 
 of the Gentiles, down to the same point as its predecessor, the 
 everlasting kingdom of the Most High. 
 
 The third prophecy of Daniel, that of the ram and the hc- 
 goat, with its four horns and its little horn, was given, as its 
 opening states, in the third year of Belshazzar, two years later 
 than the preceding prophecy. It oiJcns with the Mcdo-i'er-
 
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 sian empire, and the conquests of Cyrus. Now when this pro- 
 phecy was given,. Cyrus had already been reigning seven years 
 in Persia, and the rise of his universal empire was close at 
 hand. It gives a continuous history of the Medo-Persian and 
 Grecian empires, and of the Mohammedan politico-religious 
 power, thus ranging from soon after its own date, to far on in 
 the Christian era. 
 
 The fourth prophecy of Daniel, that of the seventy weeks to 
 elapse between the end of the captivity, and the coming of 
 Messiah the Prince, began to be fulfilled about eighty years 
 after it was delivered, when Artaxerxes gave the commandment 
 to restore and to build Jerusalem. But the decree of Cyrus, 
 to restore and build the temple, and to liberate the Jews from 
 captivity, was promulgated only two years after the date of this 
 prophecy, and would no doubt be taken by the Jews at first, as 
 marking the commencement of the seventy weeks. This pro- 
 phecy includes a period of about five hundred years, and reaches 
 from the restoration under Nehemiah to the final destruction 
 of Jerusalem by Titus. Its object was less to indicate inter- 
 vening events, than to measure the period up to the great rcent 
 of human history ; the previous and the following prophecies, 
 delineate the main outlines of the history of the period. 
 
 And lastly the fifth and great closing prophecy of Daniel, 
 given by our Lord Himself, and recorded in the uth and 12th 
 chapters, begins tvith the date of the vision, "the third year of 
 Cyrus king of Persia," and takes even a retrospective glance 
 to the first year of Darius the ^Slede (chap. xi. i). It pre- 
 dicts the succession of the Persian monarchs, condensing into 
 one sentence the reigns of Cambyses, Smerdis, and Darius 
 Hystaspes, down to the overthrow of the rich and mighty 
 Xerxes, who stirred up all against the realm of Grecia. It traces 
 next the history of the Ptolemies and of the Seleucida;, down 
 to the desolations and persecutions of Antiochus Epiphanes , 
 gives full detail of the career of the wilful king, and of the 
 closing events of this dispensation, ending with the deliverance 
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 period of at least 2400 years, and extends from the fall of the 
 typtcai, to the fall of the antitypical Babylon ; so that ^//the 
 historical prophecies of Daniel start from events close at hand 
 vvhen they were given, and predict with varying degrees of 
 fulness, a series of other events, to follow in regular sequence 
 to the point at which they close. 
 
 Now, judging by analogy, we should expect that when He 
 who revealed to Daniel the things noted in the Scripture of 
 truth, came six hundred years later, to reveal to John - things 
 that must shortly come to pass/' He would follow the same 
 method. -On opening the Apocalypse, this expectation is con- 
 firmed ; we find that it starts, like all Daniel's prophecies, from 
 the things that are," and that it ends like them, with the 
 great consummation. In the nature of things, it could not go 
 over all the ground of the older prophecies. Many of the 
 events foretold by Daniel had already transpired. The three 
 great empires had risen and fallen ; the fourth was then in its 
 glory. Antiochus had desolated Judsa and defiled the temple ; 
 Messiah had come, and had been cut off; Titus had destroyed 
 Jerusalem. So much of the journey lay behind John in Patmos ; 
 these facts were no longer themes for prophecy, but materials 
 for history. Israel's fortunes were no longer the object of 
 main interest, either to Him who was about to give this last of 
 all prophecies, or to him who was about to receive it, or to 
 those for whose sakes he was to write it. Blindness in part 
 had happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles should 
 be come in. The Apocalypse was not given in the sacred 
 tongue of the Hebrews consequently, but in gentile Greek, 
 just as Daniel's two earlier prophecies, which refer to the times 
 of the Gentiles, without much allusion to Israel, are in gentile 
 Chaldee. Taking these altered circumstances into account, 
 what should we expect the last revelation granted to John in 
 Patmos to contain ? Should we, judging by analogy, expect 
 that, passing over in silence eighteen hundred years, crowded 
 with events of deep interest, of stupendous importance to 
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 would reveal through this Christian apostle, only the par- 
 ticulars of a brief dosing crisis of earthly history, subsequent 
 to the church's removal, and relating mainly to a future 
 Jewish remnant ? Assuredly not ! We should expect this final 
 prophecy, sent directly by Christ Himself to his church, 
 through his most spiritually minded apostle, to contain an out- 
 iinc of all that should befall that church, from the time then present, 
 until the Lord's return, with perhaps brief indications of subse- 
 quent a'cnts. A first perusal of the prophetic part of the book, 
 gives the impression that our expectation is correct. We find 
 a series of symbolic visions, and we observe a perceptible 
 correspondence between some of them, and some of Daniel's, 
 exactly as would be the case supposing these visions to 
 traverse the same ground as his later ones. We find in the 
 Apocalypse no beasts answering to Daniel's first three, but the 
 fourth reappears very prominently with his ten horns ; we find 
 no periods corresponding to the seventy weeks or the 2300 
 days, but the " time times and a half " is repeated in several 
 forms, and in the same relative connection. We find in the 
 closing visions, features that identify them with the final scenes 
 of Daniel, and it is difficult to resist the conviction, that the 
 intervening apocalyptic visions, must b e symbolic predictions of 
 the moral and spiritual aspects, of all that has happened to the 
 church of Christ, fro7n Johis day to the present time, and of 
 all that shall happen^ to the close. 
 
 But analogy furnishes a stronger argument still. "The Old 
 Testament, when rightly understood," says Augustine, " is one 
 great prophecy of the New." The records of the past are 
 pregnant with the germs of a corresponding but more exalted 
 future. The history of the seed of Abraham after the flesh, 
 is, throughout, typical of the history of his seed by faith. The 
 Lord's dealings with them, were types of his dealings with us ; 
 for every fact in their history, some counterpart may be noted 
 in our own ; our experiences are but a new edition, on a difter- 
 eit scale, of theirs. Now under the old covenant, prophecy 
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 that happened to the nation of Israel, from the days of Abra- 
 ham to the days of Christ, the fall of Jerusalem and its temple, 
 the dispersion of the Jews, and the end of that age. 
 
 The light of prophecy is a privilege, a blessing, a gift ; it is 
 always so spoken of in Scripture ; '' He gave them prophets," 
 " He gave gifts unto men, . . . apostles, prophets, evan- 
 gelists, pastors, teachers"; and though Christianity possesses 
 many higher privileges, and nobler gifts than Judaism, it lacks 
 none of the real blessings of that earlier economy. We have 
 exchanged many a shadow for substance, but lost no sub- 
 stantial good. New Testament prophecy may therefore bo 
 expected to throw its light, on every event of importance to. 
 happen to the church of Christ, from the fall of Jerusalem to 
 the second advent, that is, from the end of the Jewish, to the 
 end of the Christian age. 
 
 Among the events made subjects of prophecy in the Old 
 Testament were the birth of Isaac, the rapid increase of Israel., 
 the descent into Egypt, the sufferings of the Israelites under 
 the Pharaohs, the duration of their bondage, the exodus, the 
 xbrty years in the desert, the possession of Canaan, its very 
 division among the tribes ; the characters of Saul, David, Solo- 
 mon, and many other individuals ; the building of the temple, 
 the division of the kingdom into two, the Assyrian invasion, 
 and Israel's captivity ; the Babylonian invasion and the seventy 
 years' captivity of Judah, the return from Babylon, the time 
 to elapse, and many of the events to occur, between it and 
 the coming of Messiah the Prince, his birth, character, true 
 nature, ministry, sufferings, and death ; the ministry of John the 
 Baptist, the rejection of Israel, the call of the Gentiles, and 
 the destruction of Jerusalem under Titus. 
 
 Was Israel ever left during a long period, full of momentous 
 changes, and events of solemn national importance, without the 
 light and guidance of prophecy? Is there in their history any 
 " mighty unrepresented vacuum," of the occurrences of which 
 we can say, great as are these events in human estimation, 
 they are deemed unworthy of Divine notice in prophecy? If
 
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 such be tlie case there will be a distinct analogy, on which to 
 base the theory, that the Apocalypse is still wholly unfulfilled. 
 But such is not the case. The chain is almost unbroken, and 
 though four hundred years elapsed between the last of the 
 prophets and the coming of Messiah, Daniel's prophecy fills in 
 the events of the interval, so that no gap of even a century 
 occurs in the long series. 
 
 Is it likely that there should be no analogy, but a perfect 
 contrast, in the history of the antitypical Israel ? Has she no 
 Egypt to leave and no wilderness to traverse, no land to inherit, 
 no oppressors to tyrannize over her, no evil kings to mislead her, 
 .no reformers and deliverers to arise, no Babylon to carry her 
 captive, no temple to rebuild, no IMessiah to look for, no 
 judgments to apprehend, no rest to inherit ? Are hers less im- 
 portant than theirs? Are her foes so much more obvious, her 
 dangers so much more patent, that it should be superfluous to 
 supply her with prophetic light to detect them ? Because they 
 were an earthly people, and sJic a heavenly church, is she 
 therefore not on earth, and not amid the ungodly ? Are her 
 enemies heavenly because the church is so ? Nay, but most 
 earthly, for the wicked spirits against whom the church 
 wrestles, wage their waffare incarnate in earthly, sensual, devilish 
 systems, and in actual men, as did Satan in the serpent in 
 Eden. Every conceivable reason would suggest her greater 
 need of prophetic light. Now the Apocalypse is the book of 
 the New Testament which answers to " the prophets " of the 
 Old. If then it contain predictions of the first spread of 
 Christianity, of the hosts of martyrs who sealed their testi- 
 mony with their blood, during the ten pagan persecutions, of 
 the reception of Christianity by Constantine and the Roman 
 empire, of Jthe gradual growth of corruption in the church, 
 of the irruptions of the Goths and Vandals, and the break up 
 of the old Roman emjnre into ten kingdoms, of the rise and 
 development of popery, of the rise and rapid conquests of 
 Mohammedanism, of the long continued and tremendous 
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 millions of martyrs slain by the Romish Church, of the 
 enormous political power attained by the popes, of their 
 Satanic craft and wickedness, of the Reformation, of the gradual 
 decay of the papal system and the extinction of the tem- 
 poral power of the popes : if it contain predictions of these 
 events, which ive know to have taken place in the history of the 
 a7ititypical Israel, then we have a perfect analogy with the Old 
 Testament. If on the other hand, the Apocalypse alludes to 
 none of these events, but passing them all over in silence, 
 gives only the history of an Antichrist who has not yet 
 appeared, and of judgments not yet commenced, nor to be 
 commenced until the church is in heaven, then instead of a 
 striking scriptural analogy, we have a glaring and most un- 
 accountable contrast. 
 
 We say advisedly unaccountable, for none of the reasons 
 assigned for this supposed contrast between Israel's experience 
 and our own in this matter, are satisfactory. Their calling was 
 an earthly one, ours is a heavenly one, it is true ; nevertheless 
 our calling from heaven, and to heaven, leaves us still on earth. 
 We have earthly connections and relations ; we are not of the 
 world, but we are in the world. The acts of earthly monarchs 
 and the changes of kingdoms and dynasties, affect the church 
 even as they affected her Lord, in the days of his flesh. How 
 came the prophecies "I called ray Son out of Egypt," and 
 " He shall be called a Nazarene," to be accomplished ? What 
 took the virgin mother to Bethlehem? Why was Paul left 
 bound two whole years ? Secular political events have tlieir 
 influence, their mighty influence, on the church, notwithstanding 
 her heavenly calling, and may therefore well be revealed to her 
 by the spirit of prophecy. It is evident there is nothing in the 
 peculiarity of this dispensation, which precludes the church 
 from receiving predictions, of specific events to take place 
 during its course, because the epistles contain such predictions. 
 The fact that the Holy Ghost has announced to the church, 
 events reaching through the whole dispensation cannot be 
 denied. " He who now letteth will let until he be taken out
 
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 of the way ; and then shall that wicked be revealed, whom the 
 T.ord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall 
 destroy with the brightness of his coming." The hindering 
 obstacle, whatever it was, was in existence when the apostle 
 wTote, and was to continue in existence until another event took 
 ])lace, the rise of the man of sin, and that wicked one was to 
 continue till the Lord's coming. Here we have a prophecy the 
 fulfilment of which, starting from its own date, reaches to the 
 consummation, and covers the whole interval, leaving no room 
 for a break. 
 
 There is therefore no ground for asserting,' that the fulfil- 
 ment of the Apocalypse must be future, because the church 
 cannot be the subject of prophecies whose sphere is earth. If 
 she may be the subject of one or two, she may equally 
 well be the subject of a hundred, and the question must 
 be decided on other grounds. If the first generation of 
 Christians were forewarned of the fall of Jerusalem, we may be 
 forewarned of the fall of Babylon. If they knew beforehand 
 that Jerusalem was to be compassed about with armies, we 
 may know that the power of Turkey is to decay. In prin- 
 ciple there is no difference ; a dispensation that admits of the 
 one, admits also of the other. 
 
 The interpretation of this book which asserts a past historic 
 fulfilment of the greater part of its mystic visions, is then in 
 perfect harmony with strong scriptural analogies ; and the 
 interpretation which asserts them all to be future and unful- 
 filled, is in violent and unnatural opposition to all analogy 
 and would require the strongest internal evidence to support 
 it. But such internal evidence it can never receive, seeing it 
 is a negative, and not a positive theory ; it denies the historic 
 fulfilment, but substitutes no other that can be tested by its 
 correspondence or otherwise with the terms of the prediction. 
 Internal evidence in its favour is therefore impossible ; there 
 is no analogy to support it ; and we are driven to the conclu- 
 sion that it is untenable. 
 
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 PROGRESSIVE INTERRRETATION. 127 
 
 period covered by this prophecy is a comparison with history. 
 Can any series of events be indicated, which have transpired 
 since the Christian era, which bear a sufficiently clear resem- 
 blance to the symbolic visions of the Apocalypse, to justify the 
 assertion, that the prophecy is for the most part a fulfilled one ? 
 If so, candour would admit, that it settles the question. 
 
 We firmly believe that such a fulfilment is clearly traceable. 
 Yet as Jewish unbelief refuses to perceive that the character 
 and mission, the life and death, of Jesus of Nazareth, fulfil 
 the long series of Messianic predictions, so there may be a 
 Christian unbelief, which refuses to perceive, that the events of 
 the Christian era, answer to the predictions of this Christian 
 prophecy. 
 
 Yet if such a series of events have taken place, it ought not to 
 be difficult to observe the resemblance between the history and 
 the prophecy. It is not a question of minor details, but of 
 events of stupendous magnitude, affecting a vast extent of the 
 earth, and reaching through centuries of time. It is not a 
 question of remote antiquity, nor of half explored, dimly known 
 regions; no such difficulties encumber the problem. The 
 things that have transpired in the Roman earth, since the days 
 of Domitian, when the Apocalypse was written, especially those 
 concerning the Christian church, both true and false, and those 
 transpiring in our own day, are not things done in a corner, 
 concerning which there may exist a great variety of opinions 
 and of questions that can never be decided. On the contrary, 
 we have records abundant and varied enough of the whole 
 period, to enable us to live it over again in imagination ; and 
 we have remams, and monuments, and present facts, which arc 
 so linked with all that eventful past, that no ingenuity can 
 distort or deny, any of its main features. The last eighteen hun- 
 dred years, present no terra incognita to the historian ; exi:)lorers 
 may not conjure up characters, or concoct transactions, to suit 
 their taste; dates cannot be adapted to fit theories ; every error 
 is sure to be detected, and every assertion sifted. Very narrow 
 are the limits within which invention may act ; almost boundless
 
 128 PROGRESSIVE INTERPRETATION. 
 
 is the field for examination and research. This being the case, 
 it must be not only possible, but easy, to recognise the fulfil- 
 ment of the apocalyptic prophecies if it exist, provided only 
 we are sufficiently acquainted with the facts of history, and 
 rightly understand the predictions themselves. 
 
 If a photograph of an extensive and varied landscape, be 
 presented to a person familiar with the scene, he will not fail to 
 recognise its main features ; he might not be immediately able 
 to detect the miniature of his own homestead, amid the many 
 similar to it, nor to identify every spire of the neighbouring 
 city, and every little detail of the picture. But the more he 
 studies it, the more he will see in it, and the microscope will 
 enable him to identify objects, which one without a microscope 
 and with less knowledge of the neighbourhood, would never 
 notice. It is thus with a student of the Apocalypse who is 
 familiar with history. Or, to reverse the simile ; one who has 
 long being acquainted with a series of photographs, say of the 
 Holy Land, who has pored over them with loving interest and 
 impressed them deep in his memory, is transported to Palestine, 
 and wanders amid those very scenes. He stands on the shores 
 of a blue lake which reflects a snowy cone that rises far away 
 to the north ; the level tops of a range of barren mountains 
 stretch along the opposite shore ; a ruined, earthquake-shaken 
 town and castle lie behind him ; and away to the south a river 
 makes its way out of the lake. He needs no guide to tell him 
 where he is ; he stops not to observe the details of the scene ; 
 this combination of broad features so often noted in the 
 photograph is enough : " Hermon," he exclaims " that exceed- 
 ing high mountain apart ! Tiberias, solitary survivor of sister 
 cities ! mountains of Bashan, river Jordan, I know ye all " ; 
 and he would smile incredulously at any one who should say, 
 " Well, in spite of the general resemblance, I question after all 
 whether this is the sea of Galilee ! " 
 
 It is thus with a student of history who is familiar with the 
 Apocalypse. The remembered photograph serves to identify 
 the real scene, as in the former case the well remembered
 
 PROGRESSIVE INTERPRETATION. 129 
 
 scene interpreted the picture ; if there be a resemblance it would 
 be impossible that either could be known, and the other not 
 recognised, if contemplated with sufficient care and attention. 
 
 The reason that the resemblance is not more uniformly 
 perceived, between the predictions of Revelation and the facts 
 of history since the Christian era, must then lie, either in a 
 want of thorough acquaintance with one or other, or else in a 
 want of careful and unprejudiced attention to the correspond- 
 ence between them. Those who have taken the Apocalypse 
 literally, have of course little idea what it predicts when 
 translated into unsymbolic language ; and history is too often 
 contemplated, from the worldly political point of view in which 
 it is generally written, for the resemblance between the Divine 
 delineation of its facts, and the facts themselves, to be easily 
 recognised. 
 
 Besides this, a foregone conclusion that the book of Revela- 
 tion is unfulfilled, prevents many from perceiving the proofs to 
 the contrary. But we feel no hesitation in asserting, that a 
 candid student, who admits the Apocalypse to be symbolic, 
 and patiently endeavours by the help of other Scripture to 
 translate its symbols, and who then proceeds to compare its 
 predictions, with the authentic historical records of the Chris- 
 tian era, will be driven to admit, that there is as clear a 
 correspondence between the two, as between any other 
 prophecy and its fulfilment. 
 
 We cannot enlarge on this argument here ; to do it justice 
 would be to give an exposition of the greater part of the book. 
 The correspondence will be traced somewhat fully as to one or 
 two of the visions, in the third part of this work ; and any force 
 of truth therein perceived, must be allowed to lend its aid in 
 deciding our present point, the general principles on which the 
 book ought to be interpreted. We entreat the Futurist reader to 
 remember, that it is possible for the plainest and most satis- 
 factory fulfilment of a prophecy, to be forced on the attention, 
 and yet be unperceived : witness the Jews in the days of Clirist; 
 witness the disciples by the empty sepulchre. And yet i( 
 
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 T30 PROGRESSIVE INTERPRETATION. 
 
 a fulfilment of the Apocalypse has been accomplishing for 
 more than seventeen hundred years, and if there remains very 
 little now to be fulfilled, it is of viomentous interest to the 
 cJnircJi of Christ that she should be aware of the fact. If in 
 watching an exhibition of dissolving views we judge of the 
 nearness of the conclusion, merely by the time that has 
 elapsed since it began, we may have a vague impression that 
 the end cannot be far off; but if we have held a programme 
 of the proceedings in our hand all the time, and have ob- 
 served that each scene appeared as announced, and that 
 only the final one remains, we have a certainty that the end 
 must he ch^se at hand, which is a very different state of mind. 
 
 A Divine programme of the proceedings of this dispensation 
 has been placed in our hands ; they who avail themselves of 
 it, they who study it, and watch the dissolving views presented 
 on the stage of history, know how many of the pre-appointed 
 configurations have appeared, melted away, and been replaced 
 by others ; they know the position on the programme of the 
 one now on the stage, and they know what remains ! They 
 lift np their heads, they know that their redemption draweth 
 nigh, yea very, very nigh ! 
 
 Nor are the claims of this principle of historical interpreta- 
 tion in the least invalidated by the fact, that interpreters differ 
 among themselves as to the precise apjjlication of some of the 
 visions. Nearly all the writers of the first fifteen centuries of 
 the Christian era, entertained the view that the Apocalypse 
 was a comprehensive prophecy, reaching from the date of its 
 publication to the end of all things, and endeavoured conse- 
 quently to find its historical solution. It can be no wonder 
 that, as the page of history has unrolled itself, greater accuracy 
 should have been attained, than it was possible for early 
 students to possess. At the time of the Reformation, and 
 subsequently, the great body of commentators still interpreted 
 the Apocalypse on the same principle, but naturally with a far 
 closer approximation to the truth, though they were by no means 
 unanimous in their expositions of detail ; and many are the
 
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 points of controversy which still exist. But the essenli.^J 
 agreement, more than counterbalances the minor diffe ne" i 
 and^.t would be strange indeed if such differencef did 1 
 
 Prophetic interpretation is not milk for babes, but nlher 
 strong meat for those that are of full age. and have hd sc s" 
 exe csed by reason of use. But which of the very simple 
 doctnnes of Scr.pture excludes controversy ? I, it an arZc „ 
 agamst the true v.ew of the atonement, that numerous crr?™o„3 
 
 iJickersteth, Lirks, WooJhouc Keith II oT?' .^"""'"S^am, llabershon, 
 tliese there are agreed a.s follow^ : ' ^'''°''' '''''^'y^^^ "^ all. Out of 
 
 -. i. nat seal VI. is the fall ot pa-anism under Constantine ,? 
 
 3. TlKU tnmipets I to IV. are the Gothic hu'asion * ' 
 
 4- That tnimpet V. is the Saracens '-"' 
 
 5- That trumpet VI. is the Turks '7 
 
 6. "'''--'- -''••' - - • • 
 
 6. I ha the httle opened book refers to the Reformation ' ' ' 
 
 I rt TT "• '^ ^'r P'?P^^ persecution of saiSts a" hcre'tic; o. 
 
 Uett' r"'-.'V''' '^T'"'''''^ ^"^1 ''^'^'^^^^ from vi V of " 
 the tiue church durmg the papal a^es o 
 
 9. That the beasts are aspects of the Papacy'. '. '^ 
 
 12. That chapter .wiii. is the Papacy. . ~^ 
 
 13. That a day is the symbol of a year ....'. ~ 
 
 rcf^^^td^ ,^^^:;ar?;;n!:' 'JS a"" ^^^t ^="^ "^'-^^ ^^ ^^-P'^' 
 
 sSv=,sslls£SEs3^ 
 
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 132 PROGRESSIVE INTERPRETATIOX. 
 
 and defective views exist ? Is there no revealed truth on 
 the subject of church government, because such widely differ- 
 ing creeds on the point prevail ? If we cannot see eye to . 
 eye on such subjects as these, shall we marvel that differences 
 >\ppear in the application of the symbolic visions of Revelation 
 to history ? The multitude of the events predicted, their range 
 and variety, the peculiar language in which they are foretold, 
 the fact that they bear a strong testimony against existing cor- 
 ruptions in the church, and consequently enlist the antagonism 
 of all who uphold these corruptions, these things are quite suffi- 
 cient to account for the measure of disagreement, which is 
 found among interpreters, and which decreases in proportion 
 as acquaintance with the subject increases, and as every fresh 
 phase of contemporary history, adds its testimony to the pre- 
 viously existing mass. 
 
 But it is needful to notice one or two objections, com- 
 monly advanced by a certain school of Futurist interpreters, 
 who hold very strongly the parenthetical character of the pre- 
 sent dispensation ; because they appear to have more weight 
 than on examination they prove to possess. They settle the 
 question as to the character of the Book of Revelation, in a 
 summ.ary and apparently conclusive way, but in reality on 
 superficial and unsubstantial grounds. The first is a sort of 
 attempt to prove an alibi on behalf of the church : " the church 
 cannot be in any way the subject of the prophetic visions of 
 Revelation (chapter vi. — xix.) because she is already seen in 
 heaven in the two previous chapters. All that happens after 
 chapter v. is subsequent to the rapture of the church ; it must 
 therefore refer to the Jewish remnant." "The church is never 
 seen on earth, or anywhere but in heaven, from the end of 
 chapter iii. till in chapter xix. Christ comes forth from heaven, 
 and the armies which were in heaven follow in his train." * 
 
 Fully admitting that the four-and-twenty elders and the 
 cherubim of Revelation iv., v., include the church, we hold, 
 
 * " Eight Lectures on Prophecy." W. T. 3rd edition, p. 192.
 
 PROGRESSIVE INTERPRETATION. 133 
 
 that it would be a sufficient answer to this objection to say, part 
 of the church are seen in heaven, while part are still repre- 
 sented as suffering on earth ; or to say " He hath raised us up 
 together, and made us sit together, in heavenly places in Christ" 
 even now, while we still groan, and fight, and toil, and die, on 
 earth. But the chapters themselves supply a more conclusive 
 answer. The church is not only seen in heaven, but she is 
 seen taking part in the action of the beautiful introductory 
 episode of this Divine drama. What is that action ? It is 
 the taking and opening by the Lamb, of the seven sealed book. 
 This action took place 7vhile John was an exile in Patmos ; for 
 ever since, the mysteries hidden under those seven seals have 
 been discovered and published to the world. 
 
 Clearly the book is not now shut and sealed ; for we know 
 its contents ; each seal covered or contained a vision, not be it 
 observed the fnlfilment of a vision, but the vision itself. The 
 visions were not seen till the seals were broken, and the seals 
 were not broken till the Lamb took the book. But the visions 
 were seen eighteen hundred years ago ; therefore the Lamb 
 took the book and broke the seals thereof, eighteen hundred 
 years ago ; that is, the scene i7i which the church is represented 
 as taking part in heaven occurred eighteen huridrcd years ago. 
 But the church was not actually in heaven eighteen hundred 
 years ago, and therefore there is no ground for the assertion 
 that the church mill be actually in heaven before tiie events 
 symbolised in chapters vi. to xix. take place. The church was 
 in heaven, in the only sense in which she will be there till the 
 marriage of the Lamb shall come, when John was in Patmos. 
 In other words the Apocalypse represents the church as mystic- 
 ally in heaven, while still actually on earth, even as Ephcsians 
 ii., Philippians iii., and other scriptures do. 
 
 So, while we gladly grant to our Futurist brethren, that a 
 portion of the church is represented as in heaven, in chapters 
 iv., v., we ask them to grant with equal candour that a portion 
 is represented on earth in the subsequent chapters. The one 
 is just as evident as the other ; and to deny it is both to destroy
 
 134 PROGRESSIVE L\'TERPRETATION. 
 
 the dramatic unity so markedly stamped on this prophecy, and 
 to obscure one of its grandest lessons. 
 
 The prophecy is addressed, as we have seen, to Christ's 
 servants and to the cJnirchcs ; the ascription of praise in chap. 
 i. 5 is evidently Christian praise, it is the praise of those who 
 have been loved by Jesus, and washed from their sins in his 
 blood. John speaks of himself as the brother, and fellow 
 sufferer of those to v/hom he wrote, and John was a Christian 
 confessor, a prisoner of Jesus Christ in Patmos, as much as Paul 
 had been in Rome. He says he was in exile "for the word of 
 God, and for the testimony which he held," which expression 
 therefore means Christianity. Under the fifth seal we catch a 
 glimpse of a company ot martyrs who Avere slain '•' for the word 
 of Cod and for the testimony which they held," that is, for con- 
 fessing their Christian faith, like John; they were slain because 
 they were Christians. White robes are given to them, and 
 tliey are told to wait till another company of martyrs should 
 be killed as they were, that is as Christians. In chapter vii. 
 we have presented to us a company in heaven, unquestionably 
 Christians also, for they are gathered out of every nation, 
 kindred, and tongue, and they have washed their robes and 
 made them white in the blood of the Lamb. In chapter viii. 
 " the prayers of all saints " and " the prayers of the saints " 
 are mentioned ; now prayer ascends from suppliants on earth, 
 and "saints " in New Testament phraseology means CJiristians. 
 We have no right in the last book of the New Testament to 
 revert to an Old Testament signification of this word. Let 
 the general tone of John's gospel and epistles be recalled, and 
 his choice of tliis word to designate true Christians, in the 
 midst of an ungodly world and falsely professing church, will 
 be felt to be in beautiful harmony. What is the grand dis- 
 tinction made in John's epistles between true Christians and 
 those who are not ? It is holiness, saintship. " If wc say we 
 have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do 
 not the truth ; but if we walk in the light, Ave have fellowship one 
 with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son clonnscth
 
 PROGRESSIVE INTERPRETA TIO.\. 
 
 us from all sin." " These things write I unto you, that ye sin 
 not," "Every one that docth righteousness is born of Him." 
 " Every man that hath this hope in Him, purifieth himself even 
 as He is pure." " Whosoever abideth in Him, sinneth not." 
 " Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin." " In this the 
 children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil : 
 whosoever doeth not righteousness, is not of God." " This is 
 the love of God, that we keep his commandments." " What- 
 soever is born of God sinneth not." " We know that we are of 
 God, and the whole world licth in wickedness." " He that 
 doeth good is of God, but he that doeth evil hath not seen God." 
 
 Such language shows that in the eyes of John, practical 
 purity and holiness, samtlincss, is the grand characteristic ov 
 Christians. When therefore we find hi//i, consistently desig- 
 nating a certain body, by the distinctive appellation of "the 
 saints," we conclude that those so called are true C/mstia7is, 
 in opposition to the ungodly, or to false professors. Where does 
 John, ever apply such a term to Jcics ? Where in the whole 
 New Testament can the term be found so applied ? Why 
 then should we assert that it is applied to Jews here? Paul 
 uses it forty-three times, and in every case as a synonym for 
 Christians. Luke uses it four times, in the Acts, and Jude twice 
 in his epistle, in the same sense ; in fact only once is it used in 
 any equivocal sense in the whole New Testament. (" r^Iany 
 bodies of the saints which slept arose." ]\Iatt. xxvii. 52.) 
 
 EesideSj we observe these " saints," who are thirteen times 
 mentioned in the Apocalypse, doing and bearing exactly what 
 we know from other scriptures, the saints of the Christian church 
 must do and bear in this dispensation. We find them watch- 
 ing, waiting, praying, enduring tribulation (chap. xiii. 10), re- 
 sisting unto blood (chap. xvi. 6), resting in heaven (chap. xiv. 
 12, 13), and at last manifested as tlie bride of Christ, and as 
 the "armies which were in heaven," clad under both emblems 
 with the '• fine linen clean and white, which is the righteousness 
 oi saints" ; we find them associated with the martyrs oi Jesus, 
 (chap. xvii. 6), a clear proof that they cannot be Jewish saints.
 
 136 PROGRESSIVE INTERPRETATION. 
 
 In short, so far from the church being actually and exclu- 
 sively in heaven, at the commencement of the prophetic drama 
 of this book, she is scat on earth during its entire course. She is 
 seen collectively under various symbols, such as the one hun- 
 dred and forty-four thousand, the two witnesses, the sun-clad 
 woman, the armies of heaven, the New Jerusalem ; and her 
 members are seen severally as " the saints." They are seen first 
 in their sufferings, and then in their glory; first slain for Jesus' 
 sake, then enthroned beside Him. Can it be questioned that 
 the saints who pray, and wait, and suffer, and die as martyrs of 
 Jesus, are the same saints, the " called, and chosen, and faithful," 
 who are seen with the Lamb afterwards, as his bride, and as 
 his white-robed followers ? If they are not, the unity of the 
 book is gone, it becomes an incomprehensible confusion. If 
 the saints who form the bride of the Lamb in chap, xix., are 
 not the saints who in the previous chapters witnessed for Him 
 in life and in death, then the lesson written most legibly on the 
 pages of the prophecy, — the lesson that, in spite of ignorance 
 and obscurity, the church in all ages has learned from it, — the 
 truth that sustained millions of martyrs in their protracted 
 sufferings and cheered them in their dying agonies, — the truth 
 with which this prophecy seems instinct, " If we suffer, 
 WE SHALL ALSO REIGN WITH HiM," is Utterly obliterated from 
 its pages ! The suffering "saints" get no reward; and the 
 happy, blessed bride, rises not from a surging sea of sorrow 
 and suffering, to the joy of her Lord's embrace and the glory 
 of his throne. One of the great morals of the book is gone, 
 as well as its dramatic itnity. The exigences of a false system 
 alone could suggest such a wresting of Scripture as this. 
 
 This systc'jn of interpretation, involves besides, a logical in- 
 consistency. The bride is the Christian church ; her raiment 
 idejitifics her with the previously mentioned "saints," and the 
 "saints " are — a Jewish remnant !* This is as if we should say : 
 
 * Tlie future existence of a Jewish remnant is not denied, though their 
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 PROGRESSIVE INTERPRETATION. 137 
 
 the army is composed oi soldiers, iheywesLr uniforms; whenever 
 you meet men in uniform they are — civi/ia/is / Surely they 
 who teach thus should be ashamed for not rightly dividing the 
 word of truth. " Be not carried about with divers and strange 
 doctrines," is an exhortation we have need to remember. Let 
 simple minded saints be reassured, and fear not to claim and 
 appropriate, their divinely bestowed name ! 
 
 The only way of avoiding the force of this argument is, to 
 deny that the bride of the Lamb is the church ; for it is evident 
 that the bride is identical with the saints, and it is evident also 
 that the saints are on earth, during the whole course of the book. 
 Those who are resolved to prove that the church is nof repre- 
 sented as on earth in these visions, must therefore not only 
 deny that the saints are the church, but seeing the saints are 
 identical with the bride, must also de/ij that the bride is the 
 church. 
 
 It is a painful and humiliating illustration, of the length to 
 which the desire to uphold a favourite theory, will carry Christ- 
 ian men, that many Futurists are to be found, who actually do 
 deny this, and even glory in their shame in so doing, as if this 
 departure from one of the first principles of Christ, were an 
 attainment of advanced truth ! 
 
 The bride of Christ a Jewish remnant ! ! It is then of the 
 Jewish remnant that the apostle Paul speaks in Ephesians v, ; 
 it is of the Jewish remnant that Eve, and Rebecca, and Rachel, 
 and Asenath, and Zipporah, and Ruth, and Pharaoh's daughter 
 are types! It is of a Jewish remnant that Paul says, "I have 
 espoused you as a chaste virgin to Christ ! " 
 
 Even so. " The bride is not the figure of nearest associa- 
 
 interpreters, far more definitely than by the word of God. That the rem- 
 nant or remainder of the Jewish nation, will be restored to Palestine before 
 the millennium, brought there into great trouble, and prepared by it 
 to say, " Blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord," that Christ 
 will appear for their deliverance, and that they will be converted at the 
 sight of Him, this much seems clear from Scripture. The gifts and calling 
 of God are without repentance, and He has not cast away his people whom 
 He foreknew.
 
 138 PROGRESSIVE INTERPRET Al ION. 
 
 tion," say our accurate Futurist friends ; " the body is still 
 nearer." "The church is his body, the fulness of Him that 
 filleth all in all." True! but have ye not read, " he that loveth 
 his 7uife loveth himself" ? in a sense the bride is the body, and 
 the body is the bride. The figures are twain, the truth is one. 
 Such is the union, that Christ and his church are separate 
 existences, as are bridegroom and bride ; such also is the union, 
 that Christ and his church are one, as is the body with the 
 head. " He that is joined to the Lord is one spirit " ; " because 
 I live, ye shall live also." Let any one read Ephesians i. and 
 v., and say is it not making a distinction without a difference, 
 to assert that the bride and the body do not represent the 
 same reality. 
 
 Let it be granted then that, fulfilling all these types from 
 Eden downwards, and realizing all the figures of most intimate 
 association and union which language can convey, — the vine 
 and the branches, the head and the members, the bridegroom 
 and the bride, — the white robed saintly bride of Revelation 
 xix. is the church of the redeemed ; and we claim that with- 
 out all contradiction, the church is on earth during the 
 ACTION ofthe Apocalypse, AND that therefore the Apoca- 
 lypse IS a Christian prophecy, fulfilled in the events 
 OF the Christian Era. 
 
 End of Taut H.
 
 PART III. 
 
 FORETOLD AND FULFILLED. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 THE PROPHECIES OF " EADYLOX," AND " THE LEAST." — REA- 
 SONS FOR THE EXAMINATION OF THESE TWO PROPHECIES. 
 FUNDAMENTAL, DIVINELY INTERPRETED ; PRACTICALLY IM- 
 PORTANT. — BABYLON THE GRE.\T REPRESENTS THE APOS- 
 TATE CHURCH OF RO.AIE. 
 
 THE scope of this work, prevents our attempting to enter 
 into a detailed, examination, of the symbols of the Apo- 
 calypse. The book itself, as v/e have seen, interprets some of 
 them, and other parts of Scripture interpret others. It would ' 
 not be difficult to form a tolerably complete dictionary, of the 
 meaning ot the Apocalyptic symbols, by placing over-against 
 each, passages of Scripture in which the same symbol is em- 
 ployed in contexts which indicate its meaning ; or in historical 
 narratives, ceremonial observances, or legal enactments, which . 
 throw light upon it. To search the Scriptures, is to find the •' 
 solution of many a difficulty in this book, for it is more closely 
 related to the rest of the Bible, than would by superficial 
 readers be supposed. 
 
 We proceed, however, briefly to examine, two of the leading 
 prophecies of the Revelation, a clear understanding of which, 
 is ot itself, sufficient to determine its whole scope and charac- 
 ter. They are two of the most important symbolisations in 
 the entire series, they occupy several whole chapters, and are 
 alluded to in others ; they are closely related to each other, 
 and one of them is divinely intapxfcJ. This is the vision of
 
 140 FORETOLD AND FULFILLED 
 
 Babylon the Great, in the seventeenth chapter of the book, 
 a prophecy which by its synchronical connection with almost 
 all the other predictions of the Apocalypse, furnishes a most 
 valuable clue to the meaning and application of the whole 
 series of visions. This prophecy has besides a solemn practical 
 importance, rendering it peculiarly needful that it should be 
 rightly interpreted. 
 
 Immediately prior to the fall of Babylon, described in the 
 iSth chapter of Revelation, a voice from heaven cries, " Come 
 out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, 
 that ye receive not of her plagues ; for her sins have reached 
 unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities." Is it 
 not all-important that Christian people, should be very clear, 
 as to the system thus solemnly denounced by a voice from 
 heaven ? And similarly, immediately after the fall of Babylon, 
 ** a great voice as of much people in heaven," is heard saying, 
 with reference to it, "Alleluia; Salvation, and glor)', and 
 honour, and power, unto the Lord our God : for true and 
 righteous are his judgments: for He hath judged the great 
 whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and 
 hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand. And 
 again they said, Alleluia. And her smoke rose up for ever 
 and ever." If this symbol represents an evil so gigantic, that 
 heaven itself is moved to psalms of praise, on the occasion 
 of its overthrow, should not the church on earth be anxious to 
 recognise it, and to avoid all connection with it ? 
 
 The deep depravity attributed to " Babylon the Great," the 
 peculiarly solemn adjuration to God's people to come out of 
 her, and the utter and awful destruction denounced against 
 lier, all combine to attach great practical importance to the 
 inquiry, what system is intoidcd by this symbol i 
 
 A perusal of the 17th and i8th chapters of the Book of 
 Revelation, shows that "Babylon the Great" represents a 
 system which should last long, exert a subtle and extensive 
 influence, and be guilty of exceeding iniquity and cruelty. 
 This svstem must still be in existence, seeing its destruction
 
 FORETOLD AND FULFILLED. 141 
 
 takes place, simultaneously with " the marriage of the Lamb," 
 an event which we know to be, still future ; and seeing also 
 that up to the moment of its destruction, or very nearly so, 
 children of God will be found, more or less closely connected 
 with it, so that a need will exist, for the urgent call, " Come 
 out of her, my people" 
 
 This system is prefigured as a cruelly persecuting one, as one 
 that would "■ shed the blood of saints, and martyrs of Jesus," 
 one on whom the Lord God would ** avenge the blood of 
 his servants." The Lord Jesus Christ, who loves his church, 
 foreseeing the existence and career of this terrible system, 
 forewarned, and thus fore-armed her by this prophecy. He 
 furnishes her with abundant marks whereby the foe may be 
 recognised, and solemnly warns her against making any truce 
 or compromise, while He stimulates and encourages her for 
 the long and bitter conflict, by a view of the final result. 
 He would have his people in no perplexity or doubt on so 
 momentous a question, so He has made this prediction 
 peculiarly clear ; has placed it in marked and intentional con- 
 trast with another prophecy, which makes its meaning still 
 clearer ; and He has added besides, an explanation which 
 leaves no room for the candid student to err. 
 
 Let the reader note the contrasted features of the two sym- 
 bolic prefigurations. 
 
 "The WHORE that sitteth "The bride, the Lamb's 
 upon many waters." wife." 
 
 "Babylon the Great." "The Holy Jerusalem." 
 
 " There came one of the " There came unto me one 
 
 seven angels which had the of the seven angels which had 
 
 seven vials, and talked with the seven vials full of the 
 
 me, saying. Come hither ; I seven last plagues, and talked 
 
 will show unto thee the judg- with me, saying, Come hither, 
 
 ment of the great whore I will show thee the bride, 
 
 that sitteth upon many the Lamb's wife, 
 waters.
 
 143 
 
 FORETOLD AND FULFILLED. 
 
 " So he carried me away 
 in the spirit into the wilder- 
 ness : and I saw a woman sit 
 upon a scarlet coloured beast, 
 full of names of blasphemy, 
 having seven heads and ten 
 horns. 
 
 " And he carried me away in 
 the spirit to a great and high 
 mountain, and showed me," 
 (the bride, the Lamb's wife, 
 under another symbol). (Rev. 
 xxi.) 
 
 "And the woman was ar- 
 rayed in purple and scarlet 
 colour, and decked with gold 
 and precious stones and 
 pearls, having a golden cup 
 in her hand full of abomi- 
 nations and filthiness of her 
 fornication. And upon her 
 forehead was a name writ- 
 ten, Mystery, Baevlon the 
 Gkeat, the mother of harlots 
 and abominations of the earth. 
 
 " And I saw the v/oman 
 drunken with the blood of the 
 saints, and with the blood of 
 the martyrs of Jesus '' (Rev. 
 xvii. 1-6). 
 
 "To her was granted that 
 she should be arrayed in fine 
 linen, clean and white : for the 
 fine linen is the righteousness 
 of saints " (Rev. xix. S). 
 
 This Bride is described as 
 "The Holy Jerusalem, de- 
 scending out of heaven from 
 God, having the glory of God : 
 and her light like unto a stone 
 most precious" (Rev. xxi.). 
 
 The dragon "persecuted the 
 woman," and " the dragon 
 was wrath with the woman, 
 and went to make war with 
 the remnant of her seed, 
 which keep the command- 
 ments of God and have the 
 testimony of Jesus Christ" 
 (Rev. xii. 13-17). 
 
 As to Babylon, John adds, "when I saw her, I wondered 
 with great admiration. And the angel said unto me, Where- 
 fore didst thou marvel ? / luill tell fhcc the mystery of the 
 70oman. . , . The seven heads are seven mountains, on 
 which the woman sillclli. The waters, are iicoplcs, and multi-
 
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 tudes, and nations, and tongues. . . . And the woman 
 which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the 
 kings of the earth " (Rev. xvii, 7). 
 
 These prophecies present, two broadly contrasted women, 
 identified with two broadly contrasted cities, one reality being 
 in each case, doubly represented, as a woman, and as a city ; 
 the harlot and Babylon are one ; the bride and the heavenly 
 Jerusalem are one. 
 
 It is evident that the true interpretation of either of these 
 double prefigurations, must afford a clue to the true interpreta- 
 tion of the other. 
 
 The two women are contrasted in every particular that 
 is mentioned about them ; the one is pure as purity itself, 
 "made ready" and fit for heaven's unsullied holiness: the 
 other, foul as corruption could make her, fit only for the fires 
 of destruction. 
 
 The one belongs to the Lamb, who loves her as the bride- 
 groom loves the bride ; the other is associated with a wild 
 beast, and with the kings of the earth, who ultimately hate 
 and destroy her. 
 
 The one is clothed with fine linen, and in another place is 
 said to be clothed with the sun, and crowned with a coronet 
 of stars ; that is, robed in Divine righteousness, and resplendent 
 with heavenly glory ; the other, is attired in scarlet and gold, 
 in jewels and pearls, gorgeous indeed but with earthly splen- 
 dour only. 
 
 The one is represented as a chaste virgin, espoused to 
 Christ, the other is mother of harlots and abominations of 
 the earth. 
 
 The one is persecuted, pressed hard by the dragon, driven 
 into the wilderness, and well-nigh overwhelmed ; the other is 
 drunken with martyr blood, and seated on a beast which has 
 received its power from the persecuting dragon. 
 
 The one sojourns in solitude in the wilderness, the other 
 reigns "in the wilderness" over peoples and nations and 
 kindreds and tongues.
 
 144 FORETOLD AXD FULFILLED. 
 
 The one goes in with the Lamb' to the marriage supper, 
 amid the glad hallelujahs of heaven ; the other is stripped, 
 insulted, torn, and destroyed, by her guilty paramours. 
 
 We lose sight of the bride, amid the effulgence of heavenly 
 glory and joy, and of the harlot amid the gloom and darkness, 
 of the smoke that " rose up for ever and ever," 
 
 It is impossible to find in Scripture, a contrast more marked ; 
 and the conclusion is irresistible, that whatever the one may 
 represent, the other must prefigure its opposite. They are not 
 two disconnected visions, but a pair — a pair associated, not by 
 likeness, but by contrast. 
 
 Now Scripture leaves us in no doubt, as to the signification 
 of the emblematic bride, the Lamb's wife, the heavenly Jeru- 
 salem. We read, " Husband, love your wives, even as Christ 
 also loved the church, and gave Himself for it ; that He might 
 sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, 
 that He might present it to Himself a glorious church, not 
 having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing ; but that it should 
 be holy and without blemish." " For we are members of his 
 body, of his flesh, and of his bones." The purpose of Christ's 
 love, as regards his blood-bought church, is, that she should 
 be with Him, and be one with Him for ever ; that she should 
 behold and share his glory, being perfectly conformed to his 
 image. Here m prophetic vision, we see this blessed design 
 accomplished, and the complete and perfectly sanctified 
 church, clad in spotless robes of righteousness, brought to the 
 marriage supper of the Lamb. We see her persecuted like 
 her Lord, and like her Lord and with her Lord, glorified. 
 Beyond all question, the New Jerusalem bride represents the 
 true church of Christ. 
 
 What then must tlie contrasted symbol, the Babylonian 
 harlot represent ? Surdy some false and apostate church, some 
 church which, while professing to belong to Christ, is in reality 
 given up to fellowship with the world, and linked in closes) 
 union, with the kings of the earth ; a worldly church, which 
 hag left her first love, forgotten her heavenly calling, sunk into
 
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 carnality and sin, and proved shamelessly and glaringly faith- 
 less to her Lord. 
 
 Be it observed, that these symbols, a woman and a city, 
 prefigure definite systems, corporate bodies, not merely a 
 multitude of similar, but disconnected individuals. The tares 
 of a wheat-field, the bad fish in the net, may represent such ; 
 but here we have neither true Christians nor worldly pro- 
 fessors, as individuals., but two corporations, two definite 
 bodies. The true church of Christ is a body ; its members 
 are united in the closest union to their Head and to each 
 other ; one life animates them : " because I live, ye shall live 
 also ; " one spirit dwells in them, they are one habitation of 
 God. The link that unites them is however a spiritual one ; 
 the body, is consequently invisible as such. A false church can 
 have no such spiritual link. The bond that unites // must 
 therefore be carnal, outward, visible ; the church represented 
 by Babylon, must be a visible church, an earthly corporation, 
 and as such capable of being discerned and recognised. Nor 
 can the symbol comprise all false and faithless churches : to 
 the harlot is expressly assigned a local connection — the woman 
 and the city are one — if we can discover the name of the city, 
 we shall be able to identify the church intended. 
 
 The last words of the angel to John, seem to leave no 
 possibility of mistake as to the city. " The seven heads are 
 seven mountains on which the woman sitteth . . . and 
 the woman which thou sawest is that great city which rcigncth 
 aver the kings of the earth.'" What city was that? There was 
 but one great city, which in John's day reigned over the kings 
 of the earth. It was Rome; and Rome is the only city which 
 ivas great then, has been great, in one way or other, ever since, 
 and is so still. And Rome was seated on seven hills, " the 
 seven mountains on which the woman sitteth." Her commoi; 
 name with the classic writers of St. John's age, is " the seven 
 hilled city ;" an annual festival used to be held in honour ot 
 the " seven hilled city ;" every Latin poet of note during a 
 period of five hundred years, alludes to Rome's seven hills 3
 
 1^6 FORETOLD AXD FULFILLED. 
 
 their names were the Palatine, the Quirinal, the A\entine, ihe 
 CxUan, the Viminal, the EsquiUne, and the Janiculum hills. 
 The medals and coins of the day, represent Rome as a woman 
 sitting on seven hills ; and her titles show with sufficient clear- 
 ness, how thoroughly she rd"/^//^^. She was styled "the royal 
 Jvonie ;" " the mistress of the world ;" " the cpeen of nations." 
 Her sway was all but universal. She Avas the metropolis ot 
 that fourth great empire which Daniel had foretold would 
 break in pieces and subdue all things, "dreadful and terrible 
 and strong exceedingly ■" and at the time of the Apocalyptic 
 visions, her power was at its height. Rome, and no other city 
 can be intended here ; the woman is in some way identified 
 with Rome. We previously saw that she must represent a 
 church, now we know what church. The harlot is the Church 
 of Rome ; for simple minds there seems no escape from this 
 conclusion. And it is a singular and notable fact, that no 
 other city but Rome, has ever given its name to a church, 
 which has embraced many kindreds and nations. Many 
 coimirics have done so, and even individuals ; but as far as we 
 are aware, no other city. We have the Greek Church, the 
 Armenian and the Coptic Churches, the Lutheran Church, the 
 Protestant Churches of various countries, the English Church, 
 the Scotch Church, etc. ; but the papal system is styled, not so 
 much the Latin Church, as the Church of Rome. " The 
 woman which thou sawest is that great city " (not empire or 
 country) "which reigneth over the kings of the earth." 
 
 The question, however, naturally suggests itself, If the 
 woman be identified in some way with Rome, why is her brow 
 emblazoned v/ith the name of Badvlon ? The answer is 
 evident ; the Apocalypse is a book of mysteries ; things are 
 represented by signs ; realities are veiled ; and it would have 
 been altogether inconsistent v.-ith the whole style of this 
 prophecy to have written Rome on the harlot's brow. The 
 woman is a figure of a church, a corrupt idolatrous church ; 
 that ]% the symbol seen by John was suggestive of something 
 widel" different from itself; so the name with which that
 
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 symbol was stamped, was also suggestive of something widely 
 different from itself, though mysteriously similar. The harlot 
 is " Mystery, Babylon the Great." That the liieral Babylon 
 was not intended, is perfectly clear, since that city was neither 
 built on seven hills, nor reigning over the kings of the earth, 
 in John's day. But that the literal Babylon was a most 
 appropriate symbol for Rome, is equally evident. Analogies of 
 the most remarkable kind, geographical, historical, and moral, 
 existed, which fully account for the selection. Both were 
 situated in the midst of vast plains, both largely built of brick 
 made out of their own soil, the one had been Queen of the 
 East, the other was then Queen of the West, Babylon of old 
 had called herself " the golden city,''' " the beauty of the 
 Chaldees' excellency," and claimed eternity as well as uni- 
 versal supremacy. (Isa. xiv. 4-7.) Rome similarly styled 
 herself " the eternal city," "the mistress of the world." But 
 especially, both had been employed by God, as scourges for 
 the guilty city of Jerusalem and people of Israel ; and to each 
 in its turn, had the sacred vessels of the Temple been carried 
 as spoil ; Belshazzar abused them at his banquet, and Titus 
 engraved them on his arch. 
 
 Even had the plan of the Apocalypse not demanded it, cir- 
 cumstances would have rendered it needful, for St. John to use 
 a mysterious designation, in speaking as he here does of 
 Rome. It would not have been safe in the days of Nero and 
 Domitian, to expose the corruption, and predict the dcFvnfall 
 and utter overthrow, of their capital. Persecution was already 
 bitter 'enough, as St. John was experiencing in Patmos \ and 
 rcsa've on such a subject was evidently needful. But in spite 
 of reserve and mystery, the true meaning of this symbolic name 
 "Babylon," was early perceived by the Christians, and divined 
 even by their enemies. Irenreus, who v.'as a disciple of Poly- 
 carp, who was a disciple of John himself, says, that " Babylon " 
 in the Apocalypse signifies Rome ; and Tertullian says, " namci 
 are employed by us as signs, Samaria is a sign of idolatry 
 . . . Babvlon is a ligure of tb.c R(nn:^n city, miglily. proud
 
 U8 FORETOLD AND FULFILLED. 
 
 of its sway, and fiercely persecuting the saints." So Jerome 
 and others, in unbroken sequence, to the present day. When 
 accused by their heathen Roman adversaries of holding sacred, 
 predictions of the downfall of Rome, the early Christians never 
 denied the charge, but merely replied, that they were far from 
 desiring that downfall, since, little as Rome favoured Chris- 
 tianity, the Antichrist whom they expected immediately to 
 succeed, would do so still less. 
 
 Babvlox, then, in this prophecy means Rome ; even Roman 
 Catholic writers are constrained to admit this. Bellarmine 
 and Bossuet do not attempt to deny that these predictions 
 concern Rome. They admit it freely, but assert that they 
 refer to Rome as a heathen city merely, and not as a Christian 
 church ; and they maintain that the prophecy of the fall of 
 Babylon, was fulfilled in the destruction of Rome, by the Goths, 
 in the fifth century. " Babylon," say they, is Rome Pagan, not 
 Rome Fapal ; and they defend this position with considerable 
 skill, and some show of reason. This interpretation originated 
 with Bossuet in the i6th century; till that time it had never 
 been supposed by any expositor, that the fall of Rome under 
 Alaric, exhausted the prediction about the fall of Babylon. But 
 as soon as the Protestant application of this prophecy to the 
 Church of Rome, was felt to be a tremendous weapon against 
 that church, its advocates were driven in self-defence, to find 
 some interpretation which should turn its edge. 
 
 It must not be supposed, however, that the interpretation 
 now called Protestant, originated out of the party feeling and 
 antagonism produced by the Reformation. On the contrary, 
 the view that Babylon meant the Church of Rome, was held 
 long prior to the Reformation, and may be said, to some 
 extent, to have produced it. As soon as the Church of Rome 
 began to put forth her unscriptural claims, and to teach 
 authoritatively her unscriptural doctrines, so soon did the 
 faithful begin to recognise her, as the predicted Babylon of the 
 Apocalypse. The earliest fathers of the church, who lived 
 while Rome was Pagan, could not, of course, hold such a view.
 
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 Little did they dream that Rome, the persecuting pagan city, 
 would ever become the seat and centre of a Christian church. 
 Nor could this application of the prophecy arise, while Rome 
 remained a faithful and pure Christian church; but at the 
 close of the 6th century, Pope Gregory the First made a strong 
 protest against the assumption of the title of " universal 
 bishop.''' He went so far as to assert that " the first bishop who 
 should assume it, would thereby deserve the name of Anti- 
 christ." From that time to the present day, the testimony that 
 the Church of Rome is Babylon, has never been dropped; and 
 though, through all the middle ages, this view was held at 
 great risk, and peril, we can trace an unbroken succession of 
 witnesses, each one bolder and more decided than the last, up 
 to the time when Luther and the Reformers sounded aloud over 
 Europe the trumpet-call, " Come out of her, my people, that ye 
 be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her 
 plagues." 
 
 The argument, therefore, that the Protestant interpretation 
 is a modern innovation, unknown to the first fathers of the 
 Christian church, is valueless. We must now briefly examine 
 the considerations which prove it to be the true view. 
 
 And first, seeing the rise, pretensions, persecutions, domina- 
 tion, and decay, of the Papal Church, have been beyond all 
 controversy the greatest and most important facts in chtirch 
 history, is it not incredible, that the prophecy intended to 
 guide and sustain the church all through its course, should not 
 allude to these facts, or even glance at the existence of this 
 church ? And yet, if Babylon be not the Papal Church, we 
 must agree with Bossuet, that that church is 7iot so much as 
 7nentioned in the whole Apocalypse. 
 
 And wherefore should so elaborate a prophecy, have been 
 given about the character and doom of Rome Pagan, which 
 was sacked by Alaric a.d. 410? Was it for a brief period 
 of about 300 years only, that tlie Apocalypse was to aflbrd 
 guidance, support, and instruction to the church? Even 
 admitting this improbability, what were the few, who in this
 
 FORETOLD AXD FULFILLED, 
 
 case were alone to benefit by the prophecy to learn from it? 
 To shun heathen idolatry ? Not to bow down to the many 
 gods of the Pantheon? Not to burn incense to Jupiter? But 
 it did not need the Apocalypse to teach them that. Surely 
 the martyrs who died in multitudes before this last prophecy 
 was given to the church, had learned that lesson without its 
 aid ! The early Christians were in no danger of relapsing into 
 heathen idolatry ; but a Christian idolatry was to arise ; Anti- 
 christ was to sit on the throne of Christ, in God's temple ; a 
 fearful apostasy was to take place in the church itself; it was 
 an object well worthy of Divine inspiration, to indicate tliis 
 nczu and specious form of evil, which, rising slowly and imper- 
 ceptibly, was destined to attain such gigantic proportions, and 
 to endure for more than a thousand years. 
 
 But there are statements in the prophecy itself, which entirely 
 preclude its application to Pagan Rome, and its Gothic destruc- 
 tion. This harlot city, Babylon, rules and rides upon the Roman 
 beast in its ten horned state. Now the ten crowned horns, or 
 ten kingdoms, of the Roman empire, did not make their appear- 
 ance until after the barbarian eruptions, and the sack of Rome 
 by Alaric. Rome Papal, on the other hand, rose into power 
 simultaneously with these ten kingdoms, who " gave their power 
 and strength " to her. Rome Papal ruled rulers, who voluntarily 
 submitted to her authority, as is here predicted. Rome Pagan 
 never did any such thing, she put down all kings, and ruled over 
 them against their 7L'ill. When did ten kingdoms agree to give 
 their power to Imperial Rome? Never! To Papal Rome? 
 T/ironghoiit the dark ages ! By her alluring devices, she obtained 
 their tuilling subjection, and she still claims it as her due. 
 To every Pontiff who assumes the tiara she says, " Know thyself 
 to be the father of kings and princes, the ruler of the world." 
 
 The prophecy further represents, that the harlot shall ulti- 
 mately be destroyed by the ten kingdoms which had previously 
 supported her. The destruction of Rome Pagan was not bj 
 old friends, but by new enemies, who had never been in sub- 
 jection to it, and cannot therefore be regarded as a fulfilment 
 of this prophecy.
 
 FORETOLD AND FULFILLED. 
 
 A further proof is found, in the condition to which Babylon 
 is, as represented here, reduced by her overthrow. She be- 
 comes " the liabitation of devils, the hold of every foul spirit, 
 and the cage of every unclean and hateful bird." Now if the 
 fall of Babylon be the sack of Rome by Alaric, this suhscqjtcni 
 condition must denote the state of Koine C/n-isiian, a portrait 
 Roman Catholics will hardly care to appropriate. It is added, 
 that Babylon is to be burnt with fire and become utterly deso- 
 late, and that she is to be plunged like a great millstone into 
 the sea. But neither of these prophecies were fulfilled, in the 
 Gothic destruction of Rome, and they must therefore be still 
 unfulfilled ; in other words, their fulfilment must occur, in 
 connection with Rome Papal, and not with Rome Pagan. 
 
 St. John saw this Babylonian harlot in a state of intoxication, 
 " drunken with the blood of saints, and of the martyrs of Jesus ;'' 
 at which he says he " wondered with great admiration." This is 
 a proof that Jie did not conceive the symbol to \>xq\\<^\\xq. hcatJicji 
 Rome. It could have caused him no astonishment that the 
 heathen city should persecute Christianity. He was painfully 
 familiar with that characteristic of the Roman Empire, having 
 seen thousands of his fellow-Christians martyred, and been all 
 but a martyr himself. But that Rome should not only become 
 a Christian church, but, being such, should be also a bitterer 
 persecutor of Christians, than ever heathen Rome had been, 
 this was indeed astonishing, and John might well wonder ! 
 
 That the Church of Rome deserves pre-eminently to be 
 stigmatized as " drunk with the blood of saints," cannot be 
 disputed. What other church ever established an Inquisition, 
 instigated a St. Bartholomew, and gloried in her shame in 
 having done so? What other Christian church has slain yf//j' 
 millions of Christians for no crime hut Christianity, as she lias 
 done? 
 
 The Babylonian harlot is represented as enthroned upon 
 many waters, which are nations and peoples. She is not only 
 a church, but a church rulin^^ nations; that is, she claims a 
 temporal as v/cU as a spiritual sway. She governs the beast
 
 152 FORETOLD AND FULFILLED. 
 
 and his ten horns ; and so unites a civil and a rehgious supre- 
 macy. Now this is one of the most striking characteristics of 
 the Church of Rome, and of that church only. Other churches 
 may be so united to the State, that the State assumes the un- 
 lawful right to govern ihcin ; but no other church assumes the 
 right to govern the State, yea, and all States, and to make all 
 men her subjects. Rome did this, and does so still, even in 
 her decrepitude and decay. She claims two swords, she holds 
 two keys, she crowns her Pontiff with two crowns, the one a 
 mitre of universal bishopric ; the other, a tiara of universal 
 dominion. " There is indeed a mystery on the forehead of the 
 Church of Rome, in the union of these tivo supremacies ; and it 
 has often proved a 7nystery of iniquity. It has made the holiest 
 mysteries subservient to the worst passions ; it has excited re- 
 bellion on the plea of religion ; it has interdicted the last spiritual 
 consolations to the dying, and Christian interment to the dead, 
 for the sake of revenge, or from the lust of power. It has for- 
 bidden to marry, and yet has licensed the unholiest marriages. 
 It has professed friendship for kings, and has invoked blessings 
 on regicides and usurpers. It has transformed the anniversary 
 of the institution of the Lord's Supper, into a season of male- 
 diction, . . . and fulminated curses according to its will. 
 Pius IX., in the year 1S48, addressed the people of Rome thus, 
 " It is one of the many great blessings which God has lavished 
 on Italy, that mir three millions of subjects should have two 
 hundred milliotis of brother subjects of ei^ery language and nation!^ 
 So that to the present day, Rome, by her extravagant and 
 guilty claims, does all in her power to identify herself with the 
 harlot of the Apocalypse, who sits upon many waters, which 
 are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues." 
 
 The title emblazoned on the brow of this mystic woman, is 
 not only "Babylon the great"; but " mother of harlots and 
 ABOMINATIONS of the earth." This word ^^ abomi/tations" 
 designates, as is well known, idols. * The literal ancient 
 
 * Sec IIyslop'5 " Two Babylons."
 
 FORETOLD AND FULFILLED. ,53 
 
 Babylon, was the mother of ahiiost all the lilcml idolatries, 
 that the earth has ever known. The spiritual Babylon is hera 
 charged with being a source and fountain of spiritual idolatry ; 
 in other words, it is here predicted, that the Church of Rome 
 would be an idolatrous church. 
 
 It needs but to recall a few of the world-wide and long- 
 enduring customs of that church, to prove how strikingly this 
 prediction has been fulfilled. Rome enjoins the worship of a 
 bread-god— the wafer, or sacrament ; and anathematizes all who 
 refuse to render it. The Council of Trent plainly declares the 
 doctrine of transubstantiation, that the bread and wine in the 
 sacrament are " changed into our Lord Jesus Christ, true God 
 and true man," and adds, " there is therefore now no room to 
 doubt, that all the faithful in Christ, are bound to venerate this 
 holy sacrament, and to render thereto the worship of iatria, 
 which is due to the true God. ... If any one shall say, 
 that this holy sacrament should not be adored, nor carried 
 about in processions, nor held up publicly to the people, to 
 adore it, or that its worshippers are idolaters, let hi/n be 
 accursed." This worship is rendered to " the Host " by 
 Roman Catholics, not only when it is elevated at the time of 
 the sacrament, but whenever it is carried in procession in the 
 streets. All persons are by the sound of a bell, admonished to 
 worship the passing God, and accursed if they refuse. On all 
 the millions of her members in every land, Rome enjoins as a 
 solemn and indispensable duty, the adoration of a bit of bread 
 which a man may eat or a mouse may nibble. 
 
 Millions of martyrs have perished for protesting against this 
 idolatry, and asserting that it is blasphemy to say, man can first 
 make God, and then eat him ; a creed more degrading than any 
 that the heathen hold. In the days when the " Corpus Christi" 
 procession was a most imposing and dazzling ceremony, when 
 friars, and monks, and priests, and prebends, and canons, and 
 bishops, and archbishops, in varied and splendid costumes 
 attended the bread-god through the streets of crowded cities, 
 amid the clang of bells, bands of military music, choral hymns,
 
 FORETOLD AXD FULFILLED. 
 
 and clouds of incense, it was no easy matter for a heretic to 
 escape detection. From the moment the Host came in sight, 
 until it had passed right out of the range of vision, the multi- 
 tudes were commanded to bow in profound adoration and awe ! 
 And woe to the man who dared to do otherwise, the Inquisi- 
 tion speedily became his home, and the auto dafc his portion. 
 
 Nor is this the worst form of Rome's idolatry : her mari- 
 ohitry — her worship of the Virgin, is worse. We hesitate to 
 record the profane blasphemies found in the writings of the 
 Popes, prelates, and divines of Rome on this subject. Entire 
 litanies of supplication are addressed to the Virgin ; attributes 
 which are the glory of God alone, are ascribed to her ; the 
 most extravagant and fantastic devotions are offered at her 
 shrines ; the whole of the hundred and fifty Psalms of David, 
 have been altcixi, so as to substitute for the Great Jehovali, 
 the Virgin Mary, as an object of prayer and praise and holy 
 trust : " Into thy hands I commend my spirit, O Lady, in thee 
 have I reposed my hope ! Blessed is the man that loveth thy 
 name, O holy Virgin, thy grace shall strengthen his soul. In 
 thee, O Lady, have I hoped, I shall never be put to shame.'' 
 This " Psalter of Bonaventura, Cardinal Bishop of Albano," 
 has never been disowned, or prohibited by the Church of 
 Rome. 
 
 How completely the human mother has taken the place of 
 her Divine Son, in the minds of Roman Catholics, may be 
 gathered from a favourite story recorded by St. Francis. A 
 monk had a vision ; he saw two ladders : one red, at the 
 summit of which was Jesus Christ ; and the other white, at the 
 top of which presided his blessed mother. He observed, that 
 many who endeavoured to ascend the first ladder, after mount- 
 ing a few steps, fell down ; and on trying again, were equally 
 unsuccessful, so that they never attained the summit ; but a 
 voice having told them to make trial of the white ladder, they 
 soon gained the top, the blessed Virgin having held forth her 
 hands to help them ! False doctrines, such as the fabulous 
 " assumption of the Virgin" and the unscriptural ''immacu-
 
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 late conception," are freely invented by the Church of Rome, 
 to justify this idolatrous adoration of the creature ; the latter, 
 promulgated so lately as 1S54, by the Pope in St. Feter's, in 
 the presence of two hundred bishops, filled the Catholic 
 Church with joy. The following passage is from an encyclical 
 letter of Pius IX. : — 
 
 " But that our most merciful Lord may the more readily lend 
 an car to our prayers, and grant our petitions, let us ever call 
 upon the most holy mother of God, the immaculate Virgin 
 Mary, to intercede with Him ; for she is the fond mother of us 
 all, our mediatrix, our advocate, our securest and greatest 
 hope, than whose interposition with God, nothing can be 
 stronger, nothing more influential !"' 
 
 The " Te Deum " itself, has been parodied, in honour of 
 Mary, " We praise thee, O Mother of God ! we acknowledge 
 thee, O Virgin Mary ! All the earth doth worship thee, the 
 spouse of the everlasting Father ! Holy, holy, holy, Mary, 
 Mother and Virgin. The church throughout all the world 
 joins in calling on thee, the Mother of the Divine INIajesty!" 
 And the creeds, have in like manner been parodied. 
 
 Nor is it the Virgin alone who is worshipped. Images of 
 her — mere dolls, are also adored ; witness the degrading cere- 
 mony of the annual " coronation of the Virgin," in which the 
 Pope himself takes part ; witness the worship of the " Ma- 
 donna of the Augustinians ■'' and other Madonnas. Mariolatry, 
 among the ignorant masses, is pure image worship, idolatry in 
 its most sensual and childish form, the adoration of a doll ! 
 
 Space forbids more than a passing allusion to the other 
 forms of idol worship, characterizing the Romish Church, the 
 worship of the " wooden cross," the worship of the " bam- 
 bmo," the worship of the image of St. Peter, the worship of 
 saints, the worship of relics, and similar profanities. When the 
 subject is even superficially examined, the conviction that 
 Rome Papal has exceeded Rome Pagan, in the degradation 
 of her idolatries, becomes irresistible ; and the mind is over- 
 whelmed with admiration of the wisdom and foreknowledge
 
 156 FORETOLD AND FULFILLED. 
 
 of the inspiring Spirit, who prefigured, ages before it existed, 
 the Church of Rome, as the '' mother of abominations " or 
 " idols." 
 
 To conclude — in the true and eloquent words of another — 
 "The Holy Spirit, foreseeing, no doubt, that the Church of 
 Rome would adulterate the truth by many gross and grievous 
 abominations ; that she would anathematize all who would not 
 communicate with her, and denounce them as cut off from the 
 body of Christ and the hope of everlasting salvation; foreseeing 
 also that Rome would exercise a wide and dominant sway for 
 many generations, by boldly iterated assertions of unity, anti- 
 quity, sanctity, and universality ; foreseeing also that these pre- 
 tensions would be supported by the civil sword of many secular 
 governments, among which the Roman empire would be divided 
 at its dissolution, and that Rome would thus be enabled to 
 display herself to the world in an august attitude of imperial 
 power, and with the dazzling splendour of temporal felicity . 
 foreseeing also that the Church of Rome would captivate the 
 imaginations of men, by the fascinations of art allied with 
 religion, and would ravish their senses, and rivet their admir- 
 ation, by gaudy colours, and stately pomp, and prodigal magnifi 
 cence ; foreseeing also that she would beguile their credulity 
 by miracles and mysteries, apparitions and dreams, trances and 
 ecstasies, and would appeal to such evidence in support of her 
 strange doctrines ; foreseeing likewise that she would enslave 
 men, and (much more) women, by practising on their affec- 
 tions, and by accommodating herself with dangerous pliancy to 
 their weakness, relieving them from the burden of thought, and 
 from the perplexity of doubt, by proffering them the aid of 
 infallibility ; soothing the sorrows of the mourner by dispens- 
 ing pardon, and promising peace to the departed ; removing 
 the load of guilt from the oppressed conscience, by the minis- 
 tries of the confessional, and by nicely poised compensations for 
 sin ; and that she would flourish for many centuries in proud 
 and prosperous impunity, before her sins would reach to heaven, 
 and come in remembrance before God ; foreseeing also that
 
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 many generations of men would t!ms be tempted to f:ill from 
 the faith, and to become victims of deadly error ; and that 
 they Avho clung to the truth would be exposed to cozening 
 flatteries, and fierce assaults, and savage tortures, from her ; 
 the Holy Spirit, we say, foreseeing all these things, in his 
 Divine knowledge, and being the ever blessed Teacher, Guide, 
 and Comforter of the church, was graciously pleased to pro- 
 vide a heavenly antidote, for all these dangerous, wide-spread, 
 and long-enduring evils, by dictating the Apocalypse. In this 
 Divine book, the Spirit of God has portrayed the Church of 
 Rome, such as none but He could have foreseen that she would 
 become, and such as, wonderful and lamentable to say, she 
 has become. He has thus broken her magic spells : He has 
 taken the wand of enchantment from her hand ; He has lifted 
 the mask from her face, and with his Divine hand. He has 
 written her true character in large letters, and has planted her 
 title on her forehead, to be seen and read of all, " Mystery, 
 Babylon the Great, the mother of harlots and abominations 
 of the earth." 
 
 The Church of Rome holds in her hand the Apocalypse, the 
 Revelation of Jesus Christ ; she acknowledges it to be Divine. 
 Wonderful to say, she founds her claims on those very grounds 
 which identify her with the faithless church, the Apocalyptic 
 Babylon. As follows : — 
 
 1. The Church of Rome boasts of universality : 
 
 And the harlot is seated on many waters, which are nations 
 and peoples and tongues. 
 
 2. The Church of Rome arrogates indefectibility : 
 And the harlot says that she is a queen for ever. 
 
 3. The Church of Rome vaunts of temporal felicity, and 
 claims supremacy over all : 
 
 And the harlot has kings at her feet. 
 
 4. The Church of Rome prides herself on working miracles : 
 And the minister of the harlot makes fire to descend from 
 
 heaven. 
 
 5. The Church of Rome points to the unity of all her mem-
 
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 bers in one creed, and to their subjection under one supreme 
 visible head : 
 
 And the harlot requires all to receive her mark, and to drink 
 of her cup. 
 
 llence it appears that Rome's notes of the church, are marks 
 of the harlot : Rome's trophies of triumph, are stigmas of her 
 shame ; the very claims which she makes to be Zion, confirm 
 the proof that she is Babylon. 
 
 We have been contemplating the two mysteries of the 
 Apocalypse. The word "mystery" signifies something spiritual; 
 it here describes a church. The first mystery is explained to us 
 by Christ Himself : "Tiie mystery of tlie seven stars which thou 
 sawest ; the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, 
 and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest, are the seven 
 churches." The second mystery is explained also : " I will 
 tell thee the mystery of the woman. The woman is tJiat great 
 city which reigneth over the kings of the earth." 
 
 The first mystery is the mystery of the seven stars. 
 
 The second mystery is the mystery of the seven hills. 
 
 The first mystery represents the universal church in its 
 sevenfold fulness, containing within it all particular churches. 
 
 The second mystery represents a particular church, the 
 church on seven hills, the Church of Rome, claiming to be 
 the church universal. 
 
 The first mystery represents tJie universal cJnirch, liable to 
 defects, but not imposing errors as terms of communion ; and, 
 therefore, by virtue of the word and the sacraments, held to- 
 gether in apostolic communion with St. John, and with Christ, 
 v/ho walketh in the midst of it, and governed by an apostolic 
 ministry, shining Hke a glorious constellation, in the hand of 
 Christ. 
 
 The second mystery represents the particular CJiurch of 
 Rome, holding the cup of her false doctrines in her hand, and 
 making all nations to drink thereof. 
 
 The first is a mystery of godliness. 
 
 The second is a mystery of iniquity."
 
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 The foregoing is quoted from an admirable pamphlet, entitled, 
 " Babylon ; or, the Question examined, Is the Church of Rome the 
 Babylon of the Apocalypse?" by Chr. Wordsworth, D.D., Canon of 
 Westminster (present Bishop of Lincoln). This book may fairly be called 
 an unanswerable argument for an affirmative reply to the above inquiry. 
 In 1850 the author challenged the Church of Rome to answer his argument 
 in the following words : " If any minister oc member of the Church of 
 Rome, can disprove this conclusion, he is hereby invited to do so. If he 
 can, doubtless he ivill ; and if none attempt it, it may be presumed that 
 they cannot ; and, if they cannot, then, as they love their salvation, they 
 ought to embrace the truth which is preached to them, by the mouth of 
 St. John, and by the voice of Christ." Sixteen years ago, when the above 
 work was published, the author reiterated the challenge, and no reply has 
 as yet been made to it by any member of the Church of Rome ! '• Si,:c-:h- 
 less J " " Guilty before God."
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 The Man of Sin, or Antichrist. 
 a great fourfold prophecy of fundamental importance 
 
 (dan. VII. 7-27 ; REV. XIII. 1-9 ; REV. XVII. ; 2 THESS. II.). — 
 THE ROMAN POWER. — ITS LAST FORM AS PREDICTED HERE. — 
 INDIVIDUAL AND DYNASTIC USE OF THE WORD " KING." — 
 AN APOSTATE, BLASPHEMOUS, AND PERSECUTING POWER, — 
 EXACTLY ANSWERING TO THE ONE HERE PREDICTED, HAS 
 BEEN IN EXISTENCE FOR MORE THAN TWELVE CENTURIES, 
 IN THE SUCCESSION OF THE POPES OF ROME. — ORIGIN OF 
 THIS POWER. — ITS MORAL CHARACTER. — ITS SELF-EXALTING 
 UTTERANCES. — ITS SELF-EXALTING ACTS. — ITS SUBTLETIES, 
 FALSE DOCTRINES, AND LYING WONDERS. — ITS IDOLATRIES. 
 — ITS DOMINION. — ITS PERSECUTION OF THE SAINTS. — ITS 
 DURATION. — ITS DOOM. 
 
 INTIMATELY associated with the Apocalyptic prophecy 
 of Babylon the Great, which foretold, as we have seen, the 
 existence, character, career, anu aoom, of the apostate church 
 of Rome, is another prophecy so closely related to it, that the 
 one cannot fairly be considered apart from the other. 
 
 The woman which symbolises the corrupt church, is seen 
 seated on a " scarlet-coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, 
 having seven heads and ten horns." As the angelic interpre- 
 tation connects the woman with Rome, by the words : " the 
 woman which thou sawcst is that great city which ruleth over the 
 kings of the earth," so it also connects tliis "beast" with Rome; 
 for, interpreting its seven heads as seven successive forms ot 
 government, the angel says of them, "five are fallen, and one 
 IS." Under one of its seven forms, then, the power here in- 
 tended was the riding power in the days when the Apocalypse 
 was granted. That power was, as we know, the Roman Em-
 
 FORETOLD AND FULFILLED. i6i 
 
 pirej it was by the tyrant Domitian that the Apostle John was 
 exiled to Patmos, and it was under the Pagan persecutions of 
 the Roman Emperors, that the saints of that age were suffering 
 martyrdom. 
 
 The past as well as the future history of this power, is sketched 
 by the angel. Five of its forms of government had, at that 
 time, already passed away. The sixth was then in existence, a 
 seventh was to follow and last a short time, and then should 
 come the eighth and last ; and it was on the beast as governed 
 by this eighth and last head, that the woman was seen seated. 
 Speaking of the "heads," or forms of government, the angel 
 says, " Five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet 
 come, and when he cometh he must continue a short space ; 
 and the beast which thou sawest . . .he is the eighth, 
 and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition."' 
 
 This scarlet-coloured beast is then a symbol of the final form 
 of the Roman poiacr, the last phase of that power whose entire 
 course is represented by the fourth great beast of Daniel. (Dan. 
 vii.) A careful perusal of these prophecies, leaves no room to 
 doubt, that the same power is symbolised a third time in the 
 " beast from the abyss," described in the thirteenth chapter of 
 Revelation. These scriptures present a threefold prophetic 
 history, of one and the same power; and that power, beyond all 
 question, is the great, the terrible, the exceeding strong, Ro.man 
 Empire, the fourth universal monarchy from that of Babylon, 
 the one which, both in Daniel's vision of the four beasts, and in 
 Nebuchadnezzar's vision of the image, is represented as con- 
 tinuing, till the establishment of the everlasting kingdom of the 
 God of heaven. 
 
 In common with the three preceding empires this power is re- 
 presented as a beast, that is as degraded, ignorant, and ferocious. 
 Daniel, in the days of Belshazzar, long before the first Advent, 
 saw it as a <?;/r-headcd beast , John in the days of Domitian, 
 when it had already been more than eight centuries in existence, 
 saw it as a ^t'zr«-headcd beast, fuller detail being naturally 
 revealed to the later seer. 
 
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 l62 FORETOLD AND FULFILLED. 
 
 As a matter of fact, the great Roman power, did actually 
 exist under seven distinct and constantly recognised forms of 
 government, enumerated by Livy, Tacitus, and historians in 
 general, as such. Rome was ruled successively by kings, con- 
 suls, dictators, decemvirs, military tribunes, military emperors, 
 and despotic emperors ; the form of government being entirely 
 dissimilar under these two last, though the name Emperor was 
 common to both. 
 
 This empire is represented as existing first in an undivided 
 state, and secondly in a divided tenfold state. As a matter of 
 history, it is notorious that the Roman power has done this. 
 From its rise to the fourth century it was one and undivided ; 
 since its decline and fall as an empire, it has been broken up 
 Mito many independent sovereignties, held together by a com- 
 mon submission to the Popes of Rome. The number of dis- 
 tinct kingdoms into which the Roman Empire in Europe has 
 been divided, has always been about ten, at times exactly ten, 
 sinking at other times to eight or nine, and rising occasionally 
 to twelve or thirteen, but averaging on the whole tc7i.'^ This 
 is generally admitted, and indeed cannot be denied ; the fact 
 lies on the surface of the history of Europe since the break-up 
 of the Roman Empire, and serves as an important clue to the 
 true scope and fulfilment of these predictions. 
 
 The point of supreme importance, in connection with this 
 thrice-symbolised Roman Empire, is (to judge from the great 
 prominence given to it by the inspiring Spirit), its connection in 
 its second stage with ^. peculiar and diabolical power of roil, the 
 
 • •' It seems unnecessary," says Wordsworth, present Bishop of Lincohi, 
 " to specify ten particular kingdoms into which the Roman Empire was 
 divided ; or even to demonstrate that it was divided into precisely tat 
 kingdoms. The most ancient passage of Scripture in which the prophecy 
 of the future division of the Roman Empire is found, is the vision of the 
 image ^Dan. ii. 42), where these kingdoms are represented by the toes of 
 the image. Being toes they must be ten. Hence, when this dismember- 
 ment is described in otlicr successive prophecies this denary number is re- 
 tained : and thus the number /c'« connects all tliese pro])hecies together, 
 and serves to show that tlicy all point to the uame object." (\V(jrdsworth 
 cn llie Apocalypse, y. 5-:4.;
 
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 rise, character, and actings of which, are delineated with greater 
 fiihiess, than are those of the Empire itself. It is evident that 
 the " little horn " of Dan. vii., and the " eighth head " of the 
 beast in Rev. xiii. and wii. represent some iinportant and 
 mysferioiis pojvcr of evil, distinct from, and yet connected with, 
 the Roman Empire, in its second or divided stage. How im- 
 portant this power is in the Divine estimation, may be gathered 
 from the fact, that more than ten times as much space 
 devoted to a description 01 //, than is occupied by the whole 
 course and continuance, of either of the first three universal 
 monarchies. These are each dismissed in a single verse ; the 
 little horn occupies ten or eleven, as if ten times more import- 
 ance were attached to this strange power destined to arise in 
 ^he second stage of the Roman dominion, than to any one of 
 the vast and mighty empires of antiquity. INIoreover, it is 
 evidently the character and actings of this horn, or head, or 
 power, that determine the doom of the beast. 
 
 Before we inquire what iltis power is, we must associate a 
 fourth prophecy with these three, and consider very briefly St. 
 Paul's prediction of the man of sin. 
 
 " Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Clirist, 
 and by our gathering together unto Him, that ye be not soon sliakcn in 
 mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from 
 us, as that the day of Clirist is at hand. Let no man deceive you by any 
 means : for that day shall not come, except there come A falli.ng away 
 first, and that MAN of sin be revealed, the SON of perdition ; who 
 opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is 
 worshipped ; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing him- 
 self that he is God. Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I 
 told you tliese things ? And now YE KNOW what withholdcth that he miglit 
 be revealed in his time. For the mystery of iniquity doth already work : 
 only he who now lettetli will let, until he be taken out of the way. And 
 then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom tlie Lord shall consume with 
 the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brigli tness of his coming : 
 even him, whose coming is after ///e '^vorkiti:; of Satan with all power and 
 signs and lying wonders, and with all dcccivablencss of unrighteousness 
 in tiicm tlial perisli ; because they received not the love of the Irulli, that 
 they might be saved. And for liiis cause (iod .siiali .send thcni strong 
 delusion, that they sliouM luliwc a Tie " (2 7//<-.'.f. ii. l-ll).
 
 l64 FORETOLD AND FULFILLED. 
 
 In this passage, Paul, — in his endeavour to remove from the 
 minds of the Thessalonians, the erroneous expectation of the 
 immediate advent of Christ, which they were entertaining, and 
 which they had perhaps derived from the expression in his 
 previous epistle, "we who are alive and remain,'" — reminds them 
 of something he had before told them, that certain events had 
 to intervene, that an apostasy had to take place in the church, 
 whose incipient workings might already be detected. It was to 
 issue in the development of a terrible power of evil, which he 
 proceeds to describe, but which he tells them, could not be 
 fully manifested, till a certain hindrance, (and what that is, he 
 adds, ^^ you knoiv") should be removed. 
 
 The very earliest traditions tell us, that the hindrance here 
 alluded to was the Roman Empire as then existing, and that 
 Paul having previously byword of mouth made known that fact 
 to the church, avoided, from prudential reasons, more exphcit 
 reference to it in this written communication. He did not 
 wish to expose the persecuted Christians to fresh dangers, by 
 putting into the hand of their enemies, proof of what would by 
 them have been considered, a seditious creed. 
 
 Tradition is often an unsafe guide ; but in this case it seems 
 peculiarly entitled to respect. The point was both an im- 
 portajit, and a simple one ; those who received the information 
 from the apostle were not likely to forget it, and could scarcely 
 err in repeating it ; and from no other source than tradition, 
 could the church of later ages learn, a fact, cofumuiiicated by 
 word of mouth o?ily, [xn6 purposely omitted from the inspired 
 letter of the apostle. We may therefore be thankful, that the 
 tradition as to what this hindrance was, is of a very early date, 
 is explicit, and agrees with what we learn from other scriptures ; 
 as well as that there is no counter-tradition on the point. 
 From Irenxus, the disciple of Polycarp, the contemporary of 
 St. John, we first hear, that the hindrance mentioned by Paul 
 when he was with the Thessalonians, and alluded to in his 
 second epistle, was the Roman E.mpire ; and from him down- 
 wards the fathers are unanimous in this assertion. Paul says
 
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 to the early chuj-ch, " ye know ;" the early church, (though not 
 the identical generation,) tell us what they knew, and who are 
 we, that we should say they are mistaken ? How can lue be in 
 a position to correct tJieir error ? 
 
 Besides, there is the strongest presumption that they were 
 right, for how should Irenoeus and the fathers invent such an 
 improbable notion ? They were far more likely to imagine the 
 Roman Emperor to be Antichrist, than to imagine him to be 
 the great obstacle to Antichrist's development ■ Its truth alone 
 can account for the existence of this tradition, at the date at 
 which we first meet it. 
 
 The point is important, because his connection with the 
 Roman Empire, is one of the links in the chain of evidence, 
 which proves, that the " man of sin " and " son of perdition " 
 here foretold, is identical with the power described in the three 
 prophecies we have just considered. He was to reign at 
 Rome, else why would the then regnant power be a hindrance 
 to his development ? He was to succeed soon after the fall of 
 the Roman Emperors, " then shall that wicked be revealed ;" 
 he was to emanate from Satan, " whose coming is after the 
 working of Satan ;" he was to wield an ecclesiastical power, 
 though succeeding purely secular rulers, " the temple of God," 
 or Christian church, being the special scene of his ostentation 
 and pride ; he was to be an opposer of Christ and his laws ; 
 and he was to be consumed like the " little horn," by the bright- 
 ness of Christ's coming. In all these respects, the power here 
 foretold by Paul exactly resembles that predicted by Daniel 
 and John, and as two such powers could not co-exist, it must 
 be the same power. Its rise, actings, character, and doom, are 
 here foretold in plain words, while in the other prophecies, they 
 are veiled in symbolic language. 
 
 In seeking the fulfilment of this fourfold prediction, we must 
 therefore combine the features given in each separate ])rophccy, 
 and, recognising the principle of progressive revelation, we 
 must modify the views derived from the earlier, by the later 
 prophecies, and those derived from the later by the latest.
 
 1 66 FORETOLD AXD FULFILLED. 
 
 The particulars revealed about this great and peculiar power 
 of evil, or " man of sin," are neither few nor vague ; but, like 
 tliose given by the spirit of prophecy respecting the Lord Jesus 
 Christ before his advent, — they are numerous, full, and most 
 definite. They comprise explicit information as to the time, 
 place, and mode of his origin, and as to the attendant circum- 
 stances ; they assign to him various and deeply significant 
 names ; they describe his character and his actings toward God 
 and toward man ; his official position ; his pride ; his idola- 
 tries ; his blasphemies ; his lying wonders and false miracles ; 
 tlie extent of his dominion ; his coadjutors ; his persecutions 
 of the saints of God ; his opposition to the Lamb of God ; the 
 duration of his prosperity and power; the causes of his decay 
 and fall ; his end, and his eternal portion. There is added, 
 besides, a mysterious numerical mark, designed to secure his 
 recognition by the wise. This is indeed the object for which 
 this prophetic portrait is given to the church, tliat she might 
 recognise her great enemy when he should appear, be sustained 
 in her sufferings under him, and be encouraged to resist him 
 even to blood. It is not a portrait easily to be mistaken : the 
 features are too terrible and too peculiar, to belong to more 
 than one incarnation of evil. 
 
 Interpreting, then, by the help of Scripture itself, the symbols 
 under which realities are veiled, and blending in our minds the 
 scattered intimations of this fourfold prophecy of the man of 
 sin, and son of perdition, wc will endeavour to point out the 
 power, that in every respect answers to the portrait, sketched 
 by the pen of inspiration. That power we are fully persuaded, 
 and hope' to be able to prove to the satisfaction of every un- 
 prejudiced reader, is, the succession of the Roman Pontiffs, the 
 line of tiara-crowned monarchs, who for more than twelve 
 centuries governed Papal Europe, who ranked as temporal 
 sovereigns, and united under their sway the kingdoms of 
 western Christendom. 
 
 As the Futurist school of interpreters hold a contrary view 
 to this, and maintain that tlie fourfold prophecy in question
 
 FORETOLD AND FULFILLED. 1C7 
 
 refers to a single individual, and not to a succession of rulers, 
 we must examine the symbols employed, and the statements 
 made in these predictions, to see which view has most Scripture 
 authority. 
 
 In Daniel's vision, the power in question is represented as 
 a horn of the Roman beast — " a little horn." Now a horn in 
 these symbolical prophecies signifies sometimes an individual 
 king, and sometimes a dynasty or race of rulers. In the 
 " notable horn " of the he-goat, or Grecian Empire, universally 
 admitted to have prefigured Alexander the Great, wc have an 
 instance of the use of the symbol in the former sense ; and in 
 the " four horns," which came up in the place of that notable 
 horn, and represented the dynasties of the Ptolemies, the Seleu- 
 cid;T2, etc., we have an instance of its use in the latter sense. 
 
 It is an exceedingly important inquiry, in luhich sense is 
 the symbol used in the prophecy we are considering. Are the 
 ten horns and their cotemporary the " little horn '' individual 
 rulers, or are they races of rulers ? We turn to the angelic 
 interpretation of the vision for additional light. " The ten 
 horns are the ten kifigs which shall arise, and another shall rise 
 after them." If the word '■ king" here, necessarily signifies an 
 individual monarch, the question is answered ; the ten horns 
 must be ten individual kings, and their cotemporary, the 
 " little horn," must in that case be an individual also. If this 
 be so, the Futurists are right ; for since we know the " man of 
 sin " is to be in existence at the coming of Christ, it follows, 
 that his career \s future; since an individual can live only the 
 ordinary life of mortals. Jf we say again, a " king " must 
 signify one man, and not a race of men, then the whole Pro- 
 testant system of interpretation is erroneous ; then the in- 
 numerable multitude of martyrs, confessors, and commentators, 
 who have deemed that they recognised Antichrist, and heard 
 his voice, and felt his oppressions, were deluded, and betrayed 
 into gross perversion of the word of God ; then the Waldenses, 
 and the Wickliffites, and John Huss, and Jerome of Prague, 
 and all their fellow-sufferers were deceived on tiiis most
 
 i68 FORETOLD AND FULFILLED. 
 
 important subject ; and then, moreover, the event, which the 
 church of the 19th century has to expect, is not the speedy 
 coming of Christ, but, as the Futurists assert, the very same 
 that the Thessalonians of the first century were directed to look 
 for, a prior advent and revelation of Antichrist. 
 
 It is therefore a momentous inquiry, which must not be 
 lightly passed over, Docs the word " X'/;/^''," ui coiiunon aiid in 
 Scripture usage, necessarily meoJi an individual! On the answer 
 to this question, depends in great measure our judgment, as to 
 whether the long-predicted Antichrist is a past and present 
 power, or whether we are still to look forward to his reign as 
 a future event. 
 
 It is a maxim of the English Constitution that " the king 
 cannot die." Does that maxim assert the immortality of an 
 individual ? or does i^ not rather assert the perpetuity of the 
 Royal Office "i "The king of England is a constitutional 
 monarch," is a statement, which as much includes Queen 
 Victoria as George III., though she is not a king at all, because 
 it asserts what is characteristic of the whole line of English 
 monarchs. If we read *' the king of Prussia was at war with 
 the emperor of France," we do not imagine that the two men 
 were fighting a duel, but perceive that the word is used in a 
 representative sense, the "king" including his kingdom, and 
 the emperor representing his empire. In ordinary language, 
 then, the word " king " may have a personal, an official, or a 
 representative force ; the context must in each case determine 
 its signification. In treating of brief periods, and trivial 
 events, the word is generally used in \hQ. personal sense; but 
 in treating of long stretches of history, and great abstract 
 principles, in the official or representative sense. 
 
 As far as ordinary usage can be a guide, the extended sense 
 of the word, is therefore most likely to be the true one in the 
 passage under consideration, which treats of the succession of 
 empires, and gives an outline of the world's history to the end 
 of time. 
 
 But wc are not left to tliis presumption ; the prophecy itself
 
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 uses the expression in the extended official sense, immediately 
 before the sentence in question. (Dan. vii. 17.) "These great 
 beasts which are four, are four kings which shall arise out of 
 the earth." Did this mean four individuals? Nay! \)^X.foiir 
 great universal empires, each of which endured for centuries, 
 under a succession of monarchs. 
 
 This proves that the ten horns and the little horn may be 
 dynasties and not individuals ; it does not prove that they 
 must. It shows that Scripture uses the word in both senses, 
 and many confirmatory instances of this official use of it, 
 might be quoted. (Compare Jer. xxv. 9-12 ; xxvii. 6, 7.) 
 
 The great question is, How is it used in the symbolic pro- 
 phecies of Daniel ? A little investigation will show that oiit of 
 six ijistances in tuhich it occurs., five require the extended official 
 sense, and in the other, the two incanings of the word coincide. 
 The probability, therefore, is, that governments, and not in- 
 dividual men, are intended by the ten horns and the little 
 horn. 
 
 A further argument for the same view is found in the fact 
 that these prophecies are evidently continuous. Tliere are no 
 gaps, between the parts of the image seen by Nebuchadnezzar; 
 the ten toes, (which are evidently identical with these ten 
 horns,) are joined on to the legs of iron. The interpretation 
 links the history in the same way. Every subsequent stage 
 follows immediately on the preceding one. There was no 
 interval between the fall of Belshazzar and the rise of Darius 
 the Mede. " In that night he took the kingdom." So in each 
 case. How contrary then to all analogy to suppose an interval 
 of over 1200 years, between the close of the undivided state 
 of the Roman Empire, and the commencement of the divided 
 state, which is presented as immediately succeeding ! And 
 this, when it is an undeniable and notorious y^r/, that a tenfold 
 division did take place immediately after the dissolution of 
 the old Roman Empire, and has continued more or less defi- 
 nitely from that day to this ! 
 
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 to exist as one kingdom, should begin to exist as ten ; history 
 tells us that it did so ; and as we adoringly admire this corre- 
 spondence, between the prediction and the fact. Futurist inter- 
 preters try to persuade us, that the prophecy does not predict 
 this f:ict at all, that the ten horns do not symbolise the ten king- 
 doms into which the old Roman Empire was broken up ; but 
 that, leaping over the twelve ce?ihi7'ics marked by this fact, to a 
 period still future, it predicts the rise, of ten individual men, 
 whose brief career of a few years, is to be terminated by the 
 Epiphany of Christ ! 
 
 Is not this to make the prophecy of God of none effect 
 through their interpretation ? 
 
 And further, as we shall hereafter prove, the clirouolo^j 
 of these visions, is as symbolic as their other features, and is 
 expressed on the year-day scale. The duration assigned to 
 this great power of evil, is therefore 1260 years (time, times, 
 and half a time); and this alone decides the question. The 
 ten horns, and their cotemporary the little horn, represent 
 dynasties, like the four horns of the Grecian he-goat and the 
 two horns of the IMedo-Persian ram. 
 
 The symbol employed in the Apocalyptic prophecy to pre- 
 figure this evil power, equally demands its dynastic character, 
 and forbids the thought that an individual man is intended. 
 It is represented as an eighth head of the Roman beast, an 
 eighth form of government, having its seat at Rome. Now 
 none of the previous "heads" of the Roman world, were 
 individual rulers; but each consisted of a series of rulers. Seven 
 kings formed the first head, and lasted 220 years; consuls, 
 tribunes, decemvirs, and dictators, were the next four heads, 
 and governed Rome in turn for nearly 500 years ; sixty-five 
 emperors followed, and ruled the Roman world for 500 years 
 more. Now the man of sin. Antichrist, is to be the last, a?id 
 the most important '• /lead" of this same Roman beast. If he be 
 a race of rulers enthroned at Rome, and governing thence 
 the Roman world for more than twelve centuries, it is in har- 
 mony with all the rest. But if the eighth head represent one
 
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 individual man, who exeicises nuthority for only three years 
 and a half, there is an utter violation of all symmetry and 
 proportion in the symbjl. Analogy demands that the last 
 head, be like all the previous ones, a race or sttcccssion of rulers. 
 
 The Thessalonian prophecy leads us to the same conclusion. 
 The mystery of iniquity -was already working in the apostle's 
 day ; that mystery which was to result in the development of 
 the man of sin. Now, {/"he be not yet come, and //when he 
 comes he is to reign only three and a half years, we have this 
 extraordinary fact ; that it has taken Satan eighteen or nine- 
 teen centuries to produce this single, short-lived enemy of the 
 church. Redudio ad ahsurduvi ! 
 
 If, on the other hand. Antichrist rose on the fall of the 
 Roman Empire, all is reasonable and natural. Satan worked 
 secretly for three or four centuries, corrupting the church by 
 false doctrine, worldliness, etc., and at last, having gradually 
 prepared the world and the church to receive him, he en- 
 throned the Antichrist at Rome, in a race of rulers, who, com- 
 bining temporal and spiritual power, and using both to hinder 
 the spread of the truth, were to be for more than twelve 
 centuries, his principal agents upon earth. 
 
 It is not denied that the Thessalonian prophecy gives the 
 impression, on a cursory perusal, that it predicts a single in- 
 dividual. This is exactly in harmony with the style of 
 prophetic chronology, with that mysterious year-day system 
 which was selected by God to keep alive the hope and expecta- 
 tion of the coming of Christ, throughout the whole course of the 
 dispensation. Had the dynastic character and real period of 
 the son of perdition been revealed clearly, the return of Christ 
 would to the early Christians, have been postponed to a hope- 
 lessly distant future. But, though the early church knew (after 
 the publication of second Thessalonians) that the advent of 
 Antichrist was to precede the advent of Christ, they supposed 
 he would be an individual, whose period would be brief ; and 
 the expectation formed no hindrance to their watching and 
 waitinir for the Lord's return.
 
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 Many other arguments in favour of the dynastic character 
 of the power answering to the "Uttle horn" and "eighth head," 
 might be adduced ; but these anust suffice. The fulfilment is 
 tJie gnat proof . Such a power as is here predicted, has existed, 
 has done the things this power was to do, has borne the cha- 
 racter and undergone the experiences here described ; it rose 
 at tlie crisis here indicated, lasted the period here assigned, 
 answered in every point with the most marvellous exactitude 
 to these prophetic prefigurations, and was recognised by those 
 who suffered under it, as the power here intended. If a 
 singularly complex lock is opened by a key equally complex 
 in its structure, who doubts that the one was made to fit the 
 other? 
 
 So copious is the evidence, of the fulfilment in the history 
 of the Popedom of this remarkable fourfold prophecy, that it 
 is almost impossible fairly to present it in a brief compass. 
 Learned and able writers have filled volumes without number, 
 with proofs, that the Papacy has accomplished every clause of 
 these predictions. Every history of the middle ages, every de- 
 scription of the monastic orders, and of the Jesuits, every nar- 
 rative of the Papacy and its proceedings, every bull, and every 
 decretal, issued by the sovereign Pontiffs, many a monument, 
 and many a medal, and many a mournful martyrology, lend 
 their witness to the fact. Space oblige us to confine ourselves 
 here, to the merest outline of the overwhelming mass of historic 
 testimony, that might be adduced on the subject. We append 
 a list of works from which fuller information may be obtained.* 
 
 I. Origin, 
 
 The " little horn," in Daniel, is a horn of the Roman beast, 
 that is a political power, which rules over part of the territory 
 formerly governed by the Ccesars. The eighth head in Revela- 
 tion is similarly a head of the Roman beast, the same beast 
 that was in power when the Apocalypse was written, and had 
 been for centuries previously. Two intimations exist that 
 
 • See Appendix A.
 
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 Rome itself was to be the seat of this ruling power : it is an 
 eighth head, and the seven previous ones had all ruled at Rome; 
 and Paul says that the removal of the Imperial power //vw 
 Rome, was a needful preliminary to its rise. 
 
 As a horn, this power was to be little — " a little horn ;" its 
 dominions were never to be territorially large, nor its inc?-e 
 political influence great ; and yet it was to be more influential 
 and important than all the rest. It was to displace three 
 horns, as it grew up among the ten, but these were apparently 
 to be replaced, for the horns are always spoken of as " ten." 
 Though only a horn, this power has some of the attributes of a 
 head, for its " eyes and mouth " impart to it an incontestable 
 superiority over the rest. In the later vision of John, the same 
 power is represented as a head, an " eighth head," representing 
 a former seventh head, which had received a deadly wound. 
 By both emblems it is presented, as in some important sense 
 a prolongation of the power of the old Roman Empire. The 
 immediately preceding head, or form of government, was to 
 receive a deadly wound, so that the beast should seem to be 
 for a time destroyed ; but under this eighth head it should 
 revive, and become as strong as ever. The one original 
 Empire was to be broken up ; in its stead a number of smaller 
 kingdoms were to arise ; and cotemporaneously with their rise, 
 was to spring up also this mysterious, peculiar, "little horn," 
 this unique and singularly evil power, territorially small, but 
 yet so all-influential, that it would take the lead of the rest, be- 
 come their head, and so reunite, by a new bond, the recently dis- 
 severed and independent portions of the Western Empire of Rome. 
 
 Now to any one familiar with the history of Europe from the 
 division of the Roman Empire, into Plistcrn and Western under 
 Valens and Valentinian, to the time of the Reformation, this 
 prophecy reads like history. So exact, so singularly descriptive 
 is the figuration, that if it were proposed as a problem, to pre- 
 sent the i)hcnomena attending the rise of the Papacy, in a 
 single symbol, it would be impossible to discover one more 
 appropriate.
 
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 What are the notorious facts of the case, facts attested by 
 historians of unquestionable accuracy and impartiahty/admitted 
 by Roman CathoUc writers, and confirmed by redundant evi- 
 dence ? Briefly these, — 
 
 After the reception of Christianity by Constantine, and its 
 estabhshmcnt as the rehgion of the Empire, corruption and 
 v,-orldHness, wnich had long been rife in the Church, increased 
 with fearful rapidity. At the close of the fourth century, the 
 bishopric of Rome was already deeply sunk in these and other 
 vices, and full of earthly ambition ; rival bishops contended 
 for the episcopal authority with the carnal weai)ons and fierce 
 jvassions of secular rulers, and indulged in luxury and pomp 
 that imitated those of the Emperors themselves. 
 
 When the Empire expired under Augustulus, (the hin- 
 drance mentioned in Thessalonians, being at last removed,) 
 the mystery of iniquity so long working, began to develop 
 itself rapidly. The spiritual power and pretensions of the Pa- 
 pacy were great, though some time still elapsed ere it became 
 a temporal power. When the dismemberment of the Roman 
 world by the barbarian invasions began, Italy fell first to the 
 share of Odoacer and the Heruli. But theirs was never a firm 
 or strong kingdom. The bishops of Rome hated the authority 
 to which they were obliged to submit, and desired its over- 
 throw. In about twenty years from its establishment, this was 
 accomplished, and the first '• horn " that had sprung up in 
 Italy and hindered (like the defunct Empire) the development 
 of the little horn, was rooted up before it. 
 
 A new power, however, succeeded, and for two generations 
 held dominion over Rome and her bishops. Theodoric, the 
 Ostrogoth, became master of Italy, and the Popes for sixty 
 years had to own him and his successors as superiors and rulers. 
 But their own pretensions and claims were rapidly increasing, 
 and keeping pace with the growing corruption of the Church. 
 The Gothic yoke became unbearable to them, and, mainly 
 through the influence of the Pojies, Belisarius, the great general 
 of the F.abtern Luipcror Justinian, e.xp'clled the Ostrogoths from
 
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 Italy. A sccond\ioxn had now fallen before the rising power; the 
 Exarchate of Ravenna was established, and very shortly Vi//urd 
 barbarian power obtained the greater part of Italy. Alboin 
 and his Lombard followers held sway over its fairest territories, 
 though they avoided making Rome their capital. Degraded 
 to the rank of a second city, Rome was left to the care of her 
 bishops, whose authority began to assume a mixed temporal 
 and spiritual character. They had as yet no temporal domin- 
 ions, but they were striving to take their place among earthly 
 sovereigns, and even already asserting a superiority to them in 
 certain respects. The ancient metropolis of the world had at 
 this time sunk very low in political influence and power. 
 
 " The lofty tree under whose shade the nations of the earth 
 had reposed, was deprived of its leaves and branches, and the 
 sapless trunk was left to wither on the ground. The ministers 
 of command, and the messengers of victory, no longer met on 
 the Appian Way, and the hostile approach of the Lombards was 
 often felt, and continually feared. , . . The Campagna of 
 Rome was speedily reduced to the state of a dreary wilderness, 
 in which the land is barren, the waters impure, and the air 
 infectious. . . . Like Thebes, or Babylon, or Carthage, 
 the name of Rome might have been erased from the earth, if 
 the city had not been animated by a vital principle, luhicli again 
 restored her to honour and dominion. A vague tradition was 
 embraced, that two Jewish teachers, a tent-maker and a fisher- 
 man, had formerly been executed in the circus of Nero; and 
 at the end of 500 years their genuine or fictitious relics, were 
 adored as the Palladium of Christian Rome. . . . The 
 temporal power of the Popes insensibly arose from the calam- 
 ities of the times, and the Roman bishops who have (since) 
 deluged Europe and Asia with blood, were compelled to reign 
 as the ministers of charity and ])eace. . . . The misfor- 
 tunes of Rome involved the apostolical pastor in the business 
 of peace and war."* 
 
 The Lombard sway, in its turn, became intolcrai)le to tlie 
 
 * (Jibbon, " Dctliiie :'.:ul ]"a!!," cli.in. xlv., p. 791.
 
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 ambitious Popes of Rome ; and at last, through their earnest 
 entreaties, and awful threats, Pepin and Charlemagne came to 
 their rescue, uprooted the Lombards from Italy, overthrew their 
 power, a7id presented their dominions as a free gift to the Pope. 
 
 The third horn had fallen before the rising power of the 
 Papacy, and it stood forth at last firmly settled in its place 
 on the head of the Roman beast. " The ancient patrimony 
 of the Roman Church, consisting of houses and farms, was 
 transformed by the bounty of these kings, into the temporal 
 doininiofis of cities, and provinces ; and the donation of the 
 Exarchate to the Pope was the first-fruits of the victories of 
 Pepin. . . . The splendid donation was granted in supreme 
 and absolute dominion, and the world beheld for the first time, 
 a Christian Bishop, i)ivestcd with t/ie prerogatives of a temporal 
 prince: the choice of magistrates, the exercise of justice, the 
 imposition of taxes, the wealth of the Palace of Ravenna."* 
 
 Thus as to the time, place, and manner of its origin, the 
 power of the Popes of Rome fulfilled the symbolic predictions : 
 " I considered the horns ; and behold there came up among 
 them another little horn, before whom there were three of 
 the first horns plucked up by the roots." "The ten horns 
 out of this (fourth) kingdom, are ten kings that shall arise ; 
 and another shall rise after them, and he shall be diverse 
 from the first, and he shall subdue three kings." 
 
 The following extract, is from a recent work by a Roman 
 Catholic writer who has given a description of the rise of the 
 Papacy, which could hardly have been differently worded, had 
 he intended to point out its fulfilment of the prophecy of the 
 •' little horn." 
 
 " The rise of the temporal power of the Popes, presents to 
 the mind one of the most extrordinary phenomena, which the 
 anuals of the human race, offer to our wonder and admiration. 
 By a singular combination of concurring circumstances, a ?ieii> 
 power and a nei.s.i dominion, grew 2/p, silently bnt steadily, on the 
 ruins of that Roman empire, which had extended its sway over, 
 • Gibbon, " Decline and Fall," chap, xlix., p. SS5.
 
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 or made itself respected by, nearly all the nations, peoples, and 
 races, that lived in the period of its strength and glory ; and 
 that new power, of lowly origin, struck a deeper root, and soon 
 exercised a wider authority, than the empire whose gigantic 
 ruins, it saw shivered into fragments, and mouldering in dust. 
 In Rome itself, the power of the successor of Peter, grew side 
 by side with and under the protecting shadow of that of the 
 Emperor ; and such was the increasing influence of the Popes, 
 that the majesty of the supreme Pontiff was likely ere long, to 
 dim the splendour of the purple. The removal by Constantine 
 of the seat of empire from the West, to the East, from the historic 
 banks of the Tiber to the beautiful shores of the Bosphorus, 
 laid the first broad foundation, of a sovereignty, which in reality 
 commences from that momentous change. Practically, almost 
 from that day, Rome which had witnessed the birth, the youth, 
 the splendour, and the decay, of the mighty race by whom her 
 name had been carried with her eagles, to the remotest regions 
 of the then known world, was gradually abandoned by the 
 inheritors of her renown ; and its people, deserted by the Em- 
 perors, and an easy prey to the ravages of the barbarians, whom 
 they had no longer the courage to resist, beheld in the bishop 
 of Rome, their guardian, their protector, their father. Year by 
 year the temporal authority of the Popes, grew into shape and 
 hardened into strength ; without violence, without bloodshed, 
 without fraud, by the force of overwhelming circumstances, 
 fashioned, as if visibly, by the hand of God." 
 
 II. Character. 
 
 The circumstances connected with the origin of the Papacy 
 fulfil then the indications of the prophecy. Has the character 
 of this power, answered to that attributed to the predicted 
 Antichrist ? Certain definite phases of evil, expressly noted in 
 the prophetic word, will be considered further on ; but we ask 
 now. What has been the general character of the Papal ]:)0wer ? 
 If the question were proposed. Do the prophecies of the Messiah 
 of Israel, find a fulfilment in Jesus of Nazareth ? it might be 
 answered, not only by an appeal to definite predictions exactly
 
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 fulfilled, but by a comprehensive glance at the general scope 
 of the mass of I\Iessianic prophecy. The coming Messiah was 
 to be a wondrous supernatural being, endued with heavenly 
 power and wisdom, marked by matchless meekness, pure and 
 holy, just and merciful, great yet lowly, a sufterer and yet a 
 king, a victim and yet a judge, a servant of God, and yet 
 Lord of all. By these general features, Jesus Ciirist was de- 
 monstrated to be the hope of Israel, as well as by his being 
 born at Bethlehem, and brought up at Nazaretli, 
 
 Now the Antichrist has similarily his broad characteristics ; 
 his very names imply some of them. He is called " that wicked," 
 or the lawless one, who sets God's revealed will at defiance ; 
 his coming is " after the working of Satan ;" he " opposeth and 
 cxalteth himself," against God, and against his people. He is 
 to be the " man of sin," the outcome of the working of " a 
 mystery of iniquitv." He is the very opposite of all that is 
 holy and good, the oppressor of all that love God, for Satan 
 animates him. Further, he is called " the son of perdition," 
 nnd this name, applied by our Lord to Judas Iscariot, the 
 traitor, would prepare us to find the man of sin, the Anti- 
 christ,* not in some openly and avowedly infidel power, but in 
 :\. professedly Christia?i one. The "son of perdition" was an 
 
 * " Antichrist " is a name used only in John, in four passages, as fol- 
 lows, " Children, it is the last time : and as ye have heard that the Anti- 
 chi-ist conicth, even now are there many Antichrists" (l John ii. i8). 
 " Who is the liar (6 ^i\jaTt)%) but_he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? 
 This is the Antichrist which denieth the P'ather and the Son ' (ii. 22). 
 "■This is the spirit oi tlie AnlichriU, respecting wliicli ye have heard that it 
 fontelh " (l John iv. 3). " Many deceiver.^ are gone fortli into the world, who 
 confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh ; this is the deceiver and 
 the Antichrist." The repeated statements that Christians had heard of the 
 coming of this Antichrist, prove that John alludes under this name to the 
 • ' little horn " of Daniel, and the " man of sin " of Paul. The name itself 
 means, not as is sometimes asserted, an avowed antagonist of Christ, but 
 one professing to be a Vice-Christ, a rival-Christ, one \\ho woukl assume 
 the ch.aractcr. occupy the place, and fulfd the functions of Christ. The in- 
 cipient Antichrists of John's own day, denied the Father and the Son, /y 
 their false doctrines about them. Etymologically the word does not mean a 
 person opposed to Christ, but an op/>osing Christ, a vice-Christ, one assum- 
 ing to be Christ.
 
 FORETOLD AND FULFILLED. ijc, 
 
 apostate disciple, who betrayed his Lord with a kiss of seeming 
 reverence and affection. This name would lead us to expect 
 that a Judas character will attach to the great apostacy and its 
 licad, and lead us therefore to look for it in the professing 
 Christian Church, tlie sphere in which Paul indeed distinctly 
 states, that it will be revealed. 
 
 So dark is the moral aspect of the power predicted, what- 
 ever it be, that many conceive that no power that ever has 
 had an existence, can approach its enormity of guilt and evil ; 
 and they look, in consequence, for some future monster of 
 iniquity who shall better fulfil the predictions of Scripture. 
 
 When this impression is not the result of ignorance of history, 
 it illustrates the mournful facihty witli which famiharity witli 
 evil, diminishes its enormity in our sight ; for it may be safely 
 asserted that all, not to say more than all, these prophecies 
 foretell, has found its realization in the line of Roman Pontiffs. 
 It must be remembered that the Popes of Rome are guilty 
 before God, not only for all the sins they have committed, but 
 for all the sins they have connived at, for all the sins they 
 have suggested, for all the sins they have encouraged and 
 sanctioned, and, above all, for the sins they have coniniandcd. 
 When their personal character and the influence of their 
 examples, are considered, when the tendency of the institu- 
 tions they have invented and maintained are examined, when 
 their bulls and laws are studied, and their effects observed ; 
 and when all these results are multiplied, by the extent of 
 their dominion, the length of its duration, and the assumjition 
 of infallibility and Divi^ic authority that accompanied it, the 
 impression of unparalleled iniquity produced on the mind, defies 
 all power of expression ; language seems too weak to embody 
 it, and the words of inspiration seem to fall short of, rather 
 than to exceed, the reality. 
 
 Not only have an appalling number of the Roman Pontiffs 
 been personally, exceedingly wicked men, as reference to any 
 authentic history of the Popedom will show, (so wicked tliat it 
 were a shame even to speak of the things tliat were done by
 
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 them ;) not only have they thus abused their high position, by 
 setting examples of sin of the most flagi-ant kind ; but by their 
 laws, exempting their innumerable clergy in all lands from the 
 jurisdiction of the civil power, they have protected others in 
 sinning in the same way : and they have, by their countless 
 sinful and sin-causing enactments and institutions, led others 
 i7ito sui, on a scale that it is positively appalling to contem- 
 plate. 
 
 Take for instance Papal doctrines and practices on the sub- 
 ject of forgiveness of sin — indulgences. The Pope made a 
 bargain with sinners, and on certain conditions, such as the 
 joining in a crusade, the helping to extirpate so-called heresy, 
 the performance of certain pilgrimages, the repetition of pre- 
 scribed formulas, or the payment of money, he agreed to give 
 them pardons for sin. Finding this traffic singularly lucrative, — 
 for what will not men do to indulge in sin with impunity, — it was 
 developed into a system of fabulous wickedness. Indulgences 
 for the dead, as well as for the living, were freely sold, and 
 thus the affections as well as the selfishness of men, were turned 
 to account for the replenishment of tlie papal treasury. Some 
 of these indulgences expressly mentioned the very sins, which 
 the Scriptures declare, exclude from the kingdom of heaven, 
 and bade those who practised them not doubt of eternal sal- 
 vation, if they bought a papal indulgence. 
 
 The number of years by which the torments of purgatory 
 were to be abridged by some of these indulgences, was extra- 
 vagant to the last degree. John XII. granted " ninety thousand 
 years of pardon for deadly sins," for the devout repetition of 
 three prayers, written in the chapel of the Holy Cross at Rome. 
 Indeed, such has been the profligate extravagance with which 
 these pardons have been dispensed, and the excessive facility 
 with which they may be procured, that if they had been made 
 available according to the intention of the Church, then must 
 VAirgatory, again and again, ha\"e been swept out, — nay more, it 
 must for ever be kept empty, and the sins of all the sinners 
 that ever lived, must have been forgiven over and over again,
 
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 The sale of these indulgences for money, was the proximate 
 cause of the glorious Refcrmation. The intense disgust, and 
 the utter abhorrence, with which they came to be regarded, 
 in consequence of the unblushing effrontery, and shameless 
 trickery, connected with their sale, roused all Germany to 
 resist their introduction, and stirred up Martin Luther to ex- 
 amine into the rotten foundation on which they rested. The 
 deeply interesting story must not be told here— how Tetzel the 
 indulgence-monger, bearing the bull of Leo X. on a velvet 
 cushion, travelled in state from town to town in a gay equipage, 
 took his station in the thronged church, and proclaimed to the 
 credulous multitudes, " Indulgences are the most precious and 
 sublime of God's gifts ; this red cross has as much efficacy as 
 the cross of Jesus Christ. Draw near, and I will give you 
 letters duly sealed, by which even the sins you shall hereafter 
 desire to commit, shall be all forgiven you. There is no sin so 
 great that indulgence cannot remit. Pay, only pay largely, 
 and you shall be forgiven. But more than all this, indulgences 
 save not the living alone, they also save the dead. Ye priests. 
 ye nobles, ye tradesmen, ye wives, ye maidens, ye young men, 
 hearken to your departed parents and friends, who call to you 
 from the bottomless abyss, * We are enduring horrible torment, 
 a small alms would deliver us, you can give it, 7vill you not ? ' 
 The moment the money clinks at the bottom of the chest, the 
 soul escapes from purgatory, and flies to heaven. With ten 
 groschen you can deliver your father from purgatory. Our 
 Lord God no longer deals with us as God — he has given all 
 power to the Pope." The indulgences sold were in the fol 
 lowing form " Our Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on thee, 
 M. N. ; and absolve thee by the merits of his most holy suffer- 
 ings. I, in virtue of the apostolic power committed to me, ab- 
 solve thee from all . . . excesses, sins, and crimes, that thou 
 mayest have committed, however great and enormous they may 
 be, and of whatever kind. . . . I remit the i)ains ihou wouldest 
 have had to endure in purgatory, ... I restore thee to the 
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 death, the gates of the place of torment shall be shut against 
 thee, and the gates of Paradise open to thee. And if thou 
 shouldest live long, this grace continueth unchangeable, till the 
 time of thy end. In the name of the Father and of the Son 
 and of the Holy Ghost, Amen. The brother John Tetzel, 
 commissary, hath signed this with his own hand." 
 
 For the wonderful and horrible account of the excesses of 
 this abandoned agent of the Popes, we must refer the reader to 
 D'Aubigne s History of the great Reformation, and similar works. 
 
 There was a published scale of the prices for which different 
 sins could be pardoned ; and that the gain of money was the 
 only object was clear, from the enormous price charged for in- 
 dulgences for certain crimes, likely to be committed by the rich, 
 — crimes only by the laws of the cJnircJi, — while the grossest 
 violations of the law of God were excused for a trifle. The 
 royal, and merely conventional crime, of marriage with a first 
 cousin, cost ^^looo, while the terrible sins of wife murder or 
 parricide cost only ;^4 ! 
 
 " The institution of indulgence," says Spanhcim, " was the 
 mint which coined money, for the Roman Church ; the gold 
 mines for the profligate nephews and natural children of the 
 Popes ; the nerves of the Papal wars ; the means of liquida- 
 ting debt ; and the inexhaustible fountain of luxury to the 
 Popes." The curse fell on Simon Magus for thinking that the 
 gift of God might be ///;r//^^^^ with money; what shall we say 
 of him, who pretends that he has Divine authority to sell the 
 grace of God for money ? Of him, who leads millions of im- 
 mortal souls to incur the guilt and curse of Simon Magus, 
 under the delusion that they are securing salvation ? and who 
 leads them to do this for his own wicked and selfish ends ? Is 
 it possible to find guilt of a deeper die, perfidy of a more 
 atrociously cruel and satanic character? Even the Jews could 
 say, " None can forgive sins save God only ; " what shall we 
 say of him who professes to blot out guilt, and remove its 
 penalty, from countless thousands who repose unlimited con- 
 fidence in him, in order to secure his own evil ends ?
 
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 " Whoso confesseth and forsaketh his sin, shall find mercy ; " 
 what shall we say of him who offers boundless mercy, to those 
 who so love and cleave to their sins, as to be willing to pay 
 enormous prices for permission to commit them ? of him 
 who makes plenary pardon dependent on mere outward acts, 
 prayers, pilgrimages, payments, or even on the commission of 
 other gross sins, massacres, extirpation of heretics, etc. ? 
 The Psalmist prayed " Keep back thy servant from presump- 
 tuous sins, O Lord ; " what shall we say of him, who encourages 
 to presumptuous sin, by the prospect of plenary pardon at the 
 moment of death, on condition of holaing a candle, or kissing 
 a bead ? 
 
 That this practice is a miglUy and eflectivc inducement to 
 sin, no one acquainted with human nature, and the operation 
 of moral causes, can question : and, worse still, it misrepre- 
 sents the atonement of Christ, asserting its insufficiency to 
 put away sin ; it denies the boundlessness and freedom of the 
 love of God, and of the Gospel of grace, which offers pardon 
 without money and without price ; it gives false impressions 
 of the true nature of sin, the guilt of which is so great that 
 blood-shedding alone can remove it ; it separates what God has 
 indissolubly joined, justification and sanctification, providing 
 pardon apart from a change of heart \ it conceals from view 
 the tribunal of the righteous Judge, and draws men to a fcUow- 
 man, sinners to a fellow-sinner, for pardon. It is opposed to 
 the doctrines of "repentance toward God, and faith in our 
 Lord Jesus Christ," as well as to all practical godliness, and is 
 a characteristic creation of " that wicked, whose coming is after 
 the working of Satan." 
 
 Its institution and patronage of the Order of tiic Jcsiii/s is 
 another of the exceedingly sinful deeds of the Papacy. This 
 Society, which has dared to appropriate to itself the Name 
 which is above every name, by calling itself " The Order of 
 Jesus," deserves rather, from the nature of its doctrines, and 
 from the work it has done in the world, to be called "The 
 Order of Satan." Founded by Ignatius Loyola, a Spanish
 
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 officer, cotemporary with Luther, its great object was, to sub- 
 jugate the whole luiman race, to the power of the Papacy. 
 From the book of the " Constitutions " of the Jesuits, we 
 obtain the evidence that condemns their Order as a master- 
 piece of the father of lies. 
 
 Expediency, in its most licentious form, is the basis of their 
 whole system of morality. Their doctrine of " probability ; " 
 their doctrine of " mental reservation," by which lying and 
 perjury are justified; their doctrine of "intention," which 
 renders the most solemn oath of no power to bind a man; 
 the v.'ay in which, by their glosses, they make void the law of 
 God in every one of its precepts, and give licence to every 
 crime, not excepting murder, and even parricide, all these render 
 their whole system of morals a bottomless abyss of iniquity. 
 
 This is no mere Protestant account of the Jesuits ; their 
 extraordinary viciousness, has led to their suppression, and 
 expulsion, at various times, by different Catholic sovereigns 
 in Europe. In stating their grounds for such action, these 
 monarchs give descriptions of Jesuit morality, which could 
 scarcely be worse. The Catholic king of Portugal says : 
 " It cannot be, but that the licentiousness introduced by the 
 Jesuits, of which the three leading features are falsehood, 
 murder, and perjury, should give a new character to morals. 
 Their doctrines render murder innocent, sanctify falsehood, 
 authorize perjury, deprive the laws of their power, destroy the 
 submission of subjects, allow individuals the liberty of killing, 
 calumniating, lying and forswearing themselves, as their advan- 
 tage may dictate ; they remove the fear of Divine and human 
 laws, so that Christiari and civil society could ?tot exist, where 
 they are paramount." 
 
 In 1767 they were expelled from Spain on similar groimds. 
 They were also expelled from Venice (1606); from Savoy 
 (1729); from France (1764); from Sicily (1767), and from 
 various other States. From 1555 to 1773 they suffered no less 
 than thirty-seven expulsions, all on account of their iniquitous 
 doctrines and rvil praciiccs.
 
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 The Catholic University of Paris, in 1643, said of them: 
 *' The laws of God have been so sophisticated by their unheard- 
 of subtleties, that there is no longer any difiterence between 
 vice and virtue ; they promise impunity to the most flagrant 
 crimes ; their doctrines are inimical to all order ; and if such 
 a pernicious theology were received, deserts and forests would 
 be preferable to cities ; and society with wild beasts, who have 
 only their natural arms, would be better than society with men, 
 who, in addition to the violence of their passions, would be 
 instructed by this doctrine of devils, to dissimulate and feign, in 
 order to destroy others with greater impunity. // is a device of 
 the great enemy of sold s." The Parliament of Paris, in 1762, 
 used language quite as strong in a memorial to the king, 
 accompanying a collection of extracts from 147 Jesuit authors, 
 which they presented to him, " that he might be acquainted 
 with the wickedness of the doctrine constantly held by the 
 Jesuits, from the institution of their Society to the present 
 moment— a doctrine authorizing robbery, lying, perjury, im- 
 purity ; all passions, and all crimes ; inculcating homicide, 
 parricide, and regicide ; overturning religion and sanctioning 
 magic, blasphemy, irreligion, and idolatry." 
 
 The book of " secret instructions," generally attributed to 
 Lainez, the second Father-general of the Order, contains 
 directions so unprincipled, that on the first page it is ordained 
 that, if the book fell into the hands of strangers, it was to be 
 positively denied that these were the rules of the Society ! 
 This book gives directions for the attainment of power, in- 
 fluence, and wealth, by means of the vilest intrigues : the vices 
 of the rich and great, were to be pandered to in every way ; 
 spies were to be diligently sought and liberally rewarded; 
 animosities were to be fostered and stirred up among enemies, 
 in order to weaken them ; the dying were to be watched as if 
 by vultures, and promised canonization by the Pope, if they 
 would becjueath their property to this Order. ^Vomcn who 
 were found in confession to have bad husbands, were to be 
 instructed to withdraw a sum of money secretly, to be given
 
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 to the Society, as a sacrifice for their husbands' sins. To all 
 classes, but especially to the great and rich, any vicious indul- 
 gence they desired might be allowed, in order to soothe and 
 win them, provided public scandal were avoided. These and 
 multitudes of similar injunctions, are based on the doctrine, 
 that we may do evil that good may come, that "the end 
 sanctities the means." Scripture says of those who hold and 
 teach this doctrine, that their " damnation is just." 
 
 The same principle led Jesuit missionaries into the most 
 sinful compromises with heathen superstitions and philosophies 
 in different parts of the world. In India they swore that they 
 were Brahmins of pure descent, sanctioned some of the most 
 abominable habits of idolatry, and practised some of the 
 worst Hindu austerities, to acquire fame. In China, they 
 pretended that there was only a shade of difference between 
 the doctrine of Christ and the teachings of Confucius ; and to 
 make proselytes, they taught, instead of pure Christianity, a 
 corrupt system of religion and morality, that was quite con- 
 sistent with the indulgence of all the passions. Nay, so far 
 did they go, that, finding the Crucifi.xion was a stumbling-block 
 to the philosophic Chinese, as to the Jews of old, they actually 
 denied that CJirist\vas rccr crueified at all., and said it was a 
 base calumny invented by the Jews, to throw contempt on the 
 Gospel ! They told the Red Indians that Jesus Christ was a 
 mighty chief, who had scalped more men and women and 
 children than any warrior that had ever lived ! Having no 
 real principles, they were willing to make any compromise, 
 no matter how foul, provided they could by it advance the 
 interests of their Order, or swell the roll of recruits to the 
 Roman army. 
 
 Now, when we remember that the teachings of these Jesuits 
 are not only permitted, but received as standard authorities in 
 the Roman Catholic Church, and directly sanctioned by the 
 Popes, what shall we say of tlie so-called Vicar of Christ ? Is 
 not this the dcceivableness of unrighteousness? Is not this 
 the doctrine of devils? And is not he who sanctions and
 
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 patronizes such an " Order " of Satan, " the lawless one •"' ? Is 
 he not, and does he not richly deserve to be, " a son of 
 perdition " ? Is he not a " man of sin " who speaks lies in 
 hypocrisy, having his conscience seared with a hot iron ? 
 Where, if not here, shall we ever detect the predicted mystery 
 of iniquity ? 
 
 That the line of Roman Pontiffs, have been for the most 
 part personally wicked men, there can be no doubt ; that 
 many of their institutions, besides the two just considered, have 
 been fearfully fruitful sources of deep deluges of sin, is also 
 unquestionable ; but perhaps nothing more fully warrants the 
 application to them of the distinctive title, "The IMan of Sin," 
 than the fact that they have commanded sin. If Aaron was 
 doubly guilty because he led the people to worship the golden 
 calf ; if the wickedness of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, is in- 
 tensified by the fact that he " caused Israel to sin" what must 
 be the dark guilt, and the dreadful doom of those, who have 
 led the professing Church of Christ into the foulest idolatry, 
 and into sin of every conceivable kind, not only by example, 
 not only by false doctrines and evil practice, but also by direct 
 commands — commands delivered in the name of the Lord, and 
 believed by the people to have Divine authority ; and this not 
 to a few, not as an occasional thing, or during a brief period, 
 but to all papal Christendom and throughout long ages ! 
 
 This double dyed guilt, lies at the door of the power we are 
 considering. Did not the Popes of Rome, for their own 
 selfish ends, command, what Scripture forbids, the celibacy of the 
 clergy, and thus lead the whole body, in all lands, into disobe- 
 dience to God in this respect, a disobedience that was the 
 direct cause of the wide-spread and unfiithomable Hood of 
 moral corruption, that deluged Europe for ages? Have not 
 the Popes, times without number, commanded idolatries, 
 persecutions, treasons, rebellions, regicides ? Any collection 
 of papal bulls, presents a very harvest of commands to sin, 
 commands which were, alas ! only too faithfully obeyed by 
 multitudes.
 
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 And how often have tliey prohibited, the very things enjoined 
 by God ! Is not this a negative command to sin ? Christ bids 
 all men, for instance, " Search the Scriptures,'* " prove all things, 
 and hold fast that which is good." On no one point, are the 
 Popes more resolved to enforce disobedience to the Divine 
 will ; in bull after bull they have forbidden the use of the 
 Scriptures in their own tongue to the people, saying, *' Let it 
 be lawful for no man whatever to infringe this declaration of 
 our will and command, or to go against it with bold rashness." 
 When Wickliffe published his translation, Pope Gregory sent a 
 bull to the University of Oxford (1378) condemning the trans- 
 lator as having " run into a detestable kind of wickedness." 
 When Tyndale published his translation, it was condemned. In 
 1546, when Luther was preparing his German version, Leo X. 
 published a bull, couched in the most vile and opprobrious 
 language. The indignation of Pius VII. (and other Popes) 
 against Bible Societies, knows no bounds. He speaks of the 
 Bible Society as a " crafty device by which the very founda 
 tions of religion are undermined," as " a pestilence dangerous 
 to Christianity;" "a defilement of the faith, eminently dan- 
 gerous to souls;" "a nefarious scheme," etc., and strictly 
 commands, that every version of the Scriptures into a vulgar 
 tongue, without the church's notes, should be placed in the 
 Index among prohibited books. Curses are freely bestowed 
 on those who assert the liberty of the laity to read the Scrip- 
 tures, and every possible impediment is thrown in the way of 
 their circulation. Bible burning is a favourite ceremony with 
 Papists ; and their ignorance of the real contents of the book, 
 is almost incredible. The famous bull " Unigenitus," a.d. 17 13, 
 condemns the proposition that " the reading of the Scriptures 
 is for everybody" as "false, shocking, scandalous, impious, 
 and blasphemous." 
 
 What must be the guilt, in the eyes of God, of the men who 
 thus withhold the word, by which alone they can be born 
 again, from myriads of perishing sinners, over whose con- 
 sciences they Iiave perfect sway !
 
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 III. Self-exalting Utterances. 
 
 One of the leading characteristics of the power symbohsed 
 by the " little horn " is " a mouth speaking great things." The 
 destruction of the beast is said to be, " because of the great 
 words which the little horn spake." The same point is noted 
 also in Rev. xiii. 5, where the beast is said to have " a mouth 
 speaking great things, and blasphemies."* Paul similarly 
 predicts of the man of sin, that he will oppose and exalt 
 himself above all that is called God or that is worshipped." 
 We must therefore inquire whether self-exalting utterances of a 
 peculiarly impious nature, have been a characteristic of the 
 Papacy ? We turn to the public documents, issued by various 
 Popes, and find, that they have fulfilled in a marvellous way 
 this prediction ; the pretensions they have made are blas- 
 phemies, the claims they have put forth, are, to be equal, if 
 not superior to God Himself; no power on earth has ever 
 advanced similar pretensions. 
 
 Fox, in his "Acts and Monuments," gives extracts from 
 two hundred and twenty-three authentic documents, compris- 
 ing decrees, decretals, extravagants, pontificals, and bulls, all 
 of which are indisputable evidence. Twenty pages of small 
 type in a large volume, are filled with the "great words" of 
 the Popes, taken from these two hundred and twenty-three 
 documents alone. What a crop would a complete collection 
 of Papal publications afford ! Space forbids many quotations ; 
 
 • " Blasphemy in Scripture means not so much a speaking against God, as 
 the assumption of Divine attributes or Divine power where no rightful claim 
 to do so exists. Thus, in Matt, ix., the scribes said of Jesus, ' this man 
 blasphemeth,' because He said to the sick of the palsy, ' thy sins be for- 
 given thee.' Jesus could rightly say so, therefore their charge was false. 
 Rome, through her priesthood, can not rightly say so, therefore our charge 
 against her is true ; she blasphemeth. Again, in John x. 30-33, we read 
 that, when Jesus said, ' I and my Father are one,' the Jews took up 
 Vitoncs to stone Him, saying, ' for agood work we stone Thee not, but for 
 blasphetny, and because that Thou, being a man, makest Thyself God.' 
 Jesus and his Father were one, therefore the charge of blasphemy was vain ; 
 the Pope and God are not one, therefore our charge of blasphemy is true. 
 He that says, ' 1 am the sole last supreme judge of wliat is riiilit and 
 wrong,' blasphemeth." — "Words of the Little Horn," byRev.H.F. Brooke.
 
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 let the reader judge of the mass from the following samples, 
 which we blend into one, in order to help the conception. If 
 '•' he that exalteth himself shall be abased," what degradation 
 can be commensurate with such sclf-cxaltation as this ? 
 
 " Wherefore, seeing such power is given to Peter, and to mc in Peter, 
 being his successor, who is he then in n.11 the world that ought not to be 
 subject to my decrees, which have such power in heaven, in hell, in earth, 
 with the quick, and also the dead. ... By the jurisdiction of which 
 key the fulness of my power is so great that, whereas all others are subjects 
 — yea, and emperors themselves, ought to subdue their executions to me ; 
 only I am a subject to no creature, no, not to myself ; so that my papal 
 majestycverremaineth undiminished; superior to all men ; whom all persons 
 ought to obey, and follow, whom no man must judge or accuse of any crime, 
 no man depose but I myself. No man can excommunicate mc, yea though 
 I commune with the excommunicated, for no canon bindeth mc : whom 
 no man must lie to, for he that lieth to me is a church robber, and who 
 obeyeth not me is a heretic, and an excommunicated person. . . . Thus, 
 then, it appeareth, that the greatness of priesthood began in Melchisedec, 
 was solemnized in Aaron, continued in the children of Aaron, perfcction- 
 ated in Christ, represented in Peter, exalted in the universal jurisdiction, 
 and manifested in the Pope. So that through this pre-eminence of my priest- 
 hood, having all things subject to me, it may seem well verified in me, that 
 was spoken of Christ, ' Thou hast subdued all things under his feet, sheep 
 and oxen, and all cattle of the field, the birds of heaven, and fish of the 
 sea,' etc., where is it to be noted that by oxen, Jews and heretics ; by cattle 
 of the field. Pagans be signified. . , , By sheep and all cattle, are 
 meant all Christian men, both great and less, whether they be emperors, 
 princes, prelates, or others. By birds of the air you may understand angels 
 and potentates of heaven, who be all subject to mc, in that I am greater 
 than the angels, and that in four things, as afore declared ; and have power 
 to bind and loose in heaven, and to give heaven to them that fight in my 
 wars. Lastly, by the fishes of the sea, are signified the souls departed, in 
 pain or in purgatory. . . . For, as we read, ' The earth is the Lord's 
 and the fulness thereof;" and, as Christ saith, 'AH power is given to 
 ilim, both in heaven and in earth : ' so it is to be affirmed, that the Vicar 
 of Christ hath power on things celestial, terrestrial, and infernal, which he 
 took immediately of Christ. ... I owe to the emperors no due obe- 
 dience that they can claim, but they owe to me, as to their superior ; and, 
 therefore, for a diversity betwixt their degree and mine, in their consecra- 
 tion they take the unction on their arm, I on the head. And as I am supe- 
 rior to them, so am I superior to all laws, and free from all constitutions ; who 
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 written, bel'ore the law written ; having all laws, within the chest of my 
 breast, as is aforesaid. . . . What country soever, kingdom, or pro- 
 vince, choosing to themselves bishops and ministers, although they agree 
 with all other Christ's faithful people in the name of Jesu, that is, in faith 
 and charity, believing in the same God, and in Christ, his true Son, and in 
 the Holy Ghost, having also the same creed, the same evangelists, and 
 scriptures of the apostles ; yet, notwithstanding, unless their bishops and 
 ministers take their origin and ordination from this apostolic seat, they are 
 to be counted not of tlie church, so that succession of faith only is not suffi- 
 cient to make a church, except the ministers take their ordination from them 
 who have their succession from the apostles. . . . And likewise it is to 
 be presumed that the bishop of that church is always good and holy. Yea, 
 though he fall into homicide or adultery, he may sin, but yet he cannot be 
 accused, but ratlier excused by the murders of Samson, the thefts of the 
 Hebrews, etc. All the earth is my diocese, and I the ordinary of all 
 men, having the authority of the King of all kings upon subjects. I am 
 all in all and above all, so that God Himself, and I, the Vicar of God, 
 have both one consistory, and I am able to do almost all that God can do. 
 In all things that I list, my will is to stand for reason, for I am able by 
 the law to dispense abave the law, and of wrong to make justice in 
 correcting laws and changing them. . . . Wherefore, if those things 
 that I do be said not to be done of man, but of God : what can you 
 MAKE ME BUT GoD ? Again, if prelates of the Church be called and 
 counted of Constantine for gods, I then, being above all prelates, seem by 
 this reason to be above all gods. Wherefore, no marvel if it be in my 
 power to change time and times, to alter and abrogate laws, to dispense 
 with all things, yea, ivitli the precepts of Christ ; for where Christ biddcth 
 Peter put up his sword, and admonishes his disciples not to use any out- 
 ward force in revenging themselves, do not I, Pope Nicholas, writing tto tlic 
 bishops of France, exhort them to draw out their material swords ? And, 
 whereas Christ was present Himself at the marriage in Cana of Galilee, 
 do not I, Pope Martin, in my distinction, inhibit the spiritual clergy to be 
 present at marriage-feasts, and also to marry ? Moreover, where Christ 
 biddeth us lend without hope of gain, do not I, Pope Martin, give dispen- 
 sation for the same ? What should I speak of murder, making it to bf 
 no murder or homicide to slay them that be excommunicated ? Like- 
 wise, against the law of nature, item against the apostles, also against the 
 canons of the apostles, I can and do disjiense ; for where they, in their canon, 
 command a priest for fornicalion to be deposed, I, througli the authority of 
 Silvester, do alter the rigour of that constitution, considering the minds and 
 bodies also of men now to be weaker than they were then. . . . If ye 
 list briefly to hear the whole number of all such cases as properly do apper- 
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 points, that no man may meddle with but only / myself alone, I will recite 
 them : — 
 
 "Tlie Pope doth canonize saints, and none else but he. 
 
 " Ilis sentence makcth a law. 
 
 " lie is able to abolish laws, both civil and canon. 
 
 " To erect new religions, to approve or reprove rules or ordinances, and 
 ceremonies in the Church. 
 
 " He is able to dispense with all the precepts and statutes of the Church. 
 
 " The same is also free from all laws, so that he cannot incur any sen- 
 tence of excommunicaticJn, suspension, irregularity, etc., etc. 
 
 " After that I have now sufficiently declared my power in earth, in 
 heaven, in purgatory, how great it is, and what is the fulness thereof in 
 binding, loosing, commanding, permitting, electing, confirming, disposing, 
 dispensing, doing and undoing, etc , I will speak now a little of my riches 
 and of my great possessions, that every man may see by my wealth, and 
 abundance of all things, rents, tithes, tributes, my silks, my purple mitres, 
 crowns, gold, silver, pearls and gems, lands and lordships. For to me per- 
 taineth first the imperial city of Rome ; the palace of Lateran ; the king- 
 dom of Sicily is proper to me, Apulia and Capua be mine. Also the king- 
 dom of England and Ireland, be they not, or ought they not to be, tribu- 
 taries to me ? To these I adjoin also, besides other provinces and coun- 
 tries, both in the Occident and Orient, from the north to the south, these 
 dominions by name (here follows a long list). What should I speak here 
 of my daily revenues, of my first-fruits, annates, palls, indulgences, bulls, 
 confessionals, indults and rescripts, testaments, dispensations, privileges, 
 elections, prebends, religious houses, and such like, which come to no small 
 mass of money ? . . . whereby what vantage cometh to my coffers it 
 may partly be conjectured. . . . But what should I speak of Germany, 
 when the whole world is my diocese, as my canonists do say, and all men 
 are bound to believe ; except they will imagine (as the Manichees do) two 
 beginnings, which is false and heretical? For Moses saith. In the beginning 
 God made heaven and earth ; and not, In the beginnings. Wherefore, as 
 I began, so I conclude, commanding, declaring, and pronouncing, to stand 
 UPON NECESSITY OF S.\LVATION, FOR EVERY HUMAN CREATURE TO BE 
 SUEJECT TO ME." 
 
 Add to these utterances, which might be multipUed by the 
 thousand, the usual formula of investiture with the papal tiara : 
 " Receive this triple crown, and know that thou art the father 
 of princes, and the kifig and ruler of the worlds And in proof 
 that the claims here advanced are no obsolete medinsval 
 assumptions, abandoned in modern times, but the unchange-
 
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 able voice of the Papacy, take a i&w " great words " from a 
 comparatively recent sermon of the principal representative of 
 Rome in England, Cardinal INIanning, who puts the following 
 similar language into the mouth of the Pope. 
 
 "You say I have no authority over the Christian world, that 
 I am not the Vicar of the Good Shepherd, that I am not the 
 supreme interpreter of the Christian faith. I am all these. 
 You ask me to abdicate, to renounce my supreme authority. 
 You tell me I ought to submit to the civiS power, that I am 
 the subject of the King of Italy, and from him I am to receive 
 instructions as to the way I should exercise the civil power. 
 I say I am liberated from all civil subjection, that my Lord 
 made me the subject of no one on earth, king or otherwise ; 
 that in his right I am Sovereign. I acknowledge no civil 
 superior. I am the subject of no prince, and I claim more 
 than this. I claim to be the Supreme Judge and director of 
 the consciences of men ; of the peasant that tills the field, and 
 the prince that sits on the throne ; of the household that lives 
 in the shade of privacy, and the Legislature that makes laws 
 for kingdoms. I am the sole, last. Supreme Judge of what is 
 right and wrong." 
 
 In full harmony with this assumption is the new definition 
 of Papal infallibility : " The Roman Pontiff, when he speaks 
 ' ex cathedra,' that is, when, in discharge of his office of pas- 
 tor and doctor of all Christians, by virtue of his supreme 
 apostolic authority, he defines a doctrine regarding faith and 
 morals, to be held by the universal church, he enjoys infallibility, 
 and that therefore such definitions of the Roman Pontiff are 
 irreformable of themselves, and not from the consent of the 
 church. And if any one presume to contradict this definition, 
 let him be anathema." 
 
 But actions speak louder than words ! The Popes have not 
 confined their self-exaltation to empty boastings. They have 
 practically exalted themselves " above all that is called God, 
 or that is worshipped." The following is extracted from the 
 " Ceremoniale Ronianum," and describes the first public 
 
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 appearance of the Pope in St. Peter's, on his election to the 
 Pontificate. After the investiture with the scarlet papal robes, 
 the vest covered with pearls, and the mitre studded with 
 precious stones, the new Pope is conducted to the altar, before 
 which he prostrates himself in prayer, bowing as before the 
 seat of God. An awful sequel then follows. We read : "The 
 Pope rises, and, wearing his mitre, is lifted up by the cardinals, 
 and is placed by them upo7i the altar to sit there. One of the 
 bishops kneels, and begins the Te Deuni. In the mean time the 
 cardinals kiss the feet and hands and face of the Pope." This 
 ceremony is commonly called by Roman Catholic writers 
 "The adoration;" it has been observed for many centuries, 
 and was performed at the inauguration of Pius IX. A coin has 
 been struck in the papal mint which represents it, and the 
 legend is, " Quem creant adorant," " whom they create (Pope) 
 they adore." The language in which this adoration is couched 
 is blasphemous to a degree. At the coronation of Pope 
 Innocent X. Cardinal Colonna on his knees, in his own name 
 and that of the clergy of St. Peter's, addressed the following 
 words to the Pope : " Most holy and blessed father, head of 
 the church, ruler of the world, to whom the keys of the 
 kingdom of heaven are committed, whom the angels in heaven 
 revere, and the gates of hell fear, and all the world adores, we 
 specially venerate, worship, and adore thee." 
 
 The very assumption the Pope makes, to be Christ's Vicar 
 involves self-exaltation. How should one representing the 
 Judge of all be judged by any? He might ynake laws, but he 
 held himself above all law. Was not Christ King of kings 
 and Lord of lords? How then could he, the representative of 
 Christ, do other than regard all kings, and rulers, and potentates, 
 as his subjects, to be crowned and uncrowned by him at his 
 pleasure ? His dominion he likened to that of the sun, all 
 other dominion being like that of the moon and satellites, 
 immeasurably inferior. Pope Celcstine III., when crowning 
 Henry VI., expressed in action his sense of his own superiority 
 to all monarchs : "The Lord Pope sat in the pontifical chair,
 
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 holding the golden imperial crown between \\v=, fed ; and the 
 Emperor, bending his head, and the Empress, received the 
 cxown from the feet of -the Lord Pope. But the Lord Pope in- 
 stantly struck with his foot the Emperor's crown, and cast it 
 upon the ground, signifying that he had the power of deposing 
 him, from the empire, if he were undeserving of it. The car- 
 dinals lifted up the crown, and placed it upon the Emperor's 
 head." 
 
 " Is not the king of England my bondslave ? " said Innocent 
 VI, " Hath not God set me as a prince over all nations, to 
 root out and to pull down, to destroy and to build?" asks 
 Boniface VIII. The glorious declarations of the world-wide 
 homage yet to be paid to Messiah the Prince, have been 
 applied by the Popes as descriptive of the respect due by 
 earthly monarchs to them : " All kings shall fall down before 
 Him, all nations shall serve Him;" and since Christ was God, 
 and he was Christ's representative and Vicar, was he not also 
 to be regarded by men as God ? Even to this height of 
 blasphemy and folly did Antichrist push his pretensions. 
 Witness the address of Marcellus to the Pope at the Lateran 
 Council: " Thou art another God on earth ; " and the oft-ac- 
 cepted title, " Our Lord God the Pope." And since the Pope 
 by his power of transubsiantiatioji can even make God, and by 
 his power of ordination can enable his countless priests to do 
 the same, is he not in a sense the superior of God Plimself ? 
 What adoration can be too profound for one exalted so high ? 
 Such worship is accepted by the Roman Pontiffs. 
 
 We read, " great is the mystery of godliness ; God was 
 manifest in the flesh," the Most High stooped and made 
 Himself of no reputation. May we not say, in considering 
 the self-exaltation of the Popes of Rome, great is the " mystery 
 of iniquity," man, sinful, mortal man, exalting himself to be 
 as God ! And strange to say, men allowed it : " All the 
 world wondered after the beast." It was no empty boast of 
 Gregory II. : " All the kings of the West reverence the Pope 
 as a god on earth." Sismondi describes how Pepin and tiic
 
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 Franks received Vxxa.'-'' as a divi7iity.'" The mighty Emperor 
 Charlemagne consented to receive his title and empire as a 
 donation from the Pope ; and ere long the coronation oath 
 of Western kings came to include a vow, to be " faithful and 
 submissive to the Pope." Kings and emperors consented, 
 like our own John, and like the Emperor Otho, and many 
 others, to hold their dominions as vassals of the Pope, and 
 to resign them at his bidding : to hold his stirrup, and lead 
 his palfrey, like servants, to kiss his feet and bow in his 
 presence like slaves. In his full fame, and flushed with victory, 
 the great Francis I., of France, in his interview with Leo X. at 
 Bologna, just before the Reformation, "knelt three times in 
 approaching him, and then kissed his feet." The Emperor 
 Henry of Germany, driven to the most abject humiliation by 
 the terror of a papal interdict, sought pardon, barefoot and 
 clothed in sack-cloth, and was kept waiting three wintry days 
 and nights at the doors of the supreme Pontiff, ere he could 
 secure an interview. 
 
 It is difficult in this nineteenth century to credit the records 
 which reveal, the unbounded power of the Pope during the 
 dark ages, and the nature and extent of the claims he 
 asserted, to the reverence and subjection of mankind. If kings 
 and emperors yielded him abject homage, the common people 
 regarded him as a deity. His dogmas were received as oracles, 
 his bulls and sentences were to them the voice of God. The 
 Sicilian ambassadors prostrated themselves before Pope Mar- 
 tin, with the thrice-repeated cry, " Lamb of God, that takest 
 away the sins of the world.'' " The people think of the Pope 
 as the one God that has power over all things, in earth and in 
 heaven," said Gcrston. The fifth Lateran Council subscribed, 
 just before the Reformation, a decree which declared, that "as 
 there was but one body of the church, so there was but one 
 head, viz., Christ's Vicar, and that it was essential to the salva- 
 tion of every iitanan being to he subject to the Roman Pontiff." 
 
 " Every spiritual as well as every ecclesiastical office of 
 Christ, was arrogated to Iiimsclf by the ' man of sin.' " " If
 
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 Christ was the universal Shepherd of souls, was not he, the 
 Pope, the same ? If Christ was the door of the sheep, was 
 not he the door ? If Christ was the truth, was not he the 
 depositary, source, and oracular expounder of the truth, 
 authoritative, infallible, independent of Scripture, and even 
 against it ? If Christ was the Holy One, was not he the same, 
 and did not the title, Jiis holiness, distinctively and alone belong 
 to him ? If Christ was the husband of the Church, was not he 
 the same ? With the marriage ring in the ceremonial of his 
 inauguration he signified it; and with his great voice in his 
 canon law and papal bulls he proclaimed it to the world. The 
 power of the keys of Christ's Church and kingdom, given hi^, 
 extended into the invisible world. He opened with them, and 
 who might shut ? He shut, and who might open ? . . . the 
 souls in purgatory and the angels in heaven were subject to him ; 
 and it was even his prerogative to add to the celestial choir ; by 
 his canonizing edicts he elevated whom he pleased of the dead 
 to form part of heaven's hierarchy, and become objects of 
 adoration to men." * 
 
 IV. Subtleties, False Doctrines, and Lying Wonders. 
 
 The foregoing are not the only characteristics which lead 
 the careful student of Scripture and of history, to recognise in 
 the Papacy, the great predicted power of evil, that was to arise 
 in the latter times of the fourth great empire, and fix its seat 
 at Rome. The coming of the Antichrist was to be " with all 
 power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceivable- 
 ness of unrighteousness." We must inquire whether this mark 
 has been visibly impressed on the papal dynasty, whether 
 subtleties, false doctrines, and lying wonders, have been an 
 essential part of its policy. Again the abundance of evidence 
 alone makes reply diflScult ! 
 
 Macaulay says : " It is impossible to deny, that the polity of 
 the Church of Rome, is the very 7nasterpiece of Jmman linsdom. 
 In truth nothing but such a polity could, against such assaults, 
 
 • Elliott, "Ilora;," III., p. 161, condensed.
 
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 liave borne up such doctrines. The experience of twelve 
 hundred eventful years, the ingenuity and patient care of forty 
 generations of statesmen, have improved that polity to such 
 perfection, that among the contrivances zv/u'ch have been, devised 
 for deceiving and oppressing mankind, it occupies the highest place. 
 The stronger our conviction that reason and Scripture were 
 decidedly on the side of Protestantism, the greater is the re- 
 luctant admiration with which we regard that system of tactics 
 against which reason and Scripture were employed in vain." 
 This wonderful policy of the Papacy may be viewed as an ex- 
 pression of Satanic genius, if we may use the expression, or as 
 a fruit of human genius. Regarded as " the working of Satan," 
 it is in perfect harmony with all the other workings, of him, 
 who has been a liar from the beginning. It has been by 
 means of a counterfeit Christianity that Satan has, .through 
 the Papacy, resisted the spread of true Christianity. The 
 Papacy has its counterfeit high priest, the Pope ; its counter- 
 feit sacrifice, the mass ; its counterfeit Bible, tradition ; its 
 counterfeit mediators, the Virgin, the saints, and angels ; the 
 forms have been copied, the realities set aside. Satan in- 
 augurated and developed a system, not antagonistic to 
 Christianity, but a counterfeit of it ; and as Jannes and 
 Jambres withstood Moses, so {i.e., by imitation) he has with- 
 stood Christ. 
 
 But viewed as a fabrication of human ambition and wicked- 
 ness, the subtlety with which the Papacy has adapted itself to 
 its end, is a marvel of genius. That end was, to exalt a man, 
 and a class of men, the Pope and his priesthood, to the supreme 
 and absolute control of the Avorld and all its affairs ; to reign, 
 not only over the bodies, but over the minds of men. To 
 attain this object it employed a policy, unmatched in dissimu- 
 lation and craft, a sagacity distinguished by largeness of con- 
 ception combined with attention to detail, irresistible energy, 
 indomitable perseverance, and, when art was unavailing, over- 
 whelming physical force. 
 
 In the selection of Rome as its seat of empire, the Papacy
 
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 secured enormous prestige. " In no other spot, would its 
 gigantic schemes of dominion have been formed, or, if formed, 
 realized. Sitting in the seat which the masters of the world 
 had so long occupied, the Papacy appeared the rightful heir of 
 their power. Papal Rome, reaped the fruit of the wars and 
 the conquests, the toils and the blood, of Imperial Rome. 
 The one had laboured and gone to her grave, the other 
 arose and entered into her labours. The Pontifis were per- 
 petually reminding the world, that they were the successors 
 of the Csesars, that the two Romes were linked by an indis- 
 soluble bond, and that to the latter had descended the heritage 
 of glory and dominion acquired by the former. . . . The 
 Pontiffs also claimed to be successors of the Apostles : a more 
 masterly stroke of policy still. As the successor of Peter, 
 the Pope was greater, than as the successor of Caesar. The 
 one made him a king, the other made him king of kings ; 
 the one gave him the power of the sword, the other invested 
 him with the still more sacred authority of the keys. . . . 
 The Papacy is the ghost of Peter crowned with the shadowy 
 diadem of the old Caesars." * 
 
 Every doctrine and dogma of the Papacy is framed with a 
 similar design, to exalt the priesthood, at the expense of the 
 intellect, the conscience, and the eternal well-being, of man- 
 kind. By the doctrine of traditmi, the priest becomes the 
 channel of Divine revelation, and by that of inherent efficacy in 
 the sacraments, the channel of Divine grace : men are wholly 
 dependent on the priesthood, for a knowledge of the will of 
 God, and an enjoyment of the salvation of God. 
 
 Recognising that no religion enjoining a high morality could 
 ever be a popular one, in a world of sinners, who love sin, the 
 Papacy presented a religion of ritual observance, instead of one 
 of spiritual power : heaven could be secured by outward acts ; 
 obedience to the church, not a change of heart, was the great 
 essential of salvation. Men naturally seek to earn heaven; 
 
 • Wylic's " Papacy," p. 414.
 
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 Popery sets them to work to do so, teaching salvation by merit, 
 and denying salvation by faith. " It provides convents for the 
 ascetic and the mystic ; carnivals for the gay ; missions for the 
 enthusiast ; penances for the man suffering from remorse ; 
 sisterhoods of mercy for the benevolent ; crusades for the 
 chivalrous; secret missions for the man whose genius lies in 
 intrigue ; the Inquisition, with its racks and screws, for the 
 cruel bigot ; indulgences for the man of wealth and pleasure ; 
 purgatory to awe the refractory, and frighten the vulgar ; and a 
 subtle theology for the casuist and the dialectitian." * Its 
 marvellous flexibility, its adaptation of its doctrines to all classes 
 and conditions of men, is one phase of the exceeding siiltlety of 
 the Papacy. Many others might be adduced, as for instance 
 its encouragement of ignorance, in the people, in order to the 
 production and maintenance of that superstition, which alone 
 makes spiritual imposture easy or even practicable. 
 
 The absurd and childish doctrine oi purgatory, unknown in 
 the church till the end of the sixth century, could never have 
 obtained currency, but for the aid of fictitious miracles, — 
 visions of departed persons broiling on gridirons, roastUig on 
 spits shivering in water, or burning in fire, etc. Such " lying 
 wonders" were therefore freely invented by the priests, and 
 readily credited by the people ; and by their means the doctrine, 
 which was one of the most lucrative ever invented, was soon 
 firmly established. Time would fail us, to speak of the " lying 
 wonders" connected with the relics, shrines of pilgrimage, and 
 false miracles of the Papacy : their name is legion, and their 
 folly is exceeded by their guilt. 
 
 V. Persecutions. 
 
 '\A''e must pass on to note its persecutions of the saints, for in 
 the prophecies of Antichrist under consideration, this feature 
 is prominently conspicuous. Daniel says of the " little horn " 
 that "he shall 7acar out the saints of the Most High, and they 
 shall be given into his hand." And John says, " It was given 
 
 • Wylie's " Papacy," p. 414.
 
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 2or 
 
 him to make war with the saints, and to overcome tliem," and 
 that he "opened his mouth to blaspheme," or speak evil of 
 them. 
 
 Now it is a notorious fact that the Church of Rome con- 
 siders heresy {i.e., any dissent from her teachings,) the worst 
 crime of which a man can be guilty ; she asserts that no heretic 
 can be saved. She teaches that no faith is to be kept with 
 heretics, that they are to be cut off from all social intercourse, 
 deprived of all natural, civil, and political rights ; that they 
 forfeit all claim and right to their property ; that they are to be 
 put to death, and that if they have died a natural death, their 
 very bones and dust are to be taken up and burnt. And who 
 are to be regarded as heretics? Let the bull In Ccena 
 Domim (or, "at the supper of the Lord") answer. Every 
 Thursday of Passion Week, that is the day before Good 
 Friday, this bull is read in the presence of the Pope, Car- 
 dinals, Bishops, and a crowd of people. His Holiness appears 
 with a pair of peacock's feathers, one on each side of his head, 
 and when the bull is finished, flings a lighted torch into the 
 court of the palace, to make the effect of the anathema the 
 more dreadful. The object of the bull, as defined by Pope 
 Paul in., is "to preserve the purity of the Christian re- 
 ligion, and to maintain the unity of the faithful." The 
 following is one of its clauses. "We excommunicate and 
 anathematize in the name of God Almighty, Father, Son, 
 and Holy Ghost, and by tlie authority of the blessed Apostles, 
 Peter and Paul, and by our own, all Hussites, Wicklifjites, 
 Liitheratis, Zuinglians, Calvinists, Anabaptists, Huguenots, Tn'ni. 
 tartans, and apostates from the faith, and all other heretics, 
 by whatsoever name they are called, and of whatsoever 
 sect they be, as also their adherents, receivers, favourers, 
 and generally all defenders of them ; together with all who 
 without our authority, or that of the Apostolic See, know- 
 ingly read, keep, print, or any way for any cause whatsoever, 
 publicly or privately, on any pretext or colour, defend their 
 books, containing heresy or treating of religion."
 
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 These are the principles of Popery, as stated by acknowledged 
 authorities of her church, and pronounced applicable to all 
 times. 
 
 As to ikit practice of this unchangeable church, there is not a 
 statement in the follcninng quotation lohich history does ?ioi abund- 
 antly substantiate. " As some luxurious emperors of Rome ex- 
 hausted the whole art of pleasure, so that a reward was promised 
 to any who should invent a new one ; so have Romish perse- 
 cutors exhausted all the art of pain, so that it will now be diffi- 
 cult to discover or invent a new kind of it, which they have 
 not already practised upon those marked out for heretics. They 
 have been shot, stabbed, stoned, drowned, beheaded, hanged, 
 drawn, quartered, impaled, burnt, or buried alive, roasted 
 on spits, baked in ovens, thrown into furnaces, tumbled 
 over precipices, cast from the tops of towers, sunk in mire and 
 pits, starved with hunger and cold, hung on tenter hooks, sus- 
 pended by the hair of the head, by the hands or feet, stuffed 
 and blown up with gunpowder, ripped with swords and sickles, 
 tied to the tails of horses, dragged over streets and sharp flints, 
 broken on the wheel, beaten on anvils with hammers, blown 
 with bellows, bored with hot irons, torn piecemeal by red-hot 
 pincers, slashed with knives, hacked with axes, hewed with 
 chisels, planed with planes, pricked with forks, stuck from head 
 to foot with pins, choked with water, lime, rags, urine, excre- 
 ments, or mangled pieces of their own bodies crammed down 
 their throats, shut up in caves and dungeons, tied to stakes, 
 nailed to trees, tormented with lighted matches, scalding oil, 
 burning pitch, melted lead, etc. They have been flayed alive, 
 had their flesh scalped and torn from their bones ; they have 
 been trampled and danced upon, till their bowels have been 
 forced out, their guts have been tied to trees and pulled forth 
 by degrees ; their heads twisted with cords till the blood, or 
 even their eyes started out ; strings have been drawn through 
 their noses, and they led about like swine, and butchered like 
 sheep. To dig out eyes, tear off nails, cut off ears, lips, 
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 Rome's converters and holy butchers. Persons have been 
 compelled to lay violent hands on their dearest friends, to kill 
 or to cast into the fire their parents, husbands, wives, children, 
 etc., or to look on whilst they have been most cruelly and 
 shamefully abused. Women and young maids have also suf- 
 fered such barbarities, accompanied with all the imaginable 
 indignities, insults, shame, and pungent pangs, to which their 
 sex could expose them. Tender babes have been whipped, 
 starved, drowned, stabbed, and burnt to death, dashed against 
 trees and stones, torn limb from limb, carried about on the 
 point of spikes and spears, and thrown to the dogs and swine." 
 If such treatment as this, inflicted on successive generations 
 of disciples of Christ, for centuries together, be not " wearing 
 out the saints of the Most High," what could be ? Plistoiy 
 afford? no parallel, for the Pagan persecutions were brief in 
 comparison to the Papal. 
 
 The following is one of the authorized curses, published 
 in the Romish Pontifical, to be pronounced on heretics by 
 Romish priests, "May God Almighty and all his saints 
 curse them, with the curse with which the devil and his angels 
 are cursed. Let them be destroyed out of the land of the 
 living. Let the vilest of deaths come upon them, and let them 
 descend alive into the pit. Let their seed be destroyed from 
 the earth ; by hunger, and thirst, and nakedness, and all distress, 
 let them perish. May they have all misery, and pestilence, 
 and torment. Let all they have be cursed. Always and 
 everywhere let them be cursed. Speaking and silent let 
 them be cursed. Within and without let them be cursed. By 
 land and by sea let them be cursed. From the crown of 
 the head to the sole of the foot, let them be cursed. Let 
 their eyes become blind, let their ears become deaf, let their 
 mouth become dumb, let their tongue cleave to their jaws, let 
 not their hands handle, let not their feet walk. ].et all the 
 members of the body be cursed. Cursed let them be standing, 
 lying, from this time forth for ever; and thus let their candle 
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 Let their burial be with dogs and asses. Let hungry wolves 
 devour their corpses. Let the devil and his angels be their 
 companions for ever. Amen, amen ; so be it, so let it be." 
 
 Entire volumes would be requisite to give an adequate idea 
 of the way in which the Papacy has worn out and overcome 
 the saints of the Most High, by her cruel persecutions. The 
 Apocalypse presents us with two great companies of martyrs 
 (Rev. vi. 9 ; xv. 2) one slain by Pagan Emperors, on account 
 of their testimony against heathen idolatry ; the other slain by 
 Christian Popes, on account of their testimony against Chris- 
 tian idolatry, against the corruptions and false doctrines of 
 the Papacy. The latter company in number enormously 
 exceeds the forvicr; it cannot be numbered by hundreds, or 
 by thousands, or by tens of thousands, or by hundreds of 
 thousands, or even by millions ; we must rise to tens of 
 viillions, to express the multitude of the saints of Christ, 
 whose blood has been shed, by the self-styled Vicar of Christ 
 on earth ! 
 
 The Inquisition, — a name at which humanity has learned 
 to shudder, — is a long and supremely cruel and wicked his- 
 tory compressed into one word ! Instituted for the avowed 
 purpose of suppressing heresy, it was established in every 
 country which submitted to Papal authority. In Spain 
 alone it has been proved by the careful statistical investi- 
 gations of Llorente, that between the years 148 1 and 1808 
 over three hundred mid forty-one thousand persons were con- 
 demned by this " Holy Office," of whom 31,912 were burned 
 alive, 17,000 burned in effigy, and nearly 300,000 tortured and 
 condemned to severe penances. Every Catholic country in 
 Europe, Asia, and America, had its Inquisition, and its con- 
 sequent unexplained arrests, indefinitely long imprisonments of 
 mnocent persons, its secret investigations, its horrible torture 
 chambers, and dreadful dungeons, its auto da fes, or burnings 
 of obstinate heretics, and its thousand nameless cruelties and 
 injustices. 
 
 When the French took Toledo, and broke open the In-
 
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 quisition prison there, we read, " Graves seemed to open, and 
 pale figures like ghosts issued from dungeons which emitted a 
 sepulchral odour. Bushy beards hanging down over the breast, 
 and nails grown like birds' claws, disfigured the skeletons, who 
 with labouring bosoms inhaled, for the first time for a long 
 series of years, the fresh air. Many of them were reduced to 
 cripples, the head inclined forward, and the arms and hands 
 hanging down, rigid and helpless : they had been confined in 
 dens so low they could not rise up in them : ... in spite 
 of all the care of the surgeons, many of them expired the same 
 day. The light of the sun made a particularly painful impres- 
 sion on the optic nerve. , . . On the following day General 
 Lasalle minutely inspected the place, attended by several 
 officers of his staff. The number of machines for torture . . . 
 thrilled even men inured to the battle-field with horror ; only 
 one of these, unique in its kind for refined cruelty, seems 
 deserving of more particular notice. 
 
 " In a recess in a subterraneous vault, contiguous to the 
 private hall for examinations, stood a wooden figure, made by 
 the hands of monks, and representing the Virgin Mary. A 
 gilded glory encompassed her head, and in her right hand she 
 held a banner. It struck us all, at first sight, as suspicious, 
 that, notwithstanding the silken robe, descending on each 
 side in ample folds from her shoulders, she should wear a 
 sort of cuirass. On closer scrutiny, it appeared that the 
 fore part of the body was stuck full of extremely sharp nviils 
 and small narrow knife-blades, with the points of both turned 
 towards the spectator. The arms and hands were jointed ; 
 and machinery behind the partition set the figure in motion. 
 One of the servants of the Inquisition was compelled, by 
 command of the General, to work the machine, as he termed 
 it. When the figure extended her arms, as tliough to press 
 some one most lovingly to her heart, the well-filled knapsack 
 of a Polish grenadier was made to supply the place of a 
 living victim. The statue hugged it closer and closer; and 
 when the attendant, agreeably to orders, made the figure un-
 
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 clasp her arms and return to her former position, tlie knap- 
 sack was perforated to the depth of two or three inches, and 
 remained hanging on the points of the nails and knife-blades. 
 To such an infernal purpose, and in a building erected in 
 honour of the true faith, was the Madonna rendered sub- 
 servient !" 
 
 Gigantic enterprises of extermination of Christian confes- 
 sors were from time to time undertaken by the Popes of Rome. 
 Witness the bloody *' crusade," against the Albigenses, de- 
 scribed by Sismondi, and the religious wars against the Wal- 
 den»es, narrated by Monastier and others. Pope Alexander 
 III. began the persecution against these '*' saints," whose only 
 crime was, that they held the truth of tlie Gospel and read the 
 Scriptures ; he confined himself to excommunications, anathe- 
 mas, and decrees, by which they were rendered incapable of 
 holding offices of trust, honour, or profit, and by which their 
 lands were seized, and their goods confiscated. Innocent III., 
 finding that they grew and prospered in spite of this, instigated 
 sterner repressive measures ; and the fierce and bloodthirsty 
 cruelty with which his behests were obeyed, has added to 
 history one of its very darkest chapters. 
 
 The populous and beautiful Val Louise (Dauphiny) was 
 deserted on the approach of the Papal army, the Waldenses 
 fleeing to the caves of the mountains. They were followed, 
 caught, thrown headlong over the precipices, dashed to pieces ; 
 others who took refuge in caves where their persecutors could 
 not follow them, were suffocated with the smoke of huge fires, 
 lit in the cavern's mouth ; 3000 men, women, and children, 
 with 400 infants, were found so smothered in one cave, at one 
 time ! At tlie Lateran Council, a.d. 1179, ^ decree was issued 
 against all heretics of whatever name, anthematizing them, and 
 forbidding any to harbour them while alive, or give them 
 Christian burial when dead. Lucius III, gave them up to the 
 secular arm, and to the Inquisition, for detection and suppres- 
 sion. Innocent III. charged every bishop to gird himself for 
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 populace in the cause. Then followed the proclamation of a 
 Crusade, with all its horrors, against the faithful witnesses for 
 the truth. At the siege and sack of Beziers alone, sixty thou- 
 sand Protestants were slain, and this was a specimen of the 
 whole crusade. Vassals, were by the Pope absolved from 
 allegiance to their superiors, should these latter refuse to join 
 in the work of extermination ; the lands and goods of heretics, 
 were given to their murderers ; and plenary indulgence to the 
 day of death, was granted to every one taking part in the 
 persecution. 
 
 The dreadful sufferings mflicted on the peaceful and in- 
 dustrious Vaudois, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, 
 are too well known to need repetition. The wretched 
 villagers, surprised in the night, and hunted from rock to 
 rock, by the light of the flames which were consuming their 
 homes, escaped one snare, to fall into another. Surrender 
 did not save the men from slaughter, nor the women from 
 brutal outrage at which nature revolts ! All were forbidden 
 to afford succour to the fugitives. At Cabrieres more thau 700 
 men were butchered in cold blood, and the women were burned 
 alive in their houses. 
 
 The "bloody ordinance of Gastaldo," issued in 1655, de- 
 creed, that all who would not embrace the Catholic faith, must 
 quit the valleys within a few days. Upwards of 1000 families 
 were driven by this edict from their homes, in the depth of 
 winter, to the shelterless recesses of the Alpine heights. The 
 general to whom the execution of the edict was entrusted, 
 fearing the consequences, if the Vaudois should resist in the 
 defiles of their mountain passes, resorted to treachery, per- 
 suaded the villages, by fair promises, to receive his 15,000 
 soldiers in small detachments ; and when the simple, unsuspi- 
 cious people, complied with his desire, he ordered the massacre, 
 which filled Protestant Europe with horror. Four thousand 
 victims suffered death, under cruelties too horrible to relate, 
 and the carnage was repeated in valley after valley. 
 
 In 1686, a fresh persecution was organised against the re-
 
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 maining Vaudois, by the Duke of Savoy ; terrible devastation 
 was carried again into their quiet vales ; unheard-of barbarities 
 committed, on every age and sex ; life could be saved only by 
 submission to overwhelming force, and a remnant did submit. 
 The whole Protestant population were consigned to prison, 
 and their lands, houses, and possessions, were divided among 
 the Catholic soldiers of Victor Amadeus. The gaols were so 
 crowded, and the treatment of the prisoners so cruel, that 
 multitudes of the poor captives perished ; they slept on bare 
 bricks, in dungeons thronged to suffocation, in the intense heat 
 of summer; and the disease and death engendered were 
 horrible in the extreme, so that in six months only 3000 of 
 the Vaudois survived. Urgent representations from the Pro- 
 testant powers of Europe, procured the liberation of this 
 remnant ; but the wretched exiles were sent out destitute, after 
 having been, in many cases, deprived of their children, and of 
 their pastors. They turned their steps to Switzerland, and had 
 to make their way over the Alps, in the depth of winter ; 
 hundreds perished of cold and hunger on the rodd. Three 
 years later, a little band of eight hundred of these intrepid 
 exiles, made their way back to their valleys, under the leader- 
 ship of Arnaud, who himself recounts their triumph over 
 apparently insuperable difficulties. * 
 
 Is further proof of the persecuting spirit of the Roman Pon- 
 tiffs needed? Look at Ireland in 1641, when the Romanist 
 Bishops, proclaimed a "war of religion," and incited the 
 people by every means in their power, to massacre the Pro- 
 testants. North, south, east, and west, throughout the island, 
 Protestant blood flowed in rivers ; houses were reduced to 
 ashes, villages and towns all but destroyed, in the deadly 
 strife ; the very cattle of the Protestants were inhumanly 
 tortured ; the only burial allowed to the martyrs was the 
 burial of the living, and their persecutors took a fiendish 
 delight, in hearing their cries and groans, issuing from the 
 
 * " Gloricusc Rentrcc dcs Vaudois dans Icurs Vallecs " : Arnaud.
 
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 earth. Popish children were taught to pluck out the eyes of 
 their Protestant playmates, to hack their little limbs, and hunt 
 them to death. Some were forced to murder their own re- 
 latives, and then butchered themselves over the bleeding 
 remains ; the last sounds that reached their dying ears, being 
 the savage assurances of the priests, that these agonies were 
 but the commencement of eternal torment, Dublin alone 
 escaped, and became a refuge for the distressed, but all its 
 Popish inhabitants were forbidden, under pain of the direst 
 curse, to afford the slightest succour to the sufferers. Thou- 
 sands died of cold and hunger ; thousands more emigrated, 
 and perished in the wintry weather, from hunger and exposure. 
 
 In Armagh, four thousand Protestants were drowned; in 
 Cavan, the road for twelve miles together was stained red 
 with the gory track of the wounded fugitives ; sixty children 
 were abandoned in the flight, by parents fiercely hunted by the 
 blood-hounds of the Papacy, who declared that any who helped 
 or even buried these little ones, should be buried by their 
 sides ; seventeen adults were buried alive at Fermanagh, and 
 in Kilkenny seventy-two. In the province of Ulster alone, 
 upwards of one hundred and fifty-four thousand Protestants, 
 were massacred or expelled from Ireland. O'Nicl, the Romish 
 Primate of all Ireland, declared this rebellion to be " a pious 
 and lawful war;" and Pope Urban VIIL, by a bull, dated 
 May, 1643, granted "full and absolute remission of all their 
 sins," to those who had taken part in " gallantly doing what 
 in them lay, to extirpate and wholly root out, the pestiferous 
 leaven of heretical contagion," * 
 
 But France was the scene of the greatest national crime 
 which even the Papacy has ever instigated and approved, the 
 MASSACRE OF St. BARTHOLOMEW'S Day, planned by the 
 infamous Catherine de Medicis, and ordered by her weak 
 and wretched son, Charles IX, The horrible story of this 
 unparalleled atrocity, is too well known to need recounting 
 
 * " History of tlh.AUcmpts of the Irish l'n]-)ists to Extirpate the Protest- 
 ants ill the kingdoia ot Ireland," ]iy Sir John Temple, Master of tlie Rolls, 
 
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 here. In Paris alone the blood of over ten thousand innocent 
 Protestant citizens, deluged the streets, and for a whole week 
 the shouts of " Kill, kill," resounded on every hand. In 
 Rouen from one to two thousand were slaughtered ; and a 
 similar number at Lyons, at Orleans five hundred ; every 
 town and village became a scene of carnage. Some writers 
 compute that at least one hundred thousand persons fell in 
 this terrible massacre ; others put the number lower. At 
 the most moderate calculation, thirty to forty thousand Pro- 
 testants, perished on account of their faith, in that fatal 
 month of August, 1572. All the Princes of Europe ex- 
 pressed their indignation at the foul treachery, excepting the 
 King of Spain and the Pope. The former wrote to congratu- 
 late Charles IX., on the " triumph of the Church militant," 
 which his conduct had secured. The Pope, Gregory XIII., 
 who was privy to the plot, celebrated a Te Deum on hearing 
 the news, ordered a jubilee, and a solemn procession, which 
 he accompanied himself, to thank God for this glorious 
 success ; he sent a nuncio to Paris to congratulate the king, 
 had a medal struck in memory of the happy event, and a 
 picture of the massacre, painted and hung in the Vatican. 
 A scroll at the top contained a Latin inscription to the 
 effect, The Pontiff approves the vairder of Coligny. 
 
 Tremendous as this blow had been, it did not crush Pro- 
 testantism in France ; a twelfth part of the entire population of 
 the country were still attached to the Reformed religion. 
 Henry IV., on ascending the throne, issued, in 1598, the Edict 
 of Nantes, which placed Protestants on an equal footing with 
 Catholics in regard to civil rights, and the free exercise of their 
 religion. The Huguenots soon began to recover from the 
 effects of past persecutions ; but the gleam of prosperity was 
 of short duration. With the murder of Henry IV. it passed 
 away, and by the loss of La Rochelle the political power of 
 the Protestants was extinguished. Oppression and injustice 
 gradually increased, till, on the accession of Louis XIV., they 
 were so crallinc, tl:at ei::iit hundred thousand of tlie best
 
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 Huguenot families of France, emigrated to England and 
 other countries, to find the liberty to worship God denied 
 them in their own. At last, in 16S5, the Edict of Nantes, and 
 all the other concessions made to the Reformed, were revoked 
 completely; their churches were demolished; their meetings 
 jn-ohibited ; their schools closed ; their children, from five to 
 sixteeij, taken from them to be educated as Catholics ; while at 
 the same time they were forbidden to emigrate. A reward of 
 five thousand five hundred livres was oft'ered, for information 
 leading to the capture of any one of the Huguenot preachers. 
 Persecution waxed hotter and hotter; secret meetings, sur- 
 prised by the dragoons, were at once turned into scenes of 
 butchery and slaughter. Incredible tortures were invented, 
 and cruelties, the recital of which is almost impossible, were 
 perpetrated by the Romish party, on their unoffending fellow- 
 subjects. The Protestants, driven to desperation, rose at last 
 in the Cevennes, and in 1702, the war of the " Camisards " 
 began. A Huguenot historian of this dreadful civil war, says, 
 " Never did hell in the direst persecution, invent or employ 
 means so diabolical and inhuman as the dragoons, and the 
 monks who head them, have used to destroy us. These 
 cruelties were general in France, but most violent in our 
 Cevennes." The Pope, Clement XL, did all in his power to 
 secure the utter extinction of the persecuted Camisards. He 
 promised complete exemption from the pains of purgatory, to 
 all who took up arms to exterminate " the accursed and exe- 
 crable race." For three years this cruel crusade continued, till 
 the fair and fruitful hills and valleys of the Cevennes, were 
 turned into desolation, and the Protestants completely crushed. 
 Time and space fail to tell the sickening and similar stories 
 of the papal persecutions in Spain and Portugal, in Savoy, in 
 Poland, in Bohemia, and in the Thirty Years' War in Germany ; 
 the horrible persecutions of the Emperor Charles V., and 
 above all of the dark deeds of the Papacy, wrought through the 
 Infamous Duke of Alva, in the Low Countries. Let the thrill- 
 inslv interestiuGr storv of tlie holv heroism of hundreds and
 
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 thousands of Christian martyrs, as told in Motley's " Dutcli 
 Republic," add its testimony to the fact, that the Papal power 
 has fulfilled the inspired prediction, " he shall wear out the saints 
 of the Most High," and " make war with the saints and over- 
 come them ;" let Foxe's " Book of Martyrs " do the same ; let the 
 records of the Lollard persecution in our own land, and of the 
 reign of " bloody" Mary, do the same ; let Mexico, and^ Abys- 
 sinia, and India, tell their tales of the Holy Inquisition and 
 its doings, and of the Jesuits and their proceedings ; and let 
 Italy itself unveil the scenes that Ferrara, and Venice, and 
 Parma, and Calabria have witnessed, in confirmation of the 
 fact. In the mouth of many many witnesses, the charge is 
 proved, and one single statement makes all argument on the 
 subject needless. // has bee?i calculated that the Popes of Rome 
 have, directly or indirectly, slain on account of their faith, fifty 
 millions of martyrs ; fifty millions of men and women who re- 
 fused to be parties to Romish idolatries, who held to tlie Bible 
 as the Word of God, and who loved not their lives unto death, 
 but resisted unto blood, striving against sin. 
 
 VI. DOMIXIOX. 
 
 One of the most marked features of the great power of evil 
 predicted intlie four prophecies we are considering, is, its wide 
 
 DOMINION. 
 
 Of this revived head of the Roman earth we read, (Rev. 
 xiii. 7,) "power was given him, over all kindreds, and tongues, 
 and nations " ; and other clauses in the chapter show that so 
 absolute was this power to be, tliat all, small and great, rich 
 and poor, free and bond, were to be brought into subjection to 
 it, and that it would become almost impossible, for those who 
 refused such subjection, to exist; they would not even be per- 
 mitted to buy or sell. 
 
 A peculiar mark of the nature of tliis power is also 
 given. The subjection yielded to it would be a voluntary 
 one. It is said of the ten horns, that they shall " have 
 one mind, and shall ^^ivc tlicir power and strength unto tlie
 
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 Beast '"' ; that is, it is predicted that the kingdoms into which 
 the Roman earth would be divided, on the fall of the Empire, 
 would voluntarily place themselves, in some sense, under the 
 dominion of this final form of Roman power. Their subjection 
 would not be eftected by conquest, but by the arts of persua- 
 sion and subtle iniluence. They would be deceived and 
 cajoled into submission, by fair words, by false miracles, by 
 lying wonders, by superstitious fears, and by the influence of 
 others, acting on behalf of this power, rather than by its owii 
 direct efforts. 
 
 This feature is so peculiar, so unlike the analogous features 
 of the three first Beasts or Empires of Daniel, whose dominion 
 was acquired by devouring, pushing, running furiously, smit- 
 ing, breaking, stamping in pieces, in a word, by exercising 
 physical force, instead of subtle spiritual influence, that it serves 
 at once to indicate the power intended. The Papacy is the 
 only great political power, which has ever held sway over all 
 kindreds, tongues, and nations, without having to fight for it, 
 and with the consent of the subjected kingdoms. The pro- 
 found ignorance of the dark ages, so zealously fostered by the 
 Papacy, created a degree of superstition, which rendered kings 
 and peoples alike, willingly obedient to this power, which boldly 
 claimed to be supernatural, and to exercise dominion in heaven 
 and in hell, as well as on earth, and over the souls, as well as 
 over the bodies of men ; and that both for time and for eternity. 
 
 The prophecy further distinctly intimates, that this power 
 will not be universal or all-inclusive, even in the lands where 
 it should prevail. It would be resisted by a certain class : 
 " all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, ^vhose 
 names are 7iot 7vritten in the book of life of tJic Lamb slain 
 from t/ie foundation of the 7uorld." This foretells that the 
 godly — " the saints" — the chosen and called and faitliful, and 
 they alone, will refuse to bow to this power ; and the vision 
 shows also, that they will do it at the risk, and too often at 
 the cost of the loss of life itself. How literally and fearfully 
 this prediction has been fulfilled in the history of the Pa-
 
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 pacy, the preceding outline of the persecutions inflicted on 
 so-called " heretics," shows. 
 
 The extent and the character of Papal dominion, during the 
 dark ages, is, in our days, little realized. It is not easy, gazing 
 on the rotten stump of an old oak, to picture to one's self what 
 the tree was in the days of its glorious youth, and of its mighty 
 maturity ; how its immense branches shot out on every side, 
 overshadowing a thousand lower growths ; how the tempests 
 attacked it in vain, and the hurricanes only rooted it more 
 firmly in the soil. How beautiful it looked in its light green 
 robe in spring ; how magnificent in its ruddy autumnal brown ; 
 how generation after generation of birds sheltered amid its 
 branches, and of wild boars fed upon its acorns. The cen- 
 turies that have rolled over the tree have left little trace of what 
 it was, and yet the very size of the stump tells the tale of its 
 bygone might and glory. It is just so with the power of the 
 Roman Pontiffs. The world can smile now at the puerility of the 
 proud and preposterous pretensions, of the poor old man who 
 occupies the chair of St. Peter, in his Vatican prison in Rome. 
 It listens to his loud claim to infallibility with a laugh of con- 
 tempt, and to his fierce anathemas on science, and literature, 
 and social and religious liberty, with the calm and compassion- 
 ate scorn, with which the wanderings of a lunatic are regarded. 
 Lut of yore it was quite another thing. Every utterance of the 
 tiara-crowned monarch was heard with awe, every command 
 was implicitly obeyed. Men trembled under his curse, and 
 gloried in his benediction, as if they had been those of Deity. 
 The thunders of his interdicts shook the nations, and the fires 
 of his excommunications spread death and destruction abroad. 
 The imperial edicts of the Emperors Justinian and Ehocas 
 gave the Popes of Rome a legal power in all religious matters ; 
 and very early the various Gothic princes of Western Christen- 
 dom showed a disposition to yield submission to the Roman Pon- 
 tift", as children to a father, or inferiors to a superior. Already, 
 in the eighth century', Gregory II. boasted to the Greek Em- 
 peror, " all the kings of the west reverence the Pope as a God
 
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 on eartJi^' and facts fully justified the assertion. Pepin, for 
 example, when aspiring to the crown of France, prayed the Po])c 
 to authorize his usurpation ; and as soon as he had done so, the 
 Franks, and indeed the whole Western World, recognised his 
 title. Even the great Emperor Charlemagne, was willing to 
 receive from the Roman Pontiff his crown and dominion, 
 " The Lord John, apostolic and universal Pope," says the 
 Council of Pavia, "hath at Rome elected, and anointed with 
 the holy oil, Charlemagne, as Emperor." The western kings of 
 Europe accepted the position of subserviency to tlic Sovereign 
 Pontiff, by admitting into their coronation oaths a promise, 
 '^ to be faithful and submissive to the Popes, and the Roman 
 Church." 
 
 In its earlier days the Papacy, restrained by princes from exer- 
 cising civil dominion, was equally restrained by the indepen- 
 dence of bishops, and the authority of councils, from assuming 
 despotic power, even in the church. " From the time of Leo 
 IX.," says Mosheim, " the Popes employed every method which 
 the most artful ambition could suggest, to remove these limits, 
 and to render their dominion both despotic and universal." 
 Hildebrand, one of the most ambitious, sagacious, crafty, and 
 arrogant of men, when he became Pope under the title of 
 Gregory VII., " looked up to the summit of universal empire, 
 with a wistful eye, and laboured up the ascent with uninter- 
 rupted ardour and invincible perseverance." He laboured in- 
 dcfatigably to render the universal church, subject to the des- 
 potic government of the Pontiff alone, as well as to submit 
 to his jurisdiction the emperors, kings, and princes of the 
 earth, and to render their dominion tributary to the see of 
 Rome. Even when the Pope reclaimed a crown he had con- 
 ferred, he was often met with the most abject submission. 
 The Emperors Rodolphus and Otho, of Germany, not onl}- 
 received the crown as a Papal grant, on the Pope's depo- 
 sition of previous emperors, but they resigned, at his bidding, 
 the crowns so received. Peter II. of Arragon, and John, king 
 of England, and other monarchs also, gave up their indcpen-
 
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 dence, that tl'Cy might receive back their reahns as vassals of 
 the Pope. " Uiider the sa:crdotal monarchy of St. Peter," says 
 Gibbon, *' the nations began to resume the practice of seeking 
 on the banks of the Tiber, their kings, their laws, and tlie 
 oracles of their fate." And similarly, in speaking of the first 
 Norman king of Sicily, he says, "The nine kings of the Latin 
 world might disclium their new associate, unless he were 
 consecrated by the authority of the supreme Pontiff." 
 
 If kings and emperors bowed thus before the Pope, it will 
 easily be believed that the reverence of the common people for 
 his person and office, and their submission to his arrogant and 
 blasphemous pretensions, was complete. " Not in respect of 
 his power in secular things, but in things much higher, who 
 knows not of the universal reverence and faith in his blas- 
 phemous pretensions exhibited throughout the long middle 
 ages by Christendom ? Look at the thronging multitudes on 
 pilgrimage to Rome, in assurance of the salvation he promises 
 them ! Look at their reception of his dogmas in matters of 
 faith, as very oracles from heaven ! Look at their purchasing 
 of his indulgences with their often hard earned money, in the 
 belief of delivering thereby the captive souls of departed rela- 
 tives, as well as their o\vn souls, from the pains of purgatory 
 and of hell ! " * Look at the way in which thousands of all 
 classes engaged in crusades and religious wars at the bidding 
 of the Popes, and refused aid, even to their nearest and dearest 
 friends, if they came under his ban ! From the most private 
 domestic relations of individuals, to the most public national 
 acts of empires, all fell under the rule, direct or indirect, of the 
 Papacy. It was the last solemn united act, before the Reforma- 
 tion, of the deputies of Christendom assembled in. council, to 
 subscribe the bull Ujiavi Sanction, which declares that as there 
 
 IS BUT ONE BODY OF THE CHURCH AND CHRISTENDOM, SO THERE 
 IS BUT ONE HEAD, THE ViCAR OF ChRIST — THE POPE ; AND 
 THAT IT IS ESSENTIAL TO THE SALVATION OF EVERY HUMAN 
 
 * Elliott, vol. iii., p. 171.
 
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 BEING, TO DE SUBJECT TO THE RoMAN PONTIFF ; and HO Sub- 
 sequent Council ever revoked this decree. 
 
 It is clear, then, that a widespread and all-pervading power, 
 of the most despotic, absolute, and blasphemous character, 
 was wielded for a thousand years by the Popes of Rome, 
 and is claimed by them still ; that this power was sub- 
 mitted to by all the nations of Western Christendom for 
 many centuries ; and that it is still acknowledged by all 
 Roman Catholics everywhere. The late Pope, in ad- 
 dressing the people of Rome on one occasion, congratu- 
 lated them, that they had more than two hundred, viillions of 
 fellow subjects elsewhere, speaking all languages, and dwelling 
 in all nations. 
 
 In the Papacy, has therefore been fulfilled to the letter, and 
 in the most marvellous way, the prediction, " Power was given 
 unto him over all kindreds and tongues and nations." * 
 
 The growth of this power to these gigantic proportions, was 
 a most singular phenomenon. Tyndale the Reformer speak- 
 ing of it, says : " To see how the holy father came \\\), mark 
 the ensample of the ivy ! First it springcth up out of the 
 earth, and then awhile creepeth along by the ground, till it 
 
 * The application of this prophecy to the Popedom has sometimes been 
 doubted, because of the wide universality of this expression. Lut com- 
 parison witli other scriptures removes this difficuhy. We read in Matthew 
 iii. 5 : "Then went out unto him Jerusalem and all Judca, and all the 
 region round about Jordan, and were bajitized." And again. Acts ix. 35, 
 "And all that dwelt in Lydda and Saron saw him, and turned to the Lord." 
 "All " in these passages must be taken with /nnitations, which are not ex- 
 pressed. So in Daniel iii. 7, it is said that when Nebuchadnezzar set up 
 liis image, "all the people, the nations, and the languages fell down and 
 worshipped." Now, the second verse of the chapter shows, that only the 
 princes and governors of those nations were present ; they are regarded as 
 representatives of their people. In the same way all Christendom submitted 
 to the Popes of Rome, through the Councils which represented them. The 
 exception in the text of those whose names are written in tlic Lamb's book 
 of life shows that — ^just as all were not Israel that were of Israel — so all 
 were not Papists that were subject to the Papacy. This must never be for- 
 gotten. At the last the cry goes forth, " Come out of her, viy people,'" Ti. 
 call which imjjlies that — as Lot dwelt in Sodom — so some true believers will 
 be found in the Roman Catholic system, even just prior to its final destruc- 
 tion.
 
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 find a great tree. Then it joineth itself beneatli, unto the 
 body of the tree, and creepeth up a little and a little, fair and 
 softly. At the beginning, while it is yet thin and small, the 
 burden is not perceived ; it seemeth glorious to garnish the 
 tree in winter. But it holdeth fast withal, and ceascth not 
 10 climb up till it be at the top, and even above all. And then 
 it sendeth its branc'hes along by the branches of the tree, and 
 overgroweth all, and waxeth great, heavy, and thick ; and it 
 sucketh the moisture so sore out of the tree and his branches, 
 that it choaketh and stifleth them. And then the foul, stink- 
 ing ivy waxeth mighty in the stump of the tree, and becomcth 
 a seat and a nest for all unclean birds and for blind owls 
 which hawk in the daik, and dare not come to the light. 
 
 " Even so the Bishop of Rome, now called Pope, at the begin- 
 ning crope along upon the earth, and every man trod on him. 
 As soon as there came a Christian emperor, he joined himself 
 to his feet and kissed them, and crope up a little, with begging 
 now this privilege, now that. . . . And thus with flatter- 
 ing and feigning and vain superstition, under the name of 
 St. Peter, he crept up, and fastened his roots in the heart of 
 the emperor, and with his sword climbed up above all his 
 fellow bishops, and brought them under his feet. And as he 
 subdued them by the emperor's sword, even so after tJicy were 
 sworn faithful, he, by their means, climbed up above the 
 etnperor, and subdued him also, and made hvn stoop unto his 
 feet and kiss them ! . . . And thus the Pope, the father 
 of all hypocrites, hath with falsehood and guile perverted 
 the order of the world, and turned things upside down." 
 
 VII. Before closing this chapter, we must notice the dootn of 
 the great power of evil predicted in the fourfold propjiccy we 
 are considering. 
 
 It consists of two parts, gradual consumption, followed by 
 sudden and final destruction. The latter, being still future, 
 affords no opportunity of comparing the prophetic announce- 
 ment with the historical fulfilment ; but the former, being 
 already partially fulfilled, and still in progress of fulfilment;
 
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 does, and the correspondence between prediction and event 
 is nowhere more clear and unmistakable. 
 
 In Daniel, in Thessalonians, and /// tJie Apocalypse, the final 
 destruction of this last form of the Roman power, is connected 
 with the personal appearing of Christ to establish his millennial 
 kingdom. But in each prophecy it is also intimated that a 
 consuming and destroying process, would go on for some time, 
 previously to the end, so that the once mighty power would be 
 weakened and impoverished, before it is finally destroyed. 
 
 *' They shall take away his dominion, to consiune and destroy 
 it unto the end " (Dan. vii. 26). " Whom the Lord shall con- 
 sume with the Spirit of his mouth, and destroy with the bright- 
 ness of his coming " (2 Thess. ii. S). " The ten horns shall 
 hate the whore, and shall make Jicr desolate and naked, and 
 shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire " (Rev. xvii. 16). 
 
 The final destruction of the power in question is described 
 in Rev. xix. 20, "The beast was taken and cast alive into a 
 lake of fire burning with brimstone." This is his destruction 
 with the brightness of Christ's coming ; and the consu7nption by 
 the spirit of his mouth, must have preceded this final judgment. 
 
 Pharaoh and the hosts of Egypt were similarly wasted and 
 consumed by the ten plagues, before they were whelmed in 
 the waters of the Red Sea. The consuming process is figured 
 in the Apocalypse as taking place under the outpouring of 
 certain vials of wrath, on the kingdom of the Beast, and on his 
 followers. 
 
 We inquire, then, whether there have been in the history of 
 the Papacy any events answering to this emblem, whether any 
 process of consumption is distinctly traceable, any wasting to 
 decay of its resources, any conspicuous diminution of its do- 
 minion, and reduction of its influence and authority. 
 
 The facts of the case are so notorious, that it is needless to 
 set them forth in detail. The political power of the Roman 
 Pontiffs, once, as we have seen, a dread reality in Euroi)c, is 
 gone. It is a memory of the past, not an existing fact. The 
 territorial possessions of the Pope arc gone ; the States of the
 
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 Church form part of the dominions of the king of Italy, and 
 Rome itself has become his capital. Within the last twenty 
 years all the Concordats made between the Pope and the 
 various countries of Europe, have been brought to an end. 
 The immense landed property, belonging to the various orders 
 of monks and nuns on whom the Papacy relied as its universal 
 agents, has all been confiscated and secularized in Italy, in 
 France, in England, and in other lands. In 15 13, when the 
 great Lateran Council was held, there was not a "heretic " to 
 be found. There are now nearly eighty millions of Pro- 
 testants, who abjure Papal doctrines and practices. The 
 dominion of the Popes, over the bodies and minds of men, 
 is therefore marvellously diminished, though the latter is not 
 yet destroyed. 
 
 And it is specially worthy of note that the means by which 
 this conspicuous and undeniable " consumption " of Papal 
 power has been accomplished, are precisely the means speci- 
 fied by the Apostle Paul in Thcssalonians. He says that the 
 Lord shall consume this evil power by the spirit of his 7nouth, 
 i.e., by his word. 
 
 Holy Scripture is of course the form in which the word or 
 spirit of the Lord's mouth, retains a sensible existence, and 
 influences human society. " The words that I speak unto you, 
 they are spirit, and they are life." 
 
 Does not the extreme jealousy with which the Papacy has 
 always endeavoured to bury the Bible in an unknown tongue, 
 or to undo its teachings by false interpretations, betray its 
 inveterate antagonism to the power destined to "consume" it? 
 " There is an instinct of apprehension, a consciousness, which, 
 antecedent to experience, divines danger ; it seems discernible 
 in the alarm with which Romanism recoils from Holy Scrip- 
 
 ture 
 
 ,^ " * 
 
 The Creed of Pius IV.— that creed, a belief in which is, ac- 
 cording to Papal declaration, essential to salvation — expressly 
 
 "The Apostasy": O'Sullivan.
 
 FORETOLD AND FULFILLED. 
 
 states that the Bible is not for the people : " Whosoever will 
 be saved," must renounce it. It is a forbidden book. Bible 
 Societies are "Satanic contrivances." Bible burnings are most 
 Catholic demonstrations. All this dread of Scripture, all this 
 violent opposition to its circulation, is a plain proof that the 
 Papacy recognises in tlie Word of God its worst antagonist. 
 Experience shows it is right. 
 
 Wherever the Word of God has free course, the power of 
 the Papacy is at an end. The Reformation sprang from a 
 recovered Bible ; and wherever, as in Scotland, the popular 
 mind is imbued with Scripture, Romanism has no chance. It 
 is the absence of Bible knowledge that enables the Papacy to 
 retain its sway, in Spain and other European countries, in 
 Mexico, in Brazil, and in parts of Ireland. 
 
 The fact was stated in evidence before the Commissioners 
 of Education, that in 1S46, among 400 students attending 
 Maynooth College, only ten had Bibles or Testaments, while 
 every student was required to provide himself with a copy of 
 the works of the Jesuits, Bailly and Delahogue. 
 
 The failure of the Hibernian Schools, in which the Bible 
 without note or comment was used, was attributed by Lord 
 Stanley to that fact alone : the priests exerted " themselves, 
 with energy and success, against a system to which they were 
 in princii)le opposed." The parents were told that it was 
 " mortal sin " to send their children to such schools ; and if 
 they persisted, the sacrament was withheld from them, even 
 when dying. 
 
 Pius IX., in his Encyclical Letter of 1S50, speaks of Bible 
 study as *' poisonous reading," and urges all his venerable 
 brethren with vigilance and solicitude to put a stop to it. 
 A clergyman lost his wife in Rome, and wished to put a text 
 on her tombstone. The Pope refused permission, not only on 
 the ground that it was unlawful to express a hope of immor- 
 tality as to a " heretic," but because it was " contrary to law, 
 to publish in the sight of the Roman people any portion of the 
 Word of God " !
 
 FORETOLD AND FULFILLED. 
 
 "Rome is constrained to do homage to the majesty of the 
 Eible ; she has done her best to exile that book from the world, 
 ■with all the treasures it contains, — its thrilling narratives, its 
 rich poetry, its profound philosophy, its sublime doctrines, 
 its blessed promises, its magnificent prophecies, its glorious 
 and immortal hopes. Were any being so cruel as to ex- 
 tinguish the light of day, and condemn the successive genera- 
 tions of men to pass their lives amid the gloom ot an unbroken 
 night, where would words be found strong enough to execrate 
 the enormity ? Far greater is the crime of Rome. After the 
 day of Christianity had dawned, she was able to cover Europe 
 with darkness ; and by the exclusion of the Bible, to per- 
 petuate that darkness from age to age. The enormity of this 
 wickedness cannot be known on earth. But she cannot con- 
 ceal from herself that, despite her anathemas, her indices 
 cxpurgatorii^ her tyrannical edicts, by which she still attempts 
 to wall round her territory of darkness, the Bible is destined 
 to overcome in the conflict. Hence her implacable hostility — 
 hostility founded to a large extent on fear. . . , To 
 Popery a single Bible is more dreadful than an army ten 
 thousand strong. . . . When she meets the Bible in 
 her path, she is startled, and exclaims with terror, I know 
 thee who thou art ! Art thou come to torment me before the 
 time?"* 
 
 For the last three hundred years, ever since the Reforma 
 tion, the Papacy has been in process of consumption by the 
 spirit of the Lord's mouth. It will ere long be " destroyed 
 by the brightness of his coming." 
 
 VIIL This leads us to tlie last point we must notice in our 
 brief examination of this remarkable fourfold prophecy of the 
 Papacy, — Its duration. 
 
 The period of the dominion of the little horn, is fixed in 
 Daniel vii. as " time, times, and the dividing of time ; " antl 
 that of the last head of the Roman beast (which is, as wc 
 
 * Wylic's " Tapacy.
 
 FORETOLD AND FULFILLED. 
 
 have seen, only another symbol of the same power), as " forty 
 and two months," the same period under a different designa- 
 tion. This period is identical, and synchronous with, the 
 1260 days of parallel prophecies. Interpreted according to 
 the year-day system, it has had a most evident fulfilment in 
 the duration of the power of the Papacy ; and it is besides a 
 
 KEY TO THE WHOLE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS, NATURAL 
 AND REVEALED. 
 
 The entire system thus opened up, is a confirmation of the 
 interpretation which opens it : its universal range, its exquisite 
 internal harmonies, and its deep underlying connection with 
 the profoundest truths of our faith, make this system a grand 
 witness to the true interpretation of the mystic phrases which 
 furnish the clue for its discovery. 
 
 To enter more largely on this point here would be to ant ici- 
 pate subsequent chapters. For the present we must content 
 ourselves with asserting simply that \\\q predicted period of the 
 great power of evil we have been considering, 1260 years, 
 points out the Papacy as the proper fulfilment, as clearly as 
 any of the other features. The Bishops of Rome assumed 
 universal supremacy in the beginning of the seventh century^ 
 and have exercised it ever since. It is a solemn fact, that 
 these inspired prophecies, — every other prediction in which 
 has been so marvellously fulfilled, — foretell that it will not last 
 much longer. Its days are numbered. Its end is near. 
 
 To conclude. The origin of the Papacy corresponded with 
 every indication furnished by these four prophecies. Its cha- 
 racter answers exactly to the singularly wicked and evil charac- 
 ter assigned by the inspiring Spirit to the predicted power. 
 Self-exalting utterances, great words, against God and man, 
 have been one of its most distinguishing features ; idolatries and 
 false doctrines have been inculcated and promulgated through- 
 out Christendom by its instrumentality ; it has made war with 
 the saints and overcome them, fifty millions of evangelical 
 martyrs having been slain by its authority ; it has ruled over all 
 the kindreds and nations of Catholic Christendom, and that
 
 224 FORETOLD AND FULFILLED. 
 
 for more than twelve centuries ; and it has for the last three 
 hundred years been wasting to decay, undermined and ex- 
 posed by the Reformation movement, which itself was the 
 direct result of the revival of scriptural teachings and the 
 dissemination of Bible truth. The Papacy was never so low, 
 in power, in resources, in prestige, as it is at this moment. 
 According to the Divine programme afforded by these sacred, 
 once mysterious but now clear predictions, the Papal drama 
 is played out. The final scene alone remains, — the destruction 
 of the Papacy by the brightness of Christ's coming. 
 
 In the face of such a fulfilment as this, — a fulfilment on so 
 grand a scale, as to the area involved, tlie events comprised, 
 and the time occupied, — a fulfilment affecting countless my- 
 riads of human beings during its course of more than twelve 
 hundred years, — a fulfilment of immense spiritual importance, 
 to thirty or forty generations of professing Christians, throughout 
 the world, — a fulfilment so little to have been expected, and 
 therefore so peculiarly worthy of being made the subject of 
 prophetic forewarning, — in the face of such a fulfilment, surely 
 candour would admit, this is that which was spoken by the 
 prophet ; this is that system of supernatural and soul-destroy- 
 ing error, that dire and dreadful apostasy, revealed by the 
 inspiring Spirit, as the principal power of evil, to arise between 
 the first and second advents of the Lord Jesus Christ. 
 
 When the four symbolic beasts were presented to Daniel, 
 it was the fourth that arrested his gaze, and it was the " little 
 horn " of that fourth empire, that mainly attracted his attention, 
 and the angelic interpreter dwells with tenfold fulness on the 
 power represented by this symbol. So when Paul predicted 
 the future of the church on earth, it was the rise, domination 
 and decay of this same evil power that he presented, as the 
 main event to intervene before her rapture to meet the Lord 
 in the air ; and so when John received the revelation of Jesus 
 Christ, which God gave to him, the central symbol of the 
 entire group of hieroglyphs, the one which occupied the most 
 prominent place in the prophecy, was one of this same power.
 
 FORETOLD AND FULFILLED. 
 
 " the beast," the great antagonist of the Lamb and his fol- 
 lowers. 
 
 How Avorthy of such conspicuous mention in the sacred 
 oracles, of such solemn denunciation by the Holy Ghost, — how 
 worthy of such pre-eminent fame (or rather infamy !) among 
 the gigantic evils that have afflicted mankind, — how deserving 
 of every dark designation bestowed, and of the dread doom 
 denounced, has the Papacy proved itself to be. The self- 
 styled vicar of Christ has been his worst enemy in the world, 
 the crowned priest on the papal throne has been the undoing 
 of the church on earth. The system which asserts salvation 
 impossible beyond its borders, has destroyed the spiritual and 
 temporal well-being of untold multitudes of men. Unutterably 
 disastrous as have been its direct effects, its millions of 
 slaughtered saints, its myriads of deluded disciples, its indirect 
 effects have been hardly less terrible. Ly its priestly assump- 
 tions and pious frauds, by its notorious cupidity and mercenary 
 practices, by its gross perversions of the truth, and unblushing 
 corruptions of morality, by its reason-revolting dogmas, childish 
 superstitions, and endless old wives' fables, by its uniform 
 opposition to social progress, and its habitual alliance with 
 political tyranny, it has brought all religion into contempt, and 
 filled Catholic Christendom with scorners, infidels, and atheists. 
 
 As to every single particular noted in the sure word of 
 prophecy, the plainest correspondence can be traced between 
 the fourfold prediction and the Papal fulfilment ; and we can- 
 not refrain from deprecating most earnestly, the miscliicvous 
 system of interpretation, which teaches that this clear, undeni- 
 able, and grandly terrible accomplishment, is not tlic fulfil incnt 
 intended. 
 
 Standing face to face with Jesus Christ, the disciples of John 
 inquired in their master's name, "Art Thou He that should 
 come, or look we for another?" They were answered by 
 deeds, not words. Tlie Lord wrought Messianic miracles in 
 their presence, and said, " Co and tell John what thing ye 
 have seen and heard ; " that is, lie did the deeds lidiich it had 
 
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 FCr.ETCLD 4XD FULFILLED. 
 
 bcai prcdictid that the Messiah would do, and all were responsible 
 to draw thence the inference that Hi was tJu Messiah. So, 
 pointing to the chnrch history of the last twelve centuries, we 
 say, lo I the Papacy has done the ^^t^ which were to be done 
 by the oft-predicted power of e\-i], foretold in the word of 
 God ! And we believe that Christians are responsible to draw 
 from the historical fact, th; '".:";:;".:: .•'. P.zta^- is t\: t:-..:r 
 that was thus fredkted. 
 
 To neglect the e%'idence which proves this fact- :.'.-: :o 
 demonstration, and to spectdate ab?ut 7~5sible fnuir^ l.:-rai 
 fulnlments, as the intended and ma -. ;. : : : •...plishment, of these 
 sacred symbolic prophecies, is to denude them of th - 
 f)-ing power, and to turn their keen edge of pract:. _ - 
 cation- If the Papacy is the real ftilnlment, if it is tke e\-il that 
 was foresidn as of supreme importance (as it has certainly 
 proved to be), it is surely no light matter for teachers of the 
 word to mislead others on the point To do so., is to relieve 
 Popery of the feariul sdgma cast on it by the spirit of prophecy, 
 to deprive the church of the Di\ine estimate of this Anti- 
 christian system, and to substitute instead, wild and imau- 
 thorized speculations, about some coming man, who is, in three 
 years and a half, to exhaust these divinely given predictions, 
 which the church has for eighteen centuries been studying. 
 
 We entreat our Futurist friends to consider, whether it is more 
 likely that the all-wise God indited these solemn predictions for 
 the benefit of many generations of his saints, or exclusively for 
 the guidance of the last generation of this age ? Did He pass 
 by unnoticed, th* gigantic and imiversally influential power, 
 which ruled the whole of Christendom with despotic sway and 
 inconceivably evil results for more than a thousand years, in 
 order to describe in detail, and many times over, the doings of 
 C7U iiuzn, the brief career of a single indiWdual, who has not 
 yet appeared? Was it to warn the church of the nineteenth 
 century against some short-lived Napoleon, that the Holy 
 Ghost unveiled the future to the prophet Danieh and that the 
 Lord Jesus gave the Apocalypse to the saintly John ?
 
 FORETOLD AND FULFILLED. 
 
 The ample and repeated descriptions of this power of evil, the 
 unparalleled denunciations against it, the solemn adjurations to 
 the people of God, to avoid any connection with it, all forbid 
 the idea. Not for one, but for fifty generations of saints, were 
 these prophecies indited; not to be fulfilled on the petty scale 
 of three years, but on the majestic one of twelve centuries; not 
 to indicate gross material dangers, but subtle spiritual and 
 ecclesiastical evils, of long duration, and world-wide prevalence. 
 The coming of Antichrist is no brief future event, lying be- 
 tween us and our blessed hope, the glorious appearing of our 
 Saviour ; he was revealed more than a thousand years ago, he 
 has run his course, and lasted his pre-appointed period ; for 
 three hundred years, he has been consuming by the spirit of 
 Christ's mouth, and of all the momentous series of events con- 
 nected with his long-predicted career, nothing remains to be 
 fulfilled save his final conflict with the Lamb, and destruction 
 with the brightness of Christ's coming. 
 
 To conclude. The correct interpretation of the prophecy of 
 Bahylo7i the great, — that it is the CJiurch of Rome — confirms the 
 above victu of this prophecy of " the beast," and is indeed the hey 
 to the zuhole Apocalypse. 
 
 There is a vast difference between the Papacy, and the 
 corrupt church, which it founded, governed, and used as its 
 tool ; a difference, less in degree, but similar in character, to 
 that existing between the Head of the true church, and that 
 church which He founded, governs, and employs as an instru- 
 ment to accomplish his will in the world. Many things are true 
 of the Lord Jesus, that are not true of the church which is his 
 body, close and inseparable as is the connection between them. 
 So, many things are true of the Popes of Rome which are not 
 true of the Roman Catholic Church, close as is the connection 
 between them. Widely dissimilar hieroglyphs are selected to 
 prefigure the two, in the Apocalypse, and yet the connection 
 between them is very clearly indicated ; they are never con- 
 founded, yet never disjoined. 
 
 Now the duration of the corrupt church is not mcntioiicd
 
 228 FORETOLD AND FULFILLED. 
 
 in this prophecy, though long duration is implied ; but her 
 name is given, and it demonstrates with all but mathematical 
 certainty, as we have seen, that the church intended is the 
 Church of Rome. That church has, we know, as a matter of 
 history, already lasted in a condition of corruption and apostasy, 
 for more than twelve centuries. Its fall is in the Apocalypse 
 represented as taking place under the sei'cnth vial (Rev. xvi.), 
 and as synchronizing with the marriage of the Lamb (Rev. 
 xix. 1-4). 
 
 The power of " the beast " (or Papal dynasty) is also repre- 
 sented as being consumed under the outpouring of the vials, 
 while he himself and his armies arc destroyed by the advent, 
 which synchronizes with the marriage of the Lamb. That is, 
 " Babylon " and " the beast " are represented as coming to an 
 end at 07ie and the same time. 
 
 Their careers are also cotemporancous, for the woman is repre- 
 sented as seated on the Roman beast — "the beast that was 
 and is not " — that is, not old Pagan Rome, but Rome revived, 
 in a totally new form of domination. This beast " that was 
 and is not" is expressly said to be tJie eighth (v. 11), that is the 
 last terrible form of revived Roman power, so fully described 
 in chapter xiii. — the power of which we have been treating. 
 
 It follows, that since the Church of Rome has already lasted 
 more than twelve centuries, the last ruling head of the Roman 
 world, the blasphemous, persecuting, self-exalting head or power 
 here predicted, Jnust have been in existence for the very same 
 period, which is indeed the duration assigned to it, in symbolic 
 language by the prophecy — 12O0 years. 
 
 Now what poiuer has actually ruled the nations of Christen- 
 dom from Rome as its seat, during the last twelve centuries! 
 There can ee but one reply — The Papacy : It must 
 therefore ee the power prefigured by the symbol of 
 
 "the BEAST." 
 
 Further, the vials, under which Babylon and "the beast" are 
 represented as being brought to an end, synchronize with the 
 close of the period of the trumpets. The events prefigured
 
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 under the earlier trumpets must therefore be sought in the 
 previous history of Christendom ; i.e., in the time of the tindi- 
 ininislicd power of the Papacy, and in the events whicli pre- 
 ceded and accompanied its rise. 
 
 The martyrs represented in the fifteenth chapter of the 
 book, standing as victors on the sea of glass, having '■'gotten the 
 vietory over the beast, and over his image, and over the number 
 of his name," must be those slain by Papal Rome. A previous 
 group of martyrs are represented in the sixth chapter, who 
 must therefore be those slain by Pagan Rome in the ten great 
 persecutions of the church by the Ccesars. 
 
 Now it is under \X\^ fifth seal that this earlier company is seen 
 under the altar, and consequently the events figured as taking 
 place under the four previous seals, must be sought in days 
 p7-ior to the last great persecution under Diocletian, that is, in the 
 first three hundred years of church history. 
 
 Thus we are led by clear and simple synchronisms, afforded 
 by the book itself, to a conclusion respecting the Apocalypse, 
 similar to that which we reached by other lines of argument ; 
 namely, that its fulfilment is to be sought in the events of the 
 Christian era, and that so far from all its visions, from chap, 
 vi. to chap. xix. being still wholly future, they are almost 
 wholly past. Nor can the force of this argument be avoided, 
 save by denying that the Babylon of the Apocalypse represents 
 the Church of Rome. 
 
 In the remaining portion of this work we shall find all the 
 conclusions we have reached in its three earlier parts, respecting 
 the second advent and the millennium, the resurrection and the 
 judgment to come, the true scope and nature of the Apocalypse, 
 and the signification of these, its two leading prefigurations, 
 — abundantly confirmed from independent sources, and by 
 arguments drawn from the realms of natural science. 
 
 End of Part III.
 
 PART IV. 
 
 INQUIR Y INTO THE DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES 
 AND SEASONS NATURAL AND REVEALED. 
 
 SECTION I. 
 
 Solar and Lunar Dominion Causal and Chronological. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 chronology, biblical and natural, is there harmony 
 between the two? 
 
 solar and lunar dominion in the inorganic world, 
 soli-luxar control of terrestrial revolutions. — 
 winds. — rains. — ocean currents. — tides. — electric and 
 magnetic variations. 
 
 OUR subject in this volume so far, has been sacred pro- 
 phecy. We have observed the manner in which the 
 Omniscient God has been pleased to reveal the future to man 
 — progressively ; we have investigated some of the main prin- 
 ciples, on which the symbolic predictions of Scripture should 
 be interpreted ; and we have traced the historic fulfilment of 
 two of the most important of them. We must now turn to 
 the distinct yet cognate subject of chronology, and examine 
 the times and seasons of some of the events foretold in pro- 
 phecy, and those of Scripture in general. 
 
 Every Bible student is aware, that prophecy has its chron- 
 ology, that various periods arc assigned to events forefold 
 by holy men of old, who spake as they were moved by the 
 Holy Ghost. Empires have their duration, dynasties and 
 kingdoms, last for certain periods, and as predicting these.
 
 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 231 
 
 prophecy can no more be divested of the chronological ele- 
 ment than history. Indeed prophecy being simply history 
 anticipated, the times and seasons of the one, become in due 
 course, those of the other ; they are two parts of one whole ; 
 and now that history unrolls before our eyes a record extend- 
 ing over six thousand years, very few are the prophetic periods 
 whose fulfilment cannot be traced in some part of the scroll. 
 
 But further ; there exists, not in sacred prophecy alone, 
 but throughout the entire Bible, a system of times and seasons. 
 Chronology is a prominent feature of the Holy Scriptures. In 
 the account of the creation, in the narrative of the flood, 
 in the biographies of the patriarchs, in the Mosaic economy 
 with its legal and ceremonial enactments, in the history of the 
 Jewish nation ; in the prophets ; in the gospels, and in the 
 Apocalypse ; statements of time aboimd. Not only is the 
 creation work recorded, but the time it occupied ; not only are 
 the waters of the flood described, but we are told how many 
 days they took to rise, and how many to fall ; how many years 
 Noah had lived prior to the crisis, how many days he waited 
 before he sent out the dove, and how many more before 
 he went forth from the ark, himself. It is so throughout. 
 In fact the science of true chronology is based upon the state- 
 ments of Scripture : the first of chronologers,^ Clinton, accepts 
 its data as correct, and draws from thence his conclusions as 
 to the age of the world. Unlike the sacred books of all false 
 religions, Bible stories are no vague myths, or fabled occur- 
 rences, referred to some remote intangible past. The time 
 of the events recorded is accurately measured, and they are 
 all fitted into a framework of true chronology. And while 
 the times and seasons of Scripture are substantial historical 
 periods, bearing the stamp of accuracy and veracity, they form 
 part of a series, and belong to a system, the features of whicl) 
 it is not difficult to trace. Not only are there chronological 
 statements in abundance in the Bible, but there is, under- 
 lying them all a system, a peculiar system, harmonious with all 
 the other features of that marvellous volume.
 
 232 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS, 
 
 A moment's reflection will satisfy every well informed person 
 that nature has also its times and seasons ; that the outward 
 material universe in which we dwell, and the laws which govern 
 it, are marked by a well defined periodicily. The entire solar 
 system is one great chronometer, the animal and vegetable 
 worlds, are regulated by unchangeable laws in respect of time^ 
 as well as in every other respect ; and nature being, in all its 
 grandeur, its beauty, its complexity, its variety, its mystery, a 
 revelation of its great Creator's wisdom and power, the system 
 of times and seasons which characterizes it, may be called 
 a Divine system of times ajid seasons. 
 
 There is no chance in the length of celestial revolutions, or 
 in the duration of cycles of organic change : all is regulated, 
 fixed, appointed. " He appointed the moon for seasons, the 
 sun knowcth his going down. Thou makest darkness and it 
 is night, wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth. 
 The sun ariscth, they gather themselves together, and lay them 
 down in their dens." As to man, " his days are determined, the 
 number of his months are with Thee, Thou hast appointed his 
 bounds, that he cannot pass." As the apostle Paul proclaimed 
 to the Athenians of old, " God hath determined the times before 
 appointed " as well as the bounds of the habitation, of all men, 
 and of all living things ; and He has fixed the orbit of every 
 rolling globe in space, and timed its various revolutions. The 
 mighty machine of the universe, has been wound up and 
 regulated by its great Creator ; all its myriad parts keej) 
 march and measure, and move according to the Divine will 
 and purpose. 
 
 Now if there be a system of times and seasons, in nature, 
 which is nnqiiestio7iahly from God, and a .system also in the 
 Bible, which claims to be a Divine revelation, it is evidently 
 an inquiry of the deepest interest, are these two systems one 7 
 Can any principles or peculiarities be observed, which indicate 
 that the two are the offspring of one and the same mind ? Is 
 the system of nature, tlie system of the Bible ? Can the Bible 
 system be traced in nature ? Two books are before us, one
 
 NATURAL AND REVEALED. 
 
 certainly, the other professedly, the work of a given author. 
 A. marked peculiarity pervades the latter, with which long study 
 has made us familiar. If on examination we find the very 
 same singular feature to be prominent in the former, who would 
 hesitate to conclude that both were written by one hand ? 
 
 We propose now, in the last part of this work, to investigate 
 this interesting and momentous point ; to examine into the 
 question, whether the natural system of times and seasons, is 
 identical with, or related to the Bible system, whether the 
 periodicity of nature, and the periodicity of Scripture, are de- 
 monstrably two parts of one whole. 
 
 The inquiry, it will be granted is a most legitimate one, for 
 both the material universe, and the volume of inspiration are 
 open revelations. We are not prying into hidden m}'steries, 
 or seeking to be wise above what is written. " The secret 
 things belong to God, but the things that are revealed, to us 
 and to our children : " we are at liberty to study such a 
 subject, "whoso is wise and will observe these things" shall 
 behold more and more of the glory of God, for the diverse 
 revelations which He has made, throw light the one on the 
 other. 
 
 Moreover a pleasing element of certainty, attaches to such 
 a research : science astronomic, biologic, physical, botanical, 
 chemical, optical, — science in all its branches, deals with facts, 
 and there is no refusing the testimony of ascertained and well 
 established facts. Nature can be watched and tested, and no 
 baseless theories stand a chance against her silent testimony. 
 Nor can the chronology of secular and sacred history, be made 
 to fit a false system. It is too angular, too solid, to adapt it- 
 self to a scheme for which it was not designed. The most 
 remote pre-historic periods are spaced out for us by Bible 
 statements only, but by far the larger ])art of the annals of the 
 human race, are bathed in the double light of sacred and pro- 
 fane history. 
 
 The importance of such an investigation will scarcely be 
 questioned. In these days of sujjcrcilious scientific contempt
 
 234 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS, 
 
 for Scripture, we can ill afford to leave unemployed, any single 
 line of evidence, which may strengthen the argument for the 
 Divine origin of the Bible. To demonstrate this, is to enable 
 Christianity to dispense with other evidence, for if Scripture 
 be from God, Christianity is unquestionably true. Now if 
 Bible times and seasons harmonize with the system by which 
 the entire universe is regulated, he will be a most uncandid 
 and unscientific sceptic, who refuses to believe that Scripture 
 is from God. The harmony once proved, will demand a modi- 
 fication of many a theory of unbelief, and to account for it will 
 tax the ingenuity of infidels. 
 
 In the following pages it will be our endeavour to show, that 
 the natural and Biblical systems are one — two parts of one 
 whole, — and may the proof redound to the glory of God, and 
 confirm the faith of his servants, in the inspiration of his Holy 
 Word. 
 
 We shall examine first the periodicity of nature, inorganic 
 and organic, and subsequently that of Scripture history and 
 prophecy, gathering from the latter strong confirmation of the 
 views of prophetic interpretation already advocated, and con- 
 vincing, unmistakable evidence of the nearness of the end of 
 the age : and may the Holy Spirit, whose office it is to teach 
 us all things, and show us things to come, Himself be our in- 
 structor and guide ! 
 
 On the very threshold of this subject, however, we are met 
 by a question evidently so fundamental to its clear conception, 
 that we must pause to give it a reply : — 
 What is Time? 
 
 Time is " duration set forth by measures " * ; the ticking of 
 a clock, the beating of a pulse, the burning of a candle, the 
 falling of sand through a certain aperture, — these, and a thou- 
 sand similar regular movements, may serve as measures, more 
 or less exact, of time. 
 
 But its uniform and accurate measurement, being a matter of 
 
 * Locke " On tlic Human Understanclincr."
 
 NATURAL AND REVEALED. 235 
 
 vast and universal importance, and standards of a great variety 
 of lengths, being needful to beings who take an interest in the 
 past, the present, and the future, including periods the most 
 remote ; measures of a far more stable, accurate, regular and 
 comprehensive character than these, are evidently needful. 
 
 Such measures the great Creator has provided in the revo- 
 lution of the heavenly bodies. The diurnal, annual, and 
 secular movements of the globe on which we dwell, give rise to 
 exceedingly various celestial phenomena, which as the prin- 
 cipal hands of a complex dial plate, indicate the lapse of time. 
 
 The best measures of time must of course be those which 
 are most obvious, regular and universal, and in these and 
 other respects, there are no standards that can for a moment 
 compare, with the apparent and real movements of the sun and 
 moon. The motions of the planets are slow, inconspicuous, 
 and variable ; now forward, now retrograde ; difficult to detect, 
 and observed by very few. The motions of the comets are 
 still more irregular, and are for the most part altogether lost 
 to sight ; but those of the sun and moon are universally con- 
 spicuous, they combine regularity with variety, and revolutions 
 of considerable rapidity, with others of a slow and stately cha- 
 racter, including some whose periods are of enormous duration. 
 Above all, the sun and moon exercise an unrivalled dominion 
 in the control of terrestrial movements and changes. They 
 combine, and that to a marvellous extent, the two distinct 
 elements of potency and periodicitv. While they originate 
 and rule almost all the physical changes continually taking 
 place upon the surface of the globe, they are eminently 
 periodic, and from the combination of these two elements it 
 results, that they alone of all the heavenly bodies, create and 
 control terrestrial times and seasons. ^Ve name the primary 
 periods which they measure, days, months, years ; and all our 
 times and seasons are either these, or multiples of these. 
 
 In investigating the question of Times and Seasons, we will 
 commence then by considering the almost boundless dominion 
 exercised by the sun and moon, over the inorganic and organic
 
 236 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 worlds, and we will then advance to the subject of the perio- 
 dicity of their movements, and the relation of these and other 
 natural times and seasons, to those revealed in the Word of God. 
 
 Solar and Lunar Dominion in the Inorganic World, 
 
 " And God made two great lights ; the greater light to rule the day, and 
 the lesser light to rule the night. And God set them in the firmament of 
 the heaven to give light upon the earth, and to rule over the day and over 
 the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. And God said, let 
 them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years." — Gen. i. 
 
 The inspired writings were never intended to reveal to men, 
 those truths of science, which their own God-given intelli- 
 gence would ultimately enable them, by means of humble, dili- 
 gent, and patient observation, to discover. Yet the Scriptures 
 never darken counsel by words without knowledge, involving 
 scientific blunders, and they often use, in a passing way, 
 expressions which harmonize with the teachings of the most 
 advanced modern science. 
 
 The statement above quoted, that God made the sun and 
 moon "to RULE," is one of these. To rise to a conception of the 
 vastness and universality of solar influence in the creation and 
 control of inorganic and organic terrestrial change, is difficult 
 for us even now, and must have been impossible for the ancients. 
 
 Yet that this great light of our globe, is also its great ruler, 
 is beyond all question, and is a point we must seek to 
 estabhsh, for the sake of those who scarcely recognise its 
 full import, before we endeavour to unfold some of the chrono- 
 logical laws of this dominion. 
 
 So numerous and important are the effects which Almighty 
 Power accomplishes through solar and lunar agency, that the 
 sun and moon may be said to drive i/ie whole dockioork of ter- 
 restrial nature. The swift and ceaseless translation of the earth 
 through space ; the curving of its path and its retention in an 
 annual orbit ; the slow secular alteration of the direction of its 
 axis ; the periodic donation and withdrawal of various degrees 
 of light and heat, with resulting days, and nights, and changeful
 
 SOLAR AND LUNAR DOMINION 237 
 
 seasons ; the movement and circulation of all winds, from the 
 gentlest zephyr to the most terrible tornado ; the circulation of 
 all water currents, including on the one hand, the innumerable 
 rills and rivers of the land, and on the other, the equally count- 
 less currents of the ocean ; the whole phenomena of tides, with 
 their varied and vasts results ; and that of rains, from the up- 
 raising of waters in the form of vapour, and their transporta- 
 tion as clouds, to their condensation and descent in fertilizing 
 showers ; the formation and fall of dews, of snow, of hail ; the 
 control of all-pervading electric, magnetic, and chemical 
 changes ; these, together with the constant exercise of the most 
 potent of all physical influences, in the development and sup- 
 port of vegetable and animal life, constitute a sum of solar and 
 lunar operations, which seems to leave but little to be effected 
 by other agencies. 
 
 It is needful that we should recall some familiar scientific facts, to justify 
 this statement and give it its due weight. 
 
 First, then, as regards the relation of soli-lunar inlluencc to {>iorganic 
 changes, and primarily to the continual change in the earth's own position ; 
 i.e., to the earth's varied and complicated inovcnunts, be it remembered 
 that every atom in the universe attracts every other atom with a force inverse 
 to the square of the distance. Such is the great and universal law of 
 gravitation. What then must be the attractive power exercised on our globe 
 by its closely-attendant satellite, the moon, which is a world 7chx; miles in 
 circumference, with a mass estimated at 78,ooo,ooo,cxx>,ooo,ooo,ooo of 
 tons ? And how stupendous and overmastering must be the attractive force 
 brought to bear upon the earth by the supreme central orb of the system, 
 which is 700 times greater than all the planets put together, and a million 
 times larger than the earth itself ! A ponderous luminous globe, equal to 
 a million worlds in magnitude, is ever exerting on our world, all its might 
 of irresistible attraction. The globe we inhabit, vast relatively to us though 
 it be, yields to its influence, as the wave to the wind ! 
 
 The earth moves in its orbit 120 times more swiftly than a cannon ball. 
 This almost inconceivable velocity, imparts to it, of course, an inconceivably 
 strong impulse or tendency to fly off at a tangent, and move on in a straight 
 line, from every point of its orbit. It is for ever struggling with tremendous 
 energy to be free from its lord paramount, seeking, with all the force of 
 the well-nigh irresistible laws of motion, to break away into space and 
 escape beyond the influence of the sun's light and heat. But it may not
 
 238 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 be ! The great raler of the system asserts his absolute dominion ; no laws 
 of motion can resist the superior law of his attraction ; the earth owns her 
 complete subjection, and is compelled to travel continually in her elliptical 
 orbit around the sun. Yet the struggle is maintained age after age, and 
 age after age the victory rests with the sun. When, at one part of her orbit, 
 the earth's speed is increased to its maximum, she has power for awhile to 
 increase her distance from the central orb round which she so reluctantly 
 circulates. Further and further she retires, as if approaching the inde- 
 pendence and the straight line to which she inclines ; but as she ret«;ats her 
 speed diminishes, and wlien it has reached a minimum, the never relaxed 
 attraction of the central sun is felt with increased power, and she is obliged 
 slowly to approach again the distant but resistless ruler. Distance and 
 velocity may change within certain limits, but the earth's orbit, and the 
 period in which she journeys through it, are invariable, owing to the 
 supreme overmastering dominion of the sun. 
 
 Other influences exerted on the earth, as that of the moon, and that of 
 her sister planets, are not without their effect ; but they are no more able 
 permanently to change tlie earth's orbit, or alter her period, than are the 
 sticks or stones of the river bank, able to stay the rushing river. 
 
 Again : steady though the earth's axis seems to be, pointing faithfuUy 
 to the pole star, yet, in obedience to solar and lunar influences, it changes 
 slowly its direction in the course of ages, so that the pole star of to-day, is 
 not the pole star of the creation, nor will it be the pole star of a thousand 
 years hence. This change in the direction of the axis of the earth, causes 
 the entire starry finnament, to seem to revolve around the ecliptic, and 
 makes the sun appear to fall back, through all the signs of the zodiac, in a 
 direction contraiy to that of its annual movement. This revolution, which 
 occupies the immense period of 25,850 years, is called the precession of the 
 equinoxes, or the advance of the equinoctial points. This is a year on a 
 grand scale to our earth, a revolution occupying hundreds of centuries, per- 
 formed under the double influence of solar and lunar attraction, and illus- 
 tating strikingly the complete and perpetual subjection of our globe, to 
 these greater and lesser lights. 
 
 There is a second motion of the axis called "nutation," (nodding or 
 tilting), caused by the moon's attraction alone. It is owing to a change in 
 the plane of the moon's orbit, which causes the place of its intersection with 
 the ecliptic to vaiy month by month, and year by year, for 19 years, iu 
 which period the series of changes is completed. During half that time, 
 the axis of the earth is slightly tilted in one direction, and during the othei 
 half in the other ; an instance of purely lunar dominion. 
 
 And on a grander scale than any of these, is the ruling power of the 
 greater light displayed. It is an ascertained fact, that the sun, instead of 
 being fixed and motionless in the heavens, as was at one time supposed, is
 
 SOLAR AND LUXAR DOMIXIOX. 
 
 239 
 
 leading his whole train of attendant planets, with their satellites, on an 
 immense and immeasurable journey through space. At the rate of four or 
 five hundred thousand miles every day, the sun is drawing his magnificent 
 ram after him, our globe included, in a direction which can be distinctly 
 traced, but whose far-sweeping orbit and amazing period, no power of man 
 has been able to calculate. 
 
 It is therefore evident, that in obedience to the sun's attraction, and in a 
 much smaller degi-ee, to that of the moon, our globe is continually per- 
 lorming movements which are vast, varied, and complex. 
 
 They range from daily, monthly, and annual effects, to secular chan-cs 
 of enormous though calculable period, and to some whose periods are hi- 
 calculable. 
 
 Theslownessof some of these movements, the amazing velocity of others 
 the variety of their form, and the vastness of their sweep, fill the mind 
 which contemplates them as affecting the globe on which we dwell, with 
 awe and admiration, and with a profound sense of the reality of solar and 
 unar dominion. The rule of these worlds over our o\vn, is not in word 
 but in power. It is a rule, unlike the most despotic rule with which men 
 are famihar, that makes itself felt at all times, in all places, in spite of all 
 counteracting influences, and it is a mle that nothing can in the long run 
 resist; apt image of the power exercised by Him of whom Gerhardt wrote,- 
 
 " He eveiTwhere hath sway, 
 
 And all things serve his might ; 
 His every act pure blessing is. 
 His path unsullied light. ' 
 
 And not only does the earth itself perform these marvellously complex 
 and mighty motions under soli-lunar influence, but the very same power is 
 the cause of almost all the incessant changes and movements which take 
 place on its surface, and in its constituent elements. 
 
 Nothing in all its vast e.xtent, as a moment's reflection will show, nosin-lc 
 atom in the material substances which form and clothe the crust of the earth 
 is long at rest. And this unending and infinitely varied movement, may be 
 traced to the influence of the sun and moon. Their rule not only embraces 
 the greatest things, but is felt also by the least. The huge world itself sub- 
 mits to It, and every drop of water, every leaf, every insect, is similarly 
 subject. 
 
 It is principally by means of its attraction that the sun governs the mo- 
 tions of the globe ; but it is more through its heat, its light and its actinic, 
 magnetic, and electric influences, that it operates on the atmosphere of our 
 earth, on its seas and continents, on its flora and fauna, and on mankind. 
 These forces, acting separately or in combination, produce almost all the 
 changes and movements of matter which we witness, from the hurricane 
 that cools and clear, the heated atmosphere, to the opening of the rose-bud, 
 and the painting of the petal or the leaf.
 
 210 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 Its heat is the first great means by which the sun originates terrestrial 
 change and motion. Heat, as is well known, expands and so rarefies all 
 matter. The amount of solar heat received by the earth is enormous. It 
 has been calculated that on one square mile exposed at noon under the 
 equator, 26,00x3 tons of ice would be melted in an hour ; and fifty million 
 times this amount of heat is actually received by the earth from the sun every 
 hour. Were this amount of heat evenly distributed over the earth's surface, 
 it would, in the course of a year, suffice to heat to the boiling point, an 
 ocean of frozen water, sixty miles deep. 
 
 The amount of heat received by any one part of the earth's surface, de- 
 pends mainly on the altitude in the heavens, attained by the sun in that 
 particular locality. The higher the sun rises, the hotter are its beams, and 
 the longer the period during which its light and heat are enjoyed. 
 
 When we remember that the three forms in which matter exists, solid, 
 liquid, and gaseous, are due to different degrees of heat, we at once per- 
 ceive the importance of solar heat, in relation to the state of inorganic 
 matter. The results of its presence or absence, are seen at a glance, in the 
 contrast presented by the tropic and frigid zones ; the flowing seas and 
 rivers of the one, and the frozen floods and icc'uergs of the other, arc due 
 solely to the increase or diminution of solar heat. 
 
 The vast inorganic changes in the surface of the earth which geology 
 reveals, were brought about mainly by the same cause. The slow degra- 
 dation of its solid constituents was due, then as now, to the alternate action 
 of heat and frost, aided by the continual beating of the waves of the ocean, 
 driven by winds, themselves the result of varying degrees of heat. To the 
 flow of rivers and ocean currents, (which spring ultimately from the same 
 cause) was due the dissemination and diffusion of these abraded matters, 
 and their re-arrangement in fresh deposits. The violent volcanic action 
 which from time to time upheaved the aqueous strata, is itself partially 
 traceable to the same cause, for the increase of pressure over large spaces 
 in the beds. of the oceans, occasioned by the immense transfer of matter just 
 alluded to, naturally produced diminished pressure over corresponding 
 portions of the land, and the elastic force of subterranean fires, repressed 
 on the one hand, and released on the other, broke forth in the tremendous 
 upheavals and eruptions of the geologic eras. 
 
 But it is in the case of the atmosphere surrounding uur globe, that the 
 effect of the sun's heat is most apparent. It is kept in a state of ceaseless 
 and complicated motion by the variations of solar heat. The steady perio- 
 dical trade winds and monsoons, are simply the currents of colder aii which 
 rush in to fill the spaces, in which, by the excessive heat of the rays of a 
 vertical sun, the air has been rarefied to an extreme degree. They are an 
 effect produced by the sun, in his apparent annual progress from one tropic 
 to the other. So the familiar land and sea breezes, which may be recog- 
 nised on every seaboard, though most distinctly in the tropics, arise fron:
 
 SOLAR AND LUNAR DOMINION. 241 
 
 the unequal heating of the Land and the water. From its low conducting 
 power, the land during tlie hours of sunshine receives and retains more heat 
 than the, water. The superjacent atmosphere becomes more rarefied in con- 
 sequence, and ascends, while the cooler air from the sea, flows in to fill the 
 vacancy. In fact, fickle and uncertain as the winds appear, they are all 
 the result of lazv, and all more or less directly produced by solar ho-.t. In 
 Europe the winds succeed each other in an order always the same, and so 
 marked as to be called " the law of rotation of the winds." Where solar 
 heat is greatest, as in the tropics, atmospheric changes are most violent ; 
 where it is most constant, the general direction of winds is steadiest, as in 
 the trade winds. In short the sun draws al^out the wind, as the loadstone 
 the needle ; and its dominion over the atmosphere is as complete as it is- 
 over the solid globe. 
 
 Nor is the world of waters any exception to the rule of solar dominion. 
 The whole system of water-circulation, for the cleansing, support and nour- 
 ishment of the world, is worked by solar power ; the sun is the ever-acting 
 pump or heart, by which the supply is raised from the great oceanic reser- 
 voir. Its heat lifts the water in vapours to the sky ; these vapours are 
 transported by the heat-caused winds of which we have spoken, and con- 
 densed by the withdrawal of heat, into rain, snow, hail, or dew, as the case 
 may be. Thus summer heat leads to mists and rains, and when excessive, 
 to tropical deluges ; thus sunset is followed by the fall of dew, and the 
 winter diminution of solar heat, by snow, and hailstorms. 
 
 The results accomplished by this water supply, are of the highest possible 
 importance in the physical world. The circulation of water, is to the globe, 
 what the circulation of the blood is to the animal frame ; it is the great 
 means by which life is supported, and by which the elements of corruption 
 and decay are removed. In each case the circulation is complete. "All 
 the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full ; unto the place from 
 whence the rivers come, thither they return again." The sparkling springs 
 and mountain rivulets, the murmuring brooks, the flowing rivers, and the 
 broad estuaries, are the continual returning of this life-sustaining water 
 supply, to the ocean from which the sun originally lifted it. This water- 
 circulation, together with all its marvellous effects, in cleansing, nourishing, 
 beautifying, moving, transporting, disintegrating, depositing, accumulating, 
 channelling, changing, etc., is carried on from year to year, and age to age, 
 simply by solar inlluencc. TJic power required for the work, and actually 
 exerted by the sun is enormous. It has been calculated that tlie production 
 of one day's steady rain, over an area equal to that of the county of Middle- 
 sex, demands power, equivalent to the mechanical force which would be 
 requisite to raise 1,000,000,000 tons, to a heiglit of three miles. What 
 then must be the solar force expended in the constant work of watering tiic 
 whole world ?
 
 242 DIVIXE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 Nor is this all ! The ocean reservoir is itself a maze of currents ; no 
 portion of the mighty deep is ever perfectly quiescent. From its surface to 
 its lowest soundings, and from pole to pole, its waters are in ceaseless cir- 
 culation. A large number of its currents have been tabulated, and are laid 
 down on our charts ; some of them are hundreds, and even thousands of 
 miles in length. Their existence is clearly traceable to the effect of solar 
 heat. The heated waters of the Gulf of Mexico, becoming lighter as they 
 expand under the vertical rays of a tropical sun, flow off like oil. from the 
 top of the heavier water which rushes in below to take their place, and 
 guided by the conformation of the adjacent continent, and the direction of 
 the prevaihng winds, cross the Atlantic and form the well known " Gulf 
 stream," whose waters are perceptibly warmer than the ocean througli 
 Vi'hich they run. Similar warm currents are constantly flowing north- 
 ward from the tropics, and cold counter-currents returning from the poles. 
 Thus the cold of extreme northern latitudes is modified, while ice-floes and 
 icebergs are transported southward, and melted in the solar ray ; marine 
 life, both animal and vegetable, is preserved and propagated ; ships are 
 carried to their destinations, and the equilibrium of nature maintained ; and 
 it is the sun which is the source of all this motion in the depths of the sea, 
 as in the heights of the atmosphere. 
 
 It is mainly to the moon that we are indebted for that marvellous, world- 
 wide, daily-recurring, and most beneficent movement of the waters known 
 as the thics. It is impossible to overrate the value of the ebb and flow of 
 the tide to man. It is a mighty scavenger in the first place, and a most in- 
 expensive and precious mechanical power in the second. By the attractive 
 power of the moon, operating all over the world, the ocean is heaved up at 
 opposite sides of the globe in two broad waves, which travel round the 
 world, steadily following the advancing moon. Two similar but lesser 
 waves follow the track of the sun, and the high bi-monthly wave known as 
 spring tide, is caused by a combination of these two. The nearness of the 
 moon, gives it over the waters of the ocean, a power greater than that of 
 the larger but more distant sun. 
 
 There is no terrestrial phenomenon which manifests so marked and steady 
 a periodicity as this ebb and flow of the waters of the sea ; and there are 
 few whose general effect is more beneficial. But for it, our shores, where 
 rivers run into the ocean, would become vast stagnant deltas of corruption ; 
 sources of pestilence and death. Cities and towns naturally grow up on the 
 banks of rivers, and have an inevitable tendency to pollute them. But 
 twice a day, thanks to the tidal wave, their impurities, instead of being suf- 
 fered to accumulate in their channels, or at their mouths, are carried out to 
 sea, and lost or rendered harmless ; a most important advantage to mankind. 
 
 A transport service of enormous extent is also performed by the tide, on 
 coasts and on rivers, and where wind and steam arc not available.
 
 SOLAR AND LUNAR DOMLYION. 243 
 
 The heavier traffic carried on by large ships and in barges, is often taken 
 in tow by this quiet but powerful tug, which performs without expense, an 
 amount of mechanical labour, the money value of which would be difficult 
 to calculate, even for one large city. 
 
 Tiie close connection between tidal phenomena and lunar movements, is 
 demonstrated by the fact that the tides have their cycles, which have been 
 reduced to tables, and lound accurately to coincide with cycles of soli-lunar 
 change. For many years tide-tables were constructed from the results of 
 observation independently of science. But Mr. Lubbock, a mathematician, 
 convinced that more accurate tables might be framed on a scientific basis, 
 undertook the extensive labours needful for their preparation. Finding that 
 regular tide observations had been made at the London Docks, from 1795) 
 he took nineteen years of these, purposely selecting the length of a cycle of 
 the motions of the lunar orbit ; constructed tables for the effect on the tide 
 of the moon's declination, parallax, and hour of transit ; and was able to 
 produce tide-tables founded on the data thus obtained, which -wefe more 
 exact than those which were compiled from observation alone. 
 
 The sun exerts mighty and mysterious influences over the earth, inde- 
 pendently of his attraction and of his heat. That there is a close connection 
 between solar and lunar force, and ma^^tietisni, has been abundantly demon- 
 strated, though the nature of that connection is still, to a great extent, a 
 problem awaiting solution. 
 
 Distinct diurnal, montiily, and annual variations in the direction of tlic 
 magnetic needle, have been discovered, indicating the existence of some 
 hidden, but close, relation between the revolutions of the sun and moon, 
 and this potent and all-pervading force. Universal magnetic variations, 
 accurately and constantly correspond with the changes which take place in 
 the position of the sun and moon witli reference to the earth. " All the 
 magnetic elements, are subject to periodical variations, dependent on the 
 position of the sun with respect to the meridian, the period of which is ac- 
 cordingly, the solar day." "They are subject also to a small variation 
 dependent on the position of the moon with respect to the meridian ; " * 
 and to a third irregularity which is annual in character, attaining its maxima 
 and minima in the spring and autumn in the nortliern hemisphere, and vict 
 versa in the southern. 
 
 Besides this, the magnetic declination changes slowly at all parts of the 
 earth, in the course of centuries. Thus in the year 15S0, and onwards to 
 the year 1657, the declination of the magnetic needle at London was in an 
 easterly direction, but constantly decreasing. At the latter date it disap- 
 peared altogether, and for some years the magnetic meridian coincided witli 
 the astronomic. After the year 1660 tlie declination became westerly ; it 
 
 * "Treatise on Magnetism." IL Lloyd, D.D. , I'rovost of Trinity Col- 
 lege, Dublin.
 
 241 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 attained its maximum in this direction in tlie year 1S15, and has ever since 
 been diminishing, and returning towards the true astronomic meridian as 
 before. 
 
 In addition to these diurnal, monthly, annual, and secular variations in 
 the direction of the magnetic needle, there is an eleven years' cycle of electric 
 and magnetic change, corresponding constantly and accurately, both in its 
 duration, and in its periods of maxima and minima, with the eleven years' 
 cycle of solar change, or that of the increase and diminution of sini spots, 
 whose very remarkable periodicity was discovered by Schwabe of Dessau. 
 
 The periods of scarcity and abundance of the spots on the sun, succeed 
 each other every five and a half years, so that in eleven years, the sun passes 
 through all its stages of purity and spottiness: that is, about nine times in 
 the course of every century. Both the beautiful electric phenomena called 
 the aurora borealis, and the magnetic currents which influence the compass, 
 are closely connected with these spots on the sun, though in what manner 
 cannot be explained. Magnetic storms, as they are called, or sudden and 
 powerful currents which cause the needle to jump and jerk violently at the 
 same moment, all over the earth, and singularly brilliant and widespread 
 aurora, have been observed to correspond with remarkable outbursts of 
 light, in or near some of the solar spots. The years 1857 to 1S61 were re- 
 markable for spots : in September, 1859, a most singular appearance was 
 noted by two separate observers, unknown to each other, and in different 
 parts of the world. Great spots were on that day visible on the disc of the 
 sun, and suddenly a brilliant luminous appearance, like a cloud of light 
 more dazzling than the sun itself, appeared close to one of the spots ; in 
 about live minutes it swept across and beside it, travelling over a space 
 which could not be less than 35,000 miles in tliat brief space of time. What 
 was this? An explosion of gas? A conflagration? It is impossible to 
 say ; but observations made at the time prove, that the earth was in a per- 
 fect convulsion of electro-magnetism at the moment. The self-registering 
 magnetic instruments at Kew, which are always at work, recording photo- 
 graphically every instant, the positions of three differently arranged mag- 
 netic needles, showed, when examined subsequently, that each of the three 
 liUxie at that moment a strongly mai-kcd jerk from its former position, 
 Aurorre were seen at the same time, even in parts of the world where they 
 are rarely visible ; as near the equator, and in South Australia. In some 
 places the electric telegraph refused to work, and at several towns in 
 America the telegraph men received severe electric shocks. At Boston, a 
 flame of fire followed the pen of Bain's electric telegraph, which writes dowTi 
 the message on chemically prepared paper. There can be no question 
 whatever that the solar phenomena, whatever its nature, had a direct and 
 instantaneous terrestrial ej/ect, and tiie fact is a new proof of solar dominion 
 in the inorganic world.
 
 ■ CHAPTER II. 
 
 Soli-lunar Dominion in the Organic World, 
 effects of light and heat on the development and 
 
 distribution of PLANTS AND ANIMALS AND OF THE HU- 
 MAN RACE. DIURNAL AND SEASONAL CHANGES IN RELA- 
 TION TO HEALTH AND DISEASE. 
 
 WE have traced the supreme and all-pervading influence 
 which the " two great lights " appointed to rule the 
 day and night exert, in the production of inorganic terrestrial 
 change. It remains to observe their effect on organized exis- 
 , tences, on plants and animals, and on man himself. In this 
 wide and interesting realm, as in the previous one, we shall 
 find that solar influence is supreme. 
 
 Light and heat are the most powerful of all agents in the 
 quickening and support of animal and vegetable life, and of 
 these the sun is of course the great source and centre. By its 
 presence or absence, are caused our day and night ; and by 
 its elevation or depression, our seasons. These, in their varied 
 alternations, set in motion and control the entire world of 
 organized existence. 
 
 What simplicity and sublimity in these solar revolutions and 
 their results ! The dawning of day is the signal for the world's 
 awaking from that deathlike sleep which is the child of dark- 
 ness ; with the rising of the sun the flowers open, the birds 
 burst forth into song, and eveiywhere is seen the stirring of 
 life and activity. The duration of the day sustains and nour- 
 ishes the infinitely numerous and complicated organic move- 
 ments and revolutions it has awakened, and its termination 
 reproduces universal silence and repose. 
 
 Were the days considerably to lengthen or shorten, were the 
 seasons to change or cease, how immense and disastrous would
 
 246 DIVINE SYSTEM OF T/JfES AND SEASONS. 
 
 l)e the results to all organized existences ! The permanence of 
 seed-time and harvest, day and night, cold and heat, has been 
 promised by the sure word of a gracious and bountiful Creator, 
 and the accomplishment of that promise is eftected by the per- 
 manence and stability of the earth's actual relations with the 
 sun. These may slightly vary in the course of the prolonged 
 secular changes, discovered by astronomic observation, but 
 compensating powers exist which keep these changes within 
 very narrow limits, and provide for the maintenance of equi- 
 librium, thus securing that uniformity of solar influence, which 
 is needful for the continuation of terrestrial life. 
 
 The inclination of the axis of the earth, to the plane of her 
 orbit, for instance, is at present undergoing a steady, though 
 very slow diminution. Were this to continue, unchecked, or 
 to accelerate, a time must come sooner or later, when the 
 equator and the ecliptic would coincide, and thus destroy the 
 present succession of the seasons. 
 
 But this catastrophe will never happen ; the all-wise Creator 
 has provided for a continuance of the works of his hands. 
 Before the movement of the earth's axis in this direction can 
 produce any perceptible results, in changing the climate of any 
 part of the globe, it will cease. The axis will, under fresh 
 influences, remain steady for a time, and then commence a 
 retrograde movement, which will restore it to its original posi- 
 tion. It will thus oscillate to and fro in the ages to come, 
 without ever deranging to the slightest extent, the climate of 
 the various parts of the earth. 
 
 The extent of solar influence in the organic world, is mar- 
 vellous to contemplate. The sun is the glowing ever acting 
 heart of organic nature ; the succession of day and night are 
 the pulsation, the systole and diastole, the contraction and 
 expansion of that heart. The sun is the all-imi)ortant reser- 
 voir of life-supporting power, constantly sending its royal tide 
 of vitalizing light and heat, through all the arteries of the 
 mundane system, to its uttermost extremities, penetrating its 
 utmost recesses and lowest depths, with its life-giving warmth.
 
 SOLAR AND LUNAR DOMJNION. 247 
 
 Vegetable life, without exception, is generated under the sun's 
 quickening influence ; without it, not a seed would germinate, 
 not a blade would spring, not a leaf would shoot, not a bud 
 would burst, not a petal would unfold, not a flower would 
 bloom, not a fruit would ripen. It alone raises and distils the 
 dews and rains which feed and nourish the entire world of 
 plants ; it alone dyes the field and the forest with their verdure ; 
 it alone paints the blossom with its beauty, and tints with hues 
 of loveliness both earth and heaven. It gives birth to the 
 breezes, which stir the movements of every leaf and branch, 
 scatter seeds and perfumes, and strip away all that has 
 withered or yielded to decay. It is the joyful parent of spring, 
 and the fruitful fount of summer wealth and autumnal glory. 
 
 Animals are equally indebted to the sun. Without it none of 
 the innumerable forms of animal life could for a moment exist. 
 Without its warmth all muscular power would be paralysed, the 
 frozen blood would fail to circulate, respiration would cease, and 
 life would inevitably become extinct. Its rising and its setting, 
 its shining and withdrawing, its ascent in summer, its decline 
 in autumn and winter, and return in spring, control the cycles 
 and create the boundaries of all the phases of animated nature, 
 the sleeping and the waking, the stillness and the activity, the 
 silence and the song, the action, the passion, and the repose of 
 innumerable tribes of living creatures, peopling air and earth 
 and seas. 
 
 Man walks in its light, labours in its heat, basks in its smile, 
 rejoices in its glory. It is the constant and irresistible ruler of 
 days, and years, and seasons, and is enthroned as such, from 
 generation to generation, and from age to age. In all these 
 respects, it is the most glorious and sublime of all the material 
 emblems of Him, from whose creative fiat, it of old derived 
 existence and dominion, and by whose unfailing power it is up- 
 held ; of Him who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King 
 of kings and Lord of lords, the eternal and overflowing Source 
 of light and love. 
 
 As the moon only reflects the sun's li^/U in a very modified
 
 248 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 degree, and no perceptible portion of its /icat, it exercises little 
 direct influence on or^^ajiized nature. Its indirect action upon 
 the organized forms contained in, or affected by, the many 
 seas, estuaries, and tidal rivers of the world, is very considerable. 
 The existence of the immense variety of plants and animals 
 which live on the shores or boundaries of sea and land, is to a 
 large extent conditioned by the ebb and flow of tides. To 
 man, the moon is a useful and beautiful night lamp, and an 
 invaluable chronometer, while by its daily, world wide, tidal 
 movement, it is as we have seen, next to the sun, his most 
 powerful natural aid. It rules for him the night, and regulates 
 his calendar, indicating by its movements, in conjunction with 
 the sun, the measures of time which he universally adopts and 
 follows. 
 
 A few familiar facts, illustrative of the above statements, may serve to 
 give them the weight they deserve, and if any apology be needful for re- 
 calling natural phenomena, with the existence of which many if not most 
 are familiar, it must be found in the necessity which we are under, of firmly 
 establishing the great truth of soli-lunar dominion over terrestrial move- 
 ment and change, in order to the due appreciation of the subsequent portion 
 of this treatise. 
 
 Be it then remembered that the sun not only produces day and night, 
 and the succession of seasons in each particular locality, regulating by this 
 means, the growth and actiNity of organized nature, but by its various 
 degrees of elevation in different latitudes, it causes all the varieties ol 
 climates, and through these, the development and distribution of vegetable 
 and animal life throughout the world. These various degrees of elevation, 
 causing the sun to afford varying degrees of light and heat, produce the 
 different zones into which our globe, as regards climate, is divided. The 
 principal zones are the equatorial zone, the tropical zones, the subtropical, 
 the warmer temperate, the colder temperate, the sub-arctic, the arctic, and 
 the polar zones. 
 
 Now life, whatever may be its origin, clearly depends for its continuance, 
 on the physical conditions by which it is surrounded. According to the 
 degrees of moisture or drought, heat or cold, the plant or animal flourishes, 
 or languishes and dies. It is only in the case of certain plants and animals, 
 that "acclimatization" under non-natural circumstances is possible, and 
 even with these, it is possible only within certain limits, and by the greatest 
 care. The flora peculiar to a region of excessive drought, will not survive 
 removal to a region of excessive humidity, nor will ferns and marsh plants
 
 SOLAR AND LUNAR DOMINION. 249 
 
 thrive in the desert. It is obvious, therefore, that on a globe where the 
 sun produces such diversity of climate, life must exist under widely diversi- 
 fied forms. No region, save the extreme polar perhaps, is utterly destitute, 
 of it, but each has its own peculiar development. The intertropical regions 
 of the earth, having in greatest perfection the conditions favourable to life, 
 or in other words having a large share of solar heat and light, have an 
 exuberant g«)wth of vegetable life and a redundance of animal existence. 
 This decreases in each zone as we proceed towards the poles, till we reach 
 the boundary, where a minimum of solar light and heat forbid the exis 
 tence ot any form of life. 
 
 Since temperature similarly decreases, as we ascend from the level of the 
 sea into the higher regions of the atmosphere, vegetation varies, not only 
 according to latitude, but according to altitude. The Alpine traveller may 
 pass througli the climates of the various zones in one day. He leaves the 
 rich vineyards, and the flowering myrtle and pomegranate, the fruit-bearing 
 orange and lemon-trees behind him, in the valley ; passes through woods 
 of oaks, sweet- chestnuts and beeches, as he mounts the lower slopes ; and 
 amid pines and birches, as he gains the higher parts of the mountain, till at 
 last he finds only the short fine occasional pasture grass, and subsequently 
 nothing but lichens and mosses, edging the beds of perpetual snow and ice 
 The vine disappears before he has climbed two thousand feet ; the chest- 
 nuts have vanished at three ; the oak fails to put in an appearance at lour, 
 and the birch long before he has climbed five thousand feet. The spruce- 
 fir greets him as high as 5,900 feet, but even it goes no further. For nearly 
 two thousand feet above this last of the trees, the beautiful rhododendron 
 and other shrubs, cover immense tracts of the mountain side ; the her- 
 baceous willow, the saxifrages, the hardy dark -blue gentian and the grasses 
 creep up to eight thousand feet, but only lichens and mosses go right up to 
 meet the never melting snow which caps the mountain top. 
 
 It is the same in the world of waters.. Marine plants are equally dis- 
 tributed in zones, and have also a vertical arrangement. Depth regulates 
 heat and light for aquatic vegetation, and each successively deepening 
 zone has its own peculiar forms of life. The ocean is divided into 
 littoral, circumlittoral, median, infra-median, and abyssal or deep-sea 
 zones; in this last only the microscopic "diatoms" exist, at a depth 
 of over six hundred feet. The ordinary alg.-e scarcely descend half that 
 depth. 
 
 Animals have less precise geographical limits than plants, their powers 
 of locomotion and self-dispersion modifying the influences which climate 
 and external conditions have upon them. Lut there is a well marked 
 horizontal and vertical arrangement of animals, from the equator to the 
 poles, and from the sea level to the loftiest heights of land, and to the 
 greatest depths of ocean. Thus the larger carnivora are pretty much
 
 250 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 confined to the tropics, as also the elephant, rhinoceios, and hippopotamus, 
 the crocodile, boa, and larger reptiles, the ostrich, flamingo, parrots, hum- 
 ming birds, and the generality of birds of very brilliant plumage, together 
 with a most varied and exuberant insect life, which for variety, size, activity, 
 and brilliancy, attains its maximum in Brazil and the East Indies, decreas- 
 ing towards the temperate zone. 
 
 The useful domestic animals — the horse, the ox, the sheep, the dog, are 
 specially characteristic of the temperate zones, while the arctic regions have 
 the polar bear and the reindeer, the musk ox, the wolf, the fox, and the 
 sable : few species, but many individuals, and all sober and quiet in hue, 
 and clad in warm furs. Reptile life does not exist in the arctic zone. 
 
 It is the same as regards the sea-animals, their range is by no means 
 universal. In the torrid zone are found a vast variety of genera and of 
 species, and in colder latitudes, fewer species, but enormous numbers of 
 individuals. So the fishes and shell-fish of the sunny tropic are of beautiful 
 tints and hues, while the seals and whales of the arctic regions, are sombre 
 and uniform in colour. The seal and the walrus never visit the torrid zone, 
 nor are sharks ever seen in polar seas. The great majority of the food 
 fishes are only found in perfection in the cool waters of high latitudes ; and 
 though the sea water contains everywhere the same constituents, the coral 
 insect builds his reefs only in the subtropical expanses of the ocean. 
 
 AVlien we pass on to notice the effect of solar dominion on human develop- 
 ment, and on the distribution of men on the earth, we at once perceive that 
 it must necessarily be of a far more indirect character, than that exercised 
 over plants and animals, and more difficult to trace. 
 
 Man has not only power of locomotion, but he is imbued with curiosity, 
 ambition, and many other motives, which impel him to wander, and there- 
 fore, though it is now confessed by all naturalists, that scientifically speaking, 
 all the various races of mankind constitute a single species of a single genus, 
 yet we find this species, domesticated under every variety of climate, and able 
 to subsist almost equally well between the tropics and in the polar regions. 
 At first sight this would seem to indicate, that as far as the development of 
 the race is concerned, mankind is independent of climatic differences. But 
 this is far from being the case, as a little consideration will show. Of the 
 five great families into which the human race is divided, the Caucasian, 
 Mongolian, Ethiopian, Malay, and American, the distinguishing charac- 
 teristics have a marked relation to the climate, and consequent productions 
 and physical peculiarities, of the lands inhabited by each. Man, it is trae, 
 can struggle against, or modify the physical conditions which surround him, 
 but he is never independent of them. There can be no doubt that our own 
 moderate climate, is more conducive to mental and bodily vigour, than is 
 the relaxing heat of the great plains of Ilindostan ; nor that the slight 
 differences of the seasons to which we have to adapt all our habits and
 
 SOLAR AND LUNAR DOMhXION. 251 
 
 pursuits, have a stimulating eftect on energy and activity, laclcing to nations 
 ■who are subjected to excessively hot summers and cold winters. But for 
 our insular situation, . Englishmen would probably never have been the 
 traders and adventurers they are, and but for our natural supplies of coal 
 and iron, we should never have acquired the mechanical and manufacturing 
 character we now possess. Climate, food, and landscape, influence mental 
 as well as bodily character. We speak of "depressing weather," of an 
 " enervating " or of a " bracing" climate ; of " inspiring " scenery, and so 
 on, and the idea conveyed by these expressions, that the outer world affects 
 the inner man, is true. 
 
 The White or Caucasian variety of the human family, is the one which 
 exhibits in their highest degree, all the intellectual and moral powers of 
 human nature. It belongs to the temperate zone in either hemisphere. 
 " Man presents to our view his most perfect type at the very centre of the 
 temperate continent, at the centre of Asia-Europe, in the regions of Iran, 
 Armenia, and the Caucasus, and departing from this geographical centre, 
 in the three grand directions of the lands, the types gradually lose the beauty 
 of their forms, in proportion to their distance, even to the extreme points 
 of the southern continents, where we find the most deformed and degenerate 
 races, and the lowest in the scale of humanity." "The indigenous man of 
 America," says M. Guyot, "bears in his whole character, the ineffaceable 
 stamp of the peculiarly vegetative character of his country. Living con- 
 tinually in the shadow of those virgin forests, which overspread the country 
 he inhabits, his whole nature has been modified thereby. The very copper 
 hue of his complexion, indicates that he lives not like the Negro, beneath 
 the scorching sunbeams. His lymphatic temperament betrays the pre- 
 l^onderance in his nature of the vegetable element. . . . The Indian 
 has continued the man of the forest ; he has seldom elevated himself above 
 the condition of the hunter, the lowest grade in the scale of civilization ; he 
 has never ascended to the rank of the pastoral man. With him no domestic 
 animals are maintained to feed him with their milk, or clothe him with 
 their fleeces, as they are by the nomadic races of the Old World. From 
 one to the other extremity of America we find the same lamentable spectacle. 
 The people of the elevated table-lands of Mexico and Peru arc the only 
 exceptions to this picture, and this exception goes far to establish the in- 
 fluence of the vegetative and Inunid lo"i<ey plains of Ainerica,''^ 
 
 Thus it is evident that the advancement of man in civilization, depends 
 in great measure on the physical conditions by which he is surroundcil, and 
 these in their turn depend, as we have seen, to a very large extent, on solar 
 influence. 
 
 As the elevation or depression of the sun, with its resulting modifications 
 of light and heat, in different latitudes, controls the distribution of plants 
 and animals, and of the races of mankind ; so its elevation or depression at
 
 252 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 different hours of the day and at different seasons of the year, at any one 
 given place, inthienccs the development of human and other organic life, at 
 those hours and seasons, and thus more or less affects the period of btrlh, 
 the diurnal and annual process of growth, the increase or diminution of 
 nervous and muscular power and activity, the changes and periods of disease, 
 the stages of decay, and the season and moment of death. Statistics prove 
 that the greatest number of births occur in December, Febniary, and March, 
 and the fewest in June, July, and August — a fact that can be accounted for 
 only, by some annual or solar influence. 
 
 All paroxysmal diseases appear at some particular hour of the four and 
 twenty. It is a well known fact, that gout and all arthritic diseases, as well 
 as many purely nervous affections, attack their victims at two o'clock in the 
 morning, and cholera usually just before daybreak. The paroxysm of a 
 quotidian ague comes on at four or five o'clock a.m., a cjuartan at four or 
 five p.m., and a tertian at noon or soon after. A quotidian comes on when 
 the consumption of oxygen in respiration is at its lowest point, a tertian 
 when it is at its highest. They also appear at one certain definite point in 
 the deviation of the magnetic needle, and terminate at another. The baro- 
 meter also is at its minimum variation when the paroxysms come on, and 
 at its maximum when they end. 
 
 Hippocrates says : " Diseases of every kind may arise in any season of 
 the year ; others, however, increase, and are excited only in particular 
 seasons." lie then gives a list of the complaints peculiarly rife in each of 
 the four seasons, which, though written two thousand years ago, is perfectly 
 applicable to the case of Greece, in the present day. 
 
 " Spring and fall " have long been popularly known, as the seasons in 
 which cutaneous eruptions are most apt to appear, and the habits of some 
 of the exanthemata render it probable that there is a determination to the 
 skin at these seasons. In pellagia, according to Dr. Holland's obser\'a- 
 tions, the cutaneous affection remits in autumn, and recurs in the spring, 
 with increased severity. 
 
 Diseases which arise from exoteric causes, at different periods of the year, 
 may be arranged in two classes. Increase of heat produces decrease of 
 density in the atmosphere ; at each inspiration less oxygen is conveyed to 
 the lungs in summer therefore, than in winter, less carbon is in consequence 
 excreted by the lungs, and hence the necessity for increased action on the 
 part of the liver, during the hot months. Thus liver complaints are more 
 frequent in hot weather and in hot countries. The perspiratory organs of 
 the skin are also more active in summer, and other secretions are propor- 
 tionally diminished. Various diseases result from these and similar changes 
 in the seasons. Another class arise from purely external causes, as hay 
 fever, marsh and jungle fevers, sunstroke, etc. The action of remedies 
 varies also under these circumstances. Diseases of the respiratory organs,
 
 SOLAR AND LUNAR DOMINION. 
 
 '■SI 
 
 being largely affected by temperature, are more frequently fatal in winter, 
 than at any other season.* 
 
 Nor is it in the case of disease only, that this all-prevailing soli-lunar 
 influence is perceptible. It has also a marked effect on certain perfectly 
 
 • D:aths from Diseases of the Rcspii-atory Organs. 
 
 
 n f Summer . 
 ^^•+°( Autumn . 
 
 • 
 
 . 
 
 29S1 
 2999 
 
 '+ (Spring 
 
 , , 
 
 • • « 
 
 4732 
 
 3943 
 
 Deaths from Measles. 
 
 
 
 
 of Summer . 
 '^40 ^Autumn . 
 
 • 
 
 . 
 
 301 
 251 
 
 OVmter . 
 '^4^ I Spring . 
 
 . . 
 
 • . . 
 
 346 
 
 . 
 
 . 
 
 102 
 
 Deaths from Scarlatina. 
 
 
 
 
 ,o.„C Summer . 
 ^^40 ^Autumn . 
 
 . . 
 
 . . . 
 
 436 
 
 . 
 
 . 
 
 534 
 
 . (Winter . 
 
 '^41 I Spring . 
 
 , 
 
 . 
 
 294 
 
 . 
 
 . 
 
 125 
 
 Deaths from Small-pox. 
 
 
 
 
 ,Q,„( Summer . 
 ^S4o[ Autumn . 
 
 • 
 
 • 
 
 213 
 
 3S1 
 
 e (Winter 
 '^4^ (Spring . 
 
 , 
 
 • . 
 
 850 
 
 • 
 
 • 
 
 354 
 
 Diseases. 
 
 Deaths 
 
 inSuvimcraitd 
 
 Dcattts in Winter atid 
 
 Au 
 
 tiiinn, 1S40. 
 
 Spriiii;, 1S41. 
 
 Respiratory Organs . 
 
 
 59S2 
 
 8675 
 
 Measles .... 
 
 
 552 
 
 448 
 
 Scarlatina .... 
 
 
 970 
 
 419 
 
 Small-pox. 
 
 
 594 
 
 1204 
 
 Lancet, 1842-3. Vol. ii., p. S29. 
 
 Schwcig inquired into the mortality at various hours of llic day. The 
 following table sliows the result : — 
 
 Winter . 
 Summer 
 
 4-5- 
 
 Alornin. 
 5-6. 
 
 6-7. 7-S. 8-9. 
 
 95 
 120 
 
 109 
 119 
 
 iiG 115 113 
 
 99 100 107
 
 254 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 natural and healthy phenomena, of ^vhich, in a subsequent chapter, we will 
 speak more particularly. 
 
 How it affects these, it may be difficult to explain, but that it docs so is 
 an incontestable fact. These phenomena are based on healthy and natural 
 
 Winter . 
 Summer. 
 
 Evcnin^^. 
 
 4-5- 
 
 5-6. 
 
 6-7. 1 7-8. 8-9. 
 
 9-10. 
 
 103 
 III 
 
 114 
 119 
 
 Si 77 105 
 132 82 86 
 
 Ill 
 no 
 
 The following tables show the hour of the day most influential in deter- 
 mining deatli from consumption :^- 
 
 Dcaths m Berlin in iSj6 /roui PlUhisis. 
 
 Midnight to six o'clock a. m. . 165. Ratio per 1000 220. 
 
 Six o'clock a.m. to noon . . 220. ,, ,, ,, 294. 
 
 Noon to six o'clock p.m. . . 197. ,, ,, ,, 263. 
 
 Six o'clock p.m. to midnight . 167. ,, „ ,, 223. 
 
 Total 
 
 749 cases. 
 
 1000. 
 
 Deaths from Phthisis in Carlsruhe in Eleven Years. 
 
 Midnight to six o'clock a.m. . 1S7. Ratio per 1000 239. 
 
 Six o'cloclc a.m. to noon . , 21S. ,, ,, ,, 280. 
 
 Noon to six o'clock p.m. . . 195. ,, ,, ,, 250. 
 
 Six o'clock p.m. to midnight . 180. ,, ,, ,, 231. 
 
 Total 
 
 . 780 cases. 1000. 
 
 Med. Quarterly Rroic~.u. No. 35, p. 175. 
 
 
 Maximum. 
 
 lilinimiiin. 
 
 Variations in the barometer : — 
 
 
 
 (a) Near London, 1807 to 1816 
 
 December 
 
 July. 
 
 {b) In the Deccan . 
 
 December or 
 January 
 
 July. 
 
 Variations in the hygrometer 
 
 January 
 
 July. 
 
 ,, ,, tliormomcter 
 
 July or August 
 
 January. 
 
 Amount of evaporation 
 
 July 
 
 January. 
 
 Number of births (Belgium) 
 
 February 
 
 July. 
 
 ,, ,, deaths (Beglium) 
 
 January 
 
 fuly. 
 
 Cases of Insanity 
 
 June or July 
 
 December or 
 January. 
 
 „ „ Suicide .... 
 
 Summer 
 
 Winter. 
 
 Crimes against persons 
 
 June 
 
 January. 
 
 ,, ,, property 
 
 December 
 
 July. 
 
 Dr. Laycock. Laneet, 1842-3, p. 828.
 
 SOLAR AND LUNAR DOMINION. 2;; 
 
 revolutions of the system, and may be dependent on cyclical processes 
 inherent in the system itself, or on periodic agencies acting from without, 
 or they may result from a combination of these two ; that is, the causes may 
 be esoteric, exoteric or endexoteric. 
 
 The most important of these alternations, proper to the system is that of 
 activity and repose. During sleep the nervous system undergoes a remark- 
 able functional change, the brain and nerves being more or less physiolo- 
 gically paralysed, as the sleep is more or less profound.* 
 
 The foregoing facts prove that in appointing the sun as the 
 
 " The period of repose or sleep may be defined generally as extending 
 from ten or eleven o'clock, p.m., to four or five, a.m. ; and I would here 
 remark, that there is a numerous class of affections of the nervous system, 
 which I have elsewhere termed neura;mic, resembling sleep in this, that 
 they are dependent on some temporary change in the functions of the brain 
 itself, apparently connected with a disturbance of the capillary circulation 
 of that organ, or, perhaps, with some passing change in the composition of 
 the blood, but, like sleep, unconnected with any appreciable alteration in 
 the structure of the brain. Majty, if not all affcctmis of this class air periodic ; 
 and it is obvious that these, as well as all other diseases primarily depen- 
 dent upon morbid functional derangement of the nervous system, are most 
 likely to appear when the natural functional deranganefit is greatest: that is 
 to say, about two o'clock in the morning, when sleep is most profound. 
 Probably connected with this periodic change in the nervous system, are the 
 C(]ually periodic changes in the functions of the heart, lungs, etc., observed by 
 physiologists to occur diiirnally. Dr. Prout found THE^CONSUMI'TION OF 
 O.XYGEN GAS IN RESPIRATION to vary during the day as follows :— The 
 maximum consumption is from eleven o'clock, a.m., to one o'clock, p.m. ; 
 it then gradually decreases to a minimum about half-past eight, p.m., at 
 which point it is stationary until half-past three o'clock, a.m. The amount 
 tjren suddenly increases ; at first slowly, to its maximum, about noon ; and 
 from this point it almost immediately begins to sink, at first quiclvly, to its 
 minimum, at half-past eight, p.m. Dr. Front conceives that these VARIA- 
 TIONS ARE regulated BY THE PRESENCE OR ABSENCE OF THE SUN, 
 The CIRCULATION has also its regular periods of change. So long ago as 
 1S15, Mr. Knox inferred, from a series of observations, that duiing the 
 morning the mere change from the horizontal to tiie erect posture renders 
 the pulse more frequent by about fifteen or twenty beats ; at mid-day the 
 increase is about ten, and in the evening four or six. Mr. Knox, sonic 
 years subsequently, confirmed these results, and showed tliat the diurnal 
 revolution, both as to numbers and excitability, is altogether independent 
 of food or exercise. More recently Dr. Guy has come to almost similar 
 conclusions. According to his experiments, " the effect of change of posture 
 is greatest in the forenoon, and least in the afternoon, the effect in the even- 
 ing being the mean between the other two ; and the effect produced by 
 change of ])osture on the same frc(]uency of the ])ulse in the afienioon, 
 forenoon, and evening, respectively, is as the numbers eigiit, nine, and ten."
 
 256 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 great time-measurer, tlie Creator selected the physical ruler of 
 the world, the lord paramount of all its movements, the source 
 of its entire life and activity, of its rotation, revolution, heat, 
 light, seasonal differences, magnetic impulses, and tidal 
 changes ; of its winds, waves, and currents ; its rains, snows, 
 and frosts ; of the actual distribution of its plants and animals ; 
 and of many important phenomena connected with the course 
 and development of the human race itself. 
 
 The sun and moon are all-powerful in their influence over 
 the earth ; no one, no thing, is unconscious of their presence 
 or absence ; they control this globe, in all its movements and 
 changes, from the most obvious and sublime, to the most 
 occult and complicated ; not an atom of matter is uninfluenced 
 by them, nothing can resist their might or alter their move- 
 ments. Those movements, conspicuous, periodical, regular, 
 and adapted as they are to the necessities of the animal and 
 vegetable creation — produce our times and seasons. The 
 periods measured by their simple primary revolutions, we call 
 days, months, and years, and our ordinary computation of time 
 is by fractions or multiples of these ; while their vast and se- 
 cular motions afford superior standards, for the measurement of 
 longer and slower changes in the history of the earth, and of 
 the human race. 
 
 The facts then of the all-controlling /i^/tv/ry and of the accu- 
 
 Dr. Guy states that the observations of Nick, published at Tubingen in 
 1S2S, are equally corroborative of Dr. Knox's views. 
 
 Diurnal ciiangks in the insane. A diurnally periodic state of excite- 
 ment of the system generally has been observed in the insane, as apriori 
 might be anticipated. Dr. Allen made observations regarding this point 
 on'the insane patients under his care. . . . The first period of increased 
 excitement is from four to half-past nine in the morning, and the second 
 period is from four to half-past nine in the evening. The periods of 
 ^/w/;//j/^i-(/ excitement extend from half-past nine, a.m., to four, p.m., and 
 from half-past nine, p.m., to four, a.m., the hours corresponding very closely 
 with Dr. Prout's observation. It is obvious that these changes in 
 
 THE NERVOUS, RESI'IRATORV AND CIRCULATORY SYSTEM MUST NECES- 
 SARILY INFLUENCE IN SOME DEGREE THE TIMES OF ACCESSION OF 
 
 ALL DISEASES, but particularly of the parcxysms of intermittents. " — Dr. 
 Laycock.
 
 SOLAR AND LUNAR DOMINION. 257 
 
 rate periodicity, of the two great rulers of our globe, the sun 
 and the moon, impart to the greater and lesser soli-lunar 
 MEASURES OF TIME a vast and supreme importance. Any sys- 
 tem of chronology which neglects the periods resulting from 
 their sole and joint movements, is an unnatural and unstable 
 system. On the other hand the fact that the events and cycles 
 of human life and progress, of history and of prophecy, from 
 the most minute to the most extensive, measured by soli-lunar 
 chronology, fall into order, and arrange themselves into a sym- 
 metrical system, — such a fact, if it can be demonstrated, will 
 be in evident harmony with the established order in nature. 
 
 The periods resulting from combined solar and lunar move- 
 ments, must therefore, in the investigation of the world's chron- 
 ology, be allowed to have a place of paramount importance. 
 To ignore tiiein, is to ignore the golden clue to the complex 
 labyrinth ; while patiently and consistently to employ them, is 
 to follow the guidance granted by the great Creator, through 
 the phenomena of creation, — the only way of attaining scientific 
 truth. 
 
 We turn therefore now to observe the remarkable fact, that 
 many vital phenomena of world-wide and unceasing occurrence, 
 and many historic and prophetic periods, of the first import- 
 ance in the annals of humanity, have, when measured by these 
 minor and major soli-lunar revolutions, a singular, septiform, 
 chronology, which stamps them as parts of one and the same 
 system.
 
 SECTION II. 
 The Lav/ of Co.MrLETioN in Weeks. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 THE .WEEK IN RELATION TO THE rEKIODICITY OV VITAL 
 PHENOMENA. . 
 
 TERIODICITY IN TILE DEVELOPMENT OF INSECTS, FISHES, PIRD3 
 AND MAMMALIA. PERIODICITY IN THE GROWTH AND FUNC- 
 TIONAL ACTIVITY OF BIANKIND IN HEALTH AND IN DIS- 
 EASE. 
 
 THE birth, growlh, maturity, vital functions, healthy revo- 
 lutions of change, diseases, decay and death, of insects, 
 reptiles, fishes, birds, mammals, and even of man liimself, are 
 more or less controlled by a law of completion in weeks. 
 
 The hatching of the ova of insects occupies in a large num- 
 ber of cases, intervals varjing from two to six tuceks. I'hcir 
 continuance in the caterpillar or larva condition is seldom less 
 than seven days, and varies from this period to four weeks, six 
 weeks, or longer periods. The exuviation, or change of skin, 
 v.-hich occurs during this larva state, frequently takes place at 
 intervals of seven days.* 
 
 • From an interesting series of papers contributed hy Dr. Laycock, to the 
 Lancet, in the years 1S42-3, on the subject of Teriodicily in Vital I'henomena, 
 we extract the following : — 
 
 " J found the most rciiiarkablc illustration and confirmation of the law in 
 insects. The changes to be noticed in insects as being regulated, as regards 
 the time they occujiy, l)y tliis lav,-, are as following : — 
 
 " I. Tlie hatchiii'^' of the ova. 
 
 "2. The caterpillar, or larva state, and the moults wliich take place .at 
 that stage of development. 
 
 " 3. The pupa, or chrysalis period. 
 
 "4. The imago stale, or pubeily. 
 
 " Tilt: OVA arc hatched in periods varying considerably in Icnrth. The 
 shortest is half a week or seven (half) clayi, as in the wasp, the common
 
 THE LA IV OF COMPLETION IN WEEKS. 2 SO 
 
 The moults of insects, the exuviation of serpents, the 
 reneu-al of the phimage of birds, and of the coats of other 
 
 bee, and ichneumon ; in some, as the cccidomia Iritici, the period is oi:e 
 week ; in others it is a week and a iialf, as, for example, the black cater- 
 pillar and the gooseberry grub (tenthredo caprcca). In the ritajorily oj 
 insects hoivever it is from tivo 'uecks to six zuecks. 
 
 " The ova of the glow-worm occupy six weeks ; of the mole cricket only 
 four weeks, in hatching. 
 
 "The larva. The period passed by insects in the larva will vary in 
 length as the insect varic.i ; but 1 think it is seldom less than seven days. 
 In the common bee it is six days and a half, in the humble-bee seven days 
 exactly. In day papiliones it is four ivcelzs, in moths six zvee/^s. In many 
 insects it is a long period, continuing for months. The larva of a new 
 British wasp, of the genus oplopus, occupies twelve weeks ; namely, from 
 the period v/hen its two first segments coalesced to the throwing off of its 
 exuvicE was three zueeks, and from the time of the latter change to its full 
 development, nine i.i'ccks. It is worthy of notice that the tnne occupied 
 between each exuviation of the larva is limited in the same manner as the 
 period of the larva state itself is limited. Thus, the latter period of the 
 common black caterpillar is twenty-one days, or three zveeks ; during this 
 period it exuviates, or changes its skin three times, at into'vals of seven days 
 each. The wood-piercer bee is in the larva state/i;//r weeks ; of these four 
 weeks it fasts exactly one, just before it enters the pupa state. 
 
 " The pupa. The perioa spent in the pupa state is the most in accordance 
 with the general law of limitatwji by weeks ; in fact, the more exact the 
 observations are as to the length of this period, the more confirmatory are 
 they of the general rule. For example, Air. Denny had three larvae of the 
 sphinx atropos, which went into the earth on August 22nd, 24th, and 
 September 2nd, respectively. They appeared as perfect moths on October 
 i6th, 1 8th, and 27th; or, in each case, iti exactly eight weeks. If the pupa 
 state is entered late in the summer, the perfect insect does not appear until 
 the following spring. Larva; and ova will also hybernate in the same way; 
 but in all cases the period occupied is a definite number of weeks, sonic are 
 forty, others forty-two, and forty-eight weeks. 
 
 ** The imago. I have not been able to collate observations as to the 
 duration of the imago state, very few having been made ; but the vital 
 actions of the perfect insect appear subject to the same general law. Thus, 
 twenty or twenty-one- days alter the queen bee has begun to lay the eggs ot 
 drones, the bees begin to construct royal cells. If the impregnation ol the 
 queen be retarded beyond the twenty-first day (Iluber) or twenty-eighth 
 (Kirby and Spence), of her whole existence, she lays only male eggs ; and 
 Iluber states that after the twenty-eighth day, under these circumstances, 
 she loses all feelings of jealousy towards the young queens in the nymphine 
 state, and never attempts to injure them. Some insects attain puberty 
 almost immediately after leaving the puparium ; others are a considerable 
 time before their organs acquire sufficient hardness, especially some of the 
 beetle tribe. Thus the newly-disclosed imago of cetonia aurata remains a 
 fortnight Mxxdfiv the earth, and that of the lucanus cervus not less than MrM 
 weeks.'"
 
 2Go DIVIXE SYSTEM OF TIMES AXD SEASONS. 
 
 animals are similarly regulated by a law of weeks. So are the 
 periods of the laying of eggs, and of incubation, in many birds. 
 The common hen, as is well known, sits three weeks ; the 
 pigeon two, after having laid eggs also for two weeks. The 
 seal calves on the rocks, and suckles its young for two weeks, 
 when the calf casts its coat and goes into the water. 
 
 The ova of salmon are hatched in 140 days, or twenty weeks ; 
 and those of the aquatic salamander in two weeks or fifteen 
 days. But the habits and physiology of fishes and reptiles are 
 comparatively little known or observed, so that few confirm- 
 atory facts, can be drawn from this department of the animal 
 kingdom. 
 
 The periods of utero-gestation in many of the mammalia, and 
 of incubation in numbers of birds, have been accurately and 
 carefully noted. Out of one hundred and twenty-nine species 
 observed by Dr. Laycock, sixty-seven had periods which were 
 an exact number of weeks or months, twenty-four were so 
 within a day, and only four were exceptions to the rule, as far 
 as could be ascertained.* 
 
 • " I turned my attention to the periods of utero-gestation in lower 
 animals, as I felt anxious to learn whether any such limitation of the period 
 by ti'eeks could be traced as affecting them. I tabulated tlie periods of ges- 
 tation in various mammals, and the period of incubation in birds, as they 
 were stated in worlds on natural history, and as I could make them out from 
 personal inquiries whenever opportunity offered. Of course rigid accuracy 
 could not be looked for in observations of this kind, but, such as they were 
 they confirmed the general lazu of limitation by 7vee'cs obse>~<ed in the sex. I 
 collected tolerably trustworthy observations of this kind referring to one 
 hundred and twenty-nine species of birds and mammals (some being, indeed, 
 rigidly exact), and in sixty-seven of these the periods of utero-gestation and 
 incubation were a definite number of weeks or months ; twenty-four ex- 
 hibited periods being within a day of the definite number, and in the 
 remaining thirty-nine the period was so loosely stated as not to be of much 
 weight either for or against the general law, although by far the greater 
 number were decidedly favourable. Altogether I judged that there were 
 only four available exceptions. As examples of this law may be stated — 
 in the grallidce, tetraonida;, and other birds of about the same size, the 
 period is three 7veeks ; in the anatidx, yi;«r 7oeeks ; the cygnidae, six weeks ; 
 but in small birds, as the musciparce, only two weeks. 
 
 " The facts I have briefly glanced at are general facts, and cannot happen 
 day after day in so many viillions of animals of every kind, FROM LARVA OK 
 OVUM OF A MINUTE i.NSECT UP TO MAN at definite periods, fro/n a mere
 
 THE LAW OF COMPLETION IN WEEKS. 261 
 
 And it is well known that when we mount still higher in the 
 scale of animated existence, and study the entire system of 
 vital periodicity impressed by its great Creator on the human 
 family, this law of limitation by weeks becomes conspicuous and 
 all-pervading. From the cradle to the grave, and from before 
 the cradle, from the day of conception to the day of death, 
 erery man, woman and child of our race, is strangely amenable 
 to it. Consciously to one sex, unconsciously, but none the 
 less really to the other, there is an alternate loss and gain of 
 physical substance, every foici- weeks* 
 
 In the human family, the period of utero-gestation, is ac- 
 curately /^r/y tueeks, nor do differences of age, climate, or cir- 
 cumstances, cause any variation in this period. It is the rule, 
 though it has of course exceptions. 
 
 Dr. Denman, in his work on midwifery, states, " The common 
 time of utero-gestation \s forty weeks. ... I do not mean 
 that it is completed to a minute or an hour, as has been sur- 
 mised, because the birth of the child may be delayed by a mul- 
 
 chancc or coincidence ; and although temperature, food, domestication, and 
 other modifying circumstances, may and do interrupt the regularity with 
 which the various processes, I have alluded to, are conducted, yet upon the 
 whole it is, I think, impossible to come to any less general conclusion than 
 this, that, in animals, cliangcs occur every tliree and a half, sojen, fourteen, 
 hventy-one, or tiventy-cight days, or at some definite number ofiveei.s.'^ — Dr. 
 Laycock. 
 
 * " It is well known to physicians, that there is a large class of diseases, 
 the symptoms of which recur at regular intervals of time. It so happened 
 that I had appointed myself the task of investigating those nervous affec- 
 tions belonging to this class, and I directed my inquiries in particular to 
 the rule or law by which the interval between the jiaroxysms is regulated. 
 Oi course the phenomena of menstruatioji first demanded my attention as a 
 nori}tal periodic movement. In the course of my inquiries I ascertained that 
 the interval between each such period was not always four weeks ; but 
 occasionally t-vo weeks, three weeks, five weeks, and even six weeks. Facts 
 being such, I determined on coicntinj^ the interval by weeks. The circum- 
 stances connected with mcnstraalion led necessarily to those connected with 
 the period of utero-gestation. This, it is well known, is usually forty 
 weeks ; but here again 1 found exceptions to the general law, like those just 
 now mentioned, that is to say, the period was exceeded or shortened l>y weeks." 
 — Dr. Laycock. 
 
 From some "statistical details respecting the menstrual periods," given 
 in Schweig's researches, we learn that " the results of 200 menstruations in
 
 263 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 tiplicity of accidents. But parturition will be accomplished, or 
 the parturient disposition will take place, before or at the expir- 
 ation of forty weeks from the time of conception. Nor does it 
 seem reasonable that a law of nature, which is not altered by 
 the differences of age, by the diet, by the extremes of climates, 
 by the severities of slavery, or the indulgences of luxury, 
 should be changed by circumstances of less importance." * 
 
 Thus throughout all ages, and in all countries, the initial 
 stage of human existence, the intra-uterine life of every one 
 born into the wide world, is measured by weeks ; and not till 
 forty weeks have run their course, does the human being at- 
 tain independent existence. These are phenomena of uni- 
 versal occurrence, and of fundamental importance in the 
 natural history of mankind ; they are leading and unques- 
 tionable physiological facts. The periodicity of life, and 
 the periodicity of birth^ need no demonstration, for the expe- 
 rience of every individual bears witness to it, as well as to 
 the fact that it is regulated by a law of weeks. And if this 
 
 thirty-four individuals, showed an avcrnge of 27-S d.iys, the 7naxiinum 
 imvibcr in the tabic bein:; 28 days." {Medical Rct'ic-iO, Jtdy, 1 844.) 
 
 Even exceptional cases to tlie ordinary monthly period, are regulated by 
 a 'weekly variation. "I sought the explanation of such cases, and found 
 that, in one half of the three-iueekly cases, the type was explained by ovario- 
 uterine disease of an organic nature, or by chlorosis ; and in more than one 
 half of the 5?x-7cvr/7T cases, the patient's health was habitually bad, owing 
 in two instances to uterine disease, which was also the case with the one 
 that assumed the /w/A';';V///y type." — (Tilt, "On Uterine Inflammation.") 
 
 There is an analogous montldy gain and loss of siibstance and weight 
 in the case of men, which was first discovered by Sanctorius. " Nature, 
 animate or inanimate, is full of periodically recurring phenomena. The 
 periodicity of our j^lanetary system is felt by man, for he experiences, 
 by insensible perspiration, a constant fcriodical loss, which was first 
 discovered by Sanctorius, who established — that even those who are in 
 a perfect state of health, and observe the utmost moderation in living, once 
 a month increase beyond their us2ial7ucight to the quantity of oite 07- t%uo pounds, 
 and at the 7nontKs end rctnrn again to their usual standard, and that this 
 is accompanied by an important change in the secretions. A further 
 analogy between menstruation and the monthly oscillation in the urinary 
 discharge referred to, as observed by Sanctorius, is that, ' before the afore- 
 said crisis happens, there is felt a heaviness in the head, and a lassitude all 
 over the body, which symptoms are afterv.-arcls removed.' " — (Tilt, p. 204.) 
 ' Denniaii, vol. i. p. 306.
 
 THE LAW OF COMPLETION IN WEEKS. 263 
 
 be the case in health, and ^vith normal functions, so is it also 
 with disease, and in abnormal derangements. From time 
 immemorial, it has been observed tliat fevers, and intermit- 
 tent attacks of ague, gout, and similar complaints, have 
 a septiform periodicity ; that the seventh, fourteenth, and 
 twenty-first, are critical days. 
 
 In his investigation into the phenomena of fevers. Dr. Lay- 
 cock states that, 
 
 '• Whatever type iJie fever may cxliibif, there will be a par- 
 oxysm on the seventh day, and consequently this day should 
 be distinguished by an unusual fatality or number of crises. 
 For analogous reasons the fourteenth tuill be remarkable as a 
 day of amendment, the last paroxysm of a quotidian taking 
 place on that day, and the last of a tertian on the day 
 previous; for observation has established that if a tertian is 
 to cease about the fourth paroxysm (the seventh critical 
 day), the second paroxysm will be more severe than the 
 first or third ; but if the fourth be severe, and the fifth less so, 
 the disease will end at the seventh paroxysm, and, of course, 
 the change for the better, if this rule be apphed to remittent or 
 continued fevers, will be seen on tlie fourteenth day. Should, 
 however, the exacerbation occurring on the thirteenth day end 
 fatally, whether it be the seventh of a tertian or the fifth of a 
 quartan, death will probably take place early on the fourteenlli 
 day, namely, about three or four o'clock, a.m., when the system 
 is most languid." 
 
 That these theoretical inferences are borne out by facts, all 
 medical writers agree, and indeed it may be ])roved numerically 
 by tables of cases, compiled v.ithout the least reference to 
 critical days.* 
 
 * Forcstius relates forty-ci;;lit cases of acute fever, without any reference 
 to critical clays; five of these terminated on the fourth day, iwcnty-Uwontkc 
 scvcntli, two on the eleventli, and seven on the Jouylantlt. The cases detailed 
 by StoU in his ' Ratio },Iedendi,' exhibit the same ^j;eneral fact ; the seventh 
 aiul fouitcenth days, and then tlie fourlli and eleventh, arc the most re- 
 markable.
 
 264 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 Nor is it in fevers alone that this law of septiform periodicity 
 is traceable. Paroxysms of gout afford another illustration of 
 its operation. 
 
 "A fit of the gout going regularly through its stages in a 
 robust subject, observes tJie foUoiuiiig order : — 
 
 " The patient retires to rest well, or perhaps in better spirits 
 than usual, and is awoke at two o'clock in the morning by 
 rigors, thirst, and other febrile symptoms, and with pain in the 
 great toe, or heel, or other part. This pain and the febrile 
 action go on mzxQ2i.%\x\'g for exactly ttve7iiy-foiir hours, that is to 
 say, until two o'clock, a.m., comes again, when a remission 
 takes place, sometimes an intermission ; the intcn'al it occupies 
 being another nyctemeron, or period of twentyfonr hoiirs, at the 
 end of which another febrile paroxysm comes on. And so 
 paroxysm and remission or intermission alternate, until the fit 
 terminates. A fit of the gout, under the circumstances stated, 
 is a tertian intermittent (in the measure of its intervals), and, like 
 a tertian, it terminates in fourteen days, or after seveii paroxysms. 
 
 " If the patient go on luxuriating in his diet, the next fit, if 
 left to flannel and patience, will be of a double lefigth, or occupy 
 iwefity-eight days, and have fourteen febrile pai'oxysms, or ex- 
 acerbations ; or it will be tripled, and be of six weeks' duration, 
 and so go on increasing iti length by a defitiite r-atio of weeks, as 
 the predisposing and exciting causes become more efficient, 
 until the viscera and the general system become so deranged 
 that no regular fit takes place." 
 
 It is important also to notice, that not only is the week an 
 evident measure in such fevers, and intermittents, but the 
 half week also. His investigations of the subject of vital perio- 
 dicity forced this fact on the notice of Dr. Laycock, and 
 its agreement with the periods of prophecy, leads us to call 
 attention to his statement. 
 
 " The complete day of twenty-four hours is the pathological 
 period most generally noticed by physicians; but, as I have 
 
 Sec Lamct, 1S42-3, vol. i., p. 12S.
 
 THE LAW OF COMPLETION EN WEEKS. 26; 
 
 shown, there are also periods of three days and a half, or seven 
 ha If -days. This is, in fact, the ancient division of the whole day, 
 or vvy6rni.(.pov, into tiuo farts. We must start with this half-day, 
 or day of twelve horns, as the miit which will comprise the phe- 
 nomena of the best-marked class of periodic disease, the inter- 
 mittents. Dr, Graves is, I believe, the only physician who has 
 made this observation, and applied it to pathology. He 
 observed that, if this period were adopted, * we should not count 
 three days and a half, Imt seven half-days : we would not say 
 seven days, but fourteen half-days.' Reckoning thus, many of 
 the anomalous critical effects, and critical terminations in con- 
 tinued fevers, would, I have no doubt, be found strictly con- 
 formable to some regular law of periodicity." * 
 
 The operation of the law we are considering may be traced 
 also in the growth of children and young people from infancy 
 to maturity, in the duration of the human powers, in their 
 fullest perfection, and in their gradual decay. 
 
 Dr. Laycock divides life into three great periods, the first 
 and last, each stretching over 21 years, and the central period 
 or prime of life lasting 28 years. 
 
 Thtfrst, which extends from conception to full maturity at 
 21 years of age, he subdivides into seven distinct stages, 
 marked by well defined physical characteristics, as follows : — 
 
 " I. Intra-uterine life ; 
 
 " 2. The period between birth and the first dentition ; 
 
 " 3. The time occupied by the first dentition ; 
 
 " 4. The period between the first and second dentition ; 
 
 " 5. The time of the second dentition ; 
 
 " 6. The ])eriod between the latlcr and commencing puberty ; 
 
 " 7. The time occupied in the evolution of the reproductive 
 system. 
 
 " The second great period will comprise three minor 
 periods : — 
 
 * Lancet, 1S42-3, vol. i., p. 423.
 
 266 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 " I. The perfecting of adolescence, from 21 to 28 ; 
 
 " 2. The chmax of development, or status of life, from 28 to 
 42 ; and 
 
 "3. The septenary of decline in die reproductive powers, 
 extending from 42 to 49 (after which latter age conception 
 rarely takes place). 
 
 " The f/iird great period comprises also three minor subdivi- 
 sions : — 
 
 " I. The grand climacteric, from 49 to 6^ ; 
 
 " 2. Old age, from 63 to 70 ; 
 
 "3. The years of cetas ingravescence, or decrepitude, from 
 70 to death. 
 
 "In fixing these epochs," says Dr. Laycock, "I have fol- 
 lowed the generally received septennial division, being reluctant 
 to make any innovation thereon. It would I think, however, 
 be more in accordance with modern science, /a date, not from 
 birth, btit from the conceptio7i of the individual. If this be done, 
 each great period, should be calculated as commencing forty 
 weeks earlier." 
 
 The process of dentition affords also illustrations of the 
 operation of the law of septiform periodicity in vital pheno- 
 mena ; * and viability, or the probability of life, is highest at 14 
 
 * " The order of the development oftlie teeth in man is an interesting 
 subject, as upon it we must i)rincipally rely for dcterminin;^ the periods ol' 
 development in the system t^enerally. Mr. Goodsir's researches are ex- 
 ceedingly interesting, as marking this gradual hebdomadal evolution in the 
 embryo and fojtus, but arc not sufficiently accurate for our jnirpose as to 
 the tune when the changes occur. Previous to the cniptivc stage, or com- 
 mon dentition, there are three phases of development ; \\\ii papillary, com- 
 mencing about the sa'cnih week of fa.'tal life, iha pollicular in the tenth, and 
 the saceular in the fourteenth 'wech, which continue until the cniptive 
 stage, about the seventh month after Inrlh, when the four central incisors 
 present themselves. After this the other teeth ajipear at intervals not yet 
 i:>rccisely fixed, the first dentition being terminated, however, by the end of 
 the thirty-sixth month. All is then quiescent for three or four years, or 
 until the middle or end of ti:c sroentli year, when the nr.-,t true molar makes 
 its appearance, which according to Air. Goodsir, is analogous to the milk 
 teeth in its mode of formatior,, the permanent central incisors appearing 
 about the same time." — Liincd, 1843-4, vol. iii., p. 255.
 
 THE LAW OF COMPLETION IN WEEKS. 267 
 
 years of age. Dr. Laycock puts the results of his careful re- 
 searches, into the five following propositions : — 
 
 " I. That there is a general law of periodicity which regulates 
 all the vital movements in all animals. 
 
 " 2. That the periods within which these movements take 
 place admit of calculations approximately exact. 
 
 " 3. That the fundamental unit,- — the unit upon which these 
 calculations should be based, — must for the present be con- 
 sidered as one day of twelve hours. 
 
 " 4. That the lesser periods are simple and compound multi- 
 ples of this unit, in a numerical ratio analogous to that observed 
 in chemical compounds. 
 
 " 5. That the fundamental unit of the greater periods is one 
 iveck of seven days, each day being twelve hours ; and that single 
 and compound multiples of this unit, determine the length of 
 these periods by the same ratio, as multiples of the unit of 
 twelve hours determine the lesser periods. T/iis la::> binds all 
 periodic vital piienoniena together, and links the periods obse?ved 
 in the loiuest ann?ilose animals, 7oith tJiose of man himself, the 
 highest of tJie vei'tebrata. . . ." 
 
 He concludes his investigation vv-ith the following words : — 
 " The sure and steady course of j^roleptical science will be 
 from particulars to generals, and if its foundation be firmly 
 established on severe induction, we may hope at some future 
 day to extend its principles to the cycles of the seasons, and to 
 comprise within its sphere, not only individual men and women, 
 but societies generally, and even the whole human race. The 
 axiom that the whole is equal to the sum of all its parts, is 
 universally true, whatever the whole may be ; and there is 
 really no reason for despairing that we shall attain to a 
 knowledge of the whole alluded to, (a knowledge which must 
 necessarily be derived from a knowledge of its jiarts.) because 
 those parts are microscopically small to the intellect. The 
 boundaries of astronomical science have been pushed from 
 small and obscure beginnings, into the infinite in space, time, 
 and number ; and who can tell but that Providence may so assisi
 
 26S DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 the humble inquirer into nature, that science shall be extended to 
 the infinite in littleness, and so man be able to look down, 
 by the light of philosophy, upon the varied phenomena of ter- 
 restrial life, — their multifarious combinations and complexities, 
 their cycles and epicycles, — as he looks into the planetary 
 world ; and see nothing but order and simplicity where now 
 there appears inextricable confusion." * 
 
 " There is a harmony oj numbers in all iiature ; in the force of 
 gravity, in the planetary movements, in the laws of heat, light, 
 electricity, and chemical affinity, in the forms of animals and 
 plants, in the perceptions of the mind. The direction indeed 
 of modern natural and physical science, is towards a general- 
 isation which shall express the fundamental laws of all, by one 
 simple numerical ratio. We would refer to Professor Whewell's 
 * Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences,' and to Mr. Hay's re- 
 searches into the laws of harmonious colouring and form. Fro7n 
 these it appears that the number seven is distinguished in the 
 laws regulating the harmonious petreption of forms, colours, and 
 sounds, and probably of taste also, if we could analyse our 
 sensations of this kind with mathematical accuracy."t 
 
 There are probably few branches of natural science from 
 which additional facts in confirmation might not be culled. 
 But the above may suffice, for our object is less to trace the 
 extent of the dominion of this law, than to prove its existence 
 in nature. The realm of entomology recognises this law, 
 ichthyology and ornithology do the same, and the mammalia 
 equally bear witness to its jjrevalence. As to man, his birth, 
 growth, dentition, development, maturity, vital functions, re- 
 productive system, health, disease, life and death, all his 
 times and all his seasons, are more or less distinctly con- 
 trolled by the law of completion in weeks. His very pulse 
 keeps time to the seven day period. Dr. Stratton states (as 
 the result of several series of observations) that in health, the 
 human pulse is more frequent in the morning than in the 
 
 Lancet, 1S42-3. t J/u/. Rcvu"v,]\\\y, 1S44.
 
 THE LAW OF COMPLETION IN WEEKS. 269 
 
 evening, for six days out of seven ; and that on the seventh day 
 it is slower. * 
 
 And man's life as a whole is a week, a week of decades. 
 "The days of our years are threescore years and ten" and 
 that by Divine appointment. Combining the testimony of all 
 these facts, we are bound to admit that there prevails in organic 
 nature a laio of septifoinn periodicity, a law of completiomn weeks. 
 We turn now to consider, the prevalence of the same law "in 
 Scripture. 
 
 • Edinlniv^h Hied, and Surgical yoiiniaI,]:m., 1S43.
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 TiiE Week in Scripture. 
 
 there is a chronological system ix scripture. — it is a 
 svste:\i of weeks. — this system is traceadle through- 
 out THE L.\W, THE PROPHETS, AND THE GOSPEL. — THE 
 WEEK IN TIIE MOSAIC RITUAL. — THE WEEK IN JEWISH 
 HISTORY. — TIIE WEEK IN PROPHECY. — TIIE WEEK OF DAYS 
 — OF WEEKS — OF MONTHS— OF YEARS — OF WEEKS OF YEARS 
 — OF YEARS OF YEARS — OF MILLENARIES. 
 
 FROM the foregoing facts it is abundantly evident that 
 the hand of the Creator has regulated a vast variety of 
 world-wide vital phenomena, by a Imo oj weeks : that a scpli- 
 form periodicity has been, by God Himself, impressed upon 
 nature. 
 
 The Holy Scriptures claim to be a revelation from the God 
 of nature, and an orderly and consistent system of chronology 
 is one marked feature of the sacred volume. JVbia it is a inost 
 notciuorthy and indisputable fact, that this system is, from first to 
 last, a system of weeks : septijorin periodieity is stamped jfpon the 
 Bible, as conspieuously and even more so, than on nature. 
 
 The whole of its chronology — beginning with the order of 
 creation unfolded in its earliest chapters, including the entire 
 order of Providence revealed in its succeeding portion, and the 
 typical and actual chronology of redemption itself^is regulated 
 by the law of weeks. The times prior to the existence of man ; 
 the times recorded by the histories of the Pentateuch ; the 
 times enacted by the Mosaic ritual ; the times traceable in 
 Jewish history; and the times unfolded by the prophets, — all 
 arc without exception characterized by this feature. The 
 actual length of the days of creation, whether longer or shorter, 
 docs not affect this statement, for the septiformity of creation
 
 THE LAV/ OF COMPLETION /.V WEEKS. 271 
 
 chronology is equally clear, whatever may have been the mea- 
 sures of the creation week ; and the Bible system includes, as 
 we shall see, weeks on a great variety of scales. 
 
 The Le\dtical law contained a ceremonial system which 
 shadowed forth good things to come, and the chronology of.its 
 obser\^ances, which was one of its most marked features, was as 
 t)-pical as all the rest — tj.'pical of the chronology of redemption 
 histor)'. The Levitical chronology was a system of weeks on 
 various scales of magnitude ; one which employed the main 
 natural di\asions of time, the day, month, and year, as units 
 for its weeks, and which also employed the largest of these 
 weeks, as a imit for still larger septiform periods. And as the 
 complete chronology of the typical law foreshadowed the 
 vronderful history of redemption, so the chronology of Old 
 and New Testament prophecy, has reference to the same ; 
 for prophecy is only history anticipated, as types are history 
 foreshown in action. But the views of history given in 
 divinely inspired prophecy, are wider, and more compre- 
 hensive than can be found elsewhere, and therefore in pro- 
 phetic chronology, we find periods of vaster scope — plainly 
 foretold, or obscurely intimated — and above all a key to the 
 whole plan of history. In this grand prophetic chronology, 
 we trace the same system ; it is throughout septiform, it con- 
 sists of a series of weeks. 
 
 Here, the legal week of seven years, the week v/hose unit is 
 a solar year, is multiplied tenfold (70 years) and seventy-fold 
 (490 years) ; and here on the same principle, only on a h^her 
 scale, as the year had been previously employed as the imit of 
 a week, so it is now employed as the unit of a year ; this is 
 the year-day system of chronological symbolic prophecy. 
 
 Weeks of such years are appointed as the measures of vast 
 periods of histor/, distinguished one from the other by moral 
 features, and by varied degrees of Divine revelation, such as 
 the Patriarchal, Jewish, and Christian dispensations. 
 
 In all these ditierent departments of Scripture, we shall find a 
 uniform consistent chronological pla^ — ///(?kw-^' reigns supreme;
 
 272 DIVLXE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 it measures alike the briefest and the longest periods, and can 
 be traced in various forms, in the law, in tlie prophets, and in 
 the gospel. It runs like a golden thread through the entire 
 texture of the Bible ; and this fact alone, were there no other 
 evidence on the point, proves a unity of design, pervading this 
 collection of the writings of about forty different authors of 
 various lands and ages, which argues it the product of one in- 
 spiring mind, — the mind of the great Creator. On the world 
 his hands have fashioned, and on the Word his Spirit has 
 inspired. He has stamped in equally indelible characters, i/ie 
 week, as the divinely selected measure of human time. 
 
 In connection with the first appearance of the week — on the 
 opening page of Scripture in the narrative of the creation, — 
 we find an exposition of its profound meaning, the moral object 
 and end of God in its selection. It is the period that leads 
 up to, and terminates in, the rest of God. We read, " On the 
 seventh day God ended his work which He had made, and 
 He rested on the seventh day from all his work which He 
 had made. And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified 
 it, because that in it He had rested from all his work, which 
 God created and made." The same reason is assigned for the 
 enjoined observance of the Sabbath, in the law given at Sinai : 
 " Six days shalt thou labour and do all thy work ; but the 
 seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God, in it thou 
 shalt not do any work. ... for in six days the Lord 
 made heaven and earth, the sea and all that in them is, and 
 restAi the seventh day, wherefore the Lord blessed the seventh 
 day and hallowed it." 
 
 The rest of God, and of man his creature, with God, in the 
 enjoyment of the results of the work of God, — results which 
 God Himself sees to be very good, — this is the end attained, 
 at the close of the week ; this is the sabbath. This was the 
 creation sabbath, soon, alas ! marred by sin ; this shall be the 
 redemption sabbath, when the second great work of God, the 
 new creation in Christ Jesus, is complete. P\o sooner had 
 sin destroyed the sabbath rest of creation, than the great
 
 THE LAW OF COMPLETION IN WEEKS. 273 
 
 Creator, in his invincible goodness, began to work again. 
 " My Father worketh hitherto, and I work," said Christ ; and 
 such is still the case, for redemption is not yet complete, and 
 the rest of God, and of man with God, is still future. 
 
 The Hebrew word translated "week" means seven, and would 
 designate any period composed of ^^z^^;^ shorter petiods, whether 
 days, weeks, years, decades, centuries, millenaries, or any other 
 unit. The following were the various weeks, appointed under 
 the Jewish ritual, for perpetual observance in Israel : — 
 
 1. The week of days. Gen. ii. 2, 3 ; Exod. xx. 
 
 2. The week of weeks. Pentecost. Lev. xxiii. 
 
 3. The week of months. Jewish sacred year. Lev. xxiii. 
 
 4. The week of years. Sabbatic year law. Lev. xxv. 
 
 5. The week of weeks of years. The Jubilee. Lev. xxv. 
 (i.) The Week of Days. 
 
 Taking them in the above order, we glance first at the 
 natural week, of seven days, established in Eden, and the per- 
 petual observance of which was enjoined under the law. To 
 this week the Divine hand has attached, as we have seen, the 
 idea of labour issuing in rest, of the stages of creature develop- 
 ment terminating in maturity, and thus of the attainment by 
 the creature, of moral and spiritual perfection. The sabbath 
 expressed the entire complacency of God, and the entire satis- 
 faction of man, in all that God had created and made. 
 
 This was the period appointed under the Levitical law, for 
 many of those consecrations, which Avere the impartation of 
 ceremonial or typical perfection. The process of consecrating 
 Aaron and his sons, to the work of the priesthood, that they 
 might minister before the Lord, for Israel, lasted seven days. 
 (Exod. xxix. 35.) That also of sanctifying the altar, that it 
 might become an altar most holy, imparting sanctity to all that 
 touched it, lasted similarly seven days. (Exod. xxix. 37.) 
 
 Thus also the period of the duration of ceremonial unclean- 
 ness, was in a number of cases, limited by seven days, at the 
 close of which ceremonial purity was restored. On the birth 
 of a male child for instance, a woman was considered unclean 
 
 T
 
 -74 ninXE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 for sevm days (Lev. xii. 2). nor could the child, during that 
 week, be circumcised. Circumcision could not take place till 
 the eighth day. 
 
 The firstborn of cattle devoted to God were not to be 
 offered during the first seven days. " Sa-cn days shall it be 
 with its dam, and on the eighth day thou shalt give it to Me " 
 (Exod. xxii. 30). " On the eighth day and thenceforth it shall 
 be accepted for an offering made by fire unto the Lord " 
 (Lev. xxii. 27). 
 
 Various other ceremonial observances, of a similar nature, 
 were enacted in Israel. Defilement from a running issue, or 
 from an issue of blood, lasted srrcn days. (Lev. xv. 13-19.) 
 The suspected leper was to be shut up scrcii days, and even 
 after he was pronounced clean, he was still to tarry abroad out 
 of his tent sn'eti days. (Lev. xiii. 14.) Miriam, on account of 
 her leprosy, was shut out of the camp seven days. (Num. 
 xii. 14.) The house, or the garment infected with the plague 
 5f leprosy, were similarly to be shut up se^'oi days. 
 
 Defilement by contact with the dead, also endured sei'cr, 
 days, that is the ceremonial purity forfeited by this contact, 
 could not be restored in less than seven days. (Num. xi.x. 11.) 
 Thus the purification of the men, after the slaughter of the 
 Midianites, lasted se7>en days. (Num-, xxxi. ig.) 
 
 It is much insisted on in the law that the feast of unleavened 
 bread should last " se-'eii days." Under pain of death, all 
 leaven was, during this period, to be put away from Jewish 
 dwellings. (Exod. xii.) The feast of tabernacles also lasted 
 snrn days : " Ye shall rejoice before the Lord your God se7rn 
 days, and ye shall keep it a feast unto the Lord, seven days in 
 the year ; it shall be a statute for ever in your generations : ye 
 shall celebrate it in the seventh month ; ye shall dwell in 
 booths seven days " (Lev. xxiii. 36, 39). 
 
 On the occasion of the siege of Jericho, seven priests bearing 
 seven trumpets, compassed the city with the men of war, for 
 se7rn days, and on the seventh day they went round it seven 
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 THE LAW OF COMTLETION IN WEEKS. 275 
 
 The week, with its concluding sabbath, is therefore deeply 
 engraven in a variety of ways, on the whole Jewish ritual and 
 history. Nor on Jewish history alone. Although in the 
 Christian dispensation, the eighth day, or first day of a new 
 week, is substituted for the creation sabbath, indicating that 
 rest is to be found only in a iien' creation, only in resurrection, 
 — yet still the weekly division of time, and the weekly day of 
 holy rest, continue, witnessing as ever to the rest that remaineth 
 for the people of God. For, — like the Lord's supper, which 
 shows forth his death till He come, — the sabbath, and the 
 Lord's day which has taken its place, glance both backward 
 and onward. The first day of the week recalls the glad morn- 
 ing of the resurrection, the completion of the redeeming work 
 of Christ, just as the sabbath recalled the conclusion of the 
 creation work of God ; and it foretells the remaining rest, 
 when they that are Christ's shall rise at his coming. Thus wc 
 rnay say, that three hundred thousand earthly Sabbaths line 
 the road that lies behind the people of God, pointing each 
 with outstretched hand, like so many guide-posts, in the same 
 direction, and agreeing with overwhelming unanimity in their 
 testimony to the blessed fact, that there remaineth a sabba- 
 tism for the people of God. 
 
 (ii.) The Week of Weeks. 
 
 Next in order to the week of days came the ii<cck of weeks. 
 This was the period appointed to elapse between the first two 
 of the gi"eat annual gatherings of the Jewish sacred year, Pass- 
 over and Pentecost. Of the deep meaning of these ordinances, 
 as unveiled by the sequence of events, connected with the 
 true paschal sacrifice, we pause not here to speak, as we shall 
 have to allude to it, in another connection, further on. We 
 simply call attention to the ordinance, as one instance of the 
 law of weeks, impressed on Jewish ritual. " And ye shall 
 count unto you, from the morrow after the sabbath from 
 the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave oftering, seven 
 sabbaths shall be complete. P.^ven unto the morrow after the
 
 2/6 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 seventh sabhaih shall ye number fifty days, and ye shall offer a 
 new meat offering unto the Lord" (Lev. xxili. 15). 
 
 Thus in every Jewish year there occurred not only fifty- two 
 weeks of days, each with its concluding Sabbath, but a week of 
 weeks, with its closing Pentecostal celebrations, full of hidden 
 hopes of resurrection rest. 
 
 (iii.) The Week of Months. 
 
 The entire circle of the feasts of the Lord, ordained in 
 Leviticus, is comprised within the first seven months of the 
 year. The sacred portion of the Jewish year therefore, its 
 complete calendar of divinely ordained religious ceremonies, 
 prefiguring the history of redemption, occupied a week of 
 months. It commenced with the month Abib or Nisan, on 
 the fourteenth day of which the Exodus took place, in memory 
 of which the annual feast of Passover was instituted. There 
 followed each in its appointed season, the feast of unleavened 
 bread, and the first-fruit sheaf, the feast of weeks or Pentecost, 
 the feast of trumpets, the great day of atonement, and the 
 feast of tabernacles. This last was held in the seventh month, 
 and with it closed, for the year, the special " feasts of the Lord." 
 Thus the period marked off for holy convocations, from the 
 Jewish year, was septiforni in character; a week whose days 
 tvere months, contained, by Divine direction, the observances of 
 Israel's ecclesiastical year ; while the feasts themselves, and the 
 order in which they occurred, had undoubted reference to anti- 
 typical events, on the scale of ages. 
 
 (iv.) The Week of Years. 
 
 It was the will of God that not only the people, but the land 
 of Israel, should keep sabbath. " The Lord spake unto 
 Moses in mount Sinai, saying. Speak unto the children of 
 Israel, and say unto them. When yc be come into the land 
 Avhich I give unto you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto 
 the Lord. Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years 
 thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof; 
 but in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the 
 land, a sabbath for the Lord : thou shalt neither sow thy
 
 THE LAW OF COMPLETION IN WEEKS. 277 
 
 field, nor prune thy vineyard. That which groweth of its own 
 accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the 
 grapes of thy vine undressed : for it is a year of rest unto the 
 land" (Lev. xxv. 1-5). The Hebrew servant similarly was to 
 serve six years, and go out free in the seventh. (Exod. xxi. 2.) 
 
 The period thus marked oft' had exactly the same character 
 as the week with its six days of toil and seventh of rest ; it is 
 simply the week on the scale of years. And it is worthy of 
 notice that the observance of the ordinances respecting the 
 land during the sabbatic years, was possible only by means of a 
 stupendous miracle, to be repeated every seven years. " If ye 
 shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year ? behold, we shall 
 not sow, nor gather in our increase. Then I will command my 
 blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth 
 fruit for three years" (Lev. xxv. 20, 21). Here was a law per- 
 fectly harmonious as we have seen, and shall yet see more 
 fully, with the order of sacred seasons observed by the Jews ; 
 a law in which there was nothing foreign to their whole system, 
 but which was on the contrary an integral part of it, and yet it 
 was made to depend, for the possibility of its fulfilment, upon 
 a special periodical interposition of Divine power, as wide in 
 its range, as the necessities of an entire nation. No merely 
 human legislation would ever have originated such a law, on 
 account of its incapacity to provide the conditions needful for 
 its observance. This miracle in the land, was, on the scale of 
 years, what the doubling of the manna, in the wilderness, was 
 on the scale of days ; a miraculous arrangement, to render 
 possible the keeping of the prescribed sabbath. There, the 
 gift of manna was doubled every sixth day ; while in the land 
 c)f promise, the produce was trebled every sixth year, the 
 object in each case being to secure the sabbath rest. 
 
 (v.) The Week of \Veeks of Years. 
 
 The largest week ordained in the Mosaic ritual was the 
 week of weeks of years, the i)criod including therefore seven 
 sabbatic )-ears, with their intervening years of toil, forty-nine 
 years. 1
 
 2 73 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 " Thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven 
 times seven years ; and the space of the seven sabbaths of 
 years shall be unto thee forty and nine years. Then shalt 
 thou cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth 
 day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye 
 make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. And ye 
 shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout 
 all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof; it shall be a 
 jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his 
 possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family. A 
 Jubilee shall that fiftieth year be unto you : ye shall not sow, 
 neither reap that whic li groweth of itself in it, nor gather the 
 grapes of thy vine undressed. For it is the jubilee ; it shall be 
 holy unto you ; ye shall not eat the increase thereof out of the 
 field. In the year of this jubilee ye shall return every man 
 unto his possession " (Lev. xxv. 8-13). This larger week is 
 perfectly harmonious in character with all the previous ones ; 
 during its earlier portion, bondage, debt, and poverty lasted, 
 at its close they passed away and disappeared. The jubilee 
 was a year of rest and joy and liberty, that foreshadowed more 
 than any preceding sabbath, the full and varied blessedness of 
 the rest that remaineth for the people of God. Once at least in 
 every ordinary lifetime, would this great prophetic ordinance 
 arrive, laden with its wealth of joy and peace, and glowing 
 with its beams of hope and promise. 
 
 In the light then of these five enduring ordinances, — ordi- 
 nances some of which are observed by the Jews even to our 
 own day, — ordinances embodied in the Bible, and presented to 
 the study of every generation of the people of God — in the light 
 of the weekly sabbath observed from Eden onwards ; of the 
 Pentecostal sabbath ; of the sevenfold sabbath of the final feast 
 of tabernacles ; of the sabbatic seventh year ; and of the yet 
 more sabbatic year of jubilee ; it is impossible to deny that 
 a septiform chronology ■ccas divinely appointed in the elaborate 
 ritual of Judaism. And further, since that ritual was unques- 
 tionably typical, this fact may prepare us to find a similar
 
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 law of laecks governing the chronology of the aniitypica^. 
 events. 
 
 (vi.) The Week of Decades. 
 
 But not in the Pentateuch only is this law of weeks to be 
 traced ; it pervades the Old Testament, and embraces not Jews 
 only, but Gentiles. Of the whole human race the words are 
 • true, " The days of our years are threescore years and ten, and it 
 by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their 
 strength labour and sorrow, for it is soon cut oft", and we l]y away" 
 (Ps. xc. 10). Human life is a week, a lucckof decades, and the 
 last decade, the evening of life, is the time of rest rather than 
 of action. But there is no sabbath in man's life, in the fullest 
 sense of the word ; no rest, till it closes in the sad dark rest of 
 the grave ; sin has introduced the curse instead of the sabbath, 
 and death with its dreary gloom, ends the lifetime week of 
 sinners. But the exception only proves the rule, and bears its 
 testimony to the true nature of the week. The failure of bodily 
 and mental power which takes place generally about the age of 
 seventy, attests the operation of this law of septiform periodicity, 
 on the entire human race, while the recognition of the fact by 
 the psalmist suggests the perfect harmony of this providentiol 
 arrangement, with all the sabbatic legislation we have been 
 considering. 
 
 This period of seventy years is besides a very notable one 
 historically. It marked the duration of the captivity of Judah 
 in Babylon. It was predicted by Jeremiah, that in consequence 
 of their inveterate idolatry Israel should be carried captive by 
 Nebuchadnezzar, " the whole land shall be a desolation, and an 
 astonishment, and these nations shall serve the king of Baby- 
 lon seventy years" (Jer. xxiv. 11). And subsequently a second 
 time the same limit was assigned : " For thus saith the Lortl, 
 after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon, I Avill visit you, 
 and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to re- 
 turn to this place" (Jer. xxix. 10). A dark and terrible Aveek 
 to Judah were those seven decades ; the daughters of Israel 
 hung their harps upon the willows by the rivers of ]!aby!on,
 
 2So DIVINE SYSTEM OE TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 and wept as they remembered Zion. The desolate land en- 
 joyed her sabbaths, while her sons languished in exile. But 
 this week also closed with restoration and liberty, when the 
 Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, and her children felt 
 like those that dream, as they sang, " The Lord hath done 
 great things for us, whereof we are glad." 
 
 (vii.) The Week of Weeks of Decades. 
 
 It was towards the close of this long and dark week of the 
 captivity, that there was revealed to Daniel a still larger week ; 
 a week each of whose days was to equal the captivity week, a 
 week of seven times " seventy years," or " seventy weeks " of 
 years — a period of 490 years. This may be termed the re- 
 storation week ; it was the time that elapsed between Arta- 
 xerxes' decree to restore and to build Jerusalem, and the days 
 of " Messiah the Prince," indeed it was revealed as measuring 
 the interval. " Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people 
 and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression and to make 
 an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to 
 bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and 
 prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy." 
 
 Had Israel known the day of her visitation, and received her 
 Messiah when He appeared, what a glorious sabbath would 
 have closed this week ! Its seventh day did actually include the 
 incarnation and life of the Lord Jesus Christ, and, — since when 
 He came unto his own his own received Him not, — it included 
 also his atoning death, his triumphant resurrection, and the de- 
 scent of the Holy Ghost; the rejection of Israel, the destruction 
 of their temple, and the first gathering-in of the Gentiles. So 
 that even on this scale of centuries, God has adhered to the law 
 we have noted above, and brought in the day of the greatest 
 blessings the world has ever known, as the seventh stage of a 
 previous history. The period is however designated as " seventy 
 weeks" rather than as one week — and it is therefore even more 
 conspicuously an instance of the prevalence, even in long 
 stretches of history, of the law of weeks.
 
 THE LAW OF COMPLETION IN WEEKS. 28 1 
 
 (viii.) The Week of Years of Years. 
 
 Scripture presents us — in symbolic prophecy — with a week 
 on a scale of greater magnitude than any of these, in the 
 " SEVEN TIMES " of Daniel. As we shall have to treat more 
 fully of this in the following chapter, we forbear to enlarge on 
 it now. It is a week of years, whose days are years, in other 
 words a week, each of whose days consists ot 360 solar years. 
 Its second half is frequently mentioned in symbolic prophecy, 
 under various designations which all indicate one and the same 
 period, 1260 natural years. This gigantic week includes the 
 entire " Times of the Gentiles," the times during which supreme 
 power on earth, is by God committed to Gentile instead of 
 Jewish rulers. It dates from the captivities, and is still run- 
 ning its course, though rapidly nearing its close. 
 
 (ix.) The Week of Millenaries. 
 
 And all these various weeks, are included in a sublime week 
 of millenaries., which is clearly intimated, if not distinctly re- 
 vealed, in the Word of God. In the Apocalypse as we have 
 seen, the glorious reign on earth of Christ and his saints, which 
 is to be the world's real sabbath, and Israel's real jubilee, the 
 antitype and fulfilment of the types and shadows of the all- 
 embracing sabbatic law we have traced through Scripture — the 
 great sabbatism — is six times over spoken of as a period of " a 
 thousand years." This millennial age, being the true sabhaih of the 
 world, must be regarded as a seventh day — the seventh day of a 
 week, whose six preceding unsabbatic days, were oi equal dura- 
 tion with this its sabbath. So that the last page of the Bible 
 shows, that the creation week whose occurrences are narrated 
 on its first page, was the germ and type of the world's chrono- 
 logy, and foreshadowed the whole course of time ; that the 
 sabbath of Paradise, pointed to a great sabbath of a thousand 
 years, with which God — to whom a thousand years are as one 
 day— has from the beginning purposed to bless mankind ; the 
 seventh day of the great week of time, which is to introduce 
 the eternal state — the new creation. 
 
 'J'lie system of times and seasons thus unfolded, bears the
 
 :S3 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AM) SEASONS. 
 
 stamp of divinity : there is a consistency and a grandeur about 
 it, as well as an evident end and meaning, which are worlliy of 
 the Bible, worthy of God ! Its connection with creation, with 
 the moral law, with the chronology of redemption, both typical 
 and antitypical ; its connection with the most solemn and 
 deeply interesting episodes in Jewish experience and history ; 
 with the advent of Messiah, and with the most important events 
 in his human life ; its relation to various and distant lands, and 
 to so many important epochs, Jewish, Gentile, and Christian ; 
 its existence amid the eras of history, and its ado]:)tion in 
 the visions of prophecy, all these features unite to stamp it as 
 Divine; while the fact that it is identical with the system im- 
 pressed by the hand of God on nature, leaves no room for 
 doubt on the subject. 
 
 We have been considering not theories, but facts ; we have 
 adduced, not oj)inions or fanciful interpretations, but a mass 
 of unquestionable scientific and authentic historical evidence. 
 Is it by chance, that the law of septiform periodicity is en- 
 graven so widely and so deeply on the vital phenomena of the 
 animal creation, and of the human family? Is it by chance 
 that the existence, growth, and functional activity, of every 
 individual of our race, is, both in health and disease, regulated 
 by a law of tccrh, of various magnitudes ? Is it a mere 
 curious coincidence, that a "iucckly rest, has from creation 
 onwards been observed by men? and that the Jewish nation 
 for three thousand five hundred years, have acknowledged and 
 obeyed a ritual system, whose constandy recurring periods from 
 the briefest to the longest, were zuccks of diverse dimensions? 
 AVas it by accident that historical episodes like the Babylonish 
 captivity, and the restoration era, were weeks of still greater 
 magnitude, and that even the mighty dispensations of providence 
 are measured by the same septiform scale? 
 
 No ! these facts are too far-reaching, too all-comprehendifig, 
 too universal, to admit of any other explanation than the 
 existence of what men call a law of nature, that is a rule 
 ordained by the great Creator Himself. A law that regulates
 
 THE LAW OF COMPLETION Ii\ JVEEKS. 2S3 
 
 ten thousand phenomena, physiological^ and historical, from 
 the transformation of an insect, to the majestic revolutions ot 
 redemption history — a law which no power on earth can alter, 
 nor any lapse of ages obliterate ; a law which, as we shall 
 hereafter show, is inscribed in letters of light, by the glittering 
 orbs of the solar system in their ceaseless revolutions, in the 
 realms of space, such a law can have but one Source ; to no 
 other can its enactment be attributed, than to the blessed and 
 only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who only 
 hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can 
 approach unto, whom no man hath seen, nor can sec, to whom 
 be honour and power everlasting ! 
 
 Our next chapter, unfolding the operation of the law of 
 weeks in the general course of human history, will strengthen 
 this conviction.
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 The Week in History. 
 
 scripture the chart of history. — preliminary questions 
 
 as to historic and prophetic chronology. the age of 
 
 the hu.man race. —old testament chronology. the 
 
 herrew and the septuagint chronology compared. — 
 how are ^ye to interpret the symbolic periods of pro- 
 phetic chronology ? — exposition and defence of the 
 
 year-day system. moral features distinguishing the 
 
 three great dispensations — the p.\triarchal — the 
 je\vish — the christian. — chronological measures of 
 these dispensations. — the period of "seven times " 
 shown to le the duration of the last or gentile 
 dispens.vtion, and also of the t\vo earlier, 
 
 THE Bible is the only book in the world that gives us a 
 view of human history as a whole, that carries us from 
 the lost Paradise of Eden, to the restored Paradise of the 
 Apocalypse, traces the course of the human race through every 
 stage of its intermediate existence on earth, and on beyond the 
 limits of time, into the boundless regions of eternity. 
 
 In it, and in it alone therefore, are we likely to fmd the key, 
 if key there be, to the periodicity of history, — the underlying 
 principle bringing the labyrinth of inharmonious periods and 
 chronological irregularities which the annals of the human race 
 at first sight present, into harmony with each other, and with 
 the periods of nature and revealed religion. 
 
 The histories of Scripture reach back to the farthest past, 
 and its prophecies extend to the most distant future ; taken 
 together, as they are presented in the Bible, the two afford a 
 panoramic view of the ^^hole course of events, from the crea-
 
 THE LAW OF COMPLETION IN WEEKS. 2S5 
 
 tion and fall of man, to the fnial judgment, and the inaugura- 
 tion of tlie new heavens and the new earth. 
 
 The Bible is therefore the chart of all history, and it gives 
 us, not events only, but their moral character, tracing the 
 motives that influenced the various actors in the drama, as well 
 as tlie results of their action. Events are shown in connection 
 with their causes and their effects, and the judgment of God 
 as to their character is revealed. Without the Bible, history 
 would be a spectacle of "rivers flowing from unknown sources, 
 to unknown seas ; " but under its guidance we can trace the 
 complex currents to their springs, and see the end, from the 
 beginning. 
 
 The entire story of mankind as presented in Scripture being 
 composed of two parts, the historic and the prophetic, it is 
 clear that the periods into which the history of man as a whole 
 is divided, cannot be discerned, without taking both historic 
 and prophetic chronology into account, and as both are subjects 
 on which different views have been entertained, our examina- 
 tion of the periodicity of human history as a whole, must be 
 preceded by a careful though necessarily brief investigation, of 
 the questions connected with these controverted points. 
 
 1. What, according to Scripture, is the age of the human 
 race? in other words, — how long is it since the creation ? 
 
 2, What periods are intended by the expressions of time 
 used in Daniel and the Apocalypse in defining the duration of 
 events which were future when predicted by these prophets ? 
 
 These questions we must now therefore consider, taking 
 first that of 
 
 Old Testament Chronologv. 
 
 The highest point of antiquity to which authentic profane 
 history carries us, is the occupation of Babylon by an army of 
 Medes in 2233 b.c, that is about 250 years after the flood.* 
 
 For our knowledge of the dates and durations of all previous 
 
 * "Fasti IlcUcniei": Clinton, p. 296.
 
 2S5 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 events, we are indebted exclusively to the Hebrew Scriptures, 
 and very full and explicit are the chronological data of this 
 remote period, which the Bible supplies. " The history con- 
 tained in the Hebrew Scriptures presents a remarkable and 
 /leasing contrast to the early accounts of the Greeks. In the 
 latter, we trace with difficulty a few obscure facts, preserved to 
 us by the poets, who transmitted, with all the embellishments 
 of poetry and fable, what they had received from oral tradition. 
 In the annals of the Hebrew nation, we have authentic narra- 
 tives, written by cotcniporarics, under the guidance of inspira- 
 tion. What they have delivered to us, comes accordingly under 
 a double sanction. They were aided by Divine inspiration in 
 recording facts, upon which as mere Imman witnesses, their 
 evidence would be valid." •'' 
 
 The length of the lives of the early patriarchs, often border- 
 ing on a thousand years, made oral tradition a comparatively 
 safe guide : but one link intervened between Adam and Noah, 
 from whom the story of antediluvian events would be handed 
 down in the line of Shem to Abraham and Moses. This latter, 
 though not an eyewitness of many of the facts he narrated, is 
 yet an authentic reporter; and in the subsequent history of 
 Israel, from the Exodus to the rebuilding of the temple, the 
 writers were, strictly speaking, witnesses. 
 
 The chronology of the Pentateuch is gathered, not from dates, 
 as in ordinary history, but from accurate genealogical records ; 
 it is measured and marked out, not by centuries, but by gener- 
 ations. The brief chronology of the antediluvian world, is all 
 contained in the fifth of Genesis ; the age of the human race 
 at the time of the flood, that is to say, the interval that had 
 elapsed between the creation and the deluge, is ascertained 
 l)y adding together the ages of the patriarchs at the birth of 
 the sons, in whom the line from Adam to Noah is traced. 
 These were not invariably the eldest sons ; Seth, the second 
 link in the chain, was we know the third son of Adam, and the 
 
 • "Fasti Ilcllcnici " : Clintun, p. 2S3.
 
 THE LAW OF COMPLETION IN WEEKS. 2Z7 
 
 figures given make it very improbable that either Enos, Enoch, 
 or Laraech, were eldest sons. Younger sons, are often 
 throughout Scripture the heirs of promise, as witness Shem 
 and Abram, Jacob, and Judah, David, and Solomon. " That 
 was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural." Lar- 
 ren wives caused to become joyful mothers, and younger sons 
 chosen to be heirs of promise, often intimated in the older 
 economy, that purpose of God unfolded in the New, to bring 
 life out of death, and to substitute for the first and natural 
 order of things, a second and spiritual order ; to replace by a 
 new creation, under the headship of a second Adam — the Lord 
 from heaven — that creation which fell in the first Adam. 
 
 An examination of the fifth of Genesis will show that the 
 flood, dating from the creation, took place in the year 1656 
 A.M., which was the 600th year of Noah's life.* 
 
 The correctness of this date however, as well as of that of 
 the birth of Abram (which is derived in a similar way from the 
 postdiluvian generations), has been called in question, because 
 there exist important variations between the Hebrew Bible, and 
 some of its most ancient versions, as regards these very genea- 
 logical statements. The Samaritan Pentateuch, the Septuagint 
 version into Greek, some other ancient translations, and the 
 writings of Josephus, make many of the generations, both before 
 and after the flood, longer than they are represented in the 
 Hebrew Scriptures, and in our authorized version which follows 
 the Hebrew. Nor is the discrepancy a trivial one ; the Sep- 
 tuagint places the birth of Abram, thirteen hundred years later 
 than does the Hebrew Pentateuch, making the present age of 
 the human family to be between seven and eight thousand 
 years, instead of about six thousand years. 
 
 It is evident therefore that in our consideration, of the 1 
 measures of the dispensations into wliich human history has 
 been divided, it will not do to overlook this great chronological 
 question and controversy. Wc must ascertain which of these 
 
 • 130 + 105+90 1-70+65 + 162 + 65 + 187 + 182 + 600=1656. Gen. V.
 
 2SS DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 rival chronologies is the true one, since a difference bearing so 
 large a proportion to the whole duration of history, must be 
 material to our inquiry. 
 
 The writings of Josephus favour the longer system ; but as 
 they mainly follow the Septuagint, their evidence is not of in- 
 dependent importance. The Samaritan Pentateuch has been 
 proved unreliable in other respects, and cannot therefore be 
 accepted as an authority on this pomt. The real issue lies 
 between the chronology of the Hebretu Pentateuch and the 
 Greek translation of it, made u.c. 280, at Alexandria in Egypt, 
 by order of Ptolemy Soter, for the great Alexandrian Library. 
 \ This ancient version, commonly called the Septuagint, or 
 
 '' translation of " the seventy," was in common use among the 
 
 / Jews in our Lord's time, and was universally employed by the 
 
 / fathers of the early church, who entertained for it, an almost 
 
 / superstitious reverence, and even considered it as inspired. 
 
 / Absurd fables about its origin (the true story of which is, as 
 
 regards Us details, lost in obscurity) were invented, to give 
 colour to this notion, and the reverence which existed for it 
 was so great, that its chronology seems to have been gener- 
 ally accepted, save by Jerome, Origen, and a few others, 
 whose familiarity with the original Hebrew led them to re- 
 ject it. 
 
 Now it is especially to be noted, that the diflerence between 
 the two, is unquestionably, from its very nature, an intaitioual 
 alteration. It is not the effect of accident, but the result of 
 deliberate design. An entire century is, twelve times over, 
 added to the age of the patriarch, at the time of tlie birth of the 
 son, in ivhom the genealogy continues ; while the same period is 
 deducted from the residue of the life, so as to leave the whole un- 
 changed. The Hebrew Bible for instance states, that Adam 
 was 130 years old at the birth of Seth, that he lived 800 years 
 after, and died at 930. The Septuagint on the contrary gives 
 him as 230 at the time of Seth's birth, sa»s he lived only 700 
 years after, but agrees that he died at 930. The following 
 table presents the discrepancy both as to its nature, and as to
 
 THE LAW OF COMPLETION IN WEEKS. 2S9 
 
 its amount ; it will be observed that it affects the lives of six 
 antediluvian, and six postdiluvian patriarchs : — 
 
 
 Hebrew. 
 
 Scpliiapint 
 
 Adam 
 
 130 
 
 230 
 
 Scth 
 
 105 
 
 205 
 
 Enos 
 
 90 
 
 190 
 
 Cainan 
 
 70 
 
 170 
 
 Mahalaleel 
 
 • 65 
 
 . . 165 
 
 Enoch 
 
 65 . 
 
 165 
 
 Arphaxad 
 
 35 
 
 ^35 
 
 Salah 
 
 30 
 
 130 
 
 Eber 
 
 34 
 
 134 
 
 Peleg 
 
 30 
 
 130 
 
 Reu 
 
 32 
 
 132 
 
 Serug 
 
 30 
 
 130 
 
 Nothing but design can account for this uniform and repeated 
 alteration ; it is too systematic to be the result of accident, and 
 is clearly an intentional and deliberate corruption in one docu- 
 ment or the other ; an increase or decrease of these periods, 
 made with some ulterior object in view. 
 
 It has been a warmly disputed point among chronologers, 
 which of the two was most likely to be correct, whether the 
 Jews had falsified the Hebrew, or whether the seventy Egyptian 
 translators, are to be credited with having distorted in this 
 manner the chronology of the Septuagint. 
 
 Many arguments have been adduced on either side of the 
 controversy, which space forbids our rejiroducing here. Not 
 only Josephus, but most of the Fathers adopted the chronology 
 of the Septuagint, as was natural, seeing it was the version with 
 which they were familiar, while very few of them were acquainted 
 with the Hebrew. Jerome, who made the Vulgate translation 
 into Latin, however, and Origen, and some others, adhered to 
 the Hebrew. The revival of learning which preceded and 
 accompanied the Reformation, led to a more extensive use of 
 the Hebrew original, and more deference was thenceforth 
 
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 290 DIVIXE SYSTEM Of TLMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 shown to the Hebrew chronology. Archbishop Usher's great 
 chronological work, published in the middle of the seventeenth 
 century, recognised the Hebrew dates as the true ; in 1S34 the 
 profoundly learned work of Mr. Fynes Clinton showed that the 
 judgment of this most accurate and discriminating scholar was 
 in favour of the Hebrew chronology: and in 1S47, Lrowne's 
 " Ordo S^eclorum " followed, and threw its weight into the same 
 scale. Thus the upholders of the Septuagint version are found 
 principally among those who were unfamiliar with tlie Hebrew, 
 and a large proportion, if not the majority of those who have 
 most fully examined and compared the two, believe the Hebrew 
 to be the true text. 
 
 But common sense without learning seems almost sufficient 
 to settle the question. Tlie Hebrew is the original, and dates 
 from the time of Moses ; the Septuagint is a mere Egyptian 
 translation, dating from B.C. 286. Which is most likely to be 
 correct ? 
 
 The Jews held their own sacred writings in profound and in- 
 deed superstitious veneration ; they worshipped the letter, and 
 would have been the last people in the world to tamper with it. 
 The Egyptians had no such reverence for the Old Testament, 
 and would not have hesitated to corrupt the text, supposing any 
 sufficient motive made the doing so seem desirable. 
 
 It is hard to assign any motive which could have induced 
 the Jews to alter the genealogies of their Pentateuch. It has 
 been suggested indeed that they did so in the hope of invali- 
 dating the claims of Jesus of Nazareth to be their ]\Iessiah. 
 Uut such, a change in the chronology of their ca7-ly history could 
 in no wise have done this. Had it been possible for them to 
 have lengthened or shortened the chronology of the period 
 between their restoration from Babylon, and the first advent, 
 such a step would indeed have had an important bearing on 
 the question. But to prolong the days before the birth of 
 Abraham, could apparently serve no such purpose. 
 
 On the other hand it is by no means difficult to conjecture 
 wii.y its Egyptian authors, whether Jewish or Gentile, m:iy havi;
 
 THE LAW OF COMPLETION /iV WEEKS. cqi 
 
 falsified the original, which by the king's command they were 
 to reproduce in Greek. " The Chaldeans and Egyptians, 
 whose histories were about that time published by Cerosus 
 and Manetho, laid claim to a remote antiquity. Hence the 
 translators of the Pentateuch might be led to augment the 
 amount of the generations, by the centenary additions, and by 
 the interpolation of a second Cainan, in order to carry back 
 the epoch of the creation and the flood, to a period more con- 
 formable with the high pretensions of the Egyptians and the 
 Chaldeans." * 
 
 The arguments alleged in favour of the longer chronology 
 prove, when closely examined, to tell even more strongly in 
 favour of the shorter ; and it must be remembered that while 
 differing from the Hebrew as to the age of the patriarchs, at 
 the birth of their sons, the Septuagint agrees with it, as to the 
 age ultimately attained by each ; a strong confirmation of 
 the authentic character of the chronology of the Pentateuch, 
 There is no valid reason for assuming that the inspired original 
 has been corrupted, and that the Greek translation deserves 
 more confidence. On the contrary the former must be regarded 
 as possessing on every ground the strongest claim to our belief, 
 and the chronology given in our authorized version, may be 
 relied on as correct. 
 
 There is no other disputed point in Biblical chronology that 
 involves any material difference, or renders questionable any 
 considerable interval. The whole period from Adam to Christ 
 may be traced step by step from Scripture statements. We 
 meet indeed two breaks in the chain, two brief chasnis, which 
 no ingenuity can bridge over. They have been allowed to 
 occur in the wisdom of God, for some good and sufficient 
 reason, and the result is that it is impossible for any one to 
 accurately ascertain to within a few years, tlie age of the world, 
 the exact period that has elapsed since the creation of Adam. 
 
 I. We are not informed what was the duration of the govern- 
 
 * " Fasti Ilcllt-iiici '' : Clinton, p. 297.
 
 292 PIVLXE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 ment ot Joshua and the elders, and of the interregnum or 
 anarchy which followed. The interval between the death of 
 Moses and servitude under the Midianites, can from Scripture 
 statements be calculated with tolerable certainty, but not with 
 actual precision. The years assigned to it must rest njore or 
 less on conjecture, not on testimony ; it is the period spoken 
 of in Josh. xxiv. 31. " Israel served the Lord all the days of 
 Joshua, and all the days of the elders that overlived Joshua, 
 which had known all the works of the Lord that He had done 
 for Israel.'' Joshua was probably about the same age as 
 Caleb, forty at the time of the spies ; he wandered with Israel 
 in the wilderness for thirty-eight years subsequently, before he 
 took command of their armies on the death of Moses. He was 
 therefore about seventy-eight when his government began, and 
 he was no at his death (Josh. xxiv. 29), so that the above ex- 
 pression, " all the days of Joshua," must apparently include 
 about thirty-two years ; it is impossible to fix the period more 
 closely, and it may well vary ten years in either direction. 
 Clinton puts it at twenty-seven years. 
 
 2. The second chasm occurs between the death of Samson, 
 and the election of Saul, and was occupied by the governments 
 of Eli and Samuel. Josephus makes this interval fifty-two years. 
 Clinton, for reasons which appear satisfactory, considers that 
 the nearest approximation to the truth which scripture state- 
 ments permit, is thirty-two years.* 
 
 We have not space to enlarge on the point, as our object in 
 alluding here to these chronological chasms, is less to investi- 
 gate their limits, than to show that those limits are-very narrow. 
 From forty to sixty years comprises, in all probability, the 
 range of the uncertain, in the whole extent of Bible chronology. 
 The various statements of Scripture given in the subjoined table 
 leave litde doubt that the creation took place about 413S B.C. 
 instead of 4004, as is commonly supposed.f But any attempt 
 
 • " Fasti Hellenici," pp. 304-320. 
 
 t The appended table is from Elliott's " IIon« Apocalypticze," brought 
 down to the present dale, 1S7S.
 
 THE SCRIPTURE CHRONOLOGY OF THE WORLD. 
 
 # 
 
 1056 Noah b 
 
 1656 Thcnc 
 
 1653 ArpliriK^ 
 
 1693 S,,lahb, 
 
 6. "Noah was 
 
 i8ig Serug fa 
 1849 Nahorl 
 1873 Terahl 
 
 ■■The c 
 
 3514 The 
 9SS9 The 
 
 3019 David begar 
 3069 Solomon 
 
 
 . (Con 
 
 years after, cannoi dlsaonul." 
 ■■These 45 years, ever since (he Lord spake itiii 
 
 space of 450 year 
 "Afterward. . . God gave unto tti 
 
 by the space of 40 years." 
 ■■The days that David reigned over 
 
 ■■Solomon reigned in Jerusalem ov 
 " He reigned 25 years in Jerusalem." 
 
 3330 Joash began to r. 
 
 ^injerus.. 
 ^rsinjerus.1 
 .years in Jer 
 
 Q 
 
 3522 The Captivity . 
 3SC/a The Decree of < 
 
 c proclamation of Cyi u 
 ic birth of Chrisi 
 
 '■ (Zcdckiah) reigned t 
 
 c
 
 THE LA IV OF COMPLETION IN WEEKS. 293 
 
 to fix with greater accuracy than tliis, the actual age of the 
 world, is futile, as no scriptural data exist by which \.\\q precise 
 year of the creation can be ascertained.* 
 
 We accept then as about the nearest possible approach to 
 truth, and as probably a very near approach indeed, the follow- 
 
 ing dates given by Mr. F}' 
 Deluge 
 
 Birth of Abram. 
 Call of Abram . 
 Exodus . 
 Death of Moses 
 First servitude . 
 Death of Eli . 
 Election of Saul 
 Accession of David 
 Solomon . 
 Rehoboam 
 Nebuchadnezzar's capture 
 
 Temple burnt 
 The Nativity . 
 
 nes Clinton :- 
 
 of 
 
 crusalem. | 
 ■ J 
 
 1656 A.M. 
 
 200S 
 
 20S3 
 
 2513 
 
 2553 
 [2580] 
 [3010] 
 
 [304-] 
 [30S2] 
 [3122] 
 [3162] 
 
 [355-] 
 [413SJ 
 
 Prophetic Chronology. 
 
 We turn now from the past to the future, to gather from the 
 inspired Word of God, its prophetic revelations of the chrono- 
 logy of the closing events of the history of the world. 
 
 From the earliest days, statements of time have been an 
 important element in Divine predictions. The hundred and 
 twenty years that should elapse before the flood, the four 
 hundred years' affliction of Abraham's seed, the forty years 
 
 * It is interesting to note that Cuvier asserts that "one of the most cer- 
 tain, thou^li least expected results, of sound gjeolotjical pursuits, is the 
 oi)inion that the last revolution whicli disturbed \lie surface of the globe is 
 not very ancient ; and the date cannot go back much farther tlian live or 
 six thousand years." " The Chinese date for the Deluge is A.M. 1713, and 
 for the seven years' famine in the days of Jo.-,ei)h, B.C. 1729." — See Elliott, 
 vol. iv. p. 236, 237.
 
 294 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES A XI) SEASONS. 
 
 in the wilderness, tlic seventy years of the Babylonish capti- 
 vity, all these and many other periods v/crc announced before- 
 hand to Israel. And similarly in the New Testament, the 
 Lord Jesus Christ foretold the period during whicli He would 
 bow to the power of the grave, saying " the third day He 
 shall rise again." These and other predictions, given simply 
 to ra'cal the future, are accompanied by plain, literal, state- 
 ments of time, such as those just quoted. But there is, as we 
 have seen, another scries of predictions, in whicli a doiihic 
 object mviY be distinctly traced, to reveal and yet to conceal i\iC 
 future. 
 
 The glory of God is declared by every prophecy. His fore- 
 knowledge is one of his highest attributes. His people are 
 comforted, and their faith is strengthened, when they find, that 
 the experiences through which they are passing, the troubles 
 that are befalling them, or the difficulties that they encoun- 
 ter, have been foreseen and foretold by their God. But there 
 are some things which it is better for Gods people not to 
 know beforehand ; as for instance the true length of the 
 present period of the absence of Christ from his church. 
 Divine wisdom and love judged it best, as we have seen 
 to conceal from the early church the foreordained duration of 
 this Christian age, and to allow every generation of Christians 
 to live in the expectation of the speedy return of their Lord. 
 " Known imto God are all his works from the beginning of 
 the world." He of course knew that over eighteen centuries 
 would elapse before the second coming of Christ, and could 
 very easily have revealed this in plain words to tlie church. 
 He did not do so, as is proved by the fact that the early 
 generations of Christians expected the return of Christ in their 
 own day. If then God, for the guidance of his people espe- 
 cially during its later stages, wished to reveal the events of this 
 jK'riod, without revealing its duration, He must needs adopt 
 a slvle of ]ircdirtion, whicl: would reveal while concealing, 
 and conceal while revealing, the truth. 
 
 Tiiis is cxactlv what He has doJie. The revelations granted
 
 THE LAW OF COMPLETION IN WEEKS. 295 
 
 to Daniel and John, relating to the events of this dispensation. 
 are not couched in ordinary language, or made ui plain terms, 
 which admit of no second meaning. They are embodied in 
 mysterious symbolic forms, which require to be translated 
 before they can be understood. They are not incompre- 
 hensible ; very far from that ! Incomprehensible prophecy 
 could answer no conceivable object. But prophecy which 
 would be obscure for a time, and clear only after the lapse of 
 ages, would answer the object supposed above, of concealing 
 from one generation that which it would not be desirable for 
 it to know, while revealing it to a succeeding one, to which the 
 knowledge was indispensable. Now as statements of time 
 occur, in connection with these symbolic prophecies, as well 
 as in connection with plain predictions, the question arises, 
 are these statements to be taken, in a literal, or in a figurative 
 sense ? Does a day mean a day, or does it in these prophecies, 
 mean a year ? Does a year mean a year, or does it mean 360 
 years. Does " a thousand two hundred and threescore days" 
 mean a period of tliree and a half years, or does it mean a 
 period of 1260 of our years ? 
 
 It is evident that a consideration of the periodicity of history 
 in its widest extent, including the revealed///////'^ of man, as 
 well as \\\'i past, requires a previous investigaUon of this qiiestioji, 
 since it is necessarily vital to the subject. Before we can dis- 
 cern their mutual proportions and relations, we must understand 
 what all the periods with which we have to deal, 7raliy are. 
 We must no more omit future periods than past ones, and 
 must know the true length of the former, as well as of the 
 latter. We must take all the portions of the dissected map 
 into account, before we can even form a hypothesis as to its 
 true configuration and dimensions, or discern the plan on 
 which it has been divided. We must bear in mind for instance 
 not only that the jxitriarchal and Jewish ages \r.\\c preceded our 
 own, but that Scripture foretells a millennial age to suceeed it. 
 Wc must be aware not merely that tlie Babylonish ra])tivity 
 lasicd seventy years, but that the dominion of a cerUiin power
 
 296 DIVIXE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 symbolised by " the little horn" was fixed at "time times and 
 half a time," and we must know what period is meant by this 
 strange unusual description. In a word, we must not only take 
 into account the prophecies of Daniel and John, but we must 
 seek by patient investigation to ascertain the sense in which 
 their chronological statements are to be understood. 
 
 A moment's reflection will show the great importance of this 
 investigation, not only to our present subject, but to a right 
 understanding of the prophecies themselves. 
 
 The duration assigned to the events and powers represented 
 by these symbols, must evidently determine to a large extent, 
 our opinion as to what the symbols tiicmsclvcs signify. The 
 " little horn " is to exercise dominion for '•' time times and the 
 dividing of time," three years and a half. Now if this be literal 
 years, the power predicted may be an individual, a personal 
 Antichrist, as the Futurists assert ; but if on the other hand, it 
 be symbolic language, signifying a period extending over twelve 
 centuries, then the power predicted must needs be some 
 dytiasty of rulers, some succession of potentates, seeing no 
 one~man could live during so long a period. The chronology 
 of these prophecies once made clear, research into their mean- 
 ing becomes comparatively simple. On every account then 
 the subject demands the earnest attention of those who desire 
 to understand the oracles of God ; and even if it be not so 
 attractive as some others, it must not be lightly passed over. 
 We may say of it. what Mr. Birks says of his exposition of the 
 two later visions of Daniel, "from the nature of the details of 
 which it is composed, it may perhaps fail to interest general 
 readers. But those who study it will find themselves repaid by 
 a more deep and lively sense than ever, of the actual Provi- 
 dence of the Almighty in this fallen world. Why have we, 
 in the word of God itself, so many genealogies and lists of 
 names, of offerings of princes, of journeys in the wilderness, 
 and other passages, that seem dry and barren, but to teach 
 us, that we must stoop to details and individual names, if we 
 would rightly understand the condescension of our God, and
 
 THE LAW OF COMPLETION IN WEEKS. 297 
 
 the reality of his special oversight of the cliildren of men? 
 Those who are soon weary of these details, must pay the cost 
 of their own impatient spirit, by a more loose, unreal and 
 slippery faith. The t7-ee of faith must thnno out tai thou- 
 sand little roots, into the lomly soil of prophetic histojy, if it is 
 to grow and expand into that 7ioble confidence of hope, which no 
 storms of temptation can uproot or destroy i''' Here we have to 
 deal with numbers and periods instead of with names, but 
 these are perhaps even more unattractive to most people, as 
 involving the mental effort of calculation ; but we venture to 
 assert that those who take the trouble to follow the investiga- 
 tion of this chapter, Bible in hand, will not fail to be at the 
 close more profoundly convinced than ever before, of the 
 inspiration of the sacred volume, of the all-embracing provi- 
 dence and foreknowledge of God, and of the near approach of 
 the " end of the age." 
 
 On the judgment which wc form as to tlie true meaning of 
 the statements of time in symbolic chronological prophecy, 
 depends also, we believe, to a great extent, the liveliness of our 
 expectation of the Lord's speedy return. "That entire rejec- 
 tion of prophetic chronology which follows of course, on the 
 denial of the year-day system of interpretation, is most of all 
 to be deplored from its deadly and paralysing influence on the 
 great hope of the church. No delusion can be greater tlian to 
 expect, by excluding all reference to times and dates, to awaken 
 Christians to a more lively expectation of their Lord's second 
 coming. For in truth without reference to such dates, in an 
 open or disguised form, not one solid reason can be given, why 
 the church may not still have to wait two or three thousand 
 years, before the promise is fulfilled. The declaration 'the 
 time is at hand,' was true and pertinent when the event was 
 eighteen centuries removed. It and similar general promises, 
 form no barrier to the supposition, that eighteen centuries 
 more may still have to intervene. Every sign of the times, is 
 either too vague to direct us, or in proportion as it becomes 
 distinct, assumes practically all the characters of a numerical
 
 cqS DIVIXE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 date, and becomes exposed to the same objections.' The pro- 
 phetic times indeed, when separated from the context, and 
 viewed in themselves only, are a dry and worthless skeleton, 
 but when taken in connection with the related events, clothed 
 with historical facts, and joined with those spiritual affections, 
 which should attend the study of God's providence, like the 
 bones in the human frame, they give strength to Avhat was 
 feeble, and union to what was disjointed, and form and beauty 
 and order, to the wliolc outline and substance of these sacred 
 and Divine proi)hecies." * 
 
 The questions, then, which we have to investigate arc these. 
 How are wc to understand the statements of times and periods, 
 which occur in the visions of Daniel and John? Are we 
 to take them as literal, or as symbolic ? And if tlie latter, on 
 what principle are we to translate them into plain language? 
 Is there a key to the hieroglyphic numbers? and if so, what is 
 it? It must be borne in mind we are not speaking of prophetic 
 numbers and periods in general, but exclusively of those which 
 occur in the above named books, and which relate mainly to 
 the events of this dispensation. 
 
 The times and periods in (luestion are the following : — 
 
 Ix Daniel. 
 
 1. That of the domination of the "little horn " 
 
 2. That of the desolation of the " sanctuary ". 
 Z- The interval between tlie restoration from 
 
 Babylon, and " Messiah the Prince " 
 
 4. Time, times, and a half .... 
 
 5. A i^eriod of 1290 days . . ... 
 
 6. A period of 1335 days .... 
 
 Ix THE Apocalypse 
 
 1. The ten days' trijjulation of the churcli at Smyrna, Rev. ii. 10. 
 
 2. The duration of the scorpion torment . . „ ix. 5, 
 
 Dan. 
 
 , vii. 
 
 24, 
 
 3» 
 
 vin. 
 
 8, 
 
 J> 
 
 ix. 
 
 24. 
 
 J> 
 
 Xll. 
 
 5.9- 
 
 » 
 
 J) 
 
 II. 
 12. 
 
 ' " KIcmcnts of .Sncrcd Prophecy " : Eirks, j). 41 J-
 
 THE LAW OF COMPLETION IN WEEKS. 299 
 
 3. The career of the Euphratean horsemen . Rev. ix. 15. 
 
 4. Tlie time of the down-treading of the Holy City ,, xi. 2. 
 
 5. Tliat of the prophesying of the two witnesses ,, „ 3. 
 
 6. Tlie time they lay unburied . . . . „ ,, 9. 
 
 7. The sojourn of the woman in the wilderness ,,xii.6, 14. 
 S. The period of the domination of the beast . ,, xiii. 6. 
 
 We believe that in all the above fourteen instances, the 
 period of time mentioned is a symbol of another and a larger 
 pe7-iod, and we now proceed to give our reasons for this 
 opinion. 
 
 If a geographer wish to represent the entire surface of our 
 globe, on a sheet of paper, it is clear that he must do so on a 
 miniature scale, and that the difference between the reality and 
 the miniature must be enormous. He fixes his scale, 100 or 
 1000 miles to an inch, as the case may be, and if his delinea- 
 tion is to be correct, to that scale he must adhere throughout. 
 He must not reduce the latitude a little and the longitude 
 more, or diminish the seas in one proportion and the conti- 
 nents in another ; such a proceeding would destroy all the 
 resemblance and utility of a map. If the drawing were ■^por- 
 trait, it would produce still more incongruous results. What 
 possible resemblance to the original could be traced in a por- 
 trait, which should reduce to miniature all the features but one, 
 and leave that one life-size ? All must be reduced, or enlarged, 
 in proportion. 
 
 The ancients in their hieroglyphic delineations observed this 
 law of proportionate reduction. These were in fact miniature 
 representations of the events and characters of history, and a 
 certain uniform scale was adhered to in every hieroglyphic record. 
 Apparent violations of the law of i)roportion, are in reality, the 
 contrary. When for instance we see a Pharaoh represented as 
 ten times as big as the slaves or captives in his train, ii is still 
 a proportionate representation, because the idea to be con- 
 veyed by the hierogly]:)h is not the literal size of the individual, 
 btit his relatii'c social imtwrtancc. rharaoh was ten liiucs more
 
 300 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 important than his slaves, a ten times greater man, in that 
 sense. 
 
 Now the symbolic prophecies of Daniel and John are of 
 this character, they are verbal descriptions of Jiieroglyplis seen by 
 the prophet ; and these hieroglyphs were themselves, divinely 
 desigiied miniature representations of future events. We read, 
 the description of what Daniel and John sa7ci ; and they saw, 
 not certain events (as the rise and fall of empires), but minia- 
 ture symbols or hieroglyphs of certain events. These were 
 exhibited to them, by Him who knows the end from the begin- 
 ning, and who wished to reveal to them and to others through 
 them, long series of great events, to happen in ages to come 
 on a wide theatre, and to interest and aftect the entire human 
 race. For obvious reasons, this had to be done in a very 
 narrow compass, and in a mysterious though comprehensible 
 form ; a form which " the wise " only should understand, and 
 that only after the lapse of ages. To do it, while observing 
 these conditions. Divine wisdom selected as the most suitable 
 medium, the universal language of symbols, the language that 
 needs no intervention of sounds to make it significant; the 
 language that represents ideas not words; things not their 
 names, which appeals to the eye rather than to the ear, and 
 which is equally comprehensible by every nation, people and 
 tongue. As these hieroglyphs are historic, chronology is 
 necessarily one of their most important features, and as dura- 
 tion cannot be expressed by symbolic dczices, the time of the 
 vision is given in words. 
 
 Now would it not be to impeach Divine wisdom, to suppose 
 that God has, in these miniature symbols, violated the laws of 
 proportionate reduction, in a way which the feeble intelligence 
 of his creatures would forbid them to do ? To suppose that He 
 who endows the architect and the artist with wisdom to make 
 their drawings to scale, has Himself adhered to no scale, and 
 that without giving us any intimation of the fact, He has in 
 these symbols, presented some features in miniature, and some 
 as large as life? These prophetic hieroglyphs are from God,
 
 THE LAW OF COMPLETION IN WEEKS. 301 
 
 they are therefore perfect ; they are miniatures ; every feature 
 is therefore on a reduced scale, and amoug the rest, their 
 chronology. 
 
 The chronological emblem has to be conveyed to the mind 
 through the ear, instead of like the rest, through the eye ; a 
 beast may image an empire ; a horn may represent a dynasty, 
 but on the duration of the empire or the dynasty, these sym- 
 bols give no light. 
 
 It requires words to express a period of time, but the period 
 so expressed, may be as much a symbol of some other period, 
 as the beast or the horn are symbols of some other thing. The 
 reality of Antichrist was for wise reasons, veiled for a time, 
 under the symbol of the ''little horn," the reality of the dura- 
 tion of his dominion, was for the same reasons veiled under 
 the symbol of " time, times, and the dividing of time." We 
 have to compare Scripture with Scripture, and Scripture with 
 history, to learn the meaning of the "little horn," and we 
 must do the same to learn the meaning of the " time, times, 
 and a half," for the one is as symbolic as the other. 
 
 The next question is, on what scale are these hieroglyphs 
 constructed ? What for instance is the proportion between the 
 Bripiov or wild beast of Dan. vii. 7, and the Roman Empire, of 
 which it is the universally acknowledged symbol ? 
 
 Evidently the reduction is on as enormous a scale as when 
 our world is represented by a globe a foot in diameter. Rea- 
 son then compels us to conclude that tii the chronology of the 
 wild beast, an. equally enormous reduction will he found. Other- 
 wise there would exist on the face of this prophecy, that incon- 
 gruous mixture of some miniature and some life-sized features, ^ 
 that we dare not attribute to inspiration. The statement of 
 time must, like the prophecy in which it occurs, be a_symbolic 
 miniature, intended to convey a reality immensely greater than 
 Itself. We do not assert that the words in which these statements 
 of time are made, are symbolic : that a "day " means anything 
 but a day, or a "year," anything but a year, but that the ideas 
 of time conveyed to the mind, by these words, are symbols, in-
 
 302 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES A. YD SEASONS. 
 
 tended to suggest of/icr ideas of time, just as much as the ideas 
 conveyed by the other parts of the hieroglyphs, arc intended 
 to suggest something different from themselves. 
 
 If this be granted, the next question is, does Scripture pre- 
 scribe any scale by which these miniature numbers are to be 
 enlarged ? For in order to be of any use, chronological reve- 
 lations must be accurate. If we desire to ascertain from a 
 map the distance between any two given points, we take the 
 apparent space in a pair of compasses, and measuring it 
 against the scale at the side of the map, we perceive the actual 
 distance. So with a chart of history, every inch may represent 
 a century, and be divided into a hundred parts to represent 
 years. A short line of defmite length, then accurately ex- 
 presses the duration of an empire, or the life of an individual, 
 because we can compare tlie length of that line with the scale, 
 and thus learn the real period. Without such a scale or key, 
 map and chart would be equally useless, the one would give us 
 no idea of actual dimension or distance, nor would the other 
 inform us, as to actual duration. 
 
 The above named prophetic periods, are, it will be observed, 
 described under the five main divisions of time, " hours," 
 "days," "vv-eeks," "months," and "years." There are men- 
 tioned 3^ days, lo days, 1260 days, and 1335 days; a half- 
 week, a week, seven weeks, sixty-two weeks, and seventy 
 weeks ; five months and forty-two months ; a " da}-, month, 
 and year," and " tmie, times, and a half." 
 
 It is evident that in order to be intelligible, these measures 
 of time must all be interpreted on one scale. What scale is it ? 
 Is it the grand Divine scale of " one day is with the Lord as a 
 thousand years"? or is it an hour for a day? or a day for a 
 month ? or day for a year ? or what is it ? 
 
 The great answer to this important query is found in the 
 fact, that one of these periods has been fulfilled, and therefore 
 supplies the key to all the rest. The seventy weeks cf 
 Daniel ix. e]a]).SL<l between the decree of Artaxcrxes, and the 
 advent of INlcssiah. Thai pciiod was actually 490 years, the
 
 THE LAW OF COMPLETION LV irEEK'S. ,-503 
 
 prophecy announced it as 490 days, cr " seventy weeks," and 
 we are therefore led to conchide, that in all the above analo- 
 gous passages, where time is predicted in miniature and in 
 mystery, in harmony with the miniature and mysterious nature 
 of the symbols by which the prophecy is conveyed, a year is 
 represented by a day, seven years by a week, thirty years by 
 a month, 360 years by a '"year," and so on. 
 
 This principle once admitted, the chronology of these pro- 
 phecies becomes simple and accurate, and available for our 
 present study of the periodicity of human history. The plan 
 of times and seasons governing both past and future events is 
 seen to be perfect, and marvellous in its comprehensiveness ; 
 in its harmony with other Scripture and with nature ; and in its. 
 significance. 
 
 But if this system be rejected, the chronology of prophecy 
 becomes a strangely unmeaning thing, and these magnificent 
 harmonies entirely disappear. Chaos reigns v.here order 
 reigned, and we look in vain for indications of Divine wis- 
 dom, in the plan of the ordering of the ages. 
 
 And yet, strange to say, this natural, simple, scriptural, 
 " year-day system," of interpreting the mysterious dates con- 
 nected v.'ith the symbolic prophecies, has been strongly op- 
 posed by Futurists, who maintain that statements of time 
 should be taken as literally in Daniel and John as in 
 Genesis and Exodus — be regarded as having precisely the 
 same force, when connected with a mass of miniature symbols, 
 as when associated with the plainest literal predictions. 
 
 This system pf interpretation originated, as we before men- 
 tioned, with ^/oerc'^nd other Jesuit writers, who, anxious to 
 turn off from tue Papacy the tremendous arguments against it, 
 furnished by the application to it of the predictions of God's 
 word about Antichrist, and Babylon, were driven to propose 
 some alternative. They could not admit that the dynasty of 
 the Topes had fulfilled the prophecies res]jecting tlic "' man of 
 sin," or that the Roman Catliolic Church v/as, as the Reformers 
 boldly asserted, " Daijvlon iiie gklat;'" yet it was clear, no
 
 304 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 other power and system that had ever existed, so well answered 
 the description. Lest this fact should strike the minds of men, 
 they maintained that all these prophecies were still unfulfilled, 
 and insisted upon the duty of literal interpretation, especially of 
 the prophetic times. The fact that it has been held and taught 
 by reformers and martyrs, who resisted unto blood the errors 
 of Popery, and that it has been opposed by the champions of 
 that corrupt and evil system, is itself a plea for the truth of the 
 year-day interpretation. The solid and unanswerable argu- 
 ments in its favour, adduced by the great Protestant expositors, 
 gave currency to it, in spite of Jesuit opposition, and the 
 system of prophetic interpretation with which it is connected, 
 was soon so generally held in the Reformed Churches, as to 
 be commonly known as the " Protestant" view. 
 
 During the last half century Futurist views have however 
 gained ground even among Protestants ; and in a good deal of 
 current prophetic exposition, they are quietly assumed, and 
 dogmatically taught to many who have never studied the 
 subject, or clearly understood what the Protestant view is. 
 We believe the Futurist view to be an erroneous and mis- 
 chievous one ; it precludes any adequate conception of the 
 majestic range of the predictions of Scripture, it deprives the 
 church of the guidance of Divine prophecy, as to the character 
 and doom of the great Apostasy ; and of the stimulus to faith 
 and hope, afforded by the true interpretation. We must there- 
 fore be excused for dwcUmg a little more at length on the 
 subject, which is not only important in itself, but fundamental 
 to our present inquiry into the periodicity of history. 
 
 An exhaustive and masterly treatise on the year-day system, 
 from the pen of the Rev. T. R. Birks (Fellow of Trinity College, 
 Cambridge, Professor of Moral Philosophy), appeared about 
 thirty years ago, in his work entitled " First Elements of Sacred 
 Prophecy,"' a work which it is now difficult to procure. To 
 the arguments and reasoning adduced by this cautious and 
 candid writer, little can be added. Every student of the pro- 
 phetic word, who wishes to arrive at the truth on the subject,
 
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 should carefully ponder this elaborate and thorough examina- 
 tion of it. Recast, so as to adapt it to the present day, the 
 reproduction of this work would be of immense service to the 
 church. We give some extracts, and a brief summary of the 
 general scope of the argument. 
 
 "The year-day theor}-," says Professor Birks, "may be 
 summed up in these maxims : — 
 
 1. That the church after the ascension of Christ was in- 
 tended of God to be kept in the lively expectation of his 
 speedy return in glory. 
 
 2. That in the Divine counsels a long period, of nearly two 
 thousand years, was to intervene between the first and the 
 second advent; and to be marked by a dispensation of grace 
 to the Gentiles. 
 
 3. That in order to strengthen the fliith and hope of the 
 church under the long delay, a large part of the whole interval 
 was prophetically announced, but in such a manner that its 
 true length might not be understood, until its own close 
 seemed to be drawing near. 
 
 4. That in the symbolic prophecies of Daniel and St. John, 
 other " times " were revealed along with this, and included 
 under one common maxim of interpretation. 
 
 5. That the periods thus figuratively revealed are exclusively 
 those of Daniel and St. John, which relate to the general 
 history of the church, between the time of the prophet and the 
 second advent. 
 
 6. That in these predictions each day represents a natural 
 year, as in the vision of Ezekiel ; that a month denotes thirty, 
 and a " time " or year, three hundred and sixty years. 
 
 The first of these maxims is plain from the statements of 
 Scripture, and the second from the actual history of the world. 
 The third is, on a /r/,?;-/ grounds, a natural and reasonable infer- 
 ence from the two former, and is the true basis of the year-day 
 theory viewed in its final cause. The three following ])resent 
 the theory itself under its true limits. Perhaps no simpler 
 method could be suggested in which such a partial and half-
 
 3o6 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 veiled revelation could be made, than that which the Holy 
 Spirit is thus supposed to adopt, resting as it does on a j^lain 
 analogy of natural times.^- 
 
 Now the mere statement of these axioms removes at once 
 several main difticulties which have been used to perplex and 
 embarrass the mquiry. 
 
 1. First it has been urged, that this larger interpretation 
 of the prophetic times is inconsistent with the repeated com- 
 mands of our Saviour, that the church should always be 
 watching for his return. How could this be possible, it is 
 asked, if it were revealed from the first, that 1260 years must 
 elapse before that advent should arrive ? 
 
 This objection disappears in a moment, when the facts and 
 the hypothesis are simply compared together. The very reason 
 for which the times are asserted to have been given in this un- 
 usual form is, that they might not be understood too early, 
 when they would have interfered with the earnestness of con- 
 tinual expectation. , . . The only way to sustain this 
 objection is to assume that the fact of such a revelation being 
 given, made it the duty of the church to understand ot once its 
 true meaning. Two duties would then seem to contradict each 
 other, — the obligation of continual watchfulness, and the duty 
 of understanding the message, that more than twelve centuries 
 would intervene before the advent. But the contradiction is 
 not real . . . there could be no obligation to icndcrstand 
 the times from the first. 
 
 2. Again it has often been argued, that the mystical interpret- 
 ation would compel us to lengthen the millennium to 360,000 
 years. But the principle on which the theory has just now 
 been founded, removes this objection also. The millennium is 
 not included in that time of waiting, which made it desirable to 
 conceal the times under a symbolic veil. ... It has been 
 
 * The two great revolutions of the earth are apparently intended : the 
 one on its axis occupies 24 hours, and gives rise to the '■^ day ;" the other in 
 its orbit occu]:)ics 365 days (or 360 soli-lunar reckoning), and gives rise to the 
 ^^yca?-." 7.'hc lesser is u«cd a J a symbol of the greater.
 
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 further objected that the year-day interpretation was totally un 
 known for twelve centuries. This was a natural and necessary 
 consequence of the principle on which it depends. Instead 
 therefore of being a valid objection, it forms a remarkable pr- 
 szDuption in favour of its truth. In fact this exposition ap- 
 peared lirst, at the very time when it must have appeared, if 
 the principles on which it is founded had a real existence."* 
 
 As a presumption in favour of the mystical meaning of these 
 dates, it must be observed, that they either occur in the midst 
 of the symbols, or else " bear plain marks of a singular, un- 
 common, and peculiar phraseology, or arc prefaced by words 
 importing concealment." In the case of several of them, the 
 unit of time being left undefined, " days " is not more literal 
 than "years." The fact also that they occur exclusively in 
 tvv'o books of symbolical and mysterious character, suggests the 
 idea, that they have a covert and mystical meaning ; especially 
 when we recall the words of our Lord, " It is not for you to 
 know the times and the seasons." It should also be borne in 
 mind, that these dates (with the exception of the seventy weeks 
 of Daniel, which has been fulfilled, on the scale of a year to 
 a day) all pertain to the times of the Christian dispensation. 
 Peter tells us that it was not for tlic prophets themselves, but 
 for the Christian church that these " times " were revealed. 
 (Dan. xii. ; i Pet. i. 10-12 ) Now the Christian dispensation 
 throughout is one oi antitypical realities, instead of one of types 
 and shadows and symbols, and it is harmonious with its cha- 
 racter to suppose, that there is a typical analogy between the 
 "day" of these predictions, and the "year" of tlieir fulfil- 
 ment. 
 
 Another strong presumption in favour of the same view 
 arises, from the singular impressiveness and solemnity which 
 accompanies the announcement of these periods, a special and 
 almost awful solemnity, which is hard to ex])lain, if the periods 
 be the brief ones apparently suggested by the expressions used. 
 
 • "First Elements of Sacred Propliecy " : Liiks, p. 311.
 
 3oS DIVINE SYSTEM OE TIMES AND SE/ISONS. 
 
 "They are not given in passing, nor as matters of subordinate ' 
 importance ; ... it is in connection with one of these 
 dates that our Lord receives the title of ' the Wonderful Num- 
 berer.' . . . The time, times and ' a half ' are twice re- 
 vealed to Daniel, in two visions at an interval of twenty years; 
 in the second of these the words are introduced with peculiar 
 solemnity. Two saints are exhibited as speakers ; one of them 
 inquires the duration of the predicted wonders, the reply is 
 given by our Lord Himself, with all the solemnity of a direct 
 appeal to God. ' I heard the man clothed in linen, which 
 was upon the waters of the river, when He lifted up his hand 
 to heaven and sware by Him that liveth for ever, that it shall 
 be for time and times and the dividing of a time.' No 
 words could well be more expressive of deep mystery, and 
 of the special importance to the church of the period thus re- 
 vealed." That there was a mystery in these numbers was 
 recognised in the church long before its true nature could be 
 guessed. The strange and unusual adjuncts forbad expositors 
 to rest in the simple literal meaning of the language employed. 
 The Jews themselves supposed the time times and a half " to 
 have a century for its unit, and denote three hundred and 
 fifty years." 
 
 'When we turn from prcsuwpticvi, to direct evidence in favour 
 of the year-day system, the prophecy of the seventy weeks 
 occupies the first place, and is indeed by itself an almost con- 
 clusive argument in its support. The only way in which its 
 force can be evaded, is by saying that the word employed in 
 the original (shabua) is ambiguous, meaning a hebdomad or 
 seven, not necessarily of days ; that the event has shown that 
 in this case it meant years, and that consequently the passage 
 affords no ground for the year-day view. The answer to this 
 is simple and conclusive. It is perfectly true that the ori- 
 ginal word does not define the unit, and vu'g/it mean seven of 
 any measure of time ; but it is also a fact, that in Scri])ture, 
 where it occurs about ten times, it is invariably used to denote
 
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 seven days ; we are therefore bound to suppose it is used in the 
 same sense in Dan. ix., and thus the argument retains all its 
 force. Seventy sevens of days was the symbol employed to 
 denote seventy sevens oi years. 
 
 And that this important passage affords the true key to the 
 scale on which all these miniature symbols ought to be en- 
 larged, appears the more likely when we consider two other 
 passages in which God Himself declares that He adopts this 
 scale. The first is the sentence on Israel in the desert : "after J^„/^^j^/^ 
 the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even ^/^ 
 forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, 
 even forty years." The twelve men who searched the land 
 were representatives of the twelve tribes of Israel ; they were 
 not symbols of them, but they were types — representatives — a 
 few men representing a great many. So the forty days during 
 which they searched the land, are made typical of the forty 
 years, during which they should wander in the wilderness. 
 
 Now here, it is not as in Daniel, the fulfilment which proves 
 the prediction to have been on this scale ; but t/ie scale is fixed 
 and adopted by God before the event. 
 
 And it is the same in Ezek. iv. 4, where the prophet is- 
 commanded to enact a type, to become himself a living em- 
 blem of the house of Israel, by lying first on his left side for 
 three hundred and ninety days, and then on his right side for 
 forty days. Ezekiel here, like the spies before, was a type or 
 representative of the nation ; his recumbent position, a type of 
 their degradation and debasement by national sin, and the 
 period during which he was to maintain that position, divinely 
 fixed beforehand, represented the period to be completed prior 
 to the end of the judgment which was to fall on that nation. 
 And as Ezekiel was a sfnall emblem of a large nation, so the 
 days were a brief emblem of a long period. " I have ap- 
 pointed thee a day for a year, a day for a year." In each of 
 these periods a day, in the enacted prophetic type, represented 
 a year in the subsequent history. When therefore in Daniel 
 and the Apocalypse, we find a variety of enacted prophetic
 
 3IO DIVIXE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 symbols of subsequent history, associated with the announce- 
 ment of i)eriocls in days, why should we doubt, that the same 
 scale is to be applied for their enlargement and adaptation to 
 the reality ? The word of God furnishes no single instance of 
 the employment of any other. 
 
 Besides these three clear Old Testament instances of the 
 employment of a year-day scale, there is one New Testament 
 incident, in which it is almost impossible to avoid the con- 
 clusion that our Lord Jesus Christ adopts the same symbolic 
 phraseology, and that for the identical reason for which it is 
 employed in prophecy, — -\o reveal while concealing, and to 
 conceal while revealing, the future. 
 
 ' It is in his message to Herod, when informed by the Phari- 
 sees of that monarch's intention to kill Him. " Go ye, and tell 
 that fo.x, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to-day and 
 io-7norro7c<, and the third day I shall be perfected. Neverthe- 
 less I must walk to-day, and to-morrow, and the day follcmnng; 
 for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem." 
 
 There is a peculiar precision in this twice-repeated statement 
 of time, which forbids the thought that it was a mere indcfiiiite 
 substitute for " a little longer ; " as if He had said, '' I must 
 continue a little longer my works of mercy." He twice over 
 mentions a definite period of three days. But a much longer 
 period than three literal days elapsed between the utterance of 
 these words and the death and resurrection of Christ, so the 
 expression cannot be taken literally. It is an admitted fact 
 on the other hand, that tJie ministry of Christ lasted three com- 
 plete years, the period which elapsed between that first ])ass- 
 over at which He cleansed the temple at the commencement 
 of his public ministry, and that fourth passover, which He eat 
 with his disciples the night before He suffered. The sentence 
 in (jucstion, would therefore exactly describe the appoinled dura- 
 tion of liis ministry, on the year-day prineifle, and would j)oint 
 out his Divine foreknowledge of the time when He was to be 
 delivered by the Jews into tlie hands of the Gentiles, crucified, 
 and raised again, or " ])crfcctcd.'' It was as thougli, hearing of
 
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 Herod's crafty intentions to kill Him, He had sent him word, 
 " You have no power against me, till I reach the time and the 
 place predetermined for my death and resurrection. INIy minis- 
 try must last for three years, and terminate as it began, at the 
 passover at Jerusalem."' 
 
 There are thus three plain cases in the Old Testament, and 
 one scarcely less clear in the New, in which the year-day 
 system is divinely employed, and v/e have consequently sub- 
 stantial scriptural grounds on which to base it. And in addition 
 to these presumptions in its favour, and to these scriptural in- 
 stances of its employment, it must be observed that each of the 
 above-mentioned fourteen prophetic statements of time, which 
 the Protestant system interprets on this year-day scale, affords 
 internal evidence when carefully examined, that it is not intended 
 to be interpreted literally. 
 
 I. The leading one — the "time, times, and dividing of a time," 
 is, to begin with, a most peculiar forjn of expression by which 
 to designate a brief period of three and a half years. " If the 
 short reckoning were the true one, no reason can be given why 
 the times should not be expressed in the most customary form. 
 On the other hand, the year-day theory requires that a shorter 
 term should be merely suggested, in such a v/ay as to hinder 
 us from resting in the typical phrase, as the true meaning. 
 Now such exactly is the term before us. It doubtless suggests 
 to the mind by comparison with other texts, three years and a 
 half. But it is not the usual or literal expression for that period. 
 Twice alone does that interval occur elsewhere (Luke vi'. 25; Jn 
 Jas. V. 17), and in both it is expressed by the natural phrase, 
 three years and six months. The same is true in every similar 
 case. Paul abode at Corinth '• one year and six months " 
 (Acts xviii. 11), David reigned in Hebron "seven years and 
 six months " (2 Sam. ii. 11). He was with the Philistines "a 
 year and four months" (2 Sam. xxvii. 7). The form in which 
 the periods of time are expressed, is thus invariably the same. 
 And hence thougli three years and a half are suggested to the 
 mind by this ])hrasc, there is nothing in the words which fixes
 
 312 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 it to this sense. This has not in truth any more claim to be 
 the literal meaning than one thousand two hundred and sixty 
 years. 
 
 2. Lut secondly, the fundamental term, a time, implies, rather 
 than excludes, the wider sense. The natural series of words of 
 time, consists of a day, a week, a month, and a year. The first 
 three are retained in the prophetic calendar ; but the last of 
 them is replaced by this general expression — a time — which 
 takes the lead of all the others. It occurs in the first of these 
 dates, and in two or rather three others on which the rest chiefly 
 depend. Now this substitution could not be without meaning. 
 It leaves the analogy among the different periods unbroken ; 
 but at the same time, it sets loose this fundamental period, so 
 as to be at liberty even by the common rules of language, to 
 receive a larger signification. 
 
 This argument becom.es much stronger, when we consider 
 the actual use of the same term in other passages. It is of 
 frequent recurrence in the Old Testament, and is employed to 
 denote periods of various lengths, and even extending to many 
 years. It meets us first in the narrative of the creation : " Let 
 them (the sun and moon) be for signs and for seasons" where 
 it is distinguished alike from days and years. It is frequently 
 used to denote the appointed time of all the feasts of the 
 law. (Lev. xxiii. 2, 4, 37, 44; Num. ix. 2, 3, 7, 13 ; x, 10 ; 
 XV. 3.) It is employed with regard to the fall of Pharaoh 
 Hophra, and the restoration of Israel. " Pharaoh hath passed 
 the time appointed" (Jer. xlvi. 17). " Tlie time to favour Zion, 
 the set time is come" (Ps. cii. 13). "The vision (of the 
 coming of Christ) is yet for an appointed time" (Hab. ii. 3). 
 In these and several other passages an extensive interval is 
 clearly implied : and the fundamental idea is one, which has 
 no respect to the length or shortness of the period, but simply 
 to its fixed and determinate character. It is plain how com- 
 pletely these two marks, that it is at once indefinite, and deter- 
 minate, make it a suitable term to form the basis of a prophetic 
 chronology, on the year-day system,
 
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 3. The different icrins used to denote tJte same period, are a 
 further proof that it cannot denote three natural years and a 
 half. The same interval occurs seven times over. Twice it is 
 mentioned as ' time, times, and a dividing of a time ' ; once as 
 'time, times, and a half; twice as 'forty and two months'; 
 and twice as ' twelve hundred and sixty days.' A comparison 
 of these passages will show that they all relate to the same 
 period. Yet the expression is varied in this remarkable man- 
 ner, and in all these variations is nrocr once expressed by the 
 natural and literal phrase. How can we explain this remark- 
 able feature, but by supposing it to indicate a mysterious and 
 hidden sense ? The Holy Spirit seems in a manner to exhaust 
 all the phrases by which the interval could be expressed, ex- 
 cluding always that one form, which would be used of course 
 in ordinary writing, and which is used invariably in Scripture 
 on other occasions, to denote the literal period. The variation 
 is most significant if we accept the year-day system, but quite 
 inexplicable on the other view.* 
 
 Two arguments in favour of the extended view of these dates, 
 may be drawn from the history of Nebuchadnezzar's dream and 
 its fulfilment, one connected with the word "times," the other 
 dependent on the typical character of the monarch. 
 
 Nebuchadnezzar beheld in vision a lofty tree, interpreted to 
 denote the king himself, he heard a watcher, even a Holy one, 
 proclaim a remarkable sentence on the tree, that it should be 
 hewn down and stripped. " Let his heart be changed from a 
 man's heart, and let a beast's heart be given unto him, and let 
 seven times pass over him." This sentence on the tree, was ful- 
 filled in the period of the insanity of the king, which though 
 nowhere stated to have lasted seven years, is by general con- 
 sent allowed to have done so. 
 
 Now at first sight this seems to afford an argument against 
 the year-day interpretation, for here " seven times " clearly 
 denoted seven literal years ; on closer examination, however, it 
 
 Bilks' " i:icmcnls of I'luiiliccy." \^. 350-35-
 
 314 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 will be found to do the reverse. The expression " time " docs 
 not, as we have seen, im])ly any particular period ; any definite 
 season, a day, a week, a month, a year, or a century, would be 
 equally well expressed by it. The conclusion that the king's 
 insanity lasted seven years, is not based therefore on the force 
 of the word, but on tJie context and the nature of tlic case. We 
 cannot suppose that seven days, weeks, or even months, would 
 have sufficed to teach the monarch the great lesson he had to 
 learn and teach to others ; the duration of his life excludes the 
 thought that seven centuries, or seven of any longer measure 
 of time, were meant, and all things considered, sro'cn real 
 years, seems the only period that can have been intended. 
 But when the same expression " times " occurs in connection 
 with an empire whose duration is 2000 years, every reason 
 which has led us to conclude that in the case of the individual 
 king it meant years of days, noio leads us to conclude that in 
 the case of the empire it means years of years. If an insanity 
 of seven weeks would seem an event unworthy of such solemn 
 j)rediction, or of such a prominent place in the life of an in- 
 dividual, how much more so, an apostasy of three and a half 
 years, in the history of an empire which extends over twenty 
 centuries ! 
 
 But Nebuchadnezzar was a typical, representative man. 
 Not only was he the golden head of the great fourfold image, 
 but he stands as its representative, as the representative of the 
 long succession of Gentile rulers, who were to succeed him, 
 till the coming of the Son of man. The two characteristic 
 marks of these Gentile rulers have been idolatry ■^\\6. persecution 
 of God's saints ; these two things are represented as character- 
 izing Nebuchadnezzar. His image making, and image worship- 
 ing, typified the idolatry (Pagan and Papal), which has been so 
 indelibly stamped on all the four great empires; his "burning' 
 fiery furnace " for the faithful witnesses, typified the persecution 
 which has been infiicted on the people of God, by each of the 
 four great ruling empires in turn, especially by the modern 
 spiritual Babylon. These two characters of idolatrous debase-
 
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 ment and fierce cruelty, are those which render the symbol 
 of wild beasts, suitable to represent these empires ; and thus 
 Nebuchadnezzar too is presented as a beast; his degradation 
 to a bestial condition, typified the moral degradation of the 
 Gentile kingdoms, through idolatry, pride, and self exaltation ; 
 his restoration to reason, prefigured the yet future day when the 
 empires of earth shall own that "the heavens do rule."' Now, • 
 over this typical man, passed a period of insanity, which was 
 doubtless equally typical, and which is the onjy clue we have 
 to the appointed duration of the " times of the Gentiles," for 
 neither in connection with the fourfold image, or with the four 
 wild beasts, have we any hint of the length of tJiis interval. 
 
 But the image, the king himself, and tho wild beasts, are \ 
 three types of one and the same thing under difterent aspects ; 
 and thus the duration of Nebuchadnezzar's insanity becomes 
 typical of the duration of the times of the Gentiles, the times 
 during whicli^siipreme~power in^the earth, is by God committed 
 to Gentile rulers, instead of to the seed of David. Now these 
 " times " have already lasted more than 2400 years since the 
 days of Nebuchadnezzar, and thus we see that the seven years 
 of days, during which the king was insane, were intended to pre- 
 figure seven years of years (2520 years) during which the moral 
 and spiritual degradation and debasement of the kingdoms of 
 this world, dating from himself, are destined to endure. Nota 
 the oft-repeated interval of " time times and a half" " forty-tiuo 
 months," "1260 days,'' all refer to the second half of this period, 
 and mnst therefore be fulfilled on the same scale as the whole 
 period. They are part, not of the type, but of the antitype, and 
 they must be interpreted not on the scale of the type, hit on the 
 scale of the atititype, that is on the scale of a day for a year. 
 
 This inference is strengthened by one further remark. If 
 the whole interval from Nebuchadnezzar's reign be divided into 
 two cfjual portions, . . . the latter half falls exclusively 
 within the times of the fourth or Roman empire, and soon after 
 the time when its division into separate kingdoms was first 
 completed. This is a pointed coincidence with the broader
 
 31 6 DIVINE SYSTEM OE TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 features of the prophecy, for in the vision also the '' time times 
 and a half" are all included in the period which follows after 
 the ten horns have arisen. * 
 
 The vision of Daniel viii. gives the prophetic date of two 
 tliousand three hundred days as the duration of the restored 
 daily sacrifice, and of the subsequent desolations. 
 
 Now if we take this literally, it makes a period of between 
 six and seven years, analogous to nothing else in Scripture, and 
 incomprehensible in connection with the question to which it 
 is an answer. Besides, if this were the time intended it would 
 have been far more natural to have described it in years than 
 in days. No motive of concealment could exist, to require a 
 veil of mystery ; nor indeed is any veil of mystery used, for it 
 is a simple question of arithmetical reduction to resolve these 
 days into years. That it is not to be taken literally, however, is 
 proved by the constant usage of Scripture. Not a passage can 
 be found in the Bible in which a period exceeding a year, is stated 
 in days — and only two, in which a period exceeding two 
 months is so mentioned (except of course those in which these 
 symbolic dates occur). 
 
 * "Elements of Prophecy" : Birks, p. 356. Mr. Elliott says on this 
 subject : — 
 
 " I do not except the ' seven times ' specified in Nebuchadnezzar's vision 
 as the appointed time of tlie royal tree continuing cut down, from the cate- 
 gory of chronological prophecies to which the year-day principle is to be 
 applied. The tree itself symbolised Nebuchadnezzar, and as there was no- 
 thing of a viiniiiturc scalcm. the symbol as compared with what it symbolised, 
 the seven years might, without violation of propriety, symbolise an equal 
 period of desolation to the monarch. But did he experience this extraor- 
 dinary judgment and recovery simply in his individual character, or as a 
 symbolic vtan ? . . . For my own part, considering the extraordinary 
 nature of the judgment, the fact of its being so fully recorded by Daniel, the 
 circumstance of Nebuchadnezzar being addressed on occasion of another pro- 
 phecy, as the representative of his nation ('Thou art this head of gold'), and 
 that of the symbolic tree when cut down, being bound with a band of brass 
 and IRON, the metals significant (in the fourfold image) of the Greek and 
 Roman Empires, which did for ages hold sway over the prostrate region of 
 Babylon ; all these considerations . . . induce me to believe that 
 the seven times 360 days that passed over Nebuchadnezzar in his madness, 
 represent the 2520 years . . . of the 'times of the Cientiles.'" (Elliott, 
 *' Horcc," vol. iii., p. 247, foot note).
 
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 But the word days is not used; the real form of the ex- 
 pression indicates more mystery, and suggests on critical 
 grounds, the idea that no unit of time is given at all, and that 
 consequently "days" is no more literal than years. " Unto even- 
 ings and mornings, or unto evening morning, two thousand 
 three hundred." That a long period is intended appears, from 
 the angel's words, "shut up the vision, for it shall be for many 
 days." Now six or seven years is but a brief period in 02ir 
 estimation, how much less in an angel's ? Gabriel would not 
 thus have spoken of so short an interval. But if the period 
 intended were twenty-three centuries, his words have an appro- 
 priate dignity. If we interpret this date on the year-day 
 principle, it reaches from the time of Daniel to the future 
 restoration of Israel, and is a clear and satisfactory answer to 
 the double question.* It marks the duration of the restored 
 daily sacrifice, and of the subset] iicnt desolation ; the five centuries 
 between Cyrus and Titus during which Jewish sacrifices were 
 daily offered in the restored temple being its first portion ; while 
 the second and longer portion comprehends the final destruc- 
 tion of the city and temple, the treading down of Jerusalem by 
 the Gentiles, and the dispersion of her people ; and stretches 
 onward to the future advent when the sanctuary shall be finally 
 cleansed. The period being so long, and the greater part of it 
 being occupied by this gospel dispensation, its length is pur- 
 posely veiled, under an enigmatical yet deeply significant form 
 of expression, and was evidently not intended to be understood 
 at first. "Shut thou up the vision, for it shall be for many 
 days." It included a declaration of the long duration of that 
 economy of grace to the Gentiles, whose occurrence at all, was 
 for five hundred years afterwards, a hidden mystery. " The 
 mystery which in other ages was not made known to the sons 
 of men . . . that the Gentiles should be fellow-heirs, and 
 of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ, by 
 the gospel." Here is a reason for the enigmatical form of the 
 
 * D.in. viii. 13.
 
 3i3 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 chronological announcement ; they avIio take it literally and 
 refer it to a distant future, make a mystery loiihoiit a incaiiiiig. 
 
 " The strangeness of the expression being once proved, our 
 choice lies between a mystery which means nothing, and a 
 mystery which has a plain and definite cause in God's provi- 
 dence, and a key not less plain and definite, and three times 
 repeated in God's holy word. Who would hesitate which 
 alternative to choose ? " * 
 
 It is the same with three dates given in Dan. xii. ; they 
 form one group, the last two being merely extensions of the 
 great period " time, times, and a half," and they must of course 
 be interpreted on the same principle. The interval covered 
 by this last prophecy (which begins with chapter xi.), clearly 
 extends from the time then present, to the resurrection ; it 
 commences with, " Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings 
 in Persia," and reaches on in unbroken sequence, to that time 
 when " many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall 
 awake." A solemn importance is thrown around the announce- 
 ment of the times, " I heard the man clotlied in linen, which 
 was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right 
 hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by Him that 
 liveth for ever and ever, that it shall be for a time, times, and 
 a half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the 
 power of the holy people, ail these things shall be finished." 
 Now it seems incongruous to suppose that this singularly im- 
 pressive oath applies to a brief period, not one six-hundredth 
 part of the whole interval revealed. 
 
 We turn now to the book of Revelation, to discover whether 
 its testimony confirms the evidence afforded by the prophecies 
 of Daniel, that the principle on which these sacred dates are 
 to be interpreted, is that of a year for a day. 
 
 As to the ten days' persecution of the church at Smyrna, a 
 literal fulfilment is unknown to history, though this is of course 
 no proof that it did not take place. But if Smyrna be only one 
 
 * " Elements of Prophecy " : Tirks, p. 362
 
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 l)hase, moral and chronological, of the whole Christian Church, 
 that of the closing days of Paganism, prior to the entrance of 
 gross corruption, as seems probable, the ten years of Diocle- 
 tian's last great persecution, would evidently be indicated by 
 the expression. The passage does not however tell strongly 
 either way, though it is almost absurd to suppose that a perse- 
 cution of ten literal days would be made a subject of prophetic 
 revelation at all. 
 
 In the case of the locust woe (Rev. ix. 5), the miniature symbol 
 again demands a miniature period, and the one selected is that 
 of the ordinary ravages of locusts, but it evidently requires the 
 year-day system to make it commensurate with the events pre- 
 dicted to take place during its course. In the case of the 
 Euphratean horsemen, the very peculiarity of the phrase (Rev. 
 ix. 15) suggests as before a mystic meaning. Why, if the 
 period intended were literal, should an hour be mentioned at 
 all? and why should the ordinary way of mentioning the 
 larger period first, be completely reversed ? But an improved 
 reading (given by Matthasi and found in seven or eight of the 
 best manuscripts) would give the words thus, " the angels pre- 
 pared for that hour and that day, were loosed both a month 
 and a year," z.c, 390 days. Now this was the exact period 
 during which Ezekiel was commanded to lie on his side, to 
 represent the 390 years of the judgment of Israel. ]\Ir. Birks 
 truly remarks, " this has not the air of a casual resemblance ; 
 it is rather an express mark supplied to us by the Holy 
 Spirit, and directing us to the true key by which to interpret 
 these prophetic periods." The 390 years was in each case 
 marked as one of stubborn unrepenting idolatr}-, closed by 
 decisive overthrow and judgment, and the period occurs no- 
 where else in Scripture. 
 
 The forty-two months of the treading down of tlie holy city 
 (Rev. xi. 2), if taken literally, seems strangely unmeaning. 
 Jerusalem has already been trodden down of the Gentiles iSoo 
 years, and it will, as we know from our Lord's own words, con- 
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 320 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 what sense can this period be defined* by " forty and two 
 months " ? And wliy if the period designed were really as brief 
 a one, as that in winch the heavens were shut up by Elias 
 (alluded to in the passage), why was not the same expression 
 used to designate it, "three years and six months"? 
 
 That the " three days a7id a half" during which the wit- 
 nesses lie unburied (Rev. xi. 9) is symbolic, is proved by the 
 fact that " we have about thirty passages in Scripture where 
 three days are mentioned to define an interval, and four where 
 four days occur; but nowhere else is the fraction of a day 
 introduced into such a measurement of time. ... If the 
 Holy Spirit had intended natural days only, would He have 
 used a preciseness in the statement of time, which is nowhere 
 else employed in nearly forty examples, not even in that most 
 important of all facts, the resurrection of our Lord " ? * 
 
 The previous remarks as to the congruity of miniature dates 
 with miniature symbols, and as to tlie mystery indicated by the 
 unusual phraseology, apply equally to the two chronological 
 periods in Rev. xii. The sun-clad star-crowned woman is 
 evidently a symbol of the true or spiritual Israel, and her 
 flight into the wilderness, where she is nourished for 1260 days, 
 of some period of the church's history. Now the natural 
 Israel of old fled also from the persecution of a t}Tant king, 
 into the wilderness, where they were nourished with bread 
 from heaven, and water from the rock ; and we know their 
 wilderness history to have been typical to the highest degree. 
 There is not a point in the type, for which we cannot perceive 
 a corresponding antitype, and it is natural to expect some 
 analogy in the periods of the two sojourns in the wilderness. 
 Now the duration of Israel's wanderings in the desert, was un- 
 questionably fixed and announced by God, on the year-day priti- 
 ciplc ; " after the number of the days in which ye searched the 
 land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your 
 iniquities, even forty years." Can we escape the conviction 
 
 " Llc.r.ents of Pr-'phccy '■ : I!iil<~, p. 3So.
 
 THE LAW OF COMPLETION IN WEEKS. 
 
 that the same principle is to be applied to the 1260 days here 
 specified, as marking the abode of the antitypical Israel in the 
 wilderness ? 
 
 The period of the domination of "the beast" is fixed (Rev. 
 xiii, 5) as " forty and two months." This is the last of the 
 mystic dates we have to consider. It must be compared with 
 the explanation (ch. xvii. 9-1 1) : — " The seven heads are seven 
 mountains, on which the woman sitteth. And there are seven 
 kings ; five have fallen, and one is, and the other is not 
 yet come ; and when he cometh he must continue a short 
 space ; and the beast that was and is not, even he is the eighth, 
 and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition." The argument 
 in favour of the year-day interpretation yielded by this passage 
 is of the following character .-—Prior to the days of John, five 
 forms of government had succeeded each other in Rome. 
 These were the five fallen heads ; a sixth was then in being, a 
 seventh was to follow, and occupy a short space, and the beast 
 who was to continue forty and two months was to be the eighth. 
 Thus the whole interval from a.d. 96, the date of the Apoca- 
 lypse, to the still future destruction of the beast, is divided into 
 three parts,— the remainder of the sixth head, the " short 
 space " of the seventh, and the forty-two months of the eighth 
 head, or " the beast." 
 
 Now since the first is only a remainder, and the second 
 expressly predicted as short, we should naturally expect the 
 third to be the longest in duration. The whole interval is 
 already nearly iSoo years : how, then, is it possible to suppose 
 this third to be only three years and a half? The second 
 must, of course, in that case be still less, and the fractional 
 first part would have to be extended over 1770 years! On 
 the year-day principle all is harmonious: the forty- two months 
 of the beast occupy 1260 years out of the whole period, leaving 
 516 years to be divided between the fraction of the sixth, and 
 the " short space " of tlie seventh head. 
 
 Mr. Dirks thus sums up his masterly argument, of which 
 the foregoing is a mere outline : — " The year-day theory rests 
 
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 322 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 on a surprising combination of scriptural arguments, some of 
 which, it is true, are indirect, and some doubtful ; but the 
 great majority are full, clear, and unambiguous. First of all 
 there are four or five distinct presumptions of a general kind, 
 that the dates have some secret meaning. There are, then, 
 three plain and certain, and one more disputable passage, 
 which supply an express mile of interpretation, and^ /vj at once 
 simple and comprehensive, the direct appointment of God 
 Himself. When we further proceed to examine the passages 
 in detail, we find that every one, without exception, yields 
 some peculiar argument, in support of this same view ; and 
 several of them furnish us with two or three distinct proofs. 
 And besides all these internal evidences for the system, it is 
 found to have a basis in the heavenly revolutions themselves, 
 and to be confirmed by its manifest harmony Avith the most 
 exact elements of natural science." * 
 
 Thus we have shown, 
 
 1. That the chronology of the Hehrew Eible is our 
 
 ONLY RELIABLE GUIDE, AS TO THE PERIODS OF REMOTE AN- 
 TIQUITY ; and that the two gaps which occur in it, between the 
 death of Moses, and the accession of Saul, have necessarily 
 very briet limits, and cannot aft'ect the question of the age of 
 the world, to a greater extent than about fifty or sixty years. 
 
 2. And we have proved, as far as the point admits of proof, 
 
 TH.\T THE PERIODS OF SYMBOLIC CHRONOLOGICAL PROPHECY, 
 ARE TO BE INTERPRETED ON THE YEAR-DAY SYSTEM. 
 
 We are consequently in a position to consider the peri- 
 odicity of history as a whole, taking into account the times 
 foretold as in their day future, by Daniel and John, as well 
 as those recorded as past, by other holy men of old. 
 
 We now proceed to examine these periods, to trace their 
 mutual relations, and their relations to other series of periods, 
 
 * The mcining of this allusion will be explained in later chapters of this 
 work.
 
 THE LAW OF COMPLETION iN WEEKS. 3^3 
 
 and to show the Divine plan and system which underlies them, 
 connecting them on the one hand with the periods of vital 
 phenomena, and on the other with those of the whole mag- 
 nificent solar system. 
 
 In pursuing this investigation, it must be borne in mind that 
 the great end of all human history, like the great end of the 
 existence of every human being, is a moral one. Existence to 
 the entire race, like life to each individual, is a state of proba- 
 tion and education. The great objects of God, in his dealings 
 with man from age to age, seem to have been, to reveal to him 
 and to the universe, his true character and condition as a 
 fallen being ; while at the same time unveiling his own 
 glorious, righteous, and gracious attributes, making known his 
 purposes, and bringing forth his salvation. 
 
 Ignore this moral purpose of God, and human history be- 
 comes inexplicable, its chronology reducible to no system, and 
 its study comparatively profitless and vain. Recognise it, and 
 the whole outline and movement of the great drama, are at once 
 intelligible, the plan underlying its periods is clear, and its 
 study becomes fraught with lessons of the deepest and most 
 solemn importance. 
 
 The true plan of history can therefore be found only in the 
 Bible, The birth of humanity, its growth and maturity, its fall 
 and its restoration, are all to be best traced in the Holy Word 
 of God ; and the key to its chronology and periodicity is also 
 there. In vain do those who neglect the scriptures seek to 
 understand aright, either man's past or his future. 
 
 The main divisions of history which we shall now proceed 
 to present, will be found therefore to have a character more 
 moral and dispensational, than political. Many of the greatest 
 political events in the world's history will have to pass under 
 our review, but we shall regard them as occupying a place of 
 subordinate, and not of paramount importance. The central 
 line, to which all political events have more or less reference, 
 will be ndcn to be the history of the typical and of the 
 
 ANTITVPICAL ISRAELS, — THE JEWISH NATION AND THE ChRIS-
 
 324 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 TiAN CHURCH. Bible history and prophecy range themselves 
 around these, just as Bible geography ranges itself around 
 Jerusalem and the Holy Land; and the reason is obvious. 
 
 The natural and spiritual seed of Abrahain are the line of 
 promise, the peculiar people of God, in and through whom 
 alone, mankind is to be saved and blessed. " In thee, and in 
 thy seed, shall all nations of the earth be blessed." 
 
 As in each of the realms into which we have already glanced, 
 so here in the realm of history, we shall find everything 
 adapted to the great Divine septiform system. In a marvel- 
 lous, hidden, and intricate manner, the week measures the 
 periods of history, both great and small. Patient and accurate 
 attention to the statements of Scripture is needful in order to 
 trace out the arrangement of its periods, for it is purposely 
 disguised and concealed, so as to elude the observation of the 
 superficial reader. A comprehension of the biblical system of 
 times and seasons, is calculated to fill the mind with awe and 
 admiration, and to draw forth fresh worship of the omniscient 
 God, who orders all things after the counsel of his own will, 
 and knows the end, from the beginning. 
 
 There is, in the various particulars we shall have to pass in re- 
 view, a cumulative force ; peculiarities observed in a few periods, 
 or even in many, would be insufficient to prove the existence of 
 plan and system, but when a vast multitude of events, and 
 innumerable periods of the most various and apparently in- 
 congruous dimensions, ranging in duration from hours to 
 millenaries, are found to /all into order and harmony, at the 
 touch of a single wand, on the application of a single principle, 
 then it will surely be clear to a candid mind, that history has 
 been intentionally ordered on that principle \ and when, further, 
 that principle is seen to be the same that regulates the phe- 
 nomena of the organic and inorganic creations, and the same 
 that is consistently adopted in Holy Scripture, the conclusion is 
 as inevitable, as it is elevating and sanctifying, that it is the 
 Almighty Maker of all worlds, the sole Lord and Giver of life, 
 the Author of the sacred volume, who so orders it, who is the
 
 THE LAW OF COMPLETION IN WEEKS. 325 
 
 Ruler of all events, the Disposer of all times and seasons. 
 Our times are in his hands, and the times of all earthly 
 empires, and kingdoms, and dynasties ; and in due time his 
 own kingdom shall overthrow all other dominion, and stand 
 for ever. " The vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the 
 end it shall speak, and not lie ; though it tarry, wait lor it, for 
 it shall surely come, it shall not tarry." 
 
 " God moves in a mysterious way, 
 His wonders to perform ; 
 He plants his footsteps in the sea, 
 And rides upon the storm. 
 
 Deep in unfathomable mines 
 
 Of never-failing skill, 
 He treasures up his deep designs, 
 
 And works his sovereign will. 
 
 His purposes will ripen fast, 
 
 Unfolding every hour ; 
 The bud may have a bitter taste, 
 
 But sweet will be the flower." 
 
 The grand primary division of all human history, whether 
 viewed from the moral, or from the chronological stand-j^oint, 
 is into three main, comprehensive, and long-enduring dispen- 
 sations. 
 
 Scripture presents us with, — 
 I. The Patriarchal Age, 
 II. The Jewish Dispensation, and 
 
 III. The "Times of the Gentiles," 
 and with these great periods 07ily, prior to the " Times of the 
 Restitution of all things,'" or the Millennial Age, 
 
 The limits of the first or Patriarchal Age, are defined by the 
 Apostle Paul in the 5th of Romans ; " death reigned from 
 Adam to Moses." 
 
 The second, or Jewish Dispensation, dating from the Divine 
 act of dividing the nations of the earth, and assigning a pre- 
 cminence and a sacred character to the family of S/iem, included 
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 326 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 extended from the re-peopling of the earth after the Flood, to 
 the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus, a.d. 70-71, which was 
 the end of the Jewish temple, city, and polity. 
 
 The third is distinguished by our Lord Himself as a separate 
 period, imdcr the title of "the times of the Gentiles" (Luke 
 xxi. 24) ; and is the period of the duration of the empires pre- 
 figured by ike great fourfold image of Nebuchadnezzar, the 
 earhest, the simplest, and the most comprehensive of all the 
 symbolic prophecies. It is the great Gentile dispensation, 
 during which dominion in the earth, and over Israel, is by God 
 committed to Gentile powers. Speaking generally, it dates 
 from the rise of the four great monarchies, and extends to the 
 Second Advent of Christ to establish the " kingdom of the God 
 of heaven, which shall never be destroyed." The inspired 
 statements of time connected v/ith this last, give the clue to the 
 duration or chronological measurements of all three dispensa- 
 tions. As distinctly intimated in Daniel, it is a great week, 
 '' seven times." Its latter half, is the oft-recurring " time, times, 
 and a half," or 1260 years. Its whole duration is srvcn years of 
 years ; that is, it is a week, each of whose days is a year of 360 
 years : in other words, it is a period of 2520 natural years. 
 
 Each of the two previous dispensations, has, as we shall 
 presently show, a siiiiilar duration. If therefore the three were 
 juxtaposed, if they had followed each other in chronological 
 sequence, their united period would be between seven and 
 eight thousand years. 
 
 But this is not the case. The second takes its rise two-thirds 
 down the course of the first, and the third takes its rise, in a 
 similar way, two-third^ down the course of the second, so that 
 the whole period comprised in the three dispensations, is nearly 
 6000 years, as will be seen by an examinalion of the accom- 
 ]<anying diagram. 
 
 It will be observed that the dispensations are represented 
 not as joined on to, but as growing 07it of, each other. As we 
 proceed, it will become obvious, that there actually exists be- 
 tween them, not a mere lifeless sequence, but an intimate living
 
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 connection, which makes this theoretically proper, as well as 
 chronologically true. The relation between them is not that 
 of mere mechanical juxtaposition, but that of vital ingrafting 
 and growth. 
 
 Before we enter into the chronological and historical details 
 which justify these general statements, it will be well briefly 
 to trace the moral features which characterize these three great 
 dispensations. 
 
 They coincide with threedistinct stages of revelation of the 
 character and purposes of God : they have afibrded three dis- 
 tinct probations to man, and they are represented in Scripture 
 as closed by great judgments which display, each one with 
 added clearness, God's righteous indignation against sin. 
 
 In the first, or patriarchal age, was made known, what the 
 apostle calls, " eternal power and Godhead ; " the second, or 
 Jewish dispensation, revealed the righteousness and justice of 
 God ; its one ever-recurring refrain seeming to be, " Holy, holy, 
 holy is the Lord of Hosts •"' and in the third, " the kindness 
 and love of God our Saviour towards man appeared," " the 
 grace of God, which bringeth salvation, appeared unto all men." 
 Nature, the Law, the Gospel, such have been the three stages, 
 by which God has been manifested to men, and by which fallen , 
 humanity has been put to the test. 
 
 Of the PATRIARCHAL AGE, the leading characteristic was, that 
 it had "no law" (Rom. v. 13, 14). Man during its course was 
 left very much to himself, that he might show what was in him. 
 Ari immense week oi probation was granted to him; for the 
 Eternal God moves slowly and majestically in his dealings with 
 his fallen creatures. For twenty-five long centuries no code 
 of laws was laid on men, to restrain them from evil, or direct 
 them to good. 
 
 Yet God left not Himself during this period without a witness, 
 as Paul shows in the first and second chapters of Romans, He 
 laid open before the eyes of men the volume of nature ; the 
 starry heavens above, and the beautiful world around, teeming 
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 328 DIVINE SYSTEM Of TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 evidences of benevolent design, spoke to man of the wisdom, 
 power, and goodness of his Creator. 
 
 But man had no ears to hear its silent testimony, no eye to 
 take in its expressive teachings, no heart to ftel its sweet and 
 melting influences. He saw indeed the sun, moon, and stars, 
 he beheld them with admiration and awe, but instead of look- 
 ing through nature up to nature's God, he worshipped and 
 served the creature instead of the Creator, who is blessed for 
 ever. He did not like to retain God in his knowledge ; he did 
 not glorify Him as God ; he was not thankful ; he did not 
 understand, as he should have done, the nature and character 
 of the invisible Creator, from ** the things which are made ;" he 
 became vain, dark, foolish, utterly corrupt, and filled with a 
 reprobate mind. In all this he was without excuse, for not 
 only was nature a revelation of " eternal power and Godhead," 
 which siiould have rendered impossible to intelligent beings, 
 the degrading sin of idolatry, but God had added to this out- 
 ward witness, an inward witness to Himself and his will, in the 
 voice of conscience. Man had been made a law to himself, 
 and left to follow or transgress the law thus written by the 
 finger of God on the tables of his heart. The moral law within 
 and the material universe without, were the double testimony 
 to duty and to God, granted during the patriarchal age. In 
 spite of both, men universally became idolaters ; worshippers, 
 not only of the brightest and grandest natural objects, such as 
 the heavenly bodies, but of the lowest and most degraded, such 
 as birds and beasts and creeping things, stocks and stones and 
 inanimate images. A reflex degradation was one punishment 
 of this great sin ; the idolater was given up by God to the 
 lowest and vilest immorality. The heathen of our own day, 
 the savage cannibals of the South Sea Islands, the ferocious 
 fetish worshippers of Ashantcc, the degraded aborigines of 
 Australia, are specimens of the depth of moral depravity to 
 which man may sink, when left to his own reading of the reve- 
 lation aftbrded by nature. 
 
 Corruption and violence were the cliaracteristics of the cen-
 
 THE LAW OF COMPLETION IN WEEKS. y.'.<) 
 
 tral portion of the patriarchal age, which closed with the flood. 
 Idolatry was the great sin of its final third, which extended 
 from the Deluge to the Exodus. 
 
 Egypt, the first mighty kingdom of antiquity, was the home 
 and hot-bed of idolatry. The land was full of idol temples 
 and idol monuments ; huge monsters in human form, men and 
 beasts, and reptiles, and even insects and onions, were adored 
 as deities, and God was utterly forgotten and ignored. When 
 at last his Divine claims came into conflict with the will of 
 man, human crime, as represented by that first kingdom, cul- 
 minated in the cruel oppression of Israel, and haughty defiance 
 of Jehovah. The proud monarch that bowed before loath- 
 some reptiles, refused to bow before the King of kings. God- 
 dishonouring idolatry, was mingled with God-defying audacity 
 and rebellion ; and judgment overtook the guilty : the ten 
 plagues of Egypt were sent in sore and sad succession, ending 
 with death — the death of the first-born, and the destruction of 
 Pharaoh and all his hosts in the Red Sea. 
 
 Then followed the dispensation of law. IMan was no 
 longer left to conscience and the light of nature. God unfolded 
 to him far more of his holy character and will, by means of 
 the law promulgated from Sinai, while his purposes of mercy 
 were darkly foreshadowed in the ceremonial worship which 
 He thehce enjoined on Israel. It was a new and advanced 
 revelation. Amid thunders and darkness and thick clouds, 
 God descended in the presence of the assembled thousands of 
 his chosen people. The mountain smoked and burned with 
 fire, while lightnings uplit the lurid spectacle with a terrific 
 glare. 
 
 A double law — moral and ceremonial — was given. Ten 
 commandments were the principal embodiment of the former, 
 while the establishment of the Tabernacle, the priesthood, and 
 the Jewish worship, were the leading elements of the latter. 
 The first was to convince of sin, the second to foreshadow its 
 remedy. " The law entered that the offence might abound," 
 and its ceremonies were " a shadow of good things to come."
 
 330 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 With wonderful clearness and fulness the law revealed the 
 holiness of God, his mercy, and his justice. He passed by 
 and proclaimed Himself " the Lord, the Lord God, merciful 
 and gracious, longsuffering and abundant in goodness and 
 truth ; keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity, trans- 
 gression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty ; 
 visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, to the 
 third and fourth generation." The whole Jewish dispensation 
 was one long display of these Divine attributes, and afforded 
 a revelation ot God, deeper by far than that latent in nature. 
 It had also the effect of testing man by a more searching pro- 
 bation, and revealing with additional clearness his true charac- 
 ter. Sin became more evident in the light of the laws enacted 
 against it : " sin by the commandment became exceeding 
 sinful." 
 
 In the Jew, man stands forth, not merely as a sinner, but as 
 a deliberate and persistent rebel against God, breaking every 
 law imposed on him, abusing every privilege granted to him, 
 and despising every blessing bestowed. 
 
 Before they had time to receive, in its written form, the law 
 which had been orally delivered to them, Israel had violated 
 its first great and fundamental command, " Thou shalt have 
 no other Gods but me," and all their subsequent career was in 
 harmony with this beginning. 
 
 They sinned, and committed iniquity, they understood not 
 God's wonders nor remembered his mercies, they provoked 
 Him and forgot his works, they waited not for his counsel 
 but lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in 
 the desert ; they envied Moses and Aaron ; they changed their 
 glory into the similitude of an ox that cateth grass ; they forgat 
 God their Saviour and despised the pleasant land ; they mur- 
 mured in their tents and hearkened not to the voice of the 
 Lord ; they joined themselves to Baal Peor, and ate the 
 sacrifices of the dead ; they provoked God to anger with their 
 inventions ; they did not destroy, as commanded, the idolatrous 
 nations of Canaan, but were mingled among the heathen and
 
 THE LAW OF COMPLETION IN IVEEKS. 331 
 
 learned their works ; they served their idols and sacrificed their 
 sons and daughters unto devils ; they shed innocent blood, 
 even the blood of their sons and daughters whom they sacri- 
 ficed to the idols of Canaan ; they were defiled with their own 
 v/orks, and went a whoring with their own inventions, till the 
 wrath of the Lord was kindled against his people, and He 
 abhorred his own inheritance. Many times did He deliver 
 them, but they provoked Him with their counsel and were 
 brought low for their iniquity. They persecuted every prophet 
 that Avas sent to them, and after every deliverance, fell lower 
 than before, into all manner of sin and evil. 
 
 At last, long threatened judgment fell, and captivity after cap- 
 tivity came upon the tribes of Israel ; Pul and Sennacherib in- 
 vaded their land, Shalmanezer and Esarhaddon, kings of Assyria, 
 conquered and enslaved the ten tribes, and Nebuchadnezzar took 
 Jerusalem and carried Judah away captive to Babylon. The 
 city that was full of people and esteemed " princess among the 
 provinces," sat solitary and became tributary, the ways of Zion 
 mourned, and her gates were desolate ; her beauty departed 
 from Jerusalem, and she came down wonderfully ; God covered 
 the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down 
 the beauty of Israel ; He cast off his altar, and abhorred his 
 sanctuary, gave his people into the hand of the enemy, and 
 scattered their princes among the Gentiles. "The precious 
 sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold," were " esteemed as 
 earthen pitchers "—the adversary took possession of the gates 
 of Jerusalem. The Lamentations of Jeremiah tell how deeply 
 the chastisement was felt ; the confessions of Daniel show what 
 searchings of heart and what contrition it created. 
 
 But the restoration of Israel under Ezra and Nehemiah, 
 and their prolonged probation, in their land, proved that the 
 awful lesson had been all in vain. Prophet after prophet had 
 announced to them the advent of j>.Iessiah the Prince. In due 
 time He came. God was manifest in the flesh. He came 
 unto his own, — to this people whom for over two thousand 
 years He had been preparing to receive Llim ; but " hn oivn
 
 333 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 received Him not." They " despised and rejected Him ;" they 
 hated Hiiu because He testified of them that their deeds were 
 evil ; they blasphemed the Son of God, accusing Him of deriv- 
 ing his power from the Prince of Devils ; they took counsel 
 together to slay the Holy and the Just ; they bore false witness 
 against Him to put Him to death ; they became his betrayers 
 and murderers ; they cried, " Crucify Him, crucify Him," and 
 by their wicked hands, He was crucified and slain. 
 
 And when the still lingering longsuftering of God, sent them 
 one more chance of repentance, and the risen Saviour told his 
 apostles that remission of sins through his name, was to be 
 preached among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem, when the 
 Holy Ghost in Peter and in Stephen pleaded still with Israel 
 to repent and be converted, they filled up the measure of their 
 iniquities by rejecting this final otter of mercy. They slew 
 Stephen, and persecuted the Church. " The Jews both killed 
 the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted 
 us ; they please not God, and are contrary to all men, forbid- 
 ding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to 
 fill up their sins alway, for wrath is come upon them to the 
 uttermost" (i Thess. ii. 15, 16). 
 
 A few years elapsed, after those words were written, and 
 then that wrath was poured out. Jerusalem fell, and great 
 was the fall thereof ! Signal, terrible and unparalleled was the 
 Jewish war, ending with the siege and capture of Jerusalem 
 by Titus. It needs a pen dipped in fire and in blood to 
 write the story in its true colours ! The sufferings and miseries 
 that overtook the Jewish nation in that age, are all but inde- 
 scribable, the very record of them is appalling. One million 
 one hundred thousand Jewish lives were sacrificed in the siege 
 and capture of Jerusalem alone ; streams of human blood ex- 
 tinguished the blazing fires that destroyed the houses of the 
 city, and heaps of the unburied corpses of those who had died 
 of starvation during the siege, hid from the Roman soldiers the 
 immense treasures of the temple. From April 14th, when the 
 siege began, to July ist, — 115,880 bodies were buried at the
 
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 public expense, or thrown from the walls, not including those 
 interred by their friends. Some said that 600,000 of the poorer 
 people had perished of want ; women cooked and ate their 
 own children, " the maimed and defenceless people were slain 
 in thousands"; when the temple at last fell, " they lay heaped 
 like sacrifices round the altar, and the steps of the temple 
 ran with streams of blood, which washed down the bodies that 
 lay about." "The slaughter within was even more dreadful 
 than the spectacle from without, ... it was indiscriminate 
 carnage. The number of the slain exceeded that of the slayers. 
 . . . The treasuries, with their wealth of money, jewels, and 
 costly robes, were totally destroyed. . . . The value of 
 the plunder obtained was so great, that gold fell in Syria to 
 half its former value." 
 
 Alilman, after describing the long and awful siege, and the 
 multiplied suffering of the Jews, says, " Thus fell, and-for ever, 
 the metropolis of the Jewish State. Other cities have risen on 
 the ruins of Jerusalem, and succeeded as it were to the inalien- 
 able inheritance of perpetual siege, oppression, and ruin. 
 Jerusalem might almost seem to be a place under a peculiar 
 curse ; it has probably seen a far greater portion of human 
 misery than any other spot upon the earth." 
 
 After its fall, " the markets of the Roman Empire were glutted 
 with Jewish slaves ; the amphitheatres were crowded with these 
 miserable people, who were forced to slay each other, not singly 
 but in troops, or else fall in rapid succession, glad to escape the 
 tyranny of their masters by the expeditious cruelty of the wild 
 beasts. And in the unwholesome mines hundreds were doomed 
 to toil for wealth not to be their own." "The political exist- 
 ence of the Jewish nation was annihilated ; it was never again 
 recognised as one of the States or kingdoms of the world. 
 Judea was sentenced to be portioned out to strangers, the 
 capital was destroyed, the temple demolished, the high priest- 
 hood buried in its ruins, and the royal race extinct." 
 
 Titus had destroyed the temple and city of the Jews, and 
 slaughtered and captured and sold into slavery millions of the
 
 334 DIVIXE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 people. About seventy years later, the Jews had sufficiently 
 recovered from this crushing blow, to rise afresh in revolt 
 against the Roman power, and then Adrian completed the 
 work of their dispersion among all nations of the earth. He 
 made the whole country of Palestine a desolation, expelled all 
 its remaining Jewish inhabitants, forbade the Jews on pain of • 
 death even to approach /Elia Capitolina, the Roman city erected 
 on the site of Jerusalem ; he slaughtered 580,000 Jews in a 
 murderous war which lasted three years and a half, and sold 
 thousands of prisoners, at the lowest prices, into slavery. The 
 rest took refnge in foreign lands, and Palestine has never since 
 been inhabited by the children of Israel. 
 
 fjghteen centuries have elapsed, since that fearful judgment 
 of fire and blood, attested the righteous " severity "' of God 
 against those who had despised his "goodness," It was but 
 the beginning of the "indignation" against the Jewish people. 
 Ever since they have been scattered among the Gentiles, in 
 Europe, Asia, and Africa, denizens every^vhere, citizens no- 
 where ; oppressed and persecuted in most countries, banished 
 at times in turn from each ; treated with indignity, injustice, and 
 cruelty, they yet survive, a separate and peculiar people ; a 
 nation without a land, while their land lies desolate, without a 
 people ; and their city, as Christ foretold it would be, is trodden 
 down of the Gentiles, till " the times of the Gentiles " shall be 
 fulfilled. 
 
 The third dispensation, " the times of the Gentiles," 
 brought a revelation of God, fuller, truer, more glorious by far, 
 than any that had preceded it. " God was manifest in theflesh^' 
 men saw, and heard, and spoke with, incarnate Deity. " The 
 law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus 
 Christ." " God, who at sundry times and in divers manners 
 spake in time past unto the fathers by the propets, hath in 
 these last days spoken unto us by his Son." " No man hath seen 
 God at any time, the only begotten Son which is in the bosom 
 of the Father, He hath declared Him." Not the power and 
 wisdom only, not the righteousness and justice only, but the 
 
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 kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man, appeared, 
 in the life and death of Jesus Christ our Lord. God was 
 proved to be a gracious Redeemer, as well as a holy Lawgiver, 
 and an Almighty Creator. The shadows of the Law v/ere re- 
 placed by the realities of the Gospel, the New Testament was 
 added to the Old, its key and its completion ; the great salva- 
 tion so long foreshadowed, was accomplished and brought nigli 
 to man. God had provided Himself a Lamb to take away the 
 sins of the world, and -that Lamb, his own glorious Son, the 
 Lord of all 1 " Herein is love ; not that we loved God, but that 
 He loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our 
 sins." 
 
 Vv'hat a Hood of light fell upon the world in the teachings of 
 Christ and his apostles ! The gift of the Holy Ghost followed 
 on the ascension of the risen Saviour ; the Christian Church 
 was.founded, and gathered, from Jew and Gentile alike, a vast 
 multitude into its bosom. In spite of persecution it grew and 
 multiplied, for God was with his people ; they endured and 
 conquered, winning the world to their creed. Paganism fell. 
 The mighty Roman Empire shut up its idol temples, sheathetl 
 its persecuting sword, and sat down as a disciple at the feet 
 of Christ and his apostles. 
 
 Grace had wrought a wondrous work, but nature was un- 
 changed. The natural man was still at enmity with God, and 
 the cloak of Christianity, could not long conceal his corruption. 
 
 An apostasy of a dark and dreadful nature arose, and in 
 the progress of ages assumed enormous proportions, and a 
 character so diabolic, as to exceed in guilt all the idolatries of 
 the patriarchal and Jewish dispensations. The greater light 
 granted was abused and perverted, until it became a darkness 
 exceeding any previous darkness — and the central period of its 
 duration is, by common consent, called " the dark ages." 
 
 The religion of Christ became gradually, as we have seen, 
 the religion of Antichrist. Carnal observances replaced spi- 
 ritual conversion, the ceremonial took the jjlace of the moral, 
 human tradition obscured the word of God, human authority
 
 336 DIVINE SYSTEM Ub TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 asserted itself in opposition to Divine ; and idolatry, under the 
 guise of Christianity, replaced true and spiritual worship. 
 
 When Pagan Rome fell, Papal Rome rose. Corruptions, 
 heresies, abominable practices abounded. The teachings of 
 Christ were forgotten, and the teachings of the church put in 
 their place. It became a sin to believe the truth and serve 
 the living God, yea, it was soon esteemed the worst of crimes 
 to follow the Lord wholly. The saints were persecuted. In 
 streams, ay ! in rivers, their blood was -shed, till the professing 
 church of Christ became " drunk " with the blood of his true 
 disciples. Millions more martyrs fell under the sword of Papal 
 Rome than were slain by the power of the Faga?i Empire 
 which ruled from the seven-hilled city. 
 
 The head of this great Apostasy put himself in the place of 
 Christ as head of the church. He wore a nng to snow himself 
 bridegroom, husband of the church ; he proclaimed himself her 
 prophet, priest, and king ; he assumed to be Prince of the kings 
 of the earth : King of kings and Lord of lords. He wore a 
 triple crown, and claimed dominion in heaven, earth, and hell ; 
 power to pardon sins on earth, to loose from pains in hell, and 
 to canonise whom he would in heaven ; he carried two swords, 
 to mark his temporal and spiritual government ; he sat in the 
 temple of God ; received worship as God ; and arrogated to 
 himself Divine attributes and authority. 
 
 Doctrines of devils were taught to the people instead of the 
 precepts of the Gospel. The mass was presented to the multi- 
 tudes instead of the atoning Sacrifice of the Saviour, the wafer 
 god, instead of Christ : indulgences for sin were sold for money, 
 turning the grace of God into lasciviousness. The true nature 
 of holiness was completely obscured, as well as the true nature 
 of sin, and the true nature of Christ's religion. The priesthood, 
 sunk in the profoundest ignorance and in the grossest corrup- 
 tion, kept the people in the dark, that they might the more 
 readily prey upon them ; the Bible was buried in an unknown 
 tongue, and might almost as well not have been in existence. 
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 Human intelligence revolted from the gross and monstrous lie, 
 and thus Christian corruption created a reaction, and called 
 into existence indirectly, in early days, the INIohammedanism 
 which protests against all creature worship, and in later days, 
 the Infidelity which denies Christ altogether, and the Atheism 
 which excludes all worship of God. 
 
 For a thousand years this Babylon reigned paramount in the 
 Roman Earth, and then God began to consume and destroy it. 
 He raised up holy men and wise, to protest against it ; He gave 
 back, by their means, his Word to the nations ; He gave his 
 people grace to love not their lives, but to sacrifice them freely, 
 that the faith of Christ might be restored in the earth. A re- 
 formed church arose, and with its reformed doctrines, came 
 reformation of manners, and something of a return to primitive 
 Christian purity and practice. But even here darkness quickly 
 entered again. The Reformation did not go far enough, it did 
 not purge out all the old leaven, it retained some principles of 
 corruption, which caused the reformed churches quickly to 
 degenerate into worldly corporations, unable to protest, with 
 the spiritual power of the first Reformers, against the corrup- 
 tions of Popery, or to grapple with the more rapidly growing 
 forces of the infidelity it had created. 
 
 As to the Apostasy itself, no protests availed to reform it, no 
 teachings to enlighten it, no examples to shame it, no warnings 
 to awaken it : and at length judgment fell. The godless infi- 
 delity which had sprung up in the earth, as the result of Papal 
 deeds and doctrines, rose in arms against it, and plunged 
 both Papacy and monarchy into a sea of blood. The French 
 Revolution ! "Who can dei)ict its horrors ? Vials of wrath were 
 poured out on the Papal kingdoms of Christendom. One 
 country after another was visited with vengeance ; wars, and 
 bloody revolutions, internal strifes and contentions, darkened 
 the realms of the Papacy ; and the Popes lost gradually all 
 their direct authority over the kingdoms of Europe ; all their 
 political power ; and enormous wealth in the shape of landed 
 property and buildings, monasteries and convents. And
 
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 still the measure of their iniquity was not full ; the sore judg- 
 ments of God led them not to repentance. The crowning 
 crime came at last, and the Papacy, which had decreed the 
 " immaculate conception " of an idolatrously worshipped wo- 
 man, proceeded to decree the " infallibility " of a sinful man. 
 
 By the consent and decree of the CEcumenical Council of 
 1870, the Divine title of infallible teacher of faith and morals 
 was given to the Pope of Rome. After twelve centuries of 
 heresy and hypocrisy, corruption and persecution, the *• man of 
 sin '■' seals all his awful errors, and all his flagrant and revolting 
 crimes, with the seal of " infallibility," and claims for all his 
 doctrines of devils the authority of Divine inspiration ! 
 
 While the words were yet in his mouth, judgment fell. War 
 burst forth ; Sadowa and Sedan crushed the might of the two 
 most powerful Catholic nations of Europe. France, over- 
 whelmed by the victorious armies of Protestant Germany, was 
 fain to recall from Rome the French bayonets, which had long 
 been the sole support of the Papal throne, and Victor Emmanuel 
 entered the city as King of Italy. The temporal power of the 
 Papacy was swept clean away, the throne of a thousand years 
 was overturned, the Pope became "a prisoner in the Vatican." 
 The long drama of the Papal temporal power is ended ; there 
 remains that its spiritual power be also destroyed. The Lord 
 has consiancd it by the spirit of his mouth, lie is to destroy it 
 by the brightness of his coming. 
 
 Nor have those sections of Christendom, which escaped the 
 influence of the Romish apostasy, continued in the goodness 
 of God. Apostasy has been universal. If we trace the history, 
 and note the condition, of the Eastern churches, the Coptic, 
 Armenian, Nestorian, Syrian, or Greek professing Christian 
 churches, we shall see the same thing. In all, sooner or later, 
 the light of truth, so graciously granted, has been first ob- 
 scured, and then lost, while a darkness, all the more dangerous 
 in that it professes to be light, has taken its place. The wor- 
 ship offered in these churches, has for ages been little better 
 than idobtry: the morality practibeu. and the doctrines in-
 
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 culcated, at fundamental variance with those of Christ. The 
 scourge of Islamism was the awful judgment sent as a woe on 
 the Eastern churches ; but it did not lead them to repentance. 
 For twelve centuries they have groaned under its cruel op 
 pression, but they have not forsaken their idolatries and evil 
 deeds. They are now drinking the last dregs of the cup of 
 judgment ; and the Porte like the Papacy, true to the last to its 
 character, is hurting, killing, and tormenting to the bitter end. 
 But its days are numbered : the full and final judgment of 
 God is soon to overtake both oppressor and oppressed : "when 
 the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven, in flaming fire, 
 taking vengeance on those who," — in spite of all his revelations 
 of Plimself, — " know not God, and obey not the Gospel of our 
 Lord Jesus Christ." 
 
 Intensely mournful is the review of human history as regards 
 7nan's treatment of God, in his threefold revelation of Him- 
 self, as Creator, Lawgiver, and Redeemer. 
 
 Having the light of nature, fallen man sinned ; blessed with 
 tlie additional light of law, including commandments, and 
 types and shadows, the ministry of inspired prophets, and the 
 incarnation of God Himself, he sinned still 7cio?-se,\ and favoured 
 with the full blaze of grace and truth, in the teaching and 
 work of Jesus Christ, in the illuminations of the Spirit of God, 
 and the possession of the New Testament, as well as warned 
 by the awful judgments which closed the former dispensations, 
 man has sinned worst of all, and incurred the heavier judg- 
 ments foretold in the Scriptures of trutli, and soon to fall on 
 the earth ! 
 
 How can the heirs of salvation ever be sufticicntly grateful 
 for the sovereign, unmerited mercy that has delivered them 
 from the kingdom of darkness, and translated them into th^- 
 kingdom of God's dear Son ? How can they ever be sufii- 
 ciently earnest, in urging the ungodly to flee from the wrath 
 to come — the lost to seek, while there is time, the salvation 
 which IS in Christ Jesus? 
 
 Uut unspeakably blcbsed, on the other hand, is this review'
 
 340 DIVIXE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 of human history, in the light of God's treatment of man, in his 
 threefold and ever-increasing sinfulness. It is an illustration 
 of his power, wisdom, and love in overcoming evil with good. 
 For out of each dispensation, marred by the sin of man, God 
 has delivered a ransomed people, and raised them to greater 
 heights of blessing than before. In the patriarchal age. He 
 brought through the waters of the flood, the family of Noah, 
 and then from Shem He produced the Hebrew race, through 
 which salvation to the ends of the earth was to come. From 
 the destructive and overwhelming judgments of Egypt He 
 delivered Israel, and their Exodus brought them into new 
 and nearer relationships to Himself, than man had ever known 
 before; "ye shall be unto I\Ie a peculiar i)eople;" and from 
 the desolating captivities of Israel and Judah, a remnant re- 
 turned, destined to see the Desire of all ages, to behold the 
 rising of tlie Sun of righteousness, to welcome to his temple 
 the Lord Himself 
 
 From the still more awful and desolating judgments ])oured 
 out on the Jewish nation in consequence of their rejection 
 of Christ, God brought forth the Christian church. " Through 
 their fall salvation is come to the Gentiles."' The branches 
 were broken off, but the wild olive was grafted in, the casting 
 away of tlicm, was the reconciling of the world. 
 
 And then, — God's ways progressing ever from evening to 
 morning, from good to better, — out of the closing judgments 
 of these " Times of the Gentiles " whose thunders are already 
 breaking on our ears and whose lurid lightnings are already 
 flashing in our skies, shall spring the restoration of Israel, the 
 return of Israel's INIessiah, the resurrection of the dead in 
 Christ, the rapture of the entire Christian church, the times of 
 the restitution of all things, the millennial reign of Christ. 
 
 That in its turn will, as the very brief notice in Scripture 
 proves, be a fresh revelation of God, and a fresh probation of 
 man, and AviU end, like all the rest, in judgment — the great 
 dread, long-foretold Day of fmal Judgment, which will uslicr in 
 the eternal day, the '" new heaven and tlic new earth wherein
 
 THE LAW OF COMPLETION IN WEEKS. 341 
 
 dwelleth righteousness," into wliich sin shall never enter, and 
 where consequently death and the curse shall be no more. 
 (Rev. XX., xxi.) 
 
 This is the great climax which closes the first week of human 
 history, introducing untold ages of unspeakable blessedness 
 for the human race, those " ages to come," in which God will 
 show the exceeding riches of his grace, in his kindness 
 towards his people, through Christ Jesus. 
 
 Each of the three dispensations into which human history 
 has been divided, has therefore its distinctive and peculiar 
 character, though the three resemble each other in this, that 
 each ends in apostasy on the part of man, and in judgment, 
 and the introduction of a higher economy, on the part of God. 
 
 The patriarchal age is broadly distinguished by the fact of 
 its having " no law," from the Jewish, and this again, by its 
 limitation of nationality, from the Times of the Gentiles ; but 
 the flood, and the exodus, and the captivities, and the fall of 
 Jerusalem, and the yet future destruction of the beast and the 
 false prophet, and Babylon the Great, at the Epiphany of 
 Christ, mark out so many distinct closes and re-commencements, 
 wherein God executes deserved and long-denounced doom on 
 the guilty, while delivering and raising to a higher level an 
 elect and ransomed people. 
 
 We proceed now to trace t/ie chronological mcasni'es of 
 these three dispensations, and their respective positions, in the 
 great stream of time. We will take the Times of the Gentiles 
 first, as it is the most important, the most closely connected 
 with the prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse, and the 
 one whose duration is most distinctly defined in Scripture. 
 
 Chronological Measures of the Times of the Gentiles. 
 When the Egyptian captivity of his seed was announced to 
 Abraham, chronological limits were assigned to it ; and when 
 the Babylonish captivity was foretold by Isaiali, seventy years 
 was fixed as its duration. It might therefore be expected that 
 the length of the period of Jewish afiliction and degradation,
 
 342 DIVI.XK SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 which is termed by our Lord "the Times of the Gentiles," 
 would also be more or less distinctly foretold : yet as it includes 
 the times of the Christian Church— those ages of "^suiting for 
 Christ, over which in tender mercy God saw fit to throw, as 
 we have seen, a veil of mystery, — it is improbable that its dura- 
 tion will anywhere be revealed in plain terms. 
 
 We have already shown that this period or dispensation is 
 that, during which the Jews are either wholly cast out of their 
 land, or allowed to occupy it as mere tributaries, and during 
 which also, the throne is taken from the house of Judah, and 
 from the seed of David, and given by God to Gentile monarchs. 
 It is the period during which the ia7id of Canaan, promised to 
 the seed of Abraham, and the thro7ie of Israel, secured by 
 covenant to the seed of David, are both alienated, and occu- 
 pied by Gentiles instead of Jews. During by far the greater 
 part of this period, Israel has been scattered among all nations, 
 Jerusalem " trodden down of the Gentiles," and the pleasant 
 land laid desolate. 
 
 The whole period is occupied by the duration of the four 
 great monarchies, and it is to be closed by a fifth great 
 monarchy, " the God of heaven shall set up a kingdom which 
 shall never be destroyed . . . it shall stand for ever" — a 
 kingdom symbolised by the stone cut out without hands, which 
 smites and destroys the image, becomes a great mountain, and 
 fills the whole earth. (Dan. ii. 44.) 
 
 This kingdom is, as we learn from other Scriptures, the 
 kingdom of Christ Himself, and his accession to the tlirone of 
 the earth marks the ternmiation of the Times of the Gentiles. 
 " The Lord God shall give unto Him the throne of his father 
 David."' David foresaw that of the fruit of his loins, God would 
 raise up Christ, to sit upon his throne. God will overturn one 
 monarchy after another, "until He come, whose right it is," and 
 will give the throne to Him. 
 
 And prior to this restoration of the throne to the house of 
 Judah in the person of Christ, will be the restoration of the 
 land of Canaan to the seed of Abraham.
 
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 "And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall 
 set his hand again tJie sccoiid time to recover the remnant of 
 his people which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, 
 and from Pathros, and from Cash, and from Elam, and from 
 Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. He 
 shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the 
 dispersed of Judah, from the four corners of the earth " (Isa. ii. 
 11). God has not cast away his people whom He foreknew, 
 they are still beloved for the fathers' sakes, and in due time, 
 when the fulness of the Gentiles has been brought in, ."all Israel 
 shall be saved." The gifts and calling of God are without 
 repentance ; the land must revert to its rightful owners the seed 
 of Abraham, and the throne must be filled by its predicted 
 occupant, the Son of David, the Prince of peace, of the in- 
 crease of whose government there shall be no end, who shall 
 "order and establish the kingdom, with judgment and with 
 justice, for ever." 
 
 However improbable it may appear that Palestine should 
 ever again be the home of a mighty Jewish nation, Scrii)ture 
 leaves no room to doubt that such will be the case, — that the 
 same Almighty arm, which to place Israel there of old, plagued 
 Egypt, destroyed the host of Pharaoh, and extirpated almost 
 entirely the seven nations of Canaan ; which subsequently 
 overthrew the mighty Labylonian monarch}', in order to restore 
 Israel to it for a comparatively brief period, by means of Cyrus 
 and Artaxer.xes, will in due time overthrow the Turkish power 
 which has so long trodden down Jerusalem, defiled the sanc- 
 tuary, and desolated the land of Israel, and will, the second 
 time, restore his ancient people, to their inalienable inherit- 
 ance. Every barrier must fall, every obstacle be overtlirown, 
 that the purpose of God may be accomplished, and the pro- 
 mises to Abraham and to his seed be fulfilled. 
 
 God has clearly revealed that all this shall be ; has He also 
 revealed n'iicn it shall be ? He has revealed the character of 
 the Times of the Gentiles; has He also revealed \\\^\x dura- 
 tion ? We believe He has, very distinctly, though not in plain
 
 3-U DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AXD SEASONS. 
 
 statements. He has given many a clue and many a mystic 
 intimation, wliich when combined, by those who compare 
 Scripture prophecy witli Scripture history, and with profane 
 history, afford no indistinct reply to this inquiry. It is of 
 course needful to take profane history into account in consider- 
 ing this question, as many of the events predicted extend beyond 
 the point at which inspired records cease. Nor should we have 
 the slightest hesitation in doing this, for we are evidently in- 
 tended to make use of uninspired historical evidence. Scripture 
 history ceases just at the point where by common consent pro- 
 fane history becomes reliable, and passes from the dim regions 
 of fable into the broad daylight of well ascertained facts. God 
 graciously presents us with inspired records of that far distant 
 past of which no uninspired records exist ; but where authentic 
 histories are in existence. He leaves us to learn from them 
 what the course of mundane events has been. He makes 
 provision for our unavoidable ignorance, but none for our 
 indolence. He puts into our hands the telescope of Scripture 
 history, to enable us to see farther into the distant past, than 
 would with the naked human eye be possible ; but He does 
 not embody in the sacred writings, matters, such as the fall of 
 Jerusalem and the dispersion of the Jewish people in the days 
 of Titus, which are sufficiently well attested by Josephus and 
 other careful historians. 
 
 Looking then both at ancient prophecy and at sacred and 
 profane history, what do we learn as to the duration of these 
 " Times of the Gentiles " ? 
 
 That they are appointed to extend over a great 
 
 WEEK, over "seven TIMES," SEVEN YEARS WHOSE DAYS ARE 
 years, 2520 NATURAL YEARS. 
 
 This is vifcrred from Scripture rather than distinctly stated 
 in it ; but the inference is so well grounded as to be of almost 
 equal weight with a distinct declaration. 
 
 When this long period of Jewish desolation and chastisement 
 was first threatened (Lev. xxvi.), the expression "seven times" 
 was emphatically used in connection with it. That this had any
 
 THE LA W OF COMPLETION IN WEEKS. 345 
 
 chronological force, was not of course understood by those who 
 received the warning, but it is ahiiost impossible in the light 
 of subsequent predictions, and in the light of history, to doubt 
 that the Omniscient God used an expression in harmony with 
 Jiis foreknowledge of Israel's future, and expressive of his 
 Divine purpose — a purpose which we have seen wrought out 
 in history. By the lips of Moses, God forewarned his people, 
 saying,— 
 
 " If ye will not yet for all this hearken unto Me, then I will punish you 
 seven iimcs more for your sins . . . and if ye will not be reformed by 
 Me by these things, but will walk contrary unto Me, then will I also walk 
 contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins . . . 
 And if ye will not for all this hearken unto Me . . . then I will walk con- 
 trary unto you also in fury, and I, even I, will chastise you seven limes for 
 your sins. ... I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries 
 unto desolation . . . and I will scatter you among the heathen, and will 
 draw out a sword after you . . . and ye sliall perish among the heathen, 
 and the land of your enemies shall eat you up " (Lev. xxvi.). 
 
 Old Testament history shows that Israel's oft-recurring and 
 inveterate idolatry brought upon them judgment after judgment; 
 that again and again God " being full of compassion forgave 
 their iniquity and destroyed them not; yea, many a time turned 
 He his anger awa/% and did not stir up all his wrath ; for 
 He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passeth 
 away and cometh not again ; " but that at last the measure of 
 their iniquity being filled up. He sent upon them a chastise- 
 ment, the perfect character of which is marked out by the per- 
 fection of its period, " seven times." 
 
 Seventy years, — the first portion ot this long season of re- 
 jection, dispersion, and affliction, were spent in absolute cap- 
 tivity in Babylon and Assyria. The second stage was longer 
 — it was the " seventy weeks," or 490 years of the restoration 
 of Judah, and was passed by the restored remnant of the two 
 tribes in a subject, tributary, and troubled state, in their own 
 land, while the ten tribes remained captives in Assyria. This 
 extended to the coming of Messiah the Prince, and the de- 
 struction of Jerusalem consequent on his rejection ; and then
 
 346 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 commenced the t/iird and longest portion of the 2530 years, 
 which the ]q\xs have passed in miserable exile, scattered over 
 all the countries of the earth. 
 
 Already their chastisement has extended over " seven times," 
 dating from the earliest stage in their captivities : // 7oill soon 
 have done so, dating from the latest. Does not then, the solemn 
 threat, fulfilled in such awful justice through a long succession 
 of ages, gleam now with the light of hope, and assume the 
 cheering tones of mercy? "Seven times." No more I then 
 the curse that has fallen so heavily, is all but exhausted, and 
 everlasting blessedness is to succeed. The wrath has come 
 upon Israel to the uttermost ; the fountain for sin and for un- 
 cleanncss, shall ere long be opened to the house of David, and 
 to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 
 
 And secondly, though the fourfold image which symbolised 
 to Nebuchadnezzar, the succession of Gentile empires, which 
 were to fill up this long interval of Jewish rejection, had no 
 chronology attached to it, yet we know that those empires, the 
 Assyrian, the Persian, the Grecian, and the Pagan and Papal 
 Roman powers, have as a matter of history lasted for about 
 2520 years. Now history is the evolution of the determinate 
 counsel and foreknowledge of God, which must therefore have 
 before assigned to " the Times of the Gentiles " at least this 
 duration. 
 
 The symbol of the fourfold image declared, that these Gentile 
 empires were to be succeeded by the kingdom of the God of 
 heaven, but it did not reveal or even intimate when, or after 
 what lapse of time, this should be. A subsequent vision 
 granted to Nebuchadnezzar, did. Pie saw a tree, which he 
 was told symbolised himself, cut down, and its stump left to be 
 wet with the dew of heaven, and its portion with the beasts in 
 the grass of the earth, its heart changed from a man's heart, and 
 a beast's heart given it, until " seven times " should pass over it. 
 
 This vision was, as Daniel told the monarch, a prophecy of 
 tlie set'cn years' insanity, which, as a chastening for his pride, 
 was to overtake him, and which was to teach him to know God,
 
 THE LAW OF COMPLETION IN WEEKS. 347 
 
 and to own that " the heavens do rule." "All this came upon 
 King Nebuchadnezzar," and at the end of the days, that is, ot 
 the seven years of his insanity, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, 
 his understanding returned to him, and he blessed and praised 
 and honoured the Eternal God, whose dominion is everlasting, 
 whose will is sovereign, whose power is intinite, and who is able 
 to abase those who walk in pride. 
 
 Now the vision of the tree is not more clearly symbolic o£ 
 this remarkable incident in Nebuchadnezzar's life, than that 
 incident itself is typical of certain moral and chronological 
 features, of the succession of Gentile monarchies, of which 
 Nebuchadnezzar was both head and representative. 
 
 The leading moral characteristics of all the four great empires 
 have been, ignorance of God, idolatry, and cruel persecution of 
 the saints. Nebuchadnezzar, prior to this incident, knew not 
 God ; he set up a great image, and commanded all men, on pain 
 of death, to fall down and worship it. He cast into the burn- 
 ing fiery furnace the faithful witnesses who refused to obey the 
 idolatrous mandate. How have all his successors with one 
 consent followed this example ! Idolatry, literal or spiritual, 
 and persecution, Pagan or Papal, have marked the whole suc- 
 cession of Gentile monarchies. These episodes in Nebuchad- 
 nezzar's life are clearly typical ; these features of his character 
 have been stamped indelibly on all his successors. These in- 
 cidents answer to events on the scale of nations and centuries 
 with which history makes us familiar. So also does the seven 
 years' bestial degradation of the monarch durifig his insanity, 
 answer to thQ period 0/ Gentile rule represented by \}ciQ four 
 wild beasts of a subsequent vision. " The king himself repre- 
 sents the succession of imperial sovereignty, till the kingdom 
 of Christ shall come ; the 'seven times' that passed over him 
 must therefore represent the whole period of debasement m the 
 Gentile kingdoms, from the times of Nebuchadnezzar till their 
 full redemption." * 
 
 * Birks' " Elements," p. 353.
 
 34S DIVIXE SYSTEM OF TLMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 As we liave alluded elsewhere to this subject we do not dwell 
 further on it here ; it affords strong confirmation of the view 
 that the " seven times " of Lev. xxvi. has a chronological force. 
 A further argument in support of the same view may be 
 derived from the " time times and a half" of the " little horn." 
 We have seen that prophecy assigns to the Apostasy of the 
 latter days, a duration of 1260 years, and that this period is 
 repeatedly spoken of as half a week. Where are we to find the 
 other half of this great week ? As the Apostasy is to be over- 
 thrown finally by the advent of Christ, it is clear the other 
 half cannot 70/^7;:' but xswy-X precede the half which measures the 
 existence of the Apostasy, it must date back, that is, from its 
 rise. Calculating backwards then from the rise of the Papal 
 and Mohammedan powers in the beginning of the seventh 
 century, 1260 years lead up to the days of Nebuchadnezzar. 
 to the commencement of the Babylonish Captivity, the point at 
 which we know the Times of the Gentiles began. Thus we see 
 that the entire period occupied by the four great empires, re- 
 presented by the golden image, and by the four beasts, is the 
 wJwk week, whose latter half is the time of the dominion of 
 the " little horn," During the whole of this period Israel has 
 ceased to be an independent kingdom, and during two-thirds 
 of it, Jerusalem has been trodden down by the Gentiles. Each 
 of the four great monarchies m turn ruled over the seed of 
 Abraham, until at length, the cup of Jewish iniquity being full, 
 the Romans came, took away their place and nation, and 
 almost destroyed them as a people. Seventy years before this 
 final judgment, Messiah came and was cutoff, and his rejection 
 and crucifixion by the Jews, which sealed and brought on their 
 doom, inaugurated the Gospel dispensation, and the ingathering 
 of the Gentiles to the kingdom Oi God. Thus the Christian 
 dispensation, so thoroughly Gentile in its aspect, fills two-thirds 
 of the Times of the Gentiles, the first third having been 
 occupied with the growth of Gentile dominion, to the extra- 
 ordinary development it had attained in the days of Augustus 
 Caesar. We conclude therefore that the dispensation in whose
 
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 closing days we live, was fore-ordained and appointed by God 
 to run a course of 2520 years, or in symbolic language of 
 "seven times;" and that our Lord Jesus Christ had this 
 great week in his mind when He said, "Jerusalem shall be 
 trodden down of the Gentiles, until the Times of the Gentiles 
 be fulfilled," an expression which seems to imply that the 
 period so designated had definite chronological limits. We 
 proceed to inquire when it took its rise. From what great 
 event are we to date the commencement of these " Times of 
 the Gentiles " ? 
 
 Happily the answer is not far to seek. We are not left to 
 select among the complex changes of history, one which seems 
 to us of paramount importance. Inspiration itself settles the 
 question. The entire course of Gentile supremacy is sym- 
 bolised by an image whose head was its beginning, and whose 
 ten toes are chronologically its end. 
 
 Interpreting his dream by Divine revelation, to the proud 
 monarch of Babylon, the prophet says to him " Thou art this 
 head of gold." If by this be meant " thou " personally, then 
 the " terminus a quo " or starting point of the " Times of the 
 Gentiles " must be sought, as has generally been done, some- 
 where in the lifetime of Nebuchadnezzar. 
 
 But it seems clear that this was not the case, and that 
 Daniel addressed the Babylonian king not as an individual, 
 but as the representative of the empire, for immediately after 
 saying " thou art this head of gold," he adds, " and after thee 
 shall arise another kingdom, inferior to thce^^ alluding to the 
 Medo-Persian Empire which succeeded the Babylonian. 
 
 Now this empire did not rise after Nebuchadnezzar /limself, 
 but after his kingdom. It rose on the fall of the Babylonian 
 Empire, but not till four successors of Nebuchadnezzar had 
 occupied the throne, of whom Belshazzar was the last. 
 
 Though undoubtedly its most illustrious ruler, Nebuchad- 
 nezzar was neither the first nor the last head of the Babylonian 
 Empire, which lasted 210 years. The "head of gold" 
 evidently represents the lohidc Babylonian power, just as the
 
 350 DIVIXE SYSTEM OF TLMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 "breast of silver" represents the whole Medo-Persian, and it 
 seems natural therefore to suppose that one main starting 
 point of those times of the Gentiles, which include the four 
 great empires, will be found at the era of the rise of the first of 
 the four, i.e., of the Babylonian power. 
 
 This great dispensational period, the times of the Gentiles, 
 is characterized by two distinct features, the dominion of the 
 four great empires, and the loss of dominion and independence 
 on the part of the Jewish people ; their subjection to and 
 sufferings under their enemies ; their dispersion among all 
 nations, and the desolation of their land. 
 
 The commencing era of the *' Times of the Gentiles " must 
 be an era of decay and fall of Jeivish independence, coincident 
 with a rise of Babyloniaii pozver. 
 
 Now the seventy years' captivity of Judah in Babylon was 
 not the beginning of the decay and fall of Jewish indepen- 
 dence, nor was it the beginning of the rise of the Babylonian 
 power. 
 
 The year of the accession of Nabonassar, the first king of 
 Babylon, is an era of great historic importance. It ranks with 
 the greatest eras of history : the Greek era of the Olympiads ; 
 the Roman a.u.c. or era of the foundation of the city of Rome ; 
 the Syrian era of the Seleucidas ; the Christian era of the 
 Nativity ; the Papal era of indictions (dating from the conver- 
 sion of Constantine, the fall of Paganism, and the beginning of 
 the Imperial Church); and the IMohammedan era of the Hegira. 
 
 Moreover, the exact chronological point of this '' era of 
 Nabonassar" (N.E.) is more certain than any other date of 
 remote antiquity, because, with it are connected a series of 
 ancient astronomic observations, which have been verified by 
 the labours of astronomers, during the last three centuries. It 
 is certain not only to a year, but to a day and hour. It is 
 noon of the 26th of February, 747 B.C. ' 
 
 That this important em. marking the commencement of the 
 Babylonian power, should be one starting point of the 2520 
 years of the •'Times of the Gentiles," seems as natural and
 
 THE LAW OF COMPLETION L\ WEEKS. 351 
 
 suitable as that the capture of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar 
 should be another. 
 
 Like other national changes, and like many great political 
 revolutions, the subjugation of the twelve tribes of Israel to the 
 Assyrian and Babylonian powers, was only gradually accom- 
 plished, Tvlonarch after monarch came up against the land ; 
 and one deportation of captives succeeded another. Ephraim 
 first fell, then Judah : and Judah fell first partially, into the 
 rank of a tributary kingdom, then completely, into the bitterest 
 bondage, captivity, and degradation. Pul and Tiglath-pileser, 
 Shalmanezer and Sennacherib, Esarhaddon and Nebuchad- 
 nezzar, all played their parts in the great and mournful tragedy. 
 The following brief summary of the facts may be verified by 
 reference to Scripture. 
 
 The earliest invasion of the land, which resulted in a carrying 
 captive of Israelites, was that recorded in 2 Kings xv. 19, in 
 the reign of Menahem, king of Israel. " Pul, the king of 
 Assyria came against the land, and ^Menahem gave him a thou- 
 sand talents of silver." And in i Chron. v. 26 we read that 
 this Pul, and also Tiglath-pileser, carried away the Reubenites 
 and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, and brought 
 them " unto Halah and Habor, and to the river Gozan," i.e., 
 into Assyria. 
 
 Subsequently Ahaz king of Judah, when alarmed by the com- 
 bined attack of Pekah king of Israel and Resin king of Syria, 
 sent to Tiglath-pileser to come to his aid, instead of trusting 
 in God as Isaiah counselled him, and being quiet. It was like 
 the sheep calling the wolf to his aid ! He invited an enemy 
 who soon overran the land. After taking Damascus from the 
 king of Syria, Tiglath-pileser took a number of places in the 
 land of Naphtali, and " carried their inhabitants captive to 
 Assyria'^ (2 Kings xv. 29). 
 
 His successor, Shalmanezer, invaded in force the kingdom of 
 the ten tribes, and after a three years' siege took Samaria, the 
 canita!, and carri-d all Israel a-xury into Assyria (2 Kings xvii.
 
 352 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 Sennacherib afterwards invaded Judah, and ravaged the 
 country for four ©r five years, taking every place of any strength, 
 and at last besieging Jerusalem. Brought to the very verge of 
 ruin, tlie city was at that time saved by a stupendous miracle, in 
 answer to the prayer of the good king Hezekiah, himself simi- 
 larly saved from the jaws of death not long after. The day 
 oi/crusaitins fall had not yet fully come (2 Kings xviii., xi.x.). 
 
 For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast. 
 And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed ; 
 And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill, 
 And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever were still. 
 
 And the widows of Asshur are loud in their wail ; 
 And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal? 
 Ar.d the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword, 
 Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord ! 
 
 The impious and profane Sennacherib was murdered by his 
 sons as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, and 
 Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead. This king carried 
 captive another detachment of Israelites, thus finally destroying 
 the national existence of the ten tribes, just sixty-five years 
 after Isaiah's prediction to Ahaz, that before that interval had 
 elapsed, " Ephraim should be broken and be no more a 
 people." He also carried captive Manassch king of Judah, 
 who was however subsequently restored. 
 
 And then lastly, in the days of Jehoiakim, Nebuchadnezzar, 
 king of Babylon, came against Judah, and made that king his 
 tributary vassal, while his son afterwards became his captive. 
 The story is given in full in 2 Kings xxiv. We read that, — 
 
 " Jehoiachin went out to the king of Babylon, lie, and his 
 mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers : and 
 llie king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign. 
 And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all 
 the mighty men of valour, even ten thousand ca[)tives, and all 
 the craftsmen and smiths : those carried he into captivity from 
 Jerusalem to Babylon, none remained save the poorest sort of 
 the people of the land."
 
 THE LAW OF COMPLETION IN WEEKS. 353 
 
 Nebuchadnezzar left the uncle of Jehoiachin — Zedekiah — 
 behind as his viceroy in Jerusalem ; but this deputy proving 
 faithless and rebelling, he returned, besieged and took the city, 
 and carried Zedekiah, with his eyes put out, captive to Babylon. 
 Nebuchadnezzar's captain, Nebuzaradan, finished the work of 
 destruction, burned the Temple, and broke down the walls of 
 Jerusalem, carrying captive the rest of the people. This was 
 the final act in the long drama, and it is said of it, " so 
 Judah was carried away out of their land " (2 Kings xxv. 21). 
 
 Now, as given in Scripture and verified by the most careful 
 chronological investigations, the leading stages of this decline 
 and fall of the Jewish monarchy were as follows : — 
 
 B.C. 
 
 1. The invasion of Pul, following Menahem's 
 
 accession in . . . . .770 
 
 2. The siege and fall of Samaria . . • 723 
 
 3. The captivity of Manasseh and deportation 
 
 by.Esarhaddon 676 
 
 4. Final fall of the throne of Judah . . 602-59S 
 
 The invasion of Pul is probably to be assigned to the first half 
 of Menahem's reign, the duration of which was ten years. 
 
 We have therefore first, in general, the era from B.C. 770 to 
 E.c. 5 98, a period of one hundred and seventy-two years, as a 
 " time of the end," a period conspicuously including all the 
 main stages of the decline and fall of the Jewish monarchy, as 
 well as those of the rise of Babylonian power. Wars and re- 
 verses had before been experienced by the Jewish nation ; l)ut 
 it had never previously been subdued and carried captive as it 
 was during this period. And the fall was final. A restoration 
 was indeed enjoyed by two of the twelve tribes, but it was only 
 partial and temporary ; the temple was rebuilt, but not in its 
 former glory ; the city was restored, but never to vuh-pc7ident 
 sovereignty ; and after " seventy weeks " of such restoration, a 
 worse flood of desolation than ever, overtook both city, temple, 
 and people, from which they have never yet rallied. The 168- 
 172 years ending with Nebuchadnezzar's capture of Jerusalem, 
 
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 354 DIVINE SYSTEM OE T/MES AND SEASONS. 
 
 was emphatically the era of departing glory, the time when 
 Lo Am MI was inscribed on the brow of the daughter of Zion. 
 And in this critical era four epochs of special crisis stand promi- 
 nently out, as we have seen, connected with the four con- 
 querors, Pul, Shalmanezer, Esarhaddon, and Nebuchadnezzar, 
 the years B.C. 770-766, B.C. 723, B.C. 676, and b.c. 602-598. 
 The first three have relation mainly to the kingdom of 
 Ephraim or the ten tribes, the last to the kingdom of Judah 
 or the two tribes. 
 
 Now, if " seven times " be the appointed duration of the 
 " Times of the Gentiles " we may expect to find, after an 
 interval of 2520 years from i\\\% Jeiuish captivity era a corre- 
 sponding " time of the end," a period of similar decUne and fall, 
 overthrow and decadence, of the last form or forms of Gentile 
 ruling po7L>er, ushering in the close of the dispensation, the 
 restoration of Israel, and the kingdom of Messiah the Son or 
 David. 
 
 And this latter decline and fall, like the former, will take 
 place, in all probability, tinder Jitdgment from God, on account 
 of long-continued and terrible sin. Just as the patriarchal 
 " seven times " died out amid the plagues of Egypt, and with 
 the overthrow of the Red sea; and as the Jewish ''seven 
 times " expired amid the blood and the flames of Titus' siege 
 and sack of Jerusalem ; so the Gentile " seven times " is 
 destined as the Apocalypse reveals, to come to an end under 
 the outpouring of the *' seven golden vials full of the wrath 
 of God," against the sins of apostate Christendom. 
 
 A very simple arithmetical calculation shows that 2520 
 years from this Captivity era brings us to the epoch a.d. 
 1 751-5 — A.D. 19 1 9-1923,* and we inquire. Has this period 
 of 16S-172 years, as far as it has elapsed, had any such cha- 
 racter ? And further. Have there occurred in its course any 
 years marked by such events as to be unmistakable crises in the 
 process of decay and destruction ? And if so, do such years 
 
 • One year has to be subtracted in adding a.d. to B.C. periods.
 
 THE LAW OF COMPLETION IN WEEKS. 355 
 
 correspond as closing termini with the critical years of the 
 Captivity Jewish period at an interval of 2520 years or "seven 
 times " ? 
 
 The answer to these questions is full of solenn interest and 
 importance, nor is it hard to find. In seeking it we have not 
 to take into account all the empires and kingdoms of the 
 world. The range is limited by the prophecy itself. 
 
 Gentile supremacy over Israel has been conjlned to one line. 
 The Chinese and the Americans never conquered Judea, nor 
 held Jerusalem. They never defiled the sanctuary and per- 
 secuted the Israel of God, either literal or spiritual. The line 
 of Gentile powers who have done both, is distinctly defined in 
 the two fourfold visions in Daniel, the image, and the four 
 beasts, in which were symbolised the succession of the Baby- 
 lonian, the INIedo-Persian, the Grecian, and the Roman 
 Empires. The three former having passed entirely away, our 
 search is confined to the limits of the fourth of these. 
 
 That fourth, or Roman monarchy, was foretold as existing 
 in two states — an earlier undivided, and a later divided one. 
 The former of these has passed away, equally with the Baby- 
 lonian, Persian, and Grecian empires. Our search is therefore 
 co7ifined to the time and sphere, occupied by the kingdoms which 
 rose out of the ruins of the old Pagan Roman Empire. Two 
 politico-religious powers or dynasties, symbolised as "little 
 horns," are represented as rising up and wielding supremacy 
 among these kingdoms ; these little horns, — the Papal and 
 Mohammedan powers, — constitute therefore the last leading 
 phase of Gentile power contemplated in the prophecy ; both 
 oppose God and his saints, defile his sanctuary, and tread down 
 the holy city, spiritual or literal. 
 
 The question before us is therefore reduced to narrow limits. 
 Only in the history of these ttvo powers need 7ve look for the 
 answer; and in judging of the character and relative import- 
 ance of events in their history, we must compare them, not 
 with events in the history of other powers, or other parts 
 of tlie world, but only with other events in the history of these 
 powers.
 
 356 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 Unless this is borne in mind, it is impossible rightly to es- 
 timate the historical incidents, which must past under review 
 in connection with this question. Again we ask then, Has the 
 i68 years between a.d. 1755 and a.d. 1923, or rather that por- 
 tion of it which has elapsed, been, in any remarkable and 
 undeniable sense, a period of decadence and overthrow to the once 
 mighty Papal and jSIohammedan powers ? 
 
 Historians would witli one voice reply, Beyond all question, 
 it has ! But as all are not familiar with the facts of modern 
 history, and as many who are, have never considered them in 
 this connection, it is needful to recall some leading events in 
 the recent history of Popery and Mohammedanism. 
 
 France — ever since the conversion of Clovis, and the dona- 
 tions of Pepin and Charlemagne, had taken rank as the first of 
 Papal nations^ and her king as Eldest Son of the Church. France 
 — long foremost in her persecutions of heretics, — had taken a 
 leading place in her opposition to the glorious Reformation ; 
 by the iron heel of power, she had crushed down the new life 
 and had extinguished the rekindled Gospel light of that glad era. 
 In the massacre of St. Bartholomew she had all but extirpated 
 Protestantism ; and by the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, 
 she had banished from her shores her surviving Huguenot 
 subjects. Papist to the core, France was for more than a 
 thousand years, a main pillar of the Popedom in Etirope. 
 
 The middle of the eighteenth century saw the beginning of 
 a marvellous change in France. In less than half a century 
 from 1750, this first of Papal nations had become madly and 
 violently anti-papal; and this most servilely superstitious 
 people, had become openly and even fiercely infidel.* 
 
 * Voltaire's influence was at its height about the middle of the eighteenth 
 century, i.e., just at the beginning of the period in question. 
 
 Speaking of Voltaire, Vinet says, " A partir de Fan a.d. 1750, il fut 
 encore le plus populaire et le plus puissant dcs ecrivains. ... La 
 seconde partie du dix-huiticme siecle leur dut un caractere, ou Voltaire ne 
 reconnut pas toujours celui de ses opinions personnelles, ni I'impulsion de 
 son esprit. . . . Lorsque nous comparons la premiere moitie du 
 siecle que nous occupe, avec I'epoquc de Louis XIV, il nous semble deja
 
 THE LAW OF COMPLETION IN WEEKS. 357 
 
 The great apostle and arch-priest of French infidehty, Vol- 
 taire, was in the height of his influence at this period. With 
 the aid of his associate Deistic and Atheistic philosophers, 
 he was deluging France with clever, anti-monarchical, anti- 
 ecclesiastical writings, of the most audacious and blasphemous 
 character. These men enlisted talent and science for the 
 attack, employed the keen shafts of ridicule, and appealed to 
 all the evil democratic and licentious passions. They held up 
 to hatred and contempt, the apostate and corrupt form of 
 religion with which alone the French were familiar, and with 
 fanatical zeal sought to overthrow all its power over the 
 popular mind. Unjustly, but naturally, they visited on Chris- 
 tianity all the falsehoods, absurdities, hypocrisies, immoraTfties, 
 cruelties, and manifold wickednesses of Popery. " Ecrasez 
 I'infame I " (crush the wretch !) was their modern version of 
 " Crucify Him ! " and their avowed object was to bring about 
 the utter rejection of revealed religion. 
 
 They succeeded only too well ! France ceased to be 
 Catholic, and became — infidel; and infidel France, having 
 thrown off all restraints of law and order, natural and Divine, 
 plunged, before the end of the century, into the maddest 
 excesses of revolution and crime. 
 
 In 1793 came to its crisis that tremendous, unparalleled, 
 irresistible movement, which put an end at once to absolute 
 monarchy, aristocracy, and to ecclesiastical power in France, 
 and which communicated to the neighbouring nations of 
 
 qu'on se trouve un plein dix-huitieme siecle. Mais quand on passe a la 
 seconde moitie de cctte grande periodc, on sent que la premiere n'etait 
 que le prologue, I'exposition du drame. L'explosion n'a pas encore eu 
 iieu." — Vinet, "La Litterature Franijaisc an XVIII' Siecle," p. 63. 
 
 "Voltaire — c'est jrour le zo\\\> le dix-huitieme siecle pcrsonifie ; sa vie 
 meme est partagee comme cette grande periode. " 
 
 '''■ Lan 1750, ou plut('>t 1746, vianjuc Ic point csscntid dans la carriere 
 et dans la direction du siecle " (j). 64). 
 
 '■'■ Dc Van 1750 h Van 1780, epoque ou la publication complete de I'ou- 
 vrage de Raynal, est comme le dernier eclat d'une incendie, a cpii ricn ne 
 reste a devorer "' (p. 74). 
 
 The middle of the i8th centuiy is thus regarded by historians as the era 
 of the rise of the French Revolution.
 
 358 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 Europe the shocks of revolution, and the fierce'fires of demo- 
 cracy, together with an anti-ecclesiastical mania that has never 
 since been allayed. 
 
 The French Revolution is by common consent regarded as 
 tne commencement of a new era, for the nations of Europe ; 
 but it is not always remembered that the proximate cause of 
 the French Revolution, the infidelity of the nation, dates from a 
 generation earher. That Revolution could never have assumed 
 the character it did, had not the French people previously lost 
 all fear of God, and all respect for man ; had not the national 
 mind been blinded, and the national heart hardened, against 
 all claims human and Divine, by the pernicious teachings of 
 the infidel philosophers. 
 
 It is needless to give details of that Revolution here, our 
 readers will mostly be familiar with the tragic facts. How the 
 infidel democracy suddenly uprose in its might, destroyed the 
 Bastile, issued its declaration of the rights of man ; assaulted 
 the king and queen by night, at Versailles, and murdering 
 some of their body guard, forced them to proceed as prisoners 
 to Paris, the bloody heads carried on pikes before the royal 
 carriage. How the people confiscated all the vast revenues of 
 the Church, all the domains of the Crown, and all the estates of 
 refugee nobles, for the use of the State ; subjected to themselves 
 all ecclesiastical, civil, and judicial power throughout the 
 country ; murdered the royal guard, and some five thousand 
 leading Royalists 3 dethroned, imprisoned, tried, condemned, 
 and murdered the king, and then the queen ; declared war 
 against all kings, and sympathy with all revolutionists every- 
 where; how the "reign of terror" witnessed the slaughter of 
 one million and twenty-two thousand persons, of all ranks and 
 ages, and of both sexes, till the streets of Paris ran with blood, 
 and the guillotines could not overtake their work. How 
 thousands were mowed down by grape-shot fusiladcs ; drowned 
 in "noyades," where, in loaded vessels, hundreds of victims 
 were purposely sunk in tlie rivers ; roasted alive in heated 
 ovens, or tortured to death by other infernal cruelties. How
 
 THE LA W OF COMPLETION IN WEEKS. 359 
 
 Christianity was publicly renounced, and a prostitute en- 
 throned as "goddess of reason" at Notre Dame, and wor- 
 shipped by the National Convention and by the mob of Paris, 
 with the wildest orgies of licentiousness (morality as well as 
 mercy having perished with religion) ; how the most horrid 
 mockery of the solemn rites of Christianity, was publicly 
 enacted, an ass being made to drink the sacramental wine ; 
 how the Sabbath itself was abolished, and the decade substi- 
 tuted for the week; and how hundreds and thousands of 
 priests were massacred or driven into exile, and the churches 
 and cathedrals turned into stables and barracks. Taken as a 
 whole, the French Revolution was a convulsion, in which the 
 angry passions of men, set free from all restraint, manifested 
 themselves, with a force and fury unprecedented in the history 
 of the world, against niionarchical, aristocratic, ecclesiastical, and 
 religious institutions. 
 
 Let these things be considered in the light of a mighty and 
 successful revolt against, and overthrow of, absolute monarchical 
 power, and Papal tyranny and usurpation, and it will at once 
 be granted that nothing similar had ever occurred prano tisly, in 
 the history of the fourth great Empire. 
 
 Terribly iniquitous had been the career of the monarchical 
 power thus rudely overthrown ; and fearfully corrupt the 
 priesthood and religion thus utterly and with abhorrence 
 rejected. A solemn character of retribution attaches to even 
 the worst excesses of the French Revolution. The Papacy, in 
 the hour of its agony, was cxultingly reminded of its own 
 similar cruelties against Protestants ; Papists were treated ac- 
 cording to the example set by Papists of other days, and the 
 worst barbarities of Revolutionary France could not out-Herod 
 the previous barbarities of Papal France. 
 
 " The more deeply and earnestly the French Revolution is considered, 
 the more manifest is its pre-eminence above all the strange and terrible 
 things which have come to pass on this earth. . . . Never has the world 
 witnessed so exact and sublime a piece of retribution. . . If it inflicted 
 enormous evil, it pre-sui^posed and overthrew enormous evil. ... In 
 a country where every ancient institution and every time-honoured custom,
 
 36o DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 disappeared in a moment, where the whole social and political system went 
 down before the first stroke, where monarchy, nobility, and Church, were 
 swept away almost without resistance, the whole framework of the State 
 must have been rotten ; royalty, aristocracy, and priesthood must have 
 grievously sinned. Where the good things of this world, birth, rank, wealth, 
 fine clothes, and elegant manners, become worldly perils and worldly dis- 
 advantages for a time, rank, birth, and riches must have been frightfully 
 abused. The nation which abolished and proscribed Christianity, which 
 dethroned religion in favour of reason, and enthroned the new goddess at 
 Notre Dame in the person of a harlot, must needs have been afflicted by a 
 very unreasonable and very corrupt form of Christianity. The people that 
 waged a war of such utter extermination with everything established, as 
 to abolish the common forms of address and salutation, and the common 
 mode of reckoning time, that abhorred ' you ' as a sin, and shrank from 
 * Monsieur ' as an abomination, that turned the weeks into decades and 
 would know the old months no more, must surely have had good reason to 
 hate those old ways from which it pushed its departure into such minute and 
 absurd extravagance. The demolished halls of the aristocracy, the rifled 
 sepulchres of royalty, the decapitated King and Queen, the little Dauphin 
 so sadly done to death, the beggared prnices, the slaughtered priests and 
 nobles, the sovereign guillotine, the republican marriages and the Meudon 
 tannery, the couples tied together and thrown into the Loire, and the gloves 
 made of men's and women's skins ; these things are most horrible ; but they 
 are withal eloquent of retribution, they bespeak the solemn presence of 
 Nemesis, the awful hand of an avenging power ; they bring to mind the 
 horrible sins of that old France, the wretched peasants ground for ages 
 beneath a weight of imposts, from which the rich and noble were free ; 
 visited ever and anon with cruel famines by reason of crushing taxes, unjust 
 wars, and monstrous misgovernment, and then hung up, or shot down, by 
 twenties and fifties, for just complaining of starvation, and all this for 
 centuries ! They call to remembrance the Protestants murdered by myriads 
 in the streets of Paris, tormented for years by military dragoons in Poitou 
 and Beam, and hunted like wild beasts in the Cevennes; slaughtered and 
 done to death by thousands and tens of thousands in many painful ways and 
 through many painful years. , . . 
 
 " In no work of the French Revolution is this, its retributive character, 
 more strikingly artd solemnly apparent than in its dealings with the Roman 
 Church and Papal power. It especially became France, which, after so 
 fierce a struggle, had rejected the Reformation, and perpetrated such ' 
 enormous crimes in the process of rejection, to turn its fury against that 
 very Roman Church on whose behalf it had been so wrathful, .... to 
 abolish Roman Catholic worship as she had abolished the Protestant wov- 
 sliip ; to massacre multitudes of priests in the streets of her great towns ;
 
 THE LAW OF COMPLETION IN WEEKS. 361 
 
 to hunt them down through her length and breadth, and to cast them by 
 thousands upon a foreign shore, just as she had slaughtered, hunted down, 
 and driven into exile, hundreds of thousands of Protestants ; .... to 
 carry the war into the Papal territories, and heap all sorts of woes and 
 shames upon the defenceless Popedom. . . . The excesses of revolutionary 
 France were not more the punishment than the direct result of the excesses 
 of feudail, regal, and papal France. ... In one of its aspects the Revo- 
 lution may be described as a reaction against the excesses, spiritual and 
 religious, of the Roman Catholic reaction from Protestantism. No sooner 
 had the torrent burst forth than it dashed right against the Roman Cliurch 
 and Popedom. . , . The property of the Church was made over to the 
 State ; the French clergy sank from a proprietaiy to a salaried body ; 
 monks and nuns were restored to the world, the property of their orders 
 being likewise gone ; Protestants were raised to full religious freedom and 
 political equality ; . . . the Roman Catholic religion was soon afterwards 
 formally abolished. . . . Bonaparte unsheathed the sword of France against 
 the helpless Pius VI. . . . The Pontiff sank into a dependant. . . . 
 Berthier marched upon Rome, set up a Roman republic, and laid hands 
 upon the Pope. The sovereign Pontiff was bonie away to the camp of the 
 infidels .... from prison to prison, and finally carried captive into 
 France. Here .... he breathed his last, at Valence, in the land where 
 his priests had been slain, where his power was broken, and his name and 
 office were a mockery and byword, and in the keeping of the rude soldiers of 
 the unbelieving Commonwealth which had for ten years held to his lips a 
 cup of such manifold and exceeding bitterness. ... It was a sublime and 
 perfect piece of retribution, which so amazed the world at the end of the 
 1 8th century ; this proscription of the Roman Church by that veiy French 
 nation that had slaughtered myriads of Protestants at her bidding ; this 
 mournful end of the Sovereign Pontiff, in that very Dauphine, so conse- 
 crated by the straggles and sufferings of the Protestants, and near those 
 Alpine valleys where the Waldenses had been so rathlessly hunted down 
 by French soldiers ; this transformation of the ' States of the Church ' 
 into the ' Roman Republic,' and this overthrow of the territorial Popedom 
 by that very French nation, which just one thousand years ago, had, under 
 Pepin and Charlemagne, conferred these territories. Multitudes imagined 
 that the Papacy was at the point of death, and asked. Would Pius the Sixth 
 be the last Pontiff? and if the close of the iSlh century would be signalized 
 by the fall of the Papal dynasty. But the French Kez'olutiun 'vas the begin- 
 ning, and not the end of the judgment : France had but begun to execute the 
 doom, a doom sure and inevitable, but long and lingering, to be diversified 
 by many strange incidents, and now and then by a semblance of escape, a 
 doom to be protracted through much pain and much ignominy."* . . 
 
 * " The Papal Drama," Book x. By Thomas II. Gill.
 
 362 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 The career of Napoleon, — the second phase of the French 
 Revolution, — was a further, and even more illustrious, stage in 
 the fall of the Papacy. He made open war against Pius VI., 
 and compelled him to sign that most humiliating treaty of 
 Tolentino, by which Ferrara, Bologna, and Romagna (" Peter's 
 patrimony") were ceded to France, with an indemnity of a 
 million and a half pounds, and a hundred of the finest pictures 
 and statues in the Vatican. Berthier, a general of the French 
 Republic, soon after took Pius VI. prisoner ; the tricolor flag 
 was displayed from the Capitol, and the Pope's temporal 
 power declared to be at an end. He was carried captive to 
 France, where, in 1799, he died in exile. 
 
 When Napoleon, for political reasons, restored the Roman 
 Catholic religion in France, it was only to inflict on it, what its 
 own dignitaries deem, additional insult and injury. It was 
 put on a level with all other sects of religion, and merely 
 tolerated. 
 
 No trace of an admission of Papal supremacy, or even of 
 Papal influence, is to be found in the concordat between 
 Napoleon and the Pope for France, in 1801, or in that for 
 Italy, in 1803. At his coronation, in 1804, Napoleon required 
 the Pope's attendance, and made Pius VII. cross the Alps in 
 mid-winter, not to confer a crown, but merely to adorn a 
 ceremony. Napoleon placed the crown on his own head him- 
 self; and the Pope stood by, "an important and imposing, but 
 purposely slighted Avitness of the coronation." Napoleon did 
 not at that time wish to annihilate the Popedom, as the revolu- 
 tionary Directory had done, but to retain the Sovereign Pontiff" 
 as his vassal. But when, a few years later, the Pope resisted his 
 will, he soon showed him who was master. In 1809, in the 
 plenitude of his power, when he was supreme in Europe, he 
 issued frovn the palace of the Schonbrunn in Vienna, a decree 
 dividing and distributing the dominions yet remaining to the 
 Pope in Italy, and constituting Rome itself the second city 
 in the French Empire. At the same time he reduced the 
 "Holy Father " to the rank of a French subject, and even
 
 THE LAW OP COMPLETION AV WEEKS. 363 
 
 in his sacerdotal character, a mere salaried official of the 
 French Court, his income being fixed at ;:^8o,ooo a year. 
 
 The bull of excommunication which the Pope fulminated 
 against Napoleon in return, only made him ridiculous in the 
 eyes of Europe ; like his predecessor, he was carried captive 
 by the French army, first to Savona, then to Fontainebleau, 
 where he was forced to sign another concordat, renouncing all 
 claim to Rome for ever. 
 
 On the overthrow of Napoleon, the Pope was restored to 
 Rome ; " but he sat not on his throne as once before ; his 
 power was crippled, his seat unstable, the riches of his Church 
 were rifled, and a mighty precedent and principle of action 
 had been established against him, which could scarcely fail of 
 bearing similarly bitter fruit afterwards." (Elliott, " Horce," iii. 
 
 p. 375-) 
 
 The restoration of Papal supremacy in France did not last 
 long. The year 1830 brought about another thoroughly anti- 
 sacerdotal revolution. Charles X., who had acceded to the 
 throne in 1824, had to abdicate, and his ministry had to flee 
 for their lives; while the Duke of Orleans was proclaimed 
 king under the title of Louis Philippe. 
 
 In 1848 another revolution again constituted France a 
 republic ; tumults broke out in Paris in Februaty, the I'uileries 
 were ransacked, and frightful disorders committed. Louis 
 Philippe was obliged to abdicate and take refuge in England j 
 and " the second republic " was proclaimed. A fortnight after 
 the fall of Louis Philippe, the constitution was proclaimed in 
 Rome, and the city and country were thrown into a state of 
 revolution. 
 
 Before the end of the year Cardinal Rossi, the Pope's prime 
 minister, was killed, and the Pope had to flee from Rome. He 
 was deposed from his temporal authority, and an Italian re- 
 public was proclaimed. It was only by the power of the 
 French that the Pope was afterwards for a time restored, when 
 Louis Napoleon had become President of the French Republic. 
 With occasional parses, and with gleams of passing prosperity
 
 364 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 now and then, the course of the Papacy has ever suice been one 
 of downfall and decay. It is not needful here to recall the 
 details of the consuming process that has during the last forty 
 or fifty years been going on ; but recent events must receive a 
 brief notice. In 1 866 the Romish Empire of Austria was worsted 
 by Protestant Prussia at the memorable battle of Sadowa, a 
 battle the results of which were as decisive as those of Waterloo. 
 Austria received a shock from which it has never recovered, 
 and was obliged to cede Venetia, which was annexed to the 
 kingdom of Italy, while Prussia was raised to the rank of one of 
 the great powers of Europe. In 1868, the Spanish Revolution 
 took place, Queen Isabella fled, and Spain was plunged into 
 years of cruel strife, in the course of which the Jesuits were 
 banished, their monasteries and churches confiscated and sold 
 or pulled down, and the bones of the martyrs brought to light 
 at the Quemadero. 
 
 The same year Pius IX. sent out his famous encyclical 
 letter summoning the QEcumenical Council for 1S70. Six 
 archbishop princes, 49 cardinals, 11 patriarchs, 680 arch- 
 bishops and bishops, 28 abbots, 29 generals of orders, S03 
 spiritual rulers, representing the Church of Rome throughout 
 the world, solemnly decreed the dogma that the occupant of 
 the Papal Chair, is, in all his decisions regarding faith and 
 morals, infallible ! It is said that arrangements had been made 
 to reflect a glory around the person of the Pope by means of 
 mirrors at noon, when the decree was made (18 July, 1870). 
 But the sun shone not that day. A violent storm broke over 
 Rome, the sky was dai-kened by tempest, and the voices of the 
 Council were lost in the rolling of thunder. 
 
 On the very day following this culmination of Papal arrogance 
 and self-e.xaltation, was declared that terrible Franco-German 
 war, in which the French Empire of Louis Napoleon, — by the 
 soldiers of which the Pope was maintained on his tottering 
 throne,—^//. The temporal sovereignty of the Papacy fell tuith 
 it. No sooner had the French troops been withdrawn from 
 Rome, and the French Empire collapsed, than the Italian
 
 THE LA IV OF COMPLETION IN WEEKS. 365 
 
 Government announced its intention of entering the Roman 
 States, and did so. On the 20th of September, 1870, Rome 
 was declared the capital of the kingdom of Italy, and be- 
 came the residence and the seat of the government of Victor 
 Emmanuel. The Twics' summary for that year says, " The most 
 remarkable circumstance in the annexation of Rome and its ter- 
 ritory to the kingdom of Italy, is the languid indifference with 
 which the transfer has been regarded by Catholic Christendom. 
 A change Which would once have convulsed the world has 
 failed to distract attention from the more absorbing spectacle 
 of the Franco-German war. Wiihi?i the same year, the Papacy 
 has assumed the highest spiritual exaltation to luhich it could 
 aspire, and lost the temporal sovereignty which it had held for a 
 thousand years." 
 
 Taking these and similar facts into consideration, there can 
 be no question that the years which have elapsed since 1755, 
 have been years of conspicuous, unprecedented, fatal calamity 
 to the papal power. 
 
 It has been the period of the outpouring of the vials of the 
 wrath of God, to use the striking symbol of the Apocalypse, 
 for the closing judgments of the dispensation. Those vial- 
 plagues (Rev. xvi.), comprising "a noisome and grievous 
 sore " or boil, darkness, frogs, and blood-changed rivers, cannot 
 fail to recall the similar plagues sent upon Egypt prior to the 
 Exodus and to the destruction of Pharaoh. Then they were 
 literal, in harmony with a typical dispensation ; now they are 
 the antitypical realities, of which boils, darkness, etc., are the 
 symbols. But so appropriate and graphic are the symbols, so 
 suggestive of the things, that under their guidance alone, we 
 might have been led to discover the events we have been con- 
 sidering. The infidelity of the middle of the iSth century, 
 and its fearful fruit in the enormities of the French Revolution, 
 have long been recognised as the judgment symbolised by the 
 eruption of the " noisome and grievous sore on the men that 
 had the mark of the beast, and worshipped his image," that 
 is on the inhabitants of papal Christendom. Such an outbreak
 
 366 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AXD SEASONS. 
 
 in the natural body is a mark of deep-seated impurity and 
 disease in the constitution. In the body poHtic the eruption 
 of violent moral and social evil is the same, an indication of 
 long-continued and all-pervading irreligion and corruption. 
 
 The second, third, fourth, and fifth vials predict, under various 
 symbols, the judgments connected Avith the Napoleonic and 
 anti-Papal wars which followed the French Revolution ; the 
 outpouring of the sixth, brings us to the other event we are 
 seeking, the decline and fall of the Moliammcdan poiuer. 
 
 The years which have elapsed since the middle of the iSth 
 century have been almost as fatal to the Eastern, as to the 
 Western little horn. We have not yet seen the complete ex- 
 tinction of the political power of the Sultan, as we have that of 
 the Pope ; but it is already almost annihilated in Europe ; 
 crippled and restricted where it still exists ; and events, as well 
 as Scripture prophecy indicate, that its hold over Syria cannot 
 last much longer. 
 
 The rise and foil of the Ottoman Empire are symbolised in 
 the Apocalypse, by the overflow and drying up of the great 
 river Euphrates. In other parts of Scripture the overflow of a 
 river is, from its peculiar appropriateness, used as a symbol for 
 the invasion of a land by a foreign conqueror. (See Jcr. xlvi. 
 7 ; Isa. viii. 7, 8.) A modern " History of the Ottoman Turks"* 
 opens with the following sentence. " Six centuries ago a pas- 
 toral band of four hundred Turkish families was journeying 
 westward, from the upper streams of the river Euphrates : their 
 armed force consisted of four hundred and forty-four horsemen, 
 and their leader's name was Ertoghrul." This little band of 
 Euphratean horsemen, were the ancestors of that terrible host 
 or " army of horsemen two hundred thousand thousand" strong, 
 whom the Seer of Patmos beheld, loosed frotn the Euphrates, 
 and overflowing the Roman earth, carrying distress and death 
 wherever they went — the " second woe " sent by God as a 
 judgment on Christendom for its depravity and apostasy, the 
 first having been the Saracenic. 
 
 ' By Sir Edward S. Creasy, M.A. London: BcuUcy, 1S77.
 
 THE LA IV OF COMPLETION IN WEEKS. 367 
 
 History tells us how this Euphratean flood covered land 
 after land, wth its irresistible advance. All over South-Eastem 
 Europe, as far as Venice, the Turkish flood extended. Wherever 
 it reached it carried misery and death, so that even the strong 
 language of Rev. ix. 17 can barely convey an idea of the " woe " 
 it was to Eastern Christendom. 
 
 The *' drying up " of this flood, that is to say the liberation 
 from Turkish oppressions, of the Christian nations and lands 
 overwhelmed by it, began with the Greek rebellion in 1S20. But 
 fatal blows to the power and prestige of the Ottoman Empire, had 
 previously been dealt by Russia. In the war of 1768 between 
 the two kingdoms, the Turkish armies were beaten and de- 
 stroyed, and ruin and disgrace attended each succeeding cam- 
 paign. In 1770 the Russian admiral annihilated the Turkish fleet 
 in the ^gean sea. In 1774a large Turkish army was again most 
 disgracefully beaten, and the humiliating peace of Kainarg^, 
 showed that the conqueror was in a position to dictate terms. 
 Three years later, war again broke out between the two powers, 
 and again the Russians had the mastery both by sea and by 
 land, and obtained the cession of important towns and districts 
 before concluding peace. In 1806 Russia occupied Moldavia 
 and Wallachia, and the old hostility broke out afresh, the 
 weakness of the Ottoman Empire becoming more apparent than 
 ever. A new fleet, which had been created, was destroyed by 
 the Russians at Lemnos. IMahmoud II. had to buy a peace, 
 by the cession of all his territory north of the Pruth, of a 
 number of fortresses on the Danube, and of a principal mouth 
 of the Danube itself. In 1820 began a formidable insurrection 
 in Greece, the finest province of the Turkish Empire, which 
 quickly spread to Wallachia, Moldavia, and the yEgean Isles. 
 
 In 1S26 the Porte surrendered to the Russians all the 
 fortresses it retained in Asia ; in the same year civil commo- 
 tions distracted Constantinople ; and the awful slaughter of 
 the Janissaries took place, 4000 soldiers being shot or 
 burned to death in their own barracks in the city, and many 
 thousands more all over the empire, by the Sultan's own com- 
 mand.
 
 368 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AXD SEASONS. 
 
 The Greek rebellion continued till 1S27, when, after a severe 
 and prolonged struggle, Turkey was obliged to acknowledge 
 the independence of Greece. The sympathies of Western 
 Christendom had been aroused by the horrible cruelties per- 
 petrated by the Turkish Admiral, in the conquest of Scio ; and 
 England, France, and Russia intervened between the Porte 
 and its Greek Christian subjects. At the great naval battle of 
 Navarino, the fleet of Turkey was once more destroyed, and 
 Greece became independent. 
 
 In 1829 the freedom of Servia was similarly secured by 
 a treaty which forbade a single Turk to reside north of the 
 Danube ; and the same year the Turkish province of Algeria 
 in Africa became a French colony. 
 
 Mehemet Ali, the powerful Pacha 01 Egypt, who had long 
 been aiming at an hereditary kingdom for himself, rebelled 
 against his master, and asserted his independence in 1832. 
 He attacked and conquered Syria, and defeated the Turkish 
 armies in three great battles. Nothing but the interference 
 of the great powers of Christendom, at that time prevented 
 his marching on Constantinople, and overthrowing the Sultan 
 altogether. He was forced back into his own province, and 
 made again nominally dependent on the Sultan by payment ot 
 an annual tribute, and the furnishing certain military aid when 
 asked. But Egypt is virtually independent of the Porte, and 
 her present ruler has assumed the title of Khedive, or king, in 
 recognition of the fact. 
 
 In 1844 the Porte was compelled, under threat of European 
 interference, to issue an edict of religious toleration, abolishing 
 for ever its characteristic and sanguinary practice of execution 
 for apostasy {i.e., for the adoption of Christianity). This com- 
 pulsory sheathing of its persecuting sword was a patent proof 
 that its independence was gone, and a marked era in its over- 
 throw. 
 
 Nor has it been under the judgment of the sword alone, that 
 the Ottoman Empire has been sinking to decay. It is miser- 
 ably perishing in its own corruption. Internal discord and
 
 THE LAW OF COMPLETION IN WEEKS. 369 
 
 insurrection, provoked by cruel tyranny and monstrous mis- 
 government, have weakened the State. Polygamy and other 
 vices have caused a depopulation so rapid as to be almost in- 
 credible. Pestilence, conflagi-ation, earthquakes, civil com- 
 motions, massacres, slaughters, all have tended to reduce the 
 population and weaken the empire. These attacks from without, 
 rebellions from within, and this steady process of internal decay, 
 have reduced Turkey, not only to financial bankruptcy, but to 
 such a state of weakness, that, but for the policy of P^ngland 
 and other European States, she must long since have perished. 
 The notion that " the integrity of the Ottoman Empire " must 
 be maintained in order to resist the encroachments of Russia, 
 has for the last fifty years averted from this decaying power, 
 long impending and richly deserved doom. But even this can 
 avert it no longer. The atrocious cruelties and fiendish bar- 
 barities of the Turk, have alienated from him the sympathies 
 and even the compassions of Christendom ; and in the recent 
 war no hand has been upraised to avert the fate impending 
 over the blood-guilty Ottoman Empire. Russia has this time 
 all but accomplished the task, on which she has so long had 
 her heart set — the liberation from Moslem tyranny of the Chris- 
 tians of South-Eastcrn Europe. If foreign interference sJiould 
 again avert the end (as it did in the case of the temporal 
 power of the Pope), it can only be for a time. Forces are at 
 work Avhich must ere long destroy the foul tyranny which has 
 so long ruined the fairest regions of the earth ; and must set, 
 not Europe onl}', but Palestine, free from the Moslem rule. 
 
 The period that has elapsed since the middle of the i8th 
 century, corresponding to the Jewish Captivity period, and 
 closing the 2520 years, or " seven times " of Gentile supremacy, 
 Jias then been most conspicuously marked by the decline ami fall 
 of the t'luo little horns, the final forms of Gentile rule over the 
 Israel, and Saneluaiy of God, spiritual and literal. 
 
 And the years of si)ecial crisis in the former have been, as 
 far as we have guiic, answered hy corresponding years of crisis 
 in the kil'.er, a.^ \\\\\ be seen b}' llie folIcMirig tabic. We 
 
 1; 1^
 
 370 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 have not yet reached the latest terminus ad guan ; it is not 
 yet 2520 years since the _;?;/^/ fall of the throne of David, and 
 the full establishment of Gentile supremacy by Nebuchad- 
 nezzar's overthrow of Jehoiakin ; nor have the events pre- 
 dicted as to dose tliis time of the end all taken place as 
 yet. 
 
 We do not wish to speculate as to tlic future ; of that, as the 
 great Sir Isaac Newton said, " let time be the interpreter." 
 We simply point to facts in the past. No one can question 
 that the sudden and terrible outbreak of infidelity and atheism 
 in the middle of the last century, marked by the publications 
 of Rousseau and the Encyclopedists — the accession of the ill- 
 fated king and queen who fell victims to the fury of the French 
 revolution ; the culmination of that awful movement itself in 
 the reign of terror, followed by the overthrow of the Papal 
 power in Italy; and, turning to the East, the compulsory 
 signature by the Sultan of the first edict of religious toleration — 
 no one can question we say, that tliese have been marked and 
 critical events, in the downfall of the Papal and Mohammedan 
 [)0wers. Other indications will shortly lead us to other dates 
 also ; but we are already in a position to see that between the 
 critical years of the Captivity era, and the critical years of this 
 time of the end, there lie exactly "seven times,."— =^-2520 years. 
 
 For one such great "week," traced backwards from the 
 middle of last century, takes us to the reign of Menahem, king 
 of Israel and the invasion of Pul ; the same period traced back 
 from the accession of Louis XVI. reaches exactly to the accession 
 of Nabonassar, the first king of Babylon ; the same period traced 
 back from the overthrow of the Papal power in the French 
 revolution, leads up to the overthrow of Samaria by Shalmane- 
 zer ; and the same period traced back from the Turkish edict 
 of toleration reaches to the completion of the captivity of the 
 ten tribes by Esarhaddon. A simple calculation will provo 
 this, remembering that in adding a.d. to t.c. dates, one year 
 has to be subtracted to obtain llic complete interval elapbcd.
 
 THE LAW OF COMPLETION AV WEEKS, yji 
 
 TERMINI A QUO AND AD QUEM OF THE SEVEN TIMES. 
 
 I. From the first Assyrian invasion of Palestine (that by Pul, king of 
 Assyria), and tlie carrying captive a portion of the Ten Tribes, to the out- 
 break of the grievous sore of infideUty, in the middle of^the iSili century.* 
 
 B.C. 770 2520 years. ^^j). 1750-1. 
 
 II. From the siege and fall of Samaria and more complete cajitivity of 
 che Ten Tribes by Shalmanezer, to the judgments on the Papal Power in 
 the French Revolution — 
 
 B.C. 723 2520 years. ^ j^^ j^^g, 
 
 III. From the captivity of Manasseh and coincident completion of the 
 \leportation of the remainder of the Ten Tribes by Esarhaddon, to ihc first 
 edict of religious toleration in the East, issued by the Porte, the compulsory 
 sheathing of its persecuting sword, a sign that its independence was gone — 
 
 B.C. 676-7 2520 years. ^^ j^^ ^^^^ 
 
 IV. From the full captivity of Judah, and final overthrow of the throne 
 of David, accomplished by Nebuchadnezzar, to the still future terminus 
 ad quern of the prophetic period of 2520 years. 
 
 B.C. 59S 2520 years. ^ j)_ ^^^^3. 
 
 Historically, then, the Times of the Gentiles is a great dis- 
 pensational week, of 2520 years, extending from the Captivity 
 era, B.C. 770-59S, to the era of the closing judgments on the 
 kingdom of the beast, the vial era of the Apocalypse, a.d. i 750- 
 1923. It is the "seven times" of Gentile dominion over 
 Israel, included in the symbol of Nebuchadnezzar's image. 
 
 This great week has thus earlier and later commencements, 
 incipient and then full starting points, and corresponding closes, 
 just as in an eclipse, the penumbra first comes in contact, and 
 after a brief interval the dark shadow. This is clearly the case 
 with other chronological prophecies also. Jeremiah announced, 
 
 Measured from the acccasiou of iMcnalicm, as the date of tliib invasion 
 in his brief leijii), 15 not giveu.
 
 372 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 for example, that Judah should serve the king of Babylon 
 "seventy years" (Jer. xxv. ii, 12). History shows that this 
 period liad a double commencement and a double termina- 
 tion, — a tivo-fold ftilfilmaif. First, from B.C. 606 to the decree 
 of Cyrus, and again from 13. c. 587 to the edict of Darius. This 
 is easily explicable. The majestic movements of Providence 
 and of history demand time ; empires do not rise and fall in a 
 day ; and the omniscient God takes note of the comparatively 
 insignificant beginning of a mighty movement as well as of its 
 climax. We are witnesses that the decay of the Papal and 
 Mohammedan powers demands an era, not an epoch merely ; 
 and such has been the case with the decay of other great 
 powers in other ages. Hence the propriety of indicating 
 various dates of rise and fall. But it should be noted that LHe 
 uiterval by which the earliest of these commencing and closing 
 dates is separated from the latest is, compared to the whole period, 
 so small as to be scarcely perceptible, so that it is even difficult 
 to represent it to scale, on a diagram. Thus the statement that 
 at the equinox the day is twelve hours long, is practically true 
 of a day or two before, and of a day or two after the equinox, 
 because the variation is, compared to the length of the day, 
 hardly observable. 
 
 But while the measures of this great dispensational week are 
 sufficiently clear, when we consider its main termini, they be- 
 come increasingly so when wc ])roceed to study its bisections 
 and divisions. The measures of the whole week are evident ; 
 but those of the half week, the " time, times, and a half " of 
 prophecy, are still more so, and these we must now examine. 
 
 The whole week, or " seven times," dates fiom the era of the 
 rise of the literal Babylon, and measures the entire course of the 
 four great monarchies ; the half week, or " time, times, and a 
 half," dates from the era of the rise of the spiritual Babylon, 
 and measures the existence of the great apostasies which oc- 
 cupy the latter half of the "Times of the Gentiles.' ^\'hen 
 did these arise ? 
 
 The Pap;il I'ower rose in liic interval bctu'ccn llr fall of the
 
 TH~ LAV/ C F COM'PLETTO'.' !.'■' V/EE-^" - — 
 
 Enperor cf Rcme, and ±e Pope-es^ring decrees of th.e 
 Eastern Emperors Justinian end Phocas. "wrliicQ put trie top-stone 
 CHI the siowlj rising arch of Papal prKensicn and pcnrer, by ccn- 
 stitating the Bishops of Ron:e Universal Bishops, and n:aidrg 
 them heads c :' ■ - - : 3^. And the Moha mm edan power 
 
 rose in the E^ : . ; retj same interval ; for. as Luther 
 
 used to say. - the ? . - -. i -iie Turk came up togaher.'' Th; 
 fali :'■.:"';::'- ■• place ia ad. 47C. and the 
 
 Ee^;: .;_ : ^ ^ . . is aj?. ^j2i. 
 
 The centnrr and a f'-:^ mtsvemnr . ^ . . '. these dates mav 
 '^T CI tC ^'f era cf thji rhi cf : .-. ./-..-.im and RaTtem 
 
 d_-:^^:n :: --l; lii _-\7r era. and it 'ibl central in. position, in the 
 great - sersi times." 
 
 I, It i: z^tiT. for the Cii-otivitT era iras one 
 
 of decs;/ . - . " :ra2 Israe-1 and one drring which 
 
 ts newer and c : ^ r nan::rai Eabrlon. was rising 
 
 steadilj to its 'tl-i:^^^. ..- s^ -he reign of Nehcichadnezzai. 
 
 Eahrioci. was •^'^'~ s^a^hrr to its cnminssoB in the enthrode- 
 
 2. it :s ar-t-t'i . - ■ • . --e e^. o: 
 y: :----- -: ■ t ...j. . _^__ .. _. ..lar, or 1=0 
 
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 374 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 ing dates of the " time of the end " are also respectively ic6o 
 years. 
 
 That this central era is the bisection of " seven times " has 
 long been perceived in a general way by students of prophecy ; 
 but it is only by the application to the period of careful astrono- 
 mical measures that the Avonderful accuracy and exactness with 
 which this is the case can be demonstrated. 
 
 Three sorts of years are, it must be premised, demonstrably 
 employed by the Author of the prophetic periods : solar, 
 calendar, and lunar years. Calendar years, or years of 360 
 days, are used'~in the predictions of Daniel and the Apoca- 
 lypse ; for it is only three and a half such years that contain 
 1260 days. 
 
 Solar and lunar years are also taken into account, as is 
 proved by theiact that in Dan. xii. — 75 years are, as we have 
 seen, added to 2520 ; and 75 is exactly the difierence between 
 2520 solar years and 2520 lunar years. 
 
 We have a warrant therefore for measuring historic intervals 
 by any or all of these three standards; and where, for any 
 reason, itis the Divine purpose to conceal for a time, or 
 partially, the actual measures of any interval, we may expect 
 to find the lunar year employed in measuring it, inasmuch as 
 this year gives rise to what may be termed a hidden chronology. 
 
 Before going further, it will be well to enquire what were the 
 critical years in this era of the rise of the I'apal and Moham- 
 medan powers. We are in the broad sunlight of authentic 
 profane history here ; there may be room for some difference 
 of judgment as to the relative importance of certain events in 
 the history, but there can be no question at all as to the dates 
 of the events selected. 
 
 " He that letteth," or that which hindereth the development 
 of the great apostasy, "will let, until he be taken out of the 
 way," said the Apostle Paul, and then the antichrist will be 
 revealed (2 Thess. ii.). There could be no chance for Popes 
 while the Ccesars still ruled at Rome. The first step in the 
 rise of the Papacy therefore was necessarily the complete
 
 THE LAW OF COMPLETION LX llEEA'S. 
 
 do'ivnfall of the Western Empire of Rome, which, as we have 
 seen, took place under Romulus Augustuhis, in a.d. 476, 
 From that time forth the claims of the Bishops of Rome in- 
 creased continually, based at first on the metropolitan cha- 
 racter of the see of Rome, and by degrees on more super- 
 natural and spiritual grounds. But their claims to supremacy 
 over other bishops received no legal sanction until a.d. 533, 
 when, by his celebrated decretal letters, the Eastern Roman 
 Emperor, Justinian, recognised the Bishop of Rome as ''head 
 of all the holy Churches, and all the holy priests of God."* 
 
 In the seventy-fifth subsequent year, a.d. 607, the Emperor 
 Phocas promulgated another very notable decree, co?!jirf?wig 
 the right of the Pope to the headship of all the Churches, 
 Eastern as well as Western, and acknowledging him primate 
 of all other sees, that of Constantinople included. In 608 
 Phocas bestowed upon the Pope the Pantheon of Rome, a 
 temple formerly dedicated to Cybele and all the gods, and 
 thenceforth to the Virgin Mary and all the martyrs; i.e., 
 formerly devoted to Pagan, and thenceforth to Papal, idolatry. 
 Phocas died in a.d. 610. In 1S13 the base of a pillar was 
 excavated in Rome, bearing an inscription intimating that it 
 was erected in honour of Phocas, a.d. 608, on the occasion 
 of these his great concessions to the Pope. 
 
 The accession of the assassin Phocas was "joyfully " en- 
 dorsed by Pope Gregory the Great,f whose oiun accession in 
 A.D. 590, constitutes a very leading date in the rise of the 
 Papacy. Gregory the Great was " the last of the Latin Fathers, 
 and the first in the modern sense of the jvord of the Popes,"" and 
 he " did more than any other to set the Church forward upon 
 the new lines on which henceforth it must travel to constitute 
 a Latin Christianity, with distinctive features of its own, such 
 as broadly separate it from Greek.":J: 
 
 * See Appendix A., Justinian's decree. 
 
 t Gibbon, "Decline." Cli. xlvi. 
 
 \ Archbishop Trench, " Mediaeval Chuvch II istoiy,'" p. 14.
 
 376 DTVIXE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 One mote remarkable step in the rise of the Papacy, and 
 the extending over Europe of its pecuhar evil influence, must 
 be noticed. It is the decree of the Pope Vitalian, ordering 
 all the services of the Church throughout Christendom to be 
 read in Latin, — a decree, as we know, still in fatal force, and 
 obeyed by every Roman Catholic priest in the world. This 
 was in the year a.d. 663. It gave a distinctly Roman, or 
 Latin, character to the Church, secured perfect unity with 
 Rome in all its ceremonial, and was surely one way in which 
 the beast " caused all to receive his mark and the number of 
 his name " (AATEIN02 = 666). From the time of the division 
 of the Roman Empire, the AVestern half, indeed, received the 
 designation Latin, in opposition to " Greek," which, strangely 
 enough, was soon applied by the Eastern Roman Emperors to 
 themselves and their empire. In the West the word Roman 
 was also dropped ; it was the Latiti world, the Latin kingdoms, 
 the Latin Church, the Latin clergy, the Latin patriarch, the 
 Latin councils. Gibbon, who is so accurate in his word-paint- 
 ing, always applies this epithet to the Western Papal kingdoms. 
 " ' They latinize everything,' to use Dr. More"s words ; ' mass, 
 prayers, hymns, litanies, canons, decretals, bulls, are conceived 
 in Latin. The Papal councils speak in Latin ; the Scripture is 
 read in no other language under Popery than Latin ; in short, 
 all things are Latin.' " * From the time of Vitalian's decree, 
 public worship itself throughout the whole of Papal Christen- 
 dom was in Latin only. Hence the truth and worship of God 
 became mere unmeaning sounds to the mass of the people 
 in all lands, and the power of the Papal priesthood propor- 
 tionably increased. 
 
 We take then as the main epochs of the rise of the Fapai 
 poioer — 
 
 r. The decretal letter of Justinian ... ... ... 533. 
 
 2. The accession of Gregory the Great ... ... 590. 
 
 3. The edicts and donations of Phocas ... ...607-610. 
 
 4. The latinizing decree of Vitalian ... ... 663. 
 
 Elliott, vol. iii., p.
 
 THE LAW OF COMPLETION IN WEEKS. 377 
 
 The main points or epochs in the rise of the Eastern httle 
 horn, the Mohammedan power, which sprang up during the 
 same era, spread with extraordinary rapidity, attained enor- 
 mous influence, and wielded it to the misery and destruction of 
 the Christian nations subjugated by it, — are t^vo. 
 
 1. The Hegira, or flight of Mohammed from Mecca to 
 Medina, the turning point in the career of the false prophet, 
 which transformed him from the despised leader of a sect of 
 fanatics to the prince and prophet of his people. 
 
 2. The capture of Jerusalem and Syria by the Caliph Omar, 
 when a mosque was erected on the site of Solomon's temple, 
 from which, that Muezzin call to prayer which has never since 
 ceased (save for a brief interval in the time of the Crusaders) 
 was first heard in the cit}'. It was on this occasion that 
 Sophronius, the unhappy patriarch of Jerusalem, muttered as 
 he followed the victorious caliph round the sacred sites, " The 
 abomination of desolation stands in the holy place." 
 
 The ten years of the Caliphate of Omar from a.d. 634 to 
 A.D. 644 were years of rapid extension of IMohammedan 
 power. The Saracens during their course reduced to obedience 
 36,000 cities or strongholds, destroyed 4,000 Christian 
 churches, and built 1,400 mosques. 
 
 " At the end of the first century from the Hegira, the Ara- 
 bian Empire had been extended to 200 days' journey from east 
 to west, and reached from the confines of Tartary and India to 
 the shores of the Atlantic, " over all which ample space," says 
 Gibbon, " the progress of the Mohammedan religion diffused 
 a general resemblance of manners and of opinions," — over all 
 which ample space, Ave may add, the venom of the scorpion 
 sting of their conquerors was made to rankle in the breast of 
 the subject Christians. For, indeed, the bitter contempt and 
 hatred flowing out from the Moslem faith towards them could 
 not but be felt perpetually. It was marked in the terms 
 " Christian dogs" and " infidels." The enactments of the capi- 
 tulations granted them were their every-day remembrancers of 
 it. Deprived of the use of arms, like the Helots of old, with
 
 373 nnvxi: system of times aad seasons. 
 
 a tribute enforced as their animal life redemption tax, with a 
 different dress, enjoined on them from their masters, and a 
 more humble mode of riding, an obligation to rise up deferen- 
 tially in the presence of the meanest Moslem, and to receive 
 and gratuitously entertain for a certain time any IMussulman 
 who on a journey might require it, such were the marks of per- 
 sonal degradation ordained in the capitulations. And then, in 
 token of the degradation of their religion, — to which, notwith- 
 standing all their superstitions, they clung with fond attach- 
 ment — there was a prohibition to build new churches, to 
 chime the bells in those retained by them, or to refuse admis- 
 sion into them to the scoffing Moslem, though they regarded 
 his presence as defilement. Add to which the inducements to 
 apostacy, operating to an incalculable extent, on the young 
 and thoughtless in families more especially, and then the 
 penalty of death against their returning to the Christian faith, 
 the insults, moreover, to the Christian females, and thousands 
 of undefinable injuries of oppression, and how could it be but 
 the bitterness of their loss should be felt, and the poison rankle 
 within them, even as in other days Avith the Jewisli captives 
 in Babylon, so as to make life itself almost a burden ? '"' - 
 
 Tlte two principal Moliainmcdan dates of commencement 
 then are — 
 
 1. The Hegira ... ... ... ... a.d. 622. 
 
 2. Omar's capture of Jerusalem ... ... a.d. 637. 
 
 Now let it be observed 
 
 1. That from the accession of Nabonassar, the first king of 
 Babylon, to the deposition of Romulus Augustulus, the last 
 Emperor of Rome, was to a day 1260 lunar years, f 
 
 2. That from the overthrow of Jehoiakim by Nebuchad- 
 nezzar (B.C. 602) to the Hegira of INIohammed is also 1260 
 lunar years. 
 
 3. That from Nebuchadnezzar's liurning of the temple, in 
 
 * Elliott, vol. i. , p. 424. 
 t See Calcnd.ir of the Times of tlic (icntilcs, Appendix.
 
 THE LAW OF COMPLETION IN WEEKS. 
 
 579 
 
 the 19th year of his reign (c.c. 5S7), to Omar's capture of Jeru 
 salem (a.d. 637), followed by the erection of a mosque that bears 
 his name on the site of the temple, is again 1260 lunar years. 
 
 4. That from the Mohammedan era of Hegira to the import- 
 ant crisis in the decay mid fall of Mohammedan power before 
 alluded to, the end of its independence and legalised intoler- 
 ance, A.D. 1S44, is once more 1260 years lunar, and it should 
 be remembered that the JNIohammedan reckoning is lunar. 
 
 5. That from the celebrated Pope-exalting decree of Justi- 
 nian. A.D. 533, which constituted the Bishop of Rome head of 
 all the Churches, 1260 years reckoned as lunar, as calendar, 
 and as solar, lead respectively to the important initial, and 
 crisis dates of the French revolution ; thus : — 
 
 A.D, 533, Justinian's decretal letter 
 
 1755 
 
 6. That from the decree of the Emperor Phocas, confirm- 
 ing the primacy of the see of Rome over that of Constanti- 
 nople and all the Eastern and Western Churches, 1260 years 
 measured in the same three ways lead respectively to the three 
 great modern overthrows of Papal power of which we have 
 spoken : the revolutions of 1S30, 1S48-9, and 1S66-70. 
 
 A.D, 607-10. Phocas — 
 
 1848-9 
 
 'SC6-,S7o 
 
 7. That measured from the important central date of the 
 accession of Popo Gregory the Great, Sept. 3. a.d. 590, the 
 first properly speaking (f lite Popes, the i26olh solar year
 
 3So DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 commences in Sept., 1S49, which year is the terminus of 1260 
 calendar years from the decree of Phocas. 
 
 8. That from the captivity of Jehoiachin, and the final over- 
 throw of Judah, B.C. 59S, 1260 solar years lead to the promul- 
 gation of the decree of Vitalian that the services of the 
 Church throughout Christendom should be performed in Latin, 
 A.D. 663. This latter date is, consequently, the bisection of 
 " seven times " in solar years, as reckoned from the date of the 
 final overthrow of the throne of Judah, and 1260 solar years 
 from that point do not run out until the year a.d. 1923. 
 
 9. Further, from the capture of Jerusalem by Omar, a.d. 
 637, 1260 calendar years have brought us to the recent over- 
 throw of Turkey by Russia, the Treaty of Berlin ; the Anglo- 
 Turkish Convention as to Cyprus, and the English protectorate 
 of Asia f Minor, unquestionably a fresh stage in the downfall 
 of the Mohammedan power, whose present head is Constanti- 
 nople. We have not yet reached 1260 solar years from the 
 same date; they will run out in 1897 (and 1260 solar years 
 from the Hegira date, the true commencement of Moham- 
 medan reckoning, will expire in 1S82). 
 
 It may be asked, How is it, if the fulfilment of these chro- 
 nological prophecies be thus clearly traceable, that the fact 
 has not been earlier perceived ? 
 
 We reply. It is the revealed purpose of God that, for wise 
 and gracious reasons, these chronological prophecies should 
 become clear only in the "time of the end" (Dan. xii.). 
 
 In fulfilment of this design, not only is a symbolic system of 
 predicting events and their duration adopted, but even when 
 the chronological symbol employed is rightly translated on the 
 year-day system, it is not necessarily clear what kind of year \s 
 the reality, for which a day is the symbol ; hence the true length 
 of the predicted period may still br • to a certain extent hidden. 
 
 Some of the above periods are accurate even to a day v/hen 
 calculated by the true lunar year, though they present only 
 distant approximations to accuracy when measured by llic 
 solar year.
 
 THE LAW OF COMPLETION LV WEEKS. 3S1 
 
 But while comprehension of these Divine prophecies was 
 impossible until partial fulfilment had given the true clue in 
 the year-day system, and while the periods predicted still re- 
 mained obscure even when the clue was obtained, their true 
 scope has become clearer and clearer as each successive 
 generation of students has searched into their meaning, till 
 now, in the light of such fulfilments as the late loss of tem- 
 poral power by the Papacy, and the present and imminent loss 
 of power by the Ottoman Empire,— in the clear glow of light 
 shed by fulfilments in this end of the age, and by the dis- 
 covery of the astronomic measures of these mysterious times, 
 the whole scries seem to range themselves into order and pro- 
 portion, and to present no longer a hopeless, puzzling, and 
 intricate maze, but a complete, majestic, and clearly traceable 
 plan. 
 
 Chronological Measures of the Patriarchal Age 
 AND THE Jewish Dispensation. 
 
 It remains now to show that each of the two earlier dispen- 
 sations lasted for a period similar to the Times of the Gentiles, 
 and consisted of a great week of years of years—" seven times." 
 
 It should be noted, that Christianity, the religious system 
 which has distinctively characterized the Times of the Gentiles, 
 did not take its rise at their commencement, but on the con- 
 trary, when they had already run a third of their course. The 
 rise of Christianity dates, not from the overthrow of Jewish 
 independence in the Captivity era, but from the period of the 
 abolition of Judaism, just before the fall of the city and temple 
 of Jerusalem, Similarly Judaism, the distinctively character- 
 istic religion of the previous or second great dispensation, dates, 
 not from its commencement, but from Sinai, the giving of 
 llic law, the point where the Patriarchal dispensation closes. 
 And just as the times of the CJ entiles had an earlier com- 
 mencement than Christianity, so the Jewish race and their 
 special covenant privileges, had an earlier origin than the givmg 
 of the law. In each case a people was first prepared to receive
 
 3S2 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 the ne7V system of religious truiii, and i/ieji tlie system was 
 revealed. Thus, as represented in the diagram, the dispensa- 
 tions overlapped ; the second grew out of the first, and the 
 third out of the second. The earliest date of the origin of the 
 third, is, as we have seen, the beginning of the Jewish Cap- 
 tivities, the invasion of Pul, in the reign of Menahem, whose 
 accession was in d.c. 770, 840 years before the destruction of 
 Jerusalem, followed by the triumph of Titus, celebrated at 
 Rome A.D. 70-71. Now 840 years is one-third of 2520 years 5 
 the times of the Gentiles took their rise one-third of " seven 
 times," before the passing away of Judaism, We naturally 
 inquire. Is any parallel fact observable in connection \vith the 
 previous dispensation ? Did the origin of the Abraharaic race 
 precede the giving of the Law, by any such period ? 
 
 The call of Abram preceded the Exodus by 430 years : " the 
 covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, 
 which was Af'^o years after, cannot disannul, that it should make 
 the promise of none effect" (Gal. iii. 17). The birth of the 
 Patriarch preceded his call by seventy-five years, and Abram 
 the Hebrew was himself descended, through Eber, from Shem, 
 and with his race, inherited the blessing of that pre-eminently 
 blessed son of Noah ; Jiis was the specially privileged branch 
 of the Fgreat Shemitic family. Now the blessing of Shem im- 
 mediately follozucd the flood ; it dates from the recommencement 
 of human history after the first great judgment of the world 
 by water. Measuring, then, the Shemitic dispensation, or that 
 of the Jewish people and their fathers, from this primary epoch, 
 to the time of Messiah's advent and rejection, we find that 
 another great " seven times " intervened ; that, as nearly as we 
 can ascertain, such a week of years of years, divided these great 
 termini from each other. 
 
 It must be borne in mind, that the two inevitable gaps in 
 the world's chronology, occur in the course of this Shemitic or 
 Jewish age, so that certainty, to within forty or fifty years, is 
 unattainable. The date of the flood is a.m. 1656, which, accord^ 
 ing to CiiuLon'ii clnonology is l.c. 24S2. Addiii^j twenty-nuic
 
 THE LAW OF COMPLETlUX IN WEEKS. 383 
 
 years — to the date of the Crucifixion, — it will be seen that the 
 latter event took place 2510 years after the flood, that is, only 
 ten years less than the full "seven times," or 2520 years. 
 Now it must be borne in mind that their rejection of I\Iessiah 
 the Prince, did not, as we have seen, cause at once, the full and 
 final rejection of Israel by God. For some years subsequently 
 the ministry of the Holy Ghost by the Apostles, appealed to them 
 to repent and be converted, that the times of refreshing might 
 come from the presence of the Lord. Ten or fifteen years later 
 the sentence was pronounced by Paul and Barnabas, " It was 
 necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken 
 to you : but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves 
 unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles. For 
 so hath the Lord commandeth us " (Acts xiii. 46). Allowing 
 therefore a few years for this final hovering of the Spirit oi 
 mercy and longsuffering over the guilty race, we may say that 
 2520 years, "seven times," elapsed between the bestowment of 
 distinctive privilege on the race of Shem, and the utter rejection 
 of the Jewish people, and transference of the kingdom of God 
 to the Gentiles. It should be remembered that this is no 
 question of brief periods ; it is a question of a period of over 
 twenty-five centuries ; so that an inaccuracy of two or threff 
 years, even if it existed, would scarcely affect the conclusion. 
 
 But it cannot be proved that there is an inaccuracy, because 
 of the acknowledged and inevitable uncertainty as to two of 
 the minor intervals composmg this long period, which may 
 throw our accepted dates out, to the extent of forty or fifty 
 years. Absolute accuracy is in this case unattainable; the 
 terminal event of the Shemitic or Jewish " seven times " may 
 have been the Crucifixion itself, or it may have been the crisis 
 mdicatcd above, or it may have been the subsequent destruc- 
 tion of Jerusalem. There is no need to fix on any one of these, 
 m order to recognise the broad fact, which is beyond dispute, 
 that the Shemitic or Jewish age extended over a great week of 
 prophetic limes, exactly as does the succeeding dispensation, 
 the times of tlic Gentilt--. No tnllmg discrepancy of a few
 
 384 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 years, — a discrepancy which, as it is founded on ignorance, not 
 on certain knowledge, may not exist, but be merely apparent, — 
 can blind a candid observer to the fact, that here, in these 
 major divisions of human history, there prevails the same law 
 of completion in weeks, which we have traced in so many 
 minor arrangements. 
 
 The first, or patriarchal dispensation, had a similar duration. 
 "•From Adam to Moses," when there was ^^nolatv" i.e., from 
 the Creation to Sinai, 2514 years elapsed, for the date of the 
 Exodus (according to Clinton) is a.m. 2513, and the giving of 
 tlie Law followed the Exodus, so that the '• seven times " ter- 
 minated within seven years of the Exodus. We may therefore 
 boldly say that from Adam to Moses was ''seven times;" 
 from the incipient rise of the Hebrew nation and their 
 peculiar privileges, to their utter rejection and fall, was ''seven 
 times;" and from the recognition by God of Gentile monarchy, 
 down to its final overthrow, is also "seven times" The three 
 dispensations so clearly distinguished by their broad moral fea- 
 tures, and marked off by their critical termini (the greatest 
 events of all human history), arc three great weeks chro- 
 nologically EQUAL TO each OTHER. Taking the prophetic 
 "time " (360 years) as the unit, the first contained seven such ; 
 the second contained srvcn such ; and the third contains seven 
 such. 
 
 Symmetrical subdivisions of these great periods seem also 
 clearly traceable. The second is divided into thirds, the 
 last into halves. The Exodus marks the first third of the 
 Shemitic or Jewish age, the Captivity era its second, and the 
 fall of Jerusalem its close \ the three periods representing 
 respectively the rise, the prosperity, and the decay and fall, of 
 the Jewish nation. The golden headship of the Babylonian 
 ])0\ver marks the rise of the times of the Gentiles, Xho. first half 
 of which is occu])ied by the four great Pagan Empires of anti- 
 quity, and the last by the domination of the " little horn,'' or 
 Papal dynasty, for '"lime times and a half,'' 1260 years. The 
 ciuonolocrical h.nn'ionv belwee:: tliese three great disoen-
 
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 THE LAW OF COMPLETION IN WEEKS. 385 
 
 sations, or stages of progress, in the providential dealings 
 of God with man, is of profound interest, especially when 
 viewed in relation to the other scriptural uses of the week, and 
 in relation to its prominence in natural and vital phenomena. 
 
 Owing to the ingrafiing of these three dispensations, before 
 mentioned, and represented in the diagram, their total duration 
 is between 5S80 and 6000 years. This commencement of a 
 succeeding dispensation before the termination of a previous 
 one, seems natural and appropriate, when the relation between 
 them is remembered. Their connection is not one of mere 
 succession or juxtaposition, but one of intimate relation, and of 
 vital ^r^7<:'///. The mature years of the parent coincide with the 
 infancy and youth of the child ; indeed, there is always a period 
 in which the lives of the mother and child are not twain, but 
 one. So in the chronological arrangements of the law, one 
 year began while another was still in progress, so that the two 
 overlapped for several months. The year of jubilee, for 
 instance, commenced in the midst of the ordinary current year, 
 on the tenth day of the seventh month, the great day of 
 atonement. (Lev. xxv.) 
 
 The deep reason for this arrangement is also obvious, it 
 forms part of that hidden wisdom, of which Scripture is full. 
 It is one feature of an underlying system of times and seasons, 
 which, like all system in nature, is concealed from mere casual 
 observers. Scientific classification has its basis in natural facts ; 
 but the facts on which it is based are not conspicuously obvious 
 to the superficial inquirer, so that the system is not self-evident. 
 On the contrary, the facts must be carefully compared, before 
 their mutual relations can be perceived, or the system which 
 embraces them all, discerned. So it is with these biblical 
 times and seasons. The moral distinctions between the three 
 dispensations are clearly pointed out in Scripture ; the great 
 crises in human history which form their respective termini, are 
 fully narrated, the dates of the events and their duration are 
 duly given, and the measures of tlie last are not indistinctly 
 intimated in prophecy; but it is nowhere ^/afol tiiat human 
 
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 3S6 D/VIXE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS, 
 
 liistory has been providentially divided into three great weeks 
 of seven prophetic times each ; we are left to discover from 
 what is stated, what is nof stated, i.e., the plan that underlies 
 the whole chronology of the Bible, and the harmony of that plan 
 with the plan observable in nature, organic and inorganic. We 
 are furnished with a clue, and then left to explore the labyrinth. 
 
 That there should be this analogy between f/ie mode of God's 
 revelation of his ways, in nature and in Scripture, is what might 
 have been expected, even were no special reason assignable 
 why, in the matter of the chronology of tlie ages, peculiar 
 reserve should be employed. But, as we have previously seen, 
 the purpose of God to conceal the fore-ordained duration of 
 this Christian age, from all save the later generations of his 
 people, is very distinctly intimated. " Shut up the vision and 
 seal the book, even to the time of the end." "The words are 
 closed up and sealed, even to the time of the end." The 
 intimations which exist, of the uniform and septiform measures 
 of the three dispensations, were therefore purposely slight and 
 indirect, unlikely to attract attention in early days, or to be 
 even surmised, till the fulfilment of the great prophetic " time 
 times and a half" had so far progressed, as to illuminate with 
 fresh light the entire book of chronologic prophecy. 
 
 And further, not only is the whole plan and system an under- 
 lying and half-hidden one, but even when perceived the provi- 
 dential gaps in Bible chronology necessarily prevent its being 
 demonstrated, with that absolute evidence which would place 
 it beyond dispute, or with that accuracy w-hich would justify 
 any prediction of " that day and that hour." " It is not for 
 you to know the times and the seasons which the Father hath 
 l)ut in his own power," said our INIaster to his early disciples, 
 when they inquired as to the time of the restoration of the king- 
 dom to Israel. He did not abate their confident expectation 
 that such a restoration was to take place ; He implied, on the 
 contrary, that the time and the season for it were appointed, 
 but intimated that with that time and season ^/uy were not to 
 become acquainted. A revelation of nineteen centuries of delay,
 
 THE LAW OF COMPLETION IN WEEKS. 5S7 
 
 would have been a test of faith and patience too severe to be 
 imposed on the infant Church : a merciful veil of mystery was 
 thrown over the subject, and the return of their Lord, after a 
 longer or shorter delay, was the one hope and prospect left to 
 the early disciples. But ages before, the promise had been 
 £,nven, that in the time of the end, the wise should understand 
 the mysteries of chronologic prophecy (Dan. xii. 10, 11) ; and 
 the promise has been fulfilled. Revelations that were dark to 
 the fathers, are radiant with light to us ; and the perception of 
 the true nature of the year-day system, and of the septiform 
 measures of the Divine dispensations, so far from discouraging 
 faith and hope, now only stimulate both. We humbly venture 
 to regard the view unfolded in this chapter, of the uniform and 
 harmonious ordering of the ages of human history, by the law 
 of completion in weeks, as a fresh instance of progressive inter- 
 pretation, another example- of the way in which God, who is 
 his own interpreter, makes plain in due time, the meaning or 
 his own word.
 
 SECTION III. 
 
 Soli-lunar Cycles, and their Relation to the 
 Chronology of History. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 solar and lunar supremacy 
 IN the ordering of terrestrial time. 
 
 WE have already called attention to the multiplied proofs 
 afforded by every branch of science, of the universal 
 dominion exercised by the sun and moon, both over the 
 organic and inorganic creations. 
 
 We have shown that it is to its various relations, with these 
 two vastly dissimilar, yet equally controlling bodies, that the 
 earth owes its entire life and activity ; that its rotation, revolu- 
 tion, heat, light, seasonal changes, magnetic impulses, and 
 tidal phenomena, its winds, waves, currents, rains, snows, and 
 frosts, all proceed directly or indirectly from the influence of 
 the sun and moon. We have also shown that the distribution 
 of vegetable and animal life, on the surface of the globe, and 
 many of the laws by which both — including the development 
 of the human race itself — are governed, are distinctly traceable 
 to the same cause. Solar influence is simply supreme in the 
 production of all terrestrial change and movement, and in the 
 sustenance and regulation of all vegetable and animal life. 
 
 We now turn to the second phase of solar and lunar domi- 
 nion, and show the place of paramount importance occupied 
 by these two great luminaries, in the regulation of times and 
 seasons. 
 
 The three great tasks assigned to the sun and moon in the 
 first of Genesis are to rule, to cive light, and to divide ; to marl:
 
 SOLI-LUNAR CYCLES, AND CHRONOLOGY. 389 
 
 out the boundaries that separate day from night, month from 
 month, year from year, "appointed time" from "appointed 
 time." The sun and moon are thus constituted not merely 
 beneficent fountains of light to a dark world, and all-influential 
 rulers over our globe, but also principal hands of the divinely 
 constructed and divinely appointed chronometer, by which, in 
 all its course, terrestrial time is measured. 
 
 Nor does the record imply, that this chronometer is to be 
 used by man alone ! " Let them be for signs and for seasons," 
 or appointed times, is an expression which may legitimately 
 include a fact, which it is our object in the present chapter to 
 demonstrate. God, who assigned to these worlds their paths 
 and their periods, has regulated all his majestic providential 
 and dispensational dealings with mankind, by tiie greater revo- 
 lutions of the same chro7iometer, whose lesser revolutions mark 
 our days and months and years. That chronometer is adjusted 
 to measure not only the blossoming of the day-lily and the 
 life-time of the ephemera, but also periods which are incal- 
 culable by human intelligence, and which border on infinity. 
 
 It must be noted that the inspired narrative says " let t/ie^n 
 be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years," not " let 
 the sun " be so, or the moon, or the sun and moon separately, 
 but let t/iem in their conjoint revolutions be such. So obvious 
 and influential are the main revolutions of these "great lights" 
 that in all ages men have as a matter of fact, divided time by 
 their means. But this is not all, they have in addition less 
 obvious cycles, which have been, as we shall see, divinely 
 employed as chronological measures. 
 
 Though time like distance, may theoretically be measured 
 by comparison with standards of any length, yet practically, 
 none are so convenient as those afforded by the conspicuous 
 movements ot the heavenly bodies. These provide not only 
 obvious and universal standards, but what is equally needfu', 
 varied standards. For the subdivision of comjxaratively brief 
 periods of time, a short standard is evidently desirable, — 
 for longer periods a longer standard is rc(]uircd. while to
 
 .390 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 measure periods which embrace hundreds of thousands of 
 years, a standard of immense proportions is evidently needful. 
 An inch is a good standard by -which to divide into equal 
 portions a yard, but it would be tedious to have to measure by 
 inches the circumference of our globe. The distance of the 
 earth from the sun may be measured by millions of miles, but 
 for the almost infinitely greater distance of the fixed stars, we 
 need a longer unit or standard of measurement, and find one 
 in the velocity of light. 
 
 Tluis the revolution of the earth on its axis, giving rise to the 
 day, is a good unit of measurement for the month or moon's 
 revolution in her orbit, and the month in its turn for the year, 
 or earth's revolution in its orbit. This last is a good measure 
 for centuries, but when we rise to millenaries and still longer 
 periods we need larger units of measurement. These are 
 afforded by the revolutions of the sun and moon, as we shall 
 presently show, not by their obvious conspicuous axial and 
 orbital movements merely, but by the cycles of discrepancy 
 between them, and by their recurring epochs of harmony, as 
 well as by their grand secular revolutions. The soli-lunar 
 chronometer is adapted to measure any period, from an hour 
 to an age of all but infinite extent. It has its second hand, 
 its minute hand, its hour hand— its diurnal bell, its monthly 
 chime, its annual })cal, its secular thunder, its millennial 
 choral-harmony. Man uses its minor measures, God recjuires 
 its major standards; man counts by its days, and months, and 
 years ; God's providence employs all its " appointed times." 
 
 " Let thou be for times and for seasons." The movements 
 of the sun and moon are such that naturally in most lands and 
 ages, those of both, and not those of either alone, have been 
 employed as measures of time. 
 
 The solar day is of course a division of lime which both the 
 physical constitution of man, and his occupations, have in 
 every part of the v,-orld, and in every state of society, forced 
 upon him, and compelled him to adojit as his fuudamcnlal unit 
 ot time.
 
 SOLI-LUNAR CYCLES, AND CHRONOLOGY. 391 
 
 The solar year as comprising the complete revolution of the 
 seasons, and thus the entire round of the operations of hus- 
 bandry, forces itself similarly into observance as a larger unit 
 of measurement. 
 
 Lut the days of a whole year are far too numerous to admit 
 of each one being distinguished by a name, and separately 
 remembered and recognised. All nations have felt the neces- 
 sity of grouping the days into smaller parcels which might be 
 named, and the days in each distinguished by numbers. 
 
 The remarkably conspicuous revolution of the moon, being 
 intermediate in its period between the solar day and year, has 
 been adopted for this purpose, and the month has been the 
 principal measure universally recognised, between the year and 
 the day. 
 
 The marked phases of the moon, new, first quarter, full, and 
 third quarter, might at first sight be supposed to have given 
 rise to the fourth commonly received measure of time — the 
 v/eek. But while in a general way these phases harmonize 
 with the week, they do not do so with sufficient accuracy to 
 account for the use of this period, and the week evidently owes 
 its origin not to any astronomical movement, but to the Divine 
 institution of the Sabbath in Eden. (Gen. ii.)
 
 CHAPTER 11. 
 
 DIFFICULTY OF HARMONIZING SOLAR AND LUNAR MEASURES. 
 
 IT might have been supposed, that as solar and lunar revolu- 
 tions were to be employed by man, as measures of time, 
 God would have made them so harmonize, as that some definite 
 number of the lesser, would be exactly commensurate with one 
 of the greater, and a definite number of these again, with one 
 of the greatest. We might have supposed for instance that 
 thirty revolutions of the earth on its axis, would have occupied 
 precisely the same time as one revolution of the moon in her 
 orbit, and twelve such revolutions of the moon, precisely the 
 same time, as one revolution of the earth in its orbit. 
 
 This arrangement would have made the month exactly 
 thirty days, and the year exactly twelve months. Had it been 
 selected by the Creator, the great natural chronometer in the 
 heavens, would have acted, as do our little artificial time-pieces; 
 its hands would, so to speak, have kept pace together, the 
 second, minute, and hour hands, returning simultaneously to 
 their common starting-point, at the close of every major 
 revolution, and setting out again on a new round, in identically 
 the same order as at first. New and full moon would have 
 fallen invariably on the same day of the month, and of the 
 year ; and the endless variety we now experience in this respect 
 would have been replaced by perfect uniformity. 
 
 Such a plan would have been, in some respects, convenient 
 to mankind, and would have made the arrangement of the 
 calendar an exceedingly simple matter, instead of as it is, a 
 most complex and difficult one. But it would have been 
 adapted to the measurements of short periods of time only, 
 and would have aftbrded no standards for longer intervals. 
 
 The arrangement actually adopted on the other hand, while
 
 SOLI-LUNAR CYCLES, AND CHRONOLOGY. 393 
 
 it creates some difficulty in the exact and uniform adjustment 
 of days and months, to years, gives rise to an infinite variety of 
 cycles, or circles of change and harmony, which enable the 
 soli-lunar clock to measure out the revolutions of ages, by 
 standards, varying in length from three years to over a thou- 
 sand years. 
 
 Of these cycles we shall have much to say presently ; and it 
 must be distinctly borne in mind, that it is not in connection 
 with them alone, that we employ soli-lunar reckoning, but that 
 our ordinary computation of time is soli-binar. Our calendar 
 is neither purely solar— regulated by the sun alone ; nor is it 
 wholly lunar— regulated by the moon alone ; but it is soli- 
 lunar— regulated by both, adapted to the motions of both sun 
 and moon. 
 
 As this soli-lunar reckoning of time is fundamental to our 
 present investigation, it will not be out of place to dwell a 
 little more fully on the subject of 
 
 THE CALENDAR AND ITS HISTORY. 
 
 It is evident that one of the first cares of every civilized 
 or even partially civilized society, must always have been to 
 establish some uniform method of reckoning time. Without 
 such a standard of reference, the administration of public affairs 
 would be impossible, and even the regulation of the common 
 concerns of every-day life. For the adjustment of civil and 
 religious ceremonies and institutions, for the fixing of the proper 
 periods for seed-time and harvest, and for the transmission to 
 later generations, of the dates of events worthy of remembrance, 
 a well-regulated calendar is a matter of the utmost import- 
 ance. 
 
 A moment's reflection will show the difficulty Avhich must 
 attend every attempt to construct a calendar, practically 
 adapted to the wants of mankind, out of elements so inhar- 
 monious as the natural day, month, and year. 
 
 The day, measured by the revolutions of the earth on her 
 axis, and marked by the apparent diurnal revolution of the
 
 394 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES Ai\D SEASONS. 
 
 entire heavens, — contains twenty-four hours, and is tlic funda 
 mental measure of time. 
 
 Tlie monih, or interval between one new moon and another, 
 occasioned by the moon's revohition in her orbit, contains 29 
 days 1 2 hours 44 minutes and 3 seconds. 
 
 The year, or apparent course of the sun round the eartli, 
 from any given point in his orbit, to the same point again, 
 occupies 12 months 10 days 21 hours, or 365 days 5 hours 
 4S minutes and 49 seconds. 
 
 How many days make a month ? How many months make 
 a year ? In either case the answer involves a fraction, and the 
 fraction involves more practical difficulty, than can be easily 
 conceived by the uninitiated. 
 
 Before observations were as accurate and information as full, 
 or experience as great, as they now are, it is easy to under- 
 stand that the ancients would grapple boldly with a difhculty 
 which to them may have appeared slight. Twenty-nine or 30 
 days to the month, and 12 months to the year, was a fair 
 approximation to actual facts, and would be supposed to 
 be sufficiently near the mark. But the very purposes aimed 
 at in the use of a calendar, would quickly be defeated 
 by the employment of so inaccurate a one as this. It 
 would for a time agree pretty well with the course of the 
 moon ; but each year it would get more and more out of 
 harmony with the true course of the sun, by eleven days. 
 Now as the seasons are regulated by the course of the sun, it 
 is evident that practical confusions, and irregularities of a most 
 embarrassing kind, would quickly arise. For supposing it to 
 have been settled at any time, that the new year should begin 
 in the spring, sixteen years afterwards, new year's day would 
 fall in the autumn, and in thirty-three years it would have 
 worked its way all through the seasons, back to spring again. 
 
 Intercalation, or the insertion of days at certain junctures, 
 was the remedy employed to meet this difficulty ; but it was 
 an uncertain, awkward, and imperfect remed}'. About the 
 time of the Christian era, it was felt that a reformation of the
 
 SOLI-LUSAR CYCLES, AND CHRONOLOGY. 
 
 calendar was urgently needed. Julius Cossar, calling to his 
 aid the most eminent mathematicians of his time, attempted 
 the task. A careful consideration of the elements of the pro- 
 blem proved, that no satisfactory solution could be found 
 which did not make the sun's annual course tlie principal mea- 
 sure and adapt to it the months and days. He therefore made 
 the year to consist of 365 days for three years successively, and 
 of 366 every fourth year, in order to take in the odd six hours. 
 
 This reformation was made B.C. 45, in the year of Rome 708. 
 The beginning of the year was fixed to the ist of January; and 
 the months were made to consist of 30 and 31 days alternately, 
 with the exception of February, which in ordinary years had 
 only 28 days, but in the fourth year, when the new day arising 
 from the odd six hours was added to it, 29 days. 
 
 This Julian calendar, though superior to any that had pre- 
 ceded it, was still far from perfect, for the odd six hours is not 
 actually six full hours, but 5 hours 48 minutes and 49 seconds 
 as we have said : so that the year of the Julian calendar ex- 
 ceeded the true solar year by 11 minutes and 11 seconds. 
 
 This difference amounts in 130 years to an entire day, and 
 in process of time throws the whole seasons again out of course. 
 In the 1 6th century the vernal equinox, which had by the 
 Council of Nice in a.d. 325 been fixed to the 21st of March 
 was found to happen instead on the nth of that month, the 
 error having, in the intervening period, accumulated to the 
 extent of ten days. 
 
 The present and prospective inconvenience of this state 
 of things was represented to the Councils of Constance and 
 Lateran, by Cardinals Ailli and Cusa, and attempts to remedy 
 it were proposed and discussed. Pope Sixtus IV., in the 
 year 1474, called to Rome the celebrated mathematician 
 Regiomontanus, and bestowed on him the Archbishopric of 
 Ratisbon, that through his aid he might accomplish the required 
 fresh reformation of the calendar. The premature death of 
 the mathematical archbishop, disappointed however the pro- 
 ject, and nothing was done for another century. Then Pope
 
 396 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 Gregory XIII., after consulting mathematicians, and obtaining 
 the consent of the various princes of Christendom, to a plan 
 submitted to him by the astronomer Luilius, called a council 
 of the most learned prelates to consider the question, and 
 having with their concurrence decided it, he published a 
 brief in March, 1582, abrogating the Julian reckoning, and 
 substituting for it the Gregorian calendar which we now 
 employ. 
 
 By this alteration, or '•' new style," the ten days which the 
 civil year had gained on the true solar year, were deducted 
 from the month of October of the year 1582, the equinox being 
 thus brought back to the 21st of iSIarch, as it had been settled 
 by the Nicene Council ; and in order to prevent a recurrence 
 of the irregularity, it was ordered, that instead of every looth 
 year being a leap year, as by the old style, only every 400th 
 year should be such, and the rest be considered as common 
 years. As a day had been gained by the former method every 
 hundred and thirty years, or about three days in four hundred 
 years, the omission of three leap years every four centuries, 
 would evidently nearly rectify the defect. A much more 
 difficult matter was to adjust the lunar to the solar year, and 
 to settle the time for the observance of Easter and other move- 
 able feasts. 
 
 It was ordered by the Council of Nice, that Easter should 
 be celebrated on the f.rst Sunday after the first full-moon, next 
 following the vernal equinox. In order that this rule might be 
 properly observed, it was needful to know the days when the 
 full moon would happen, in any given year. This however 
 it was extremely difficult to ascertain : for the nineteen-years' 
 cycle discovered by the Greek philosopher Meton, which nearly 
 harmonizes the movements of sun and moon, and brings the 
 days of new and full moons back to the same days of the year, 
 was found to be too long by an hour and thirty-two minutes 
 (Julian year measure). After sixteen Metonic or lunar cycles 
 the true phases of the moon would precede those shown in 
 the calendar by a whole day.
 
 SOLI-LUNAR CYCLES, AND CHRONOLOGY 397 
 
 At the time of the Gregorian reformation, the error occa- 
 sioned by this means amounted to four days ; had the old 
 calendar still been followed, it would in time have announced 
 full moon, at the time of change, and Easter would conse- 
 quently have been celebrated at a period, exactly opposite 
 to that commanded by the Church. By an ingenious device, 
 Luilius, the astronomer employed by Gregory XIII. in this 
 intricate business, succeeded in arranging a plan by which the 
 period of the new moon may be ascertained for any month of 
 any year. 
 
 He rejected the " Golden numbers " formerly employed for 
 the purpose, and made use of Epacts in their stead. 
 
 TjieJEpact is. the moon's age at the end of the year. If for 
 example the new moon occurs in a given year on new year's 
 day, we should say there was no epact that year. But as twelve 
 lunations (or lunar months) are completed in 354 days and the 
 year is over 365 days, it is evident that on the second new 
 year's day, the moon would already be eleven days old, while by 
 the third, she would be twenty-two, or have twenty-two days' 
 epact, and by the fourth thirty-three. But as the time of the 
 entire lunation is never more than 29 days and a half, the epact 
 cannot possibly exceed thirty. In the latter case, therefore, 
 thirty must be subtracted, and at the beginning of the fourth 
 year the epact would only be three. By observing this rule 
 through a period of 19 years, the epacts would stand in the 
 following order :—o, 11, 22, 3, 14, 25, 6, 17, 28, 9, 20, i, 12, 
 23, 4, i5> 26, 7, iS. 
 
 As in sixteen lunar cycles, or 304 years, the slight error 
 of that cycle amounts to an entire day, these numbers have 
 then to be increased by unity, and for the second period of 
 304 years will stand in the order, i, 12, 23, 4, 15, 26, 7, 18, 
 29, 10, etc. 
 
 Gregory XIII. ordered all ecclesiastics under his jurisdiction 
 to conform to the new method of reckoning, and exhorted all 
 Christian princes to adopt it in their dominions. The Catholic 
 nations did so at once, the Protestant nations refused to for a
 
 398 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 time. Cut the difference between the " old " and new style, 
 as the Julian and Gregorian accounts were called, occasioned 
 so much confusion in the commercial affairs of the different 
 states of Europe, that by degrees popular prejudice against the 
 change was overcome even in Protestant countries, and in 
 1752, the new style was by Act of Parliament adopted even in 
 England, A century having elapsed, instead of cancelling ten 
 days as the Pope had done, €ltve?i days were ordered to be left 
 out of the month of September, and accordingly on the second 
 of that month the old style ceased, and the next day instead of 
 being called the third, was called the fourteenth. Russia still 
 retains the old style. 
 
 Tliis Gregorian calendar is practically correct for a very long 
 period ; it is not absolutely so^ and it would probably be im- 
 possible to arrange a calendar that should be theoretically 
 perfect for all time, but it is so accurately adjusted to actual 
 solar and lunar movements, as to be free from the error of a 
 day in some thousands of years. A better plan had been 
 previously proposed which seems to have been unknown to 
 Gregory XIII. Herschel says: "A rule proposed by Omar, 
 a Persian astronomer of the court of Gelalcddin Melek Schah, 
 in A.D. 1079 (or more than five centuries before the reforma- 
 tion of Gregory) deserves notice. It consists in interpolating 
 a day, as in the Julian system, every fourth year, only post- 
 poning to the 33rd year the intercalation, which on that system 
 would be mafle on the 32nd. This is equivalent to omitting 
 the Julian intercalation altogether in each 128th year (retaining 
 all the others). To produce an accumulated error of a day 
 on this system, would reciuire a lapse of 5000 years. So 
 :hat the Persian astronomer's rule is /;«'/ only far jnore simple 
 but material ly more exact than the Grr^oruni.'
 
 CHAPTER HI. 
 
 CYCLICAL CHARACTER OF THE PROPHETIC PERIODS OF DAMEL 
 
 and the apocalypse. 
 Discoveries of 'M. de Cheseaux. 
 
 THE perplexities and diffiaulties which encumber the at- 
 tempt to adapt drief periods of time to both solar and 
 lunar movements, as in the calendar, disappear, directly it is a 
 question of /o;igcr intervals. 
 
 Short periods have to be artificially harmonized, longer ones 
 harmonize themselves. There exist various times and seasons, 
 which are naturally measurable both by solar years, and lunar 
 months, without remainder, or with remainders so small as to 
 be unimportant. 
 
 Such periods are therefore Soli-lunar cycles, and we shall 
 henceforth speak of them as such. They harmonize with more 
 or less exactness solar and lunar revolutions, and they may 
 be regarded as divinely appointed units for the measurement 
 of long periods of time, units of precisely the same character 
 as the day, month, and year, (that is created by solar, lunar, 
 and terrestrial revolutions) but of larger dimensions. They are 
 therefore periods distinctly marked off as such, on the same 
 principles as those on which our calendar is based, that is they 
 are natural measures of time, furnished by the Creator Himself 
 for human use. 
 
 The lunar cycle of nineteen years employed by the Creeks 
 is one of these periods, and the ancient cycle of Calippus^ is 
 another. Their discovery has always been an object witli 
 astronomers, as their j.ractical utility is considerable. lUit il 
 was exceedingly ditiicull to find ( yclcs of any tolerable accu- 
 racy, especially cycles combining and harmonizmg the day, and 
 the month, with the year.
 
 400 DIVINE SYSTEM OE TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 About the middle of last century a remarkable fact was dis- 
 covered by a Swiss astronomer M. de Chcseaux, a fact which 
 is full of the deepest interest to the Christian mind, and which 
 has never received either at the hands of the Church or of the 
 world, the attention that it merits. 
 
 The prophetic periods of 1260 years and 2300 years, assigned 
 in the Book of Daniel and in the Apocalypse, as the duration 
 of certain predicted events, arc such soli-lunar cycles, cycles of 
 remarkable perfection and accuracy, but whose existence was 
 entirely unknown to astronomers, until, guided by sacred Scrip- 
 ture, M, de Cheseaux discovered and demonstrated them to be 
 such. And further, the difference between these two periods, 
 which is 1 040 years, is the largest accurate soli-hmar cycle known 
 
 The importance of this discovery, and the fact that it is ex- 
 ceedingly little known, must be our apology for entering into 
 a somewhat full account of the matter here. It is besides vital 
 to our own more immediate subject, and was indeed the means 
 of leading us to the present investigation. 
 
 11. de Chescaux's book is out of print, difficult to procure 
 And even to consult. A copy of it exists in the library of the 
 University of Lausanne, and another in the Britisli Museum. 
 It is entitled " Memoires posthumes de M. de Chcseaux" and 
 was edited and published by his sons, in 1754. It contains 
 '• Remarqucs historiques, chronologiques, et astronomiques, 
 sur quelques endroits du livre de Daniel." The calculations of 
 the astronomical part, were submitted to Messrs. Mairan and 
 Cassini, celebrated astronomers of the Royal Academy of 
 Sciences at Paris, neither of whom called in question the ac- 
 curacy of M. de Cheseaux's principles, or the correctness of his 
 results. M. Mairan, after having carefully read his essay, said 
 that " it was impossible to doubt the facts and discoveries it 
 contained ; but that he could not conceive hoiv or why thej 
 had come to be embodied so distinctly in the Holy Scrip 
 tures." M. Cassini wrote, after having read the treatise and 
 worked the problems, that the methods of calculating the solar 
 and lunar positions and movements, which INI. de Cheseaux
 
 SOLI-LUNAR CYCLES, AND CHRONOLOGY. 401 
 
 had deduced from the cycles of the Book of Daniel, were most 
 clear, and perfectly consistent with the most exact astronomy ;"' 
 he wished the essay to be read before the Academy. 
 
 M. de Cheseaux was engaged in some chronological re- 
 searches, and in order to fix with certainty the date of the Cru- 
 cifixion, he was led to examine certain parts of Scripture, and 
 especially the Book of Daniel. The first portion of his essay is 
 purely chronological, and unimportant to our subject, we may 
 say, however, that he clearly perceived that the "time times 
 and a half" of Dan. vii. meant a period of 1260 years. " The 
 importance of this conclusion and of some of the foregoing 
 principles," he adds, "will be perceived, when we show how 
 it led to a discovery of the singular relation which exists 
 between this period of Daniel, and the facts of astronomy. 
 However strange it may seem, I can positively deduce from 
 the periods of Daniel, as accurately as by the best astronomical 
 methods, and even more so, the five elements of the solar 
 theory." 
 
 He goes on to explain what a cycle is : "a period which 
 brings into harmony diff"erent celestial revolutions, containing a 
 certain definite number of each, without remainder or fraction," 
 and he shows that there are four different kinds of cycles con- 
 nected with the sun, moon, and earth. 
 
 1. Those harmonizing the solar day and year. 
 
 2. Those harmonizing the solar year and lunar month. 
 
 3. Those harmonizing the solar day and lunar month. 
 
 4. Those harmonizing all three, day, month, and year. 
 
 M. de Cheseaux adds," the discovery of such cycles has always 
 been a great object with astronomers and chronologists. They 
 have considered it so difficult a matter, that they have almost 
 laid it down as a principle that it is impossible, at any rate as 
 regards those of the fourth class. Till now, the discovery of a 
 cycle of this kind has been to astronomers, — like perpetual 
 motion to mechanicians, — a sort of philosopher's stone. 
 Anxious to settle whether the thing were really impossible, 
 I began some time ago to try for a cycle of the second kind." 
 
 D D
 
 .|o2 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 M. de Cheseaux then describes the process by which he was 
 led to the discovery that 315 years is such a soU-lunar cycle, 
 tell times more exact than the nineteen years Metonic cycle in 
 use by the ancients ; the sun and moon coming after a lapse 
 of that period, to within three hours twenty-four seconds of 
 absolute agreement : and he proceeds, — 
 
 " I had no sooner discovered this cycle, than I observed that 
 it was a quarter of the 1260 years of Daniel, and the Apocalypse, 
 and that consequently, this period is itself a soli-lunar cycle," 
 after which the sun and moon return, within less than half 
 a degree, to the same point of the ecliptic precisely, and that 
 within an hour of each other.* 
 
 "The relation oi this period, assigned by the Holy Spirit as 
 the limit of certain political events, to the most notable move- 
 ments of the heavenly bodies, made me think it might be the 
 same with the 2300 years. By the aid of the astronomic 
 tables I examined this latter, and found that at the end of 2300 
 Gregorian years, minus six hours fourteen seconds, the sun and 
 the moon return to within half a degree of the place from which 
 they started, and that an hour later the sun has reached its 
 exact starting point on the ecliptic : whence it follows that the 
 prophetic period of 2300 years, is a cyclical period (also re- 
 markable for the number of its aliquot parts, and for containing 
 a complete number of cycles) and 07ie so perfect, that though it is 
 thirty times longer than the celebrated cycle of Calippus, it has an 
 erroy of only thirteen hours, a sa'cntcenth part of the error of that 
 ancient cycle. 
 
 "The exact similarity of the error of these two cycles of 1260 
 and 2300 years, made me soon conclude that the difference 
 between them, 1040 years, ought to be a perfect cycle, free 
 from all error ; and all the more remarkable as uniting the 
 three kinds of cvcles, and furnishing consequently a cycle of 
 
 That is, after 460,205 days 6 h. the sun and moon come into conjunc- 
 tion, and in 460,205 days 7 h. 23 m. tlie sun has returned to its exact starting 
 |x;inL on the ecliptic — a period of 1260 solar years. (According to more 
 accurate mfulcni measures 1260 years arc aliout three hours less.)
 
 SOLI-LUNAR CYCLES, AND CHRONOLOGY. 403 
 
 th3.\.fourih kind, so long sought in vain, and finally concluded 
 to be chimerical, impossible to find. 
 
 "On examination of this period of 1040 years by the best 
 modem astronomic tables I found that it 7uas even so. Its error 
 is absolutely imperceptible, in so long a period, and may indeed 
 be accounted for by errors in the tables themselves, owing to 
 the inaccuracy of some of the ancient observations on which 
 they are founded. 
 
 " This period of 1040 years, indicated indirectly by the Holy 
 Ghost, is a cycle at once solar, lunar, and diurnal or terrestrial 
 of the most perfect accuracy. I subsequently discovered two 
 singular confirmations of this fact, which I will explain pre- 
 sently, when I have adduced all my purely astronomic proofs ; 
 may I in the meantime be permitted to give to this new cycle, 
 the name of the Daniel cycle." 
 
 M. de Cheseaux then goes into full astronomic detail, of a kind 
 that would fail to interest our readers, though proving the very 
 remarkable nature of this cycle : and he subsequently continues, 
 " As I before said, a cycle of this kind had long been sought 
 in vain ; no astronomer or chronologist, had been able to light 
 upon one for nineteen centuries; and yet for two thousand 
 three hundred years, there it has been, written in characters 
 legible enough, in the Book of Daniel : legible, that is, to 
 him who was willing to take the trouble of comparing the great 
 prophetic periods, with the movements of the heavenly bodies ; 
 in other words, to him, who compared the book of nature with 
 the book of revelation.'" 
 
 " The slightest error, even of a few seconds, in the deter- 
 mination of the true length of the solar year, would remove 
 altogether from these numbers, their cyclical character. Only 
 the perfection of modern astronomical instruments in fact, 
 can demonstrate it at all. So that we have the problem. How 
 did Daniel, or tlie author of the Cook of Daniel, whoever he 
 was (if, as some assert, the prophecy is of a later date than 
 Daniel), light upon these undiscoverable and undiscovered, yet 
 oxessivcly .rxurate celestial cycles, at a time when there were
 
 404 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 no instruments in existence capable of measuring solar revolu- 
 tions with sufficient accuracy, to reveal the cyclical character of 
 the periods?" 
 
 M. de Cheseaux adds, '*' I must close with one observation. 
 For many ages the Book of Daniel, and especially these passages 
 of it, have been quoted and commented on by numerous and 
 varied authors, so that it is impossible for a moment to call in 
 question their antiquity. Who can have taught their author the 
 marvellous relation of the periods he selected with soli-lunar 
 revolutions? Is it possible, considering all these points, to 
 fail to recognise in the Author of the Book of Daniel, the 
 Creator of the heavens and all their hosts, of the earth and the 
 things that are therein ? " 
 
 In a subsequent portion of his dissertation, M. de Cheseaux 
 shows that not only can the five solar elements be deduced 
 from the data in Daniel, but also the limar. He compared his 
 theoretic results with the observations recorded by the ancient 
 astronomers Hipparchus and Ptolemy. Calculating forward 
 first, he finds that the mean new moon of the vernal equinox 
 of A.D. 1879 will, at Alexandria in Egypt, occur at 11.43^ p.m. 
 on the loth of March (O.S.). He then applies this cycle of 
 1040 years, and reckons backwards. Two .such cycles, equal 
 to 20S0 years, from the above date, carry back to 11.43^ P-"^- 
 of March 26, e.g. 202 (/.^., sixteen days later than March 10, 
 reckoning by Julian calendar). 
 
 Now according to the tables of Hipparchus and Ptolemy the 
 new moon of the vernal equinox that year, did at Alexandria 
 fall on the 26th of March, at 1 1.39 p.m., not quite five minutes 
 earlier than, by the cyclical calculation, it should have fallen ! 
 M. de Cheseaux adds, " I leave it to others to judge whether a 
 slight difference such as this, may not well be attributed to the 
 inevitable errors of the best ancient observations." 
 
 In his second dissertation this astronomer deduces the true 
 size and figure of the earth, from these same cycles, and works 
 by means of them some thirty or forty elaborate astronomical 
 and geographical problems.
 
 SOLI-LUXAR CYCLES, AXD CHRONOLOGY. 405 
 
 Such were M. de Cheseaux's discoveries ; and they are of 
 the deepest interest and importance, as manifesting, in a new 
 Hght, the wisdom and glory of God in connection with his 
 holy word. That the ancient prophet Daniel twenty-five cen- 
 turies ago, and "the disciple whom Jesus loved" eighteen 
 .centuries ago, should both have incorporated in their mysterious 
 books of symbolic prophecy, as the chronological limits of 
 certain most important events, periods of time, which the 
 accurate researches of modern science have proved to be cycles 
 formed by vast, complex, long-enduring movements of the 
 heavenly bodies, seems a marvellous fact, a fact to be ac- 
 counted for only by the Divine inspiration under which these 
 Jioly men of old wrote. 
 
 For it is certain, and none can dispute it, that these periods 
 are accurate celestial cycles : it is equally certain, and few will 
 be inclined to question it, that neither Daniel, nor John, the 
 fisherman of the Sea of Galilee, were able to calculate these 
 cycles, or were even aware of their existence. Had they been 
 in intercourse with the first astronomers of their day, or even 
 had they been themselves astronomers of the highest attain- 
 ments, it would have been impossible for them in the then 
 existing state of astronomic science, to have observed the 
 cyclical character of these periods. There was no such exact 
 knowledge of either the true length of the solar year, or lunar 
 month, as would have made the discovery of tliese cycles 
 possible. In Daniel's day even the Metonic or lunar cycle was 
 unknown, and these larger but similar cycles, were as a matter 
 of fact, discovered only last century. 
 
 It was therefore certainly -wot as moved by their own intelli- 
 gence, that the sacred writers selected these periods ; and if 
 they were not moved by Divine inspiration, how is the fact 
 of their use of them to be accounted for? Could it be by 
 chance — by accident — that to certain supremely important 
 series of events, were assigned as the period of their duration, 
 these cyclical periods ? 
 
 Such an explanation of the fact, would be improbable to the
 
 4o6 DIVIA'E SVST/rjf OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 last degree ! Nothing but an unwillingness to admit the 
 miracle of inspiration, could lead to its being suggested as 
 an alternative. It would be an unsatisfactory account of the 
 matter had there been one single cycle only, so emjiloyed, and 
 the fact that there are three, makes it wholly inadmissible. 
 But there are more, and even many such proofs, of the use in 
 Scripture by writers ignorant of astronomy, of periods marked 
 out distinctly as cycles, by the less obvious revolutions of the 
 heavenly bodies. This fact, which has we believe never before 
 been demonstrated, is of such importance as enhancing the evi- 
 dence of the inspiration of Scripture, as to deserve the most 
 careful consideration. 
 
 In the following chapters we shall endeavour to unfold the 
 further multiplied, and most remarkable links of connection 
 which we have ourselves discovered, between the chronology 
 of Scripture, historic and prophetic, and the cycles of soli-lunar 
 revolution.
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 THE PROPHETIC TIMES AND THEIR EPACTS. 
 
 PROPHECY, which occupies about a third of the Eible, 
 threw its hght beforehand, as we have seen, on all the 
 events of importance which were to befall the typical and the 
 antitypical Israels, and the empires, nations, and powers with 
 which in the course of their long earthly histories they were to 
 be brought more especially into contact. One large group ol 
 prophecies range themselves around the rise of the Jewish 
 people, and a similar group clusters around its fall. The 
 majority of these sacred predictions have in them, no chrono- 
 logical element, but in several, statements of time are embodied. 
 The predictions we have now to pass in review, are the 
 chronological prophecies, delivered about the time of the fall 
 of the Jewish nation, by Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Daniel. Some 
 of these prophecies are literal, and some symbolic. In the 
 literal predictions, the chronological statements are made in 
 plain terms, while in the symbolic, they are expressed on the 
 year-day system, in harmony with the nature of the prophecy. 
 The former generally relate to events near at hand, and were 
 given for the benefit of the generation which received them, 
 or of the immediately succeeding generations, while the latter 
 foretell a remote future, and were given, less for the benefit of 
 the men. of that age, than for our admonition, on whom the 
 ends of the world are come. 
 
 To the prophet who was privileged to receive these won- 
 derful Divine revelations of the future, and to behold in vision 
 mystic symbols of events to take place in the time of the end, 
 it was said concerning them, " Thou, O Daniel, shut up the 
 words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end;" and 
 to others, as well as to this greatest of all chronological pro-
 
 4oS DIVINE SYSTEM 01 TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 phets, " it was revealed, that not unto themselves but unto us, 
 they did minister " in their prophecies concerning the " suffer- 
 ings of Christ, and the glories that should follow." These 
 mystic revelations were not designed to be fully understood 
 until after the lapse of ages, when the fulfilment of a portion 
 should have thrown light on the meaning of the remainder, 
 hence they were given in symbolic language, and their chrono- 
 logy expressed on the year-day system. 
 
 In this second class of prophecies are comprised Daniel's 
 predictions as to the duration of the restored Jewish polity 
 after the Babylonish captivity ; the period to elapse before the 
 advent and death of INIessiah the prince, and the subsequent 
 destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans, the rejection of the 
 Jewish people, and desolation of their Sanctuary ; the long 
 course of the times of the Gentiles, with the events marking the 
 close of that great dispensation ; the resurrection of the dead ; 
 and the final blessedness of the righteous. 
 
 Thus, from the time of the prophet Daniel, right on over the 
 first and second advents of Christ, and over all the intervening 
 events, these far-reaching and majestic prophecies throw their 
 Divine light, showing both the close of the Jewish economy, 
 and the end of the Christian dispensation, and fixing before- 
 hand, in mystic terms, the chronological limits of both. 
 
 They were not given for the Avicked to understand, but for 
 " the wise " to ponder in their hearts, and at the time of the 
 end, when knowledge should be increased, to comprehend with 
 ever growing clearness. 
 
 The predictions of the first, or literal class, which we shall 
 have to consider are, — 
 
 1. That recorded in Isa. vii. 8 ; the " sixty and five years" 
 foretold by the proi)het, as to end in the cutting off oi Israel's 
 national existence by their Assyrian conquerors. 
 
 2. That given in Jer. xxv. ii ; and xxix. lo; the "seventy 
 years" twice predicted as the predetermined duration of that 
 Babylonisii captivity which was sent ui)on JudaJi as a punish- 
 ment for sin.
 
 SOLI-LUNAR CYCLES, AND CHRONOLOGY. 409 
 
 3. The "thousand years" of the millennial reign of Christ. 
 Rev. XX. 
 
 Those of the second, or symbolic class, which must pass 
 under our review, are, — 
 
 1. The "seventy weeks," or 490 years, foretold by Daniel 
 as the interval destined to elapse between the rebuilding of 
 Jerusalem and the advent and atoning work of the Messiah. 
 
 Dan. ix. 
 
 2. The 2300 years, similarly predicted as the long extended 
 period which would elapse before the final cleansing of the 
 Sanctitaiy. Dan. viii. 
 
 3. The 1260 years predicted domination of the little horn, 
 which is the assigned duration of other events also. This 
 period is the base of several others. It is a half week ; " time 
 times and a half," so we must consider the week of which it is 
 half, the "seven times" or 2520 years of Gentile douiinion : 
 and it receives in Dan. xii, two additions, of 30 and 45 years, 
 so it must be studied both alone, and with its addenda, i.e., as 
 1290 and 1335 years. It is indeed the most important of 
 these symbolic periods, and will repay the fullest investigation. 
 
 The periods we have to consider are therefore the fol- 
 lowinir ; — 
 
 65 years 
 
 70 
 490 
 2300 
 T260 
 2520 
 1290 
 1335 
 
 30 
 
 45 
 2595 
 
 TOGO 
 
 Isa. vii. 8. 
 Jer. XXV. 1 1. 
 Dan. ix. 
 Dan. viii. 
 Dan. vii. 
 Dan. iv. 
 Dan. xii. 
 
 Rev. XX. 
 
 A little consideration will show a variety of beautiful and
 
 41 o DIVIDE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 harmonious relations between these apparently dissimilar and 
 incongruous periods. 
 
 They are all proportionate parts of a great week of mil- 
 lenaries, and fit into each other, and into a framework of 70CO 
 years, in a way that proves almost to demonstration, that they 
 were designed so to do. 
 
 The 70 years of the Captivity may be regarded as a day ; 
 the 490 years of the restoration is then a iceck of such days ; 
 the 1260 years of the dominion of the little horn, is eighteen 
 such days; the 2520 years of the times of the Gentiles is 
 tliirty-six such days (a tenth of 360 or a year of such days) 
 and the 2300 years to the cleansing of the Sanctuary is a third 
 of the whole period, the nearest third of seven millenaries, 
 possible in centuries. 
 
 Of all these periods the root is evidently the zveek of years, 
 the seven years which, under the Levitical economy, extended 
 from one sabbatic year to another. 
 
 The 70 years during which the Babylonish Captivity was 
 appointed to endure, were 10 such weeks, and the 490 years of 
 the restored Judaism 70. The little horn was to reign 180 such 
 weeks, and the "Times of the Gentiles" to extend over 360, 
 or an entire year of such weeks, while the whole period of 
 seven millenaries contains 1000 such weeks. 
 
 It must be remembered also that the Jubilee period estab- 
 lished under the law of Moses, was seven such weeks, or 
 49 years ; so that the period of restored Judaism to the time 
 of Messiah the Prince, was a tenfold Jubilee, or 490 years. 
 
 It should further be noted, that the two principal of these 
 periods, the 2520 years, and the 2300 years, relate respectively 
 the one to the throne, and the other to the San-ctuary; the 
 first embracing the whole period of Gentile rule, from the con- 
 nuest of Judah by Nebuchadnezzar to the establishment of 
 the kingdom of Christ, the true son of David ; and the other 
 extending from the time of the Medo-Persian kingdom, to 
 \\\Q fitial cleansing of the Sanctuary, when Jerusalem ceases 
 to be trodden down of the Gentiles, the Times of the Gentiles
 
 SOLLLUNAR CYCLES, AND CIIROyOLOGY. .'M 
 
 being fumUed. The one is thus civil, and the other sacred, 
 
 in character. 
 
 Harmonious and deeply significant mutual relations subsist 
 therefore among these periods, and between them and the 
 legal atid ceremonial times established under the Mosaic 
 economy. It remains to show that they are connected also 
 with other periods of Jewish history, and that though they are 
 not all soli-lunar cycles, t/tey form a scries of sepiiform soli-lunar 
 periods, and that, of so marked and accurate character, as to 
 preclude all thought of accidental coincidence, and to declare 
 with unmistakable clearness the Creator's plan. 
 
 We proceed to consider them in detail. 
 
 The Sixty-five Years of Isaiah vii. S. 
 
 Chronological prophecy has always been given, not for seasons 
 of prosperity, but for seasons of trouble and adversity : for 
 nearly a thousand years,— ever since the prediction of Israel's 
 forty years' wandering in the wilderness, it had been discon- 
 tinued in Israel, when it was renewed shortly before the first 
 captivity of the ten tribes, and continued at intervals during 
 two centuries, up to the time of the last of Daniel's visions, 
 and the restoration of Judah from Babylon. 
 
 In the year of the death of Uzziah,— the profane and pre- 
 sumptuous monarch who intruded into the Holiest, and was 
 struck with leprosy in consequence,— there was granted to 
 Isaiah the prophet a vision of the God of glory; a vision of 
 Christ the Lord, enthroned in heaven and adored, as the thrice 
 Holy One, by the Seraphim. 
 
 The pollution and approaching rejection and desolation of 
 Israel were also shown to him, and the future restoration of a 
 remnant This vision was immediately prior to the com- 
 mencement of the "Times of the Gentiles,-' for it was given in 
 the year of Uzziah's death ; and early in the reign of his grand- 
 son \haz, there was revealed to Isaiah the exact measures 
 of the brief j^criod that should elapse, before the commence-
 
 412 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 ment of the Captivity of Israel; ^^ within sixty and five years 
 shall Ephraim be broke?!, that it be 7iot a people " (Isa. vii. 8). 
 
 Called to his sacred office, and cleansed for it by a live coal 
 from the altar applied to his lips, at this solemnly momentous 
 crisis in the history of Israel, on the very verge of their in- 
 cipient rejection by God, as his people, Isaiah was constituted 
 the evangelical prophet. 
 
 He was commissioned to unfold the rejection and death of 
 Messiah, the call of the Gentiles, and the final restoration of 
 Israel. Through him, living as he did just before their incipi- 
 ent commencement, was revealed the general nature of the 
 " Times of the Gentiles ; " while to Daniel, living at their full 
 commencement about a hundred and fifty years later, was 
 revealed their duration, together with a multitude of important 
 events, destined to take place during their course. 
 
 This first of the Captivity series of chronologic prophecies 
 foretold the overthrow of the ten tribes only. 
 
 It dates from a well-marked epoch ; a certain confederacy of 
 the king of Syria, with Pekah king of Israel, and their joint 
 invasion of Judah (n.c. 741). 
 
 This attack of the hostile allies, struck terror into the heart 
 of Ahaz king of Judah, and into the hearts of his people ; 
 " their hearts were moved as the trees of the wood are moved 
 with the wind " (Isa. vii. 2) ; and it was then that Isaiah the 
 prophet was sent, to announce to the trembling king of Judah, 
 as a message from Jehovah, the approaching downfall of one 
 of his enemies. " Within sixty and fii^e years shall Ephraim 
 be broken, that it be not a people.^' 
 
 This prediction received its fulfilment, in two stages. Shal- 
 manezer, king of Assyria, came up against Samaria in the reign 
 of Hoshea (n.c. 723) and after a siege of three years, took the 
 city, carried Israel away into Assyria, placed them in Halah 
 and Habor and other cities, and located colonies of Assyrians 
 in the cities of Samaria, in their room. Subsequently, in 
 676 E.G., Esarhaddon the son of Sennacherib completed the 
 work thus begun — carried away the remaining Israelites, re-
 
 SOLI-LUNAR CYCLES, AND CHRONOLOGY. 413 
 
 placing them by fresh parties of Assyrian colonists (from whom 
 the Samaritans, with whom " the Jews have no dealings," 
 sprung), and completing the destruction of Ephraim. 
 
 This period of sixty-five years stands chronologically thus, — 
 
 B.C. 7AI. Sixty-five Years to Ephraim's Fall. B.C. 67O. 
 
 It comprised the period of the fall of the ten tribes, as 
 distinguished from that of Judah ; and its dose synchronized 
 with the commencement of Judah's captivities. It formed the 
 gateway, so to speak, of the great seven times of Jewish desola- 
 tion, for this completion of the judgment on the ten tribes, was 
 quickly followed by the Babylonish captivity, and the total 
 subjection of the entire Jewish nation to Gentile rule. 
 
 Now this period of sixy-five years, is not a soli-lunar cycle, 
 but the solar gain on the lunar year during its course, is a 
 septiform period, seven Imndred and seven days. 
 
 Seventy Years, 
 
 By the mouth of Jeremiah, the weeping prophet, the Lord 
 foretold a seventy years' captivity in Babylon, as the punish- 
 ment shortly to overtake Judah for their long-continued sins of 
 idolatry and obstinate rebellion against God. (Jer, xxv. 8-12.) 
 
 Unlike the judgment denounced against the ten tribes, to 
 which no promise of speedy restoration was attached, a return 
 to their own land was distinctly promised to Judah, at the 
 expiration of this seventy years, 
 
 " Thus saith the Lord of hosts ; Because ye have not heard 
 my words, behold, I will send and take all the families of the 
 north, saith the Lord, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, 
 my servant, and will brin;; them against this land, and against 
 the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round 
 about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an as- 
 tonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations. More- 
 over I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice
 
 4U DIVIXE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 ot gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the 
 bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle. 
 And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonish- 
 ment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon 
 SEVENTY YEARS. And it shall come to pass, when seventy years 
 are accojnplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and 
 that nation, saith the Lord, for their iniquity, and the land of 
 the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations " (Ter. 
 XXV. 8-12). 
 
 Towards the close of the captivity thus foretold, Daniel 
 says, " In the first year of Darius ... I Daniel under- 
 stood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of 
 the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet, that He ivould accom- 
 plish SEVENTY YEARS in the desolations of /enisalem." 
 
 Now this period of seventy years, is a remarkable one in 
 many ways. It extends from the first destruction of Jerusalem 
 by Nebuchadnezzar (2 Kings xxiv. 10 ; and Jer. xxv. i), to 
 the Edict of Cyrus for the return of the Jews, and the rebuild- 
 ing of the temple (Ezra i. 2), that is to say, from B.C. 605 to 
 the end of b.c. 536. 
 
 Its relation to the entire course of the history of the Baby- 
 lonian Empire, and its chronological position //; that history, 
 must first be noted. The duration of that empire, dating from 
 the era of Nabonassar (which is its own era), to the capture of 
 Babylon by Cyrus, which preceded the restoration of the Jews, 
 was 210 years ; from B.C. 747 to B.C. 538. 
 
 Now 210 years, is three times seventy years ; and the seventy 
 years during which the captive Jews hung their harps upon 
 the willows, and sat down and wept by the rivers of Babylon, 
 almost exactly coincided with the closing third of the existence 
 of the empire. In the year b.c. 538, Babylon fell, Darius the 
 Median took the kingdom (Dan. v. 31), and the great Medo- 
 Persian Empire succeeded the Babylonian. 
 
 This period of 2 10 years, is also srcen prophetic months (30 x 
 7 = 210) so that tlie typical Babylon lasted seven such months, 
 and the antitypical Babylon is twice over in the Apocalypse
 
 SOLI-LUNAR CYCLES, AND CHRONOLOGY. 41b 
 
 said to last six times seven— forty and two— such months. 
 This is the period during which the symbohc holy city and 
 temple court, are trodden mider foot (Rev. xi. 2) and the 
 period of the Beast (Rev. xiii. 5). 
 
 Seventy years was the life-time of the great king and sweet 
 Psalmist of Israel, " David was thirty years old when he began 
 to reign, and he reigned forty years" (i Sam. v. 4). Moses 
 the man of God, declares it to be the normal measure of human 
 life, " The days of our years are threescore years and ten ; " and 
 it is, as we have seen, the day of which other prophetic periods 
 are multiples. 
 
 It is also ten times the sabbatic week of years, and mdeed 
 the Captivity may be regarded as a larger form of that week, 
 during which the land, as God by Moses had threatened it 
 should do, lay desolate and enjoyed its sabbaths. 
 
 Now this period, is astronomically, a soli-lunar cycle, in 
 which the solar year gains on the calendar lunar year of 360 
 days, one entire year.* 
 
 The Seventy Weeks of Dan. i:c 
 
 When the seventy years of the Babylonish Captivity were 
 nearly over, Daniel, " understanding by books" (the books of 
 tlie prophet Jeremiah) that they must be well-nigh ended, gave 
 himself to earnest supplication for his people, and about the 
 city and Sanctuary, which, after a life-time of honourable exile, 
 were still dear to his heart. 
 
 As David when God had revealed to him his purposes of 
 grace respecting his seed, cried, " O Lord God, the word that 
 Thou hast spoken, establish it for ever, and do as Thou hast 
 said ' " so Daniel, when he understood God's intention quickly 
 
 • Accurately, 367 days (a calendar lunar year, and a week) ; one day 
 and a SionI; excess ^f the 365^ days c.f the true ^-^y^"^^, 
 to it, than ^voul<l be the gain or epact of either 69 or 71 veai.,, the HLaic.t 
 possible therefore.
 
 4i6 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS' 
 
 to terminate the long captivity of the Jews, began to pray for 
 the accompHshment of his purpose. What a lesson, that a 
 knowledge of the purposes of God, so far from leading to a 
 fatalistic carelessness about their accomplishment, should lead 
 to earnest, believing, hopeful, supplication ! 
 
 " Cause Thy face to shine upon Tiiy sanctuary ! Behold the 
 city that is called by Thy name ! Defer not, O my God ! " 
 so pleaded this "man greatly beloved," this devout and intelli- 
 gent student of prophecy, who became in his turn a prophet, 
 and we may say, the prince of prophets. 
 
 While he was speaking in prayer, the answer was given. 
 Gabriel was sent forth, commissioned to give him further 
 understanding of the counsels of God, about tlie city and 
 temple of Jerusalem, and the fuiure fortunes of the Jewish 
 nation. 
 
 Daniel's mind was full of the just expiring period of seventy 
 years. Gabriel revealed to him, as determined by God, a new 
 period of "seventy weeks." " Seventy weeks are determined 
 upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the trans- 
 gression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconcilia- 
 tion for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and 
 to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most 
 Holy. Know therefore and understand, that from the going 
 forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem 
 unto Messiah the Prince, shall be sereti weeks, and threescore 
 and two weeks : the street shall be built again, and the wall, 
 even in troublous times. And after threescore and two weeks 
 shall Messiah be cut off, but not for Himself : and the people 
 of the prince that shall come sJiall destroy the city and the 
 sanctuary ; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and 
 unto the end of the war desolations are determined. And He 
 shall confirm the covenant with many for one week : and in the 
 midst of the 7veck He shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation 
 to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations He shall 
 make it desolate [or, upon the battlements shall be the idols of 
 the desolator], even until tlie consummation, and that deter-
 
 SOLI-LUNAR CYCLES, AND CHRONOI^OGY. 417 
 
 mined shall be poured upon the desolate "■ [or, desolator]. — 
 Dan. ix. 24-27. 
 
 From the then approaching command to restore and to build 
 again Jerusalem, to the coming of Messiah the Prince, — that 
 grand goal of all Jewish expectations, — was to be '■^ scvojtty 
 weeks." The event proved they were to be weeks of years, 
 not of days ; the interval was to be a great week of Captivity 
 periods, a week each of whose days should equal the seventy 
 years of the Babylonish Captivity in duration. This had con- 
 sisted of seventy solar years ; the new period was to include 
 seventy Sabbatic years, 490 years. The reason why the chron- 
 ology of this prediction is expressed in symbolic language, 
 though all the rest is literal, is obvious. 
 
 It was needful so to word the prophecy, as to leave tlie Jews 
 free to receive or reject Messiah when He should come, for He 
 was not to be imposed on them against their will. His coming 
 was to be a test : " It may be they will reverence my Son." 
 Had the interval to the Advent been in the prophecy clearly 
 defined as 490 years, Israel would not have been left free to 
 say, as they alas ! did, "We will not have this man to reign 
 over us." " He came unto his own, and his own received 
 Him not." Messiah was, as predicted, cut off, which would 
 hardly have been possible had the date of his appearance been 
 beyond dispute. It was essential that the form of the predic- 
 tion should not compel a recognition of Jesus of Nazareth : 
 hence the adoption of language which ti.me alone could in- 
 terpret. A term of ambiguous meaning, though suggesting 
 common weeks, was employed, and yet the larger reckoning 
 was not by it excluded. On the contrary, it was the basis of 
 the expectation of Messiah's immediate advent, so prevalent in 
 Jerusalem when He did appear. 
 
 What then is this great period of four hundred and ninety 
 years ? 
 
 In reply, let it first be noted that it was no new period in the 
 history of Israel. It was their jubilee of forty-nine years on a 
 larger scale, a tenfold jubilee measure ; and by it, previous 
 
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 4i8 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 chapters in their hi-story had been regulated. It may be said 
 indeed to be the pecuHar period of the seed of Abrani. The 
 first stage of Jewish history from Abraham to tlie entrance into 
 Canaan in the days of Joshua, is similarly a tenfold jubilee, a 
 " seventy weeks," an interval of about 490 years. This was 
 before actual jubilee reckoning began, for that was ordained to 
 be from the time " when ye be come into your land." From 
 Joshua's conquest of Canaan, i;.c. 1585-6, to tlic commence- 
 ment of the Jewish kingdom under Saul (e.g. 1096), was also, 
 as far as can be ascertained, ten jubilees, or seventy weeks, 
 that is 490 years, the period of the Judges, and of the prophet 
 Samuel ; — the Theocracy of Israel. 
 
 From the accession of Saul, the first king (b.c. 1096), to the 
 capture of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar, in the days of the 
 last king (b.c. 606), there elapsed ten jubilees more, another 
 seventy weeks, or 490 years, the period of independent Jewish 
 monarchy. So that tJic seventy weeks from the restoration to 
 Messiah the Prince, was the fourth in a series of such periods, 
 extending back to the days of Abraham, just as the seventy 
 years of the Captivity was the third in a series of such periods, 
 dating from the era of Babylon, the era of Nabonassar . God 
 had employed both periods, before He atuiounccd eitb.er. This 
 great period of 490 years is the connecting link between 
 Old and New Testament times. Its closing portion was the 
 period of the Advent, the atoning death, and the world redeem- 
 ing work of the Son of God. 
 
 The soli-lunar measures of four hundred and ninety years 
 are as follows : they contain twenty-five lunar cycles ; and 
 the solar gain on the lunar year in tliess tv7enty-five cycles, 
 ID twice seven lunar years and seven months. 
 
 There is a slight fractional remainder in years, the epact of 
 which, added to that of the twenty-five lunar cycles, makes 
 the epact of the whole 490 years, twice seven solar years and 
 seven months, with a J>;'>ctioiial remainder of about eight days, 
 calculating by the true lunar and solar years. But calculating 
 by the Julian solar, and calendar lunnr years, the epact or
 
 SOLI-LUXAR CYCLES, AND CHRONOLOGY. 419 
 
 difference is seven calendar lunar years and seven weeks, 
 without remainder. 
 
 ^Ve may add, that in 490 years, the equinoxes retrograde seven 
 days. Their annual retrogression is 20 m. 20 s., which amounts 
 to seven days (within about two hours) in the " seventy weeks/'* 
 
 The "Time Times and a Half," or 1260 Years. 
 Dan. vii. 25. 
 
 This is the next link in the chain of chronological propliecy 
 The period is mentioned, under different names, sej'on times in 
 Scripture — in two chapters of Daniel, and three of Revelation. 
 
 It is the duration assigned to, 
 
 1. The domination of the little horn over the 
 
 saints ...... Dan. vii. 
 
 2. The closing period of Jewish dispersion . Dan. viii. 
 
 3. The sojourn of the woman in the wilder- 
 
 ness ....... Rev. xii. 
 
 4. The same, her flight from the serpent . Rev. xii. 
 
 5. The treading under foot of the Holy City. Rev. xi 
 
 6. The prophesying of the two witnesses . Rev. xi. 
 
 7. The duration of "the Beast," or Sth head 
 
 of the Roman Empire . . . Rev. xiii.t 
 
 * We m.iy also notice that the 49 years jubilee is a soli-lunar cycle, its 
 error beini,^ one day and a IracUoii. In 490 years tliis error amounts lo 
 thirteen aud a quarter days, or in whole numbers. Joitrtcen a'uys, i.e., iu\' 
 •zveeks. 
 
 t The followint^ are the passaj^cs in which it occurs : — 
 
 1. Of the Little Horn of the fourth or Roman Em]nrc it is said. "lie shall 
 speak great words against the Most High, and shall wear out tlie saints of 
 the Most High, and think to change times and laws: and THEY SHALL BK 
 
 GIVEN L\T() HIS HAND UNTIL A TIMK AND TLMKS AND THE DIVIDLNG OK 
 
 TIME. But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, 
 lo consume and to destroy it unto the end. And the kuigdorii and dominion, 
 and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to 
 the people of the saints of the Most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting 
 kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and ol)ey Him " (Dan. vii. 25-27)- 
 
 2. "And one said to the man clothed in linen, which was upon the 
 i\-aters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders? 
 .A.nd I licard t'le man clothed in liuen, which v.as upon the waters of tlie
 
 420 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 It is of course evident that 1260 days are the same period 
 as forty and two months (30 x 42 = 1260), and that forty and 
 two months are the same period as three years and a half 
 
 river, when HE nr.i.D vv ins right hand and his left hand unto 
 
 HEAVEN, and SWAKE liY lIlM THAT LIVETH FOR EVER, THAT IT SHALL 
 
 BE FOR A TIME, TIMES, AND AN HALF ; and when hc sliall have accomplished 
 tu scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished. 
 And I heard, but I understood not : then said I, O my Lord, what shall be 
 the end of these things? And He said, Go thy way, Daniel : for the 
 words are closed up and sealed //// the time of the end. Many shall be 
 purified, and made white, and tried ; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and 
 none of the wicked shall understand ; but the wise shall U7tdcrstattd.'' Con- 
 nect verse 4, " But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, 
 even to the time of the end : tnauy shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall 
 be increased" (Dan. xii.). 
 
 3. It is the period of the sojourn of the woman in the wilderness. 
 " And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he per- 
 secuted the woman which brought forth the man child. And to the womaa 
 were given two wings of a great eagle, that slie might fly into the wilder- 
 ness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, 
 
 AND half a time, FROM THE FACE OF THE SERPENT " (ReV. xii. I3, I4). 
 
 4. " She brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a 
 rod of iron : and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne. And 
 
 THE woman fled INTO THE WILDERNESS, WHERE SHE H.\TH A PLACE 
 PREPARED OF GoD, TH.VT THEY SHOULD FEED HER THERESA THOUSAND 
 TWO HUNDRED AND THREESCORE DAYS " (Rev. xii. 5, 6). 
 
 5. It is the period of the treading under foot of the holy city. *' And 
 there was given me a reed like unto a rod : and the angel stood saying, 
 Rise, and measure tlic temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship 
 therein. But the court which is without the temple leave out, and mea- 
 sure it not ; for it is given unto the Gentiles : and the holy city shall 
 THEY tread UNDER FOOT FORTY AND TWO MONTHS " (ReV. xi. I, 2). 
 
 6. It is the period during which the two witnesses prophesy. " And I 
 will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall PROPHESY A 
 THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED AND THREESCORE DAYS, CLOTHED IN SACK- 
 CLOTH " (Rev. xi. 3). 
 
 7. It is the period of the Beast. " And I saw a beast rise up out of the 
 sea, having sarn heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and 
 upon his heads the name of blasphemy. And the beast which I saw was 
 like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth 
 as the mouth of a lion : and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, 
 and great authority. And 1 saw one of his heads as it were wounded to 
 death ; and his deadly wound was healed : and all the world wondered after 
 the beast. And thcv worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the 
 beast : and they wor>hipped the beast, saying. ^Vho is like unto the beast ? 
 and who is able to make war with him ? And there was given unto him a 
 mouth speaking great things and blasphemies ; and POWER WAS GIVEN UNTO 
 HIM TO CONTINUE FORTY AND TWO MONTHS " (Rev. xiii. I-5).
 
 SOLI-LUNAR CYCLES, AND CHRONOLOGY. 421 
 
 (42H-12 = 3I), and that therefore, on the year-day principle, this 
 seven times mentioned interval, is one of 1260 literal years ; 
 half oi the great week of "seven times," or 2520 years, which 
 measures the Gentile dispensation. 
 
 It is primarily the period of the dominion of the little horn 
 of the fourth beast of Daniel's vision. That beast as we know 
 symbolised the Roman Empire ; and the little horn which had 
 eyes and a mouth speaking great things, and which persecuted 
 and wore out the saints of the Most High, represents a power 
 which was to arise in the latter days of that empire, which 
 would be like the other horns a civil and political poiuer, and 
 unlike them, at the same time, a religious power — unquestion- 
 ably the Roman Papal dynasty. 
 
 The second symbol, to which the same period is attached 
 is, as we have seen, the persecuting blasphemous eighth head 
 of the Roman Beast, described in Revelation xiii. We have 
 already shown that these represent one and the same power. 
 They both rise in the latter stage of the Empire ; they both 
 speak great words against the Most High ; they both wage war 
 against the saints and overcome them; and they both endure 
 for this period. There cannot be two such powers, in the same 
 days of the same Empire ; therefore these passages refer to the 
 same power — the Papacy. 
 
 In Rev. xiii., a mysterious number is attached to this power, 
 as " the number of his name," and special attention is called to 
 it. " Here is wisdom, let him that hath understanding count 
 the number of the Beast, for it is the number of a man, and 
 his number is six hundred, threescore, and six." A trine of 
 sixes, — 666. 
 
 Now in tlie Apocalypse especially, tlie number seven, is, as 
 elsewhere throughout Scripture, prominent as the sacred num- 
 ber of perfection and completeness. The contents of the book 
 which it represents as opened by the Lamb, is contained under 
 seven seals, seven trumpets, and seven vials — a trine of sevens. 
 
 It is in this book that the number of the Beast is thus pre- 
 sented as a trine of sixes, and the contrast, as well as the
 
 4:2 DIVJXE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 intrinsic meaning of the numeral, intimates, tliat whatever else 
 it may be, it is a perfect number of imperfection, or rather a 
 number denoting perfect imperfection. 
 
 As this is the number of the Beast, we may expect to find it 
 in various shapes in the chronology of the Beast, and in that ot 
 liis most conspicuous Old Testament types. And // is there ; 
 a fact\vhich has never before, we believe, been noted, l)ut which 
 is surely full of solemn importance. God has, — in secret 
 cipher, — engraven this stigma, this mark of reprobation, on 
 the very brow of the period of the self-exalting, blaspheming, 
 saint-persecuting, power ; and He has besides, in order that we 
 may not fail to note the contrast, set it in the midst of a series 
 of periods, whose septiform measures, bring out its peculiar 
 and evil character. 
 
 There is nothing whatever sacred or septiform about this 
 period, nothing sabbatic, nothing suggestive of rest, or worship, 
 or liberty, as in the sevenfold sabbatic and jubilee series. Like 
 some sounds in music, it is a discord, not a harmony ; a 
 symbol of what is imperfect and evil. 
 
 I. Twelve hundred and sixty years is, first, as we have seen, 
 eighteen of the 70-years cycle. It is 6 + 6 + 6 such cycles. 
 
 z. And when we examine its lunar cycle measures we find 
 that they similarly present a trine of sixes, for it is — 
 
 66 lunar cycles + 6 years. 
 (60 cycles - 6 cycles i 6 years). 
 
 Further ; in the lunar cycles of this period, the sun's gain 
 is 66 weeks of months, and in the 6 years remainder it is 66 
 days. Sixfold throughout ! a clear link of connection between 
 the mmiber of the Beast and his period. 
 
 3. The dominion of the typical ancient Babylon over the 
 typical Israel, lasted, as Clinton shows in his Chronology, accu- 
 rately 66 solar years, for the remaining years of the Captivity 
 were under the Medo-Persian power. The dominion of the 
 antitypical modern Babylon, o\'er the antitypical Israel— over 
 captive Christendom — endures for 66 lunar cycles, and d years.
 
 SOLI-LUNAR CYCLES, AND CHRONOLOGY. \2l 
 
 Another link between the 7iumbcr and the period of the Beast 
 dependent on great, and apparent utterly disconnected facts, 
 in the realms of history and astronomy. 
 
 4. It has been well said, that "history is prophecy," for 
 all history has a tendency to repeat itself. But the saying is 
 peculiarly true of Old Testament history. As Paul says of 
 various incidents in the experience of Israel, " All these things 
 happened unto them for ensamples (la'Trot, types), and are written 
 for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are 
 come '"' (i Cor. x. 11). 
 
 The literal Babylon was, as we have seen, a type of the 
 spiritual Babylon— the Church of Rome ; and the great king 
 of Babylon, the destroyer of the holy city and temple, the 
 captor of the children of Judah, who set up a golden image 
 of himself 60 cubits high and 6 broad on the plains of 
 Dura, and commanded all peoples nations and languages to 
 fall down and v/orship it, and cast into a burning fiery furnace 
 the faithful witnesses who refused— Nebuchadnezzar, who 
 was a very incarnation of human pride, is a marvellous type 
 of that Papal dynasty which is symbolised by the "little 
 horn," and by " the beast." The Pope is the self-exalting 
 monarch of the modern Babylon, who on a far wider scale 
 commands all nations, and people, and languages, to bow 
 down and adore him, and condemned to the llames the saints 
 of the Most High, who refused compliance. The type-portrait 
 is too like to be mistaken ; it has had but one antitype, the 
 man who sits in the temple of God, showing himself as a God 
 on earth, and claiming the infallibility of Deity. We ask then 
 what v/as ihQ period of this remarkably typical monarch, Nebu- 
 chadnezzar? 
 
 Josephus tells us it was forty-three years, and the famous 
 astronomical canon of Ptolemy confirms the statement; as 
 Clinton says, "The reign of Nebuchadnezzar is forty-three 
 years, in all the copies of the canon of Ptolemy, and that 
 number of years is also assigned to his reign by Berosus." 
 
 Applying the same standard as before, v/e look eagerly to see
 
 424 DIVINE SYSTEM OE TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 what are the soH-lunar measures of this singularly typical reign, 
 and again the fatal trinity of sixes meets our view ! The soli- 
 lunar gain or epact in forty-three years is sixty-six weeks, and 
 six days. 65 weeks + 6 days. 
 
 5. In considering the four hundred and ninety years' period, 
 we observed, that whether regarded as consisting of true solar, 
 or calendar lunar years, it equally afforded septiform results, 
 when measured by soli-lunar epact. The elements of the 
 calculation being different, the results are of course different, 
 but both are septiform. 
 
 Similarly, with the period now under consideration, we have 
 this true testimony of two witnesses. The twelve hundred and 
 sixty years, may be taken either as true solar, or as calendar 
 lunar years, the epact measurement affords in either case, sixfold, 
 not sevenfold, results. Treating them as true solar and lunar 
 years, they are, as we have seen, 66 lunar cycles and 6 years. 
 Treating them as prophetic, or calendar years, on the other 
 hand, we find the gain of the true solar year in the whole 
 period is 6606 days.* 
 
 There is a very noteworthy circumstance connected with this 
 last measurement, to which we must direct attention. We have 
 in a previous chapter spoken of the Reformation of the calen- 
 dar effected by Pope Gregory XIII., a.d. 15S2. But for the 
 application to the period in question, of the more accurate 
 measures of the solar year introduced by this Papal reformation 
 of the calendar, the above results would have been hidden 
 from view. The use of tlie old style Julian year, throws them 
 out completely and make the solar gain in the 1260 years 
 6615 days. This is because the Julian year of 365} days is 
 slightly in excess of the true solar year, and the error accumu- 
 lates in this period to about ten days. 
 
 Now it will be remembered that Gregory XIII. cut off ten 
 days from the year 1582, and commanded Christendom by a 
 
 • Accurately 6C05 days and 7 hours, but in complete days, as above, 6606.
 
 SOU-LUNAR CYCLES, AND CHRONOLOGY. 425 
 
 special Papal brief to count the 5th of October of that year as 
 the 15th. In this he legislated back for 1 260 years, thus changing 
 times and laws for "a time, times, and the dividing of time," in 
 remarkable agreement with the prophecy about the little horn. 
 
 This arose in the following way. The first general or 
 (Ecumenical Council, that of Nice, a.d. 325, had legislated 
 with reference to the time of the observance of Easter. 
 Gregory XIII. assumed this Council as a starting-point ; and 
 as the error of the old Julian year, had, in the interval which 
 had elapsed since the Council, thrown the vernal equinox out, 
 by about nifie days atid a half, he arbitrarily ordained the 
 removal of ten days from the calendar, at the same time that 
 he introduced regulations to avoid irregularities in future. 
 
 Gregory XIII. died in a.d. i^Z$, exactly 1260 years after 
 the Council of Nice, and his reformation of the calendar onlv 
 came into use three years before his death, and that onlv 
 in the Catholic countries which accepted it as a matter of 
 course ; in Protestant Germany and Switzerland it did not take 
 effect till A.D. 1700, and in England not till a.d. 1752. 
 
 It is a singular coincidence, to say the least of it, that this 
 chronological legislation, emanating from the Pope who sanc- 
 tioned and struck a triumphant medal, in memory of the bloody 
 massacre of the Protestants of France, on St. Bartholomew's 
 day, should have removed from a period of 1260 years (dating 
 from the first General Council following the rise of Lnperial 
 Christianity) the accumulated Julian error which concealed its 
 true epact measures, and that he should thus have uninten- 
 tionally uncovered, as attached to it, one more form of the 
 triple six, so solemnly linking the period with tJie number ot 
 the Beast. 
 
 The downfall of the temporal power of the Papacy is the 
 event marking the close of this period of 1260 years, just as the 
 rise of the Papacy marked its beginning ; and it is evident that 
 neither of these events happened in a year, or indeed in a cen- 
 tury. " Rome was not built in a day," it is commonly said; and 
 assuredly the Roman Catholic Church did not burst full-blown
 
 426 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 on the world. It rose into power gradually as the old Roman 
 empire decayed and passed away ; it had various marked crisei 
 of rise, and hence its great period of 1260 years, must have analo- 
 gous successive termini, earlier and later, exactly as in the case 
 of the Captivity era. The earliest possible conclusion of the 
 I^eriod, is the epoch of the Reforviation. Up to that time the 
 saints had been delivered into the hand of this persecuting 
 power without exception, and without appeal, or redress. 
 Then, and thenceforward, a very considerable portion of Chris- 
 tendom was delivered from its spiritual and temporal oppression 
 and tyranny. From the Council of Nice to the full end of the 
 Reformation movement may therefore, perhaps, be regarded 
 as an initiatory 1260 years. 
 
 The chronological legislation of Gregory XIII., took place 
 at the close of this period, and corrected the error that had 
 accumulated since its commencement. Sixtus V., who died 
 five years after Gregory (.A..D. 1590), was "the last pope who 
 rendered himself formidable to European courts." From his 
 time, to the present. Papal power has been passing througli 
 its period of decline and fall, just as from the fourth to the end 
 of the sixth centuries, the system of the apostasy was gi-adu- 
 ally rising arid developing into the Papacy. 
 
 A second and more evident and accurate measurement, is 
 found by dating the 1260 years from the Edict of Justinian, 
 which constituted the Bishop of Rome " the head of all the 
 Churches'' A.n. 533. This date of the terminus a quo, gives as 
 the terminus ad qucm a.d. 1793, the time of the French Re- 
 volution, m the course of which, as we have seen, the Pope 
 was carried captive from Rome, and the Papal power received 
 a tremendous shock, from which it never fully rallied. 
 
 But the 7nain reckoning of the period is unquestionably be- 
 tween the chronologic limits a.d. 606 and 1866-70, the former 
 being the date at which the title of Pope, or universal bishop, 
 was, by the Emperor Phocas, conferred upon ]]oniface III., 
 and the latter, that of the overthrow of Austria and France, 
 .ind the consequent loss of the last vestige of temporal poiver, by
 
 SOLI-LUNAR CYCLES, AND CHRONOLOGY. 4:7 
 
 Fins IX., when Victor Emmanuel moved his court to the 
 Quirinal, and became sole king of united Italy. Then, and 
 never quite //// then, the Papacy, as a temporal power — a horn 
 — ceased to exist. As a religion, it is destined to continue 
 till the second advent of Christ. Avlien the Lord will destroy it 
 " with the brightness of his coming." The Beast is to be cast 
 alive into the lake of fire, and therefore to be still in existence 
 at the Epiphany. 
 
 To sum up : 1260 years, the foretold and fulfilled period of 
 Papal domination in Christendom, and of the temporal politi- 
 cal power of tlie Popes of Is-ome, has the following remarkable 
 astronomic measures. 
 
 1260 years is 6 + 6 + 6 soli-iunar 70-year cycles ; 
 
 1260 years is 66 lunar cycles + 6 years. 
 
 1260 years have 0506 days of epact. 
 
 The 43-years type of the period of the Beast — the reign of 
 
 Nebuchadnezzar, — whose image was 60 cubits high and 
 
 6 broad, — has 
 
 66 weeks + 6 days of epact. 
 
 Tliis period is then bounil by multiplied links to the number 
 of the Beast, 666. And it is thus linked hy Jiiddcn connections, 
 not obvious ones ; by great unobserved soli-lunar cycles, not 
 by months and years of conspicuous recurrence ; linked there- 
 fore by the Hand that upholds the stars in their courses, by 
 the Providence that orders all the events of history, and by tlie 
 Mind that inspired the Apocalypse, and communicated to the 
 man greatly beloved, the secrets of this " time of the end." 
 "Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of 
 the world." 
 
 The Two Thousand 'J'hree Hundrkd Years (Dan. viii.).- 
 
 " And out of one uf llicm \i.c.. one of the four kinc^doms into wliicli the 
 empire of Alexander the Great w.ns divided] eame forth a little horn, whieii
 
 428 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 waxed exceeding great, toward tlie south and toward the east, and toward the 
 pleasant land. And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven : and it cast 
 down some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon 
 them. Yea, he magnified himself even to the Prince of the host, and by 
 him the daily sacrifice '.vas taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was 
 cast down. And an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by 
 reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground ; and it 
 practised, and prospered. Then I heard one saint speaking, and another 
 saint said unto that certain saint which spake, [or to that wonderful numberer]. 
 How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the making 
 desolate [margin], to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden 
 under foot? And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred 
 days [or evening-morning] ; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed. . . . 
 I will make thee know what shall be in the last end of the indignation : for 
 at the time appointed the end shall be. ... In the latter time of 
 their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce 
 countenance, and understanding dark sentences shall stand up. And his power 
 shall be mighty, but not by his own power : and he shall destroy wonder- 
 fully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the 
 holy people. And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in 
 his hand ; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall 
 destroy many : he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes ; but 
 he sliall be broken without hand. . . . Shut thou up the vision; for it 
 shall be for many days," 
 
 In the year 553 B.C., the third yjcar of the reign of Bel- 
 shazzar, and about fifteen years before his subjugation by 
 Darius the Mede, there was granted to Daniel a third great 
 symbohc vision, that of the ram and the he-goat, affording a 
 fuller glance than the previous one, at the history of the second 
 and third of the four great monarchies. 
 
 Given as it was at a time when the Babylonian Empire and 
 Captivity were both rai)idly drawing to a close, this vision 
 naturally unfolds God's providence with regard to Israel and 
 Palestine, under the Medo-Persian and Grecian empires. 
 The symbols shown to Daniel prefigured their history with 
 graphic accuracy : the successive rise of the two horns of the 
 ram, foreshowing the sway of the two dynasties, which were 
 afterwards merged in the great Medo-Persian monarchy ; the 
 he-goat from the west, — with his rapid course, great strength.
 
 SOLI-LUNAR CYCLES, AND CHRONOLOGY. 429 
 
 wide dominion, and notable horn, abruptly broken, in the 
 plenitude of the goat's power, and replaced by four notable 
 horns,— prefiguring to the life the locality of origin, the cha- 
 racter, the course of conquest, and subsequent history cf the 
 Macedonian or Greek empire of Alexander the Great, as well 
 as its fourfold division consequent on his permature death. In 
 twelve brief years that European monarch overran and sub- 
 dued all the fairest provinces of Asia ; and no so-oner had he 
 reached the zenith of power than he died, and his empire, after 
 a period of confusion, was divided (subsequently to the battle 
 of Ipsus), among the four kings, Ptolemy, Seleucus, Lysima- 
 chus, and Cassander. 
 
 From one of these kingdoms, the prophecy foretells that 
 there would arise in the latter time a little horn which would 
 ultimately wax " exceeding great," greater apparently than the 
 " notable horn " itself, which is said to wax only " very great." 
 
 This " little horn " is evidently a fdloiv to the " little horn " 
 of the previous vision, only it rises, not amid the ten kingdoms 
 of the Roman earth, but from one of the four branches of 
 Alexander's Greek Empire. These four were, the Syrian king- 
 dom of the Seleucidce, the Macedonian kingdom of Cassan- 
 der, the Egyptian kingdom of Ptolemy, and the kingdom of 
 Lysimachus, which included Thrace, Bithynia, and other 
 parts of Asia. It was from the kingdom of Ptolemy, as we 
 shall see presently, that this little horn arose. The direction of 
 the early conquests of this singular power, are distinctly given, 
 '•toward the south, toward the east, and toward the pleasant 
 land." The main features of his conduct, as described in the 
 vision, are his self-exaltation against the Prince of princes, 
 his persecution of the saints, his taking away the daily sacrifice, 
 and defiling the sanctuary, and his casting down the truth to 
 the ground. 
 
 While beholding the vision, Daniel heard the question asked 
 of the "Wonderful Numberer" who made the revelation (ap- 
 parently the Lord Himself), '' Hmv long shall be the vision 
 concerning the daily sacrifice, and the making desolate, to give
 
 430 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 both the sanctuary and the liost to be trodden under foot ? " 
 And it is in answer to this question, that the period we are con- 
 sidering is named. 
 
 " Unto two thousand and three hundred days, tJien 
 shall the sanctuary be cleansed." 
 
 Now, as this question was asked and answered before the 
 close of the Captivity in Babylon, and when therefore the daily 
 sacrifice and the sanctuary were not in existence, it is clear 
 that this prediction of a second destruction, suj)poses a prior 
 restoration. 
 
 This predicted period of 3300 years, commences, therefore, 
 at some point in the time of the restored national existence, and 
 ritual ivorship of the Jems, and includes the entire period of their 
 subsequent dispersion, and of the desolation of the sanctuary: 
 Its earliest possible starting point is the decree of Artaxerxes 
 to restore and build Jerusalem ; and, reckoned thus, its open- 
 ing portion is the "seventy weeks," and its second portion the 
 iSio jears which follow, and end in a.d, 1844, the terminus of 
 so many prophetic times. (We previously mentioned that in 
 this desolation period of 1810 years, the gain of the solar year 
 on the lunar is 666 months.) 
 
 An important later starting point is the era of the Seleucidie, 
 or the era of the founder of the great Syrian dynasty which 
 included Antiochus Epiphancs, the first of the three powers re- 
 ferred to in the prophecy, as defiling the sanctuary and causing 
 the daily sacrifice to cease. Reckoned in lunar years from the 
 era of the Seleucida; (and it should be remembered that tJie 
 long Mohammedan period of desolation which it includes is 
 measured hy lunar years) it terminates in a.d. 1919-20, or 
 just 75 years later on, than when reckoned in solar years from 
 the decree of Artaxerxes. Thus reckoned in solar and in lunar 
 years from these two most important starting points, it ter- 
 minates first at the conunencement and then at the close of the 
 last 75 years of the great " seven times " of prophecy. 
 
 The question may occur, z/this prophecy embrace the whole 
 period from the decree of Artaxerxes to the yet future restora-
 
 SOLl-LOWAR CYCLES, AND CHRONOLOGY. 431 
 
 tion of Israel, why did the greatest event to take place in the 
 course of those ages, — the first advent and death of Christ,— 
 tind no place in the revelation? The answer seems to be that 
 the all-important coming and death of Messiah the Prince, and 
 the events immediately subsequent, were to be fully treated in a 
 revelation devoted entirely to themselves. They are similarly 
 passed by in total silence, both in the vision of the four beasts, 
 Chapter vii., and in that of the fourfold image, Chapter ii., 
 though all three prophecies end with the secoJid advent, or its 
 connected events, the restoration of the throne to the seed of 
 ;:)avid, and the final cleansing of the sanctuary of Israel. 
 
 The place of paramount importance in this prediction, is 
 given to the career and actings of an Eastern " little horn ; " 
 and our knowledge that the Papacy was the power predicted 
 under the symbol of the Roman or Western "little horn'' 
 affords a clue to the meaning of this sister symbol. 
 
 The whole range of prophecy presents two, and only two, 
 " little horns ; " and the whole range of history presents two, and 
 only two, powers, which exactly answer to the symbols ; powers 
 'which, small and insignificant at first, gradually acc}uire empire 
 on the ground of religion, and wax exceeding great by so doing ; 
 proudly oppose Christ, and fiercely persecute his people; 
 repress and exterminate his truth ; enjoy dominion for many 
 long centuries (during which they tread down Jerusalem, either 
 spiritual or literal), and perish at last under the judgment of God. 
 The Papacy does not stand out more distinctly as t/;e great 
 Apostasy of the West, than does Mohammedanism as ///^ great 
 parallel Apostasy of the East. The one originated from withui 
 the Church, the other from without ; but they rose together m 
 the beginning of the seventh century ; they have run chrono- 
 logically similar courses ; they have both based their empire on 
 religious pretensions ; the one defiled and trampled down the 
 Church, and the other defiled and trod down Jerusalem. In 
 their life, they have been companion evils, and in their death 
 tliey are not divided 3 for the one has just expired, politically, 
 and tlie power of the other is fast expiring.
 
 432 DIVINE SYSTEM OE TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 The Mohammedan power is, we think, unquestionably the 
 main fulfilment of this symbol ; but it is almost equally clear 
 that it had a precursive fulfilment, on a smaller scale, in the 
 person and history of Antiochus Epipmanes. His career 
 accords so closely with almost every feature of the prediction, 
 as to leave little room for doubt that it was intended by the 
 Holy Spirit, as one subject of the prophecy. For seventeen 
 centuries all expositors, Jewish and Christian, held that the 
 prophecy referred to Antiochus. The Books of Maccabees 
 record his career with great detail, and trace in it, as does 
 Josephus, the fulfilment of the predictions of this little horn. 
 But Antiochus never waxed " exceeding great," he never 
 " threw down the place of the sanctuary," though he took away 
 the daily sacrifice ; and he lived too near the time when the 
 prophecy was given, to be the full and proper fulfilment of it. 
 seeing it is said of the vision, " it shall be for many days," " at 
 the last end of the indignation." Besides this, the time of the 
 desolation effected by Antiochus, — ^just three years, — does not 
 in any way, or on any system, correspond with 2300 days ; so 
 that we are driven to regard this, as one of those prophecies, 
 which has undoubtedly had a double fulfilment, like Hosea 
 xi. I ; or Psalm Ixxii. Antiochus was a precursive litde horn, 
 Mohammedanism is the full and proper reality intended by the 
 symbol. 
 
 A certain freedom in the construction of terms must be 
 allowed in the case of all such double predictions, because the 
 Holy. Spirit, having more than one event in view, and selecting 
 for description mainly those features which are common to 
 both, may also introduce some, peculiar to the one or to the 
 other. 
 
 Antiochus Epiphanes, the Romans, and the Mohammedans, 
 have all taken part in accomplishing these predicted desolations 
 of Jerusalem. The first two took away the daily sacrifice, the 
 second cast down the sanctuary, all three have defiled the 
 place of the sanctuary, and trodden it under foot, and by the 
 last two especially have the " mighty and holy people " been
 
 SOLI-LUNAR CYCLES, AND CHRONOLOGY. 433 
 
 " cast down," and " stamped upon," and " destroyed." But as 
 the Roman power cannot be represented as " a little horn " 
 arising out of one of the four kingdoms into which Alexander's 
 empire was divided (Dan. viii. 9), whereas both Antiochus 
 and Mohammed can, we conclude that they mainly are re- 
 ferred to in the prediction, and especially the latter. 
 
 It must be borne in mind that no sooner did the Roman 
 Empire cease to tread down Jerusalem, than the Moslem 
 power began to do so, and has continued to do so to this day. 
 The utmost efforts of Christendom, expended in eight different 
 crusades, failed to drive the Moslem out of the Holy Land ; 
 for twelve centuries he has defiled the sanctuary, and stood up 
 against the Prince of princes, casting down the truth to the 
 ground, practising and prospering ; but it is Avritten that when 
 this period of 2300 years comes to an end, "he shall be 
 broken without hand," and "then shall the sanctuary be 
 cleansed." 
 
 First, then, with reference to the earlier of the two termin- 
 ations of the 2300 years already named : — 
 
 B_C_ ^ e;7 2300 years io the cleansins: of the Sanctuary, a.D. 1844, — 
 
 Let it be remembered that all great movements have almost 
 imperceptible commencements, just as great rivers spring from 
 little brooks. Israel's restoration and the destruction of 
 Mohammedan rule, i.e. " the cleansing of the sanctuary," are 
 not events to be accomplished in a day or in a year, any more 
 than the overthrow of the city and temple and national exist- 
 ence of the Jewish people, was accomplished in a day or m a 
 year. From Ephraim's earliest down to Judah's latest captivity, 
 a hundred and sixty-eiglit years elapsed ; and similarly at the 
 restoration, from the first edict of Cyrus to the second of 
 Artaxerxes, ninety-two years elapsed. 
 
 We need not marvel then to find that this greater restoration, 
 from this more than thirty tif/ics lo?iger dispersion, should appa- 
 rently be destined to occupy a period of seventy-five years. In 
 the year 1844, for the first time since the days of Mohammed, 
 
 F F
 
 434 DIVINE J^VSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 when the sanguinary laws of religious intolerance were enacted, 
 the Turkish Sultan was obliged by the European powers, /o 
 relinquish the practice of executions for apostasy and to ina/ie a 
 decree granting religions toleratioti* 
 
 • An abstract of the Parliamentary papers on this subject is given, as 
 follows, by Rev. Edward Bickerstelii : — 
 
 " The papers entitled ' Correspondence Relating to Executions in Turkey 
 for Apostasy from Islamism,' were presented to Parliament, May 3, 1844, 
 and having come before me through the kindness of Lord Ashley, I give 
 the following abstract of them. The correspondence occupied a consider- 
 able part of a year — from Aug. 27, 1S43, to April 19, 1844. 
 
 " The difticulties in the way were thus stated by the Grand Vizier, Aug. 
 24, 1S43 : 'The laws of the Koran compel no man to become a Mussul- 
 man ; but they are inexorable, both as respects a Mussulman v.ho embraces 
 another religion, and as respects a person, not a Mussulman, who, after 
 having of his own accord pulalicly embraced Islamism, is convicted of 
 having renounced that faith. No consideration can tkoduce a com- 
 mutation OF THE CAPITAL PUNISHMENT, TO WHICH THE L.AW CON- 
 DEMNS HIM WITHOUT MERCV. The Only mode of escaping death is for the 
 accused to declare that he has again become a Mussulman.' The same diffi- 
 culties were pressed Dec. i, 1843, when our Ambassador was assured, that 
 although the Porte wished to avoid any recurrence of the atrocity, yet assuc/'i 
 cxecittiims'cucre obligatory under the hru; considered by Mohamincdaiis Divine, 
 it would be embarrassing to give an official declaration. And again, Feb. 10, 
 1844, the Ottoman Mmister for Foreign Aftairs drew a strong line of distinc- 
 tion between custom and Divine law, intimating that a law prescribed by 
 (iod Himself was not to be set aside by any human power ; and that the 
 Sultan in attempting it might be exposed to a heavy, perhaps even a 
 dangerous, responsibility. 
 
 "The causes of this intervention of the European Powers are remark- 
 able. In August, 1843, an Armenian youth, who after, under fear of 
 punishment, becoming a Turk, had returned to his Christian faith, was 
 put to death. This called for the interposition of our Government and 
 its serious remonstrances, and produced in November, 1S43, some promises 
 of terminating such affairs without capital punishment. In December, how- 
 ever, a young Gneek, who had become a Mussulman, having returned to 
 his own creed as a Greek Christian, at Biligik, adjoining to Brussa, was 
 executed. This taking place in the midst of the correspondence, called 
 forth Lord Aberdeen's decisive letter of Jan. 16. Thus we are indebted to 
 the faithfulness of Greek and Armenian martyrs for this remarkable change. 
 The energy put forth to accomplish this change required the concurrent 
 exertions of the five European Powers — Austria, Prussi.'., P'rance, Russia, 
 and England. 
 
 "The able despatch of Lord Aberdeen of Jan. 16, 1S.14, i, peculi.v.-, and 
 very honourable to our country. It is as follows, — 
 
 "'Desp.atch to Sir Stratford Canning, our Ambassador at the Porte, 
 from the Earl of Aberdeen.
 
 SOLI-LUNAR CYCLES, AND CHRONOLOGY. 435 
 
 From that date to the present time, a process of elevation 
 and incipient restoration of Israel has been going on. It has 
 been so quiet, so gradual, so unobtrusive, that few have noticed 
 it ; the turn of the tide has taken place, but the current has 
 
 ^•' Foreign Office, January 1 6, 1844. 
 
 "'Sir, — I have received your Excellency's despatch of the 17th of 
 December, reporting that a Greek had been executed near Brussa as an 
 apostate from Islamism, and enclosing a copy of the communication which 
 you had directed Mr. Dragoman Frederick Pisani to make to the Porte i:i 
 consequence of that transaction. 
 
 "' I have to state to your Excellency that her Majesty's Government en- 
 tirely approve the promptitude with which you acted on this occasion. But 
 the repetition of the scene of this revolting kind so soon after that which 
 had, in the course of last summer, excited the horror and indignation of 
 Europe, evinces such total disregard, on the part of the Porte, for the feel- 
 ings and remonstrances of the Christian Powers, that it is incumbent upon 
 Her Majesty's Government, -without loss of time, to convey their sentiments 
 on the matter still more explicitly to the knowledge of the Porte. They 
 take this course singly, and without waiting for the co-operation of the 
 other Christian Powers, because they desire to announce to the Porte a 
 determination which, though it doubtless will be concurred in by all, Great 
 Britain is prepared to act upon alone. Her Majesty's Government feel, 
 too, that they have an especial right to require to be listened to by the 
 Porte on a matter of this nature ; for they can appeal to the justice and to 
 the favour with which the vast number of Mohammedans subject to British 
 rule are treated in India, in support of their demand that all persons, 
 subjects of the Porte, and professing Christianity, shall be exempt from 
 cruel and arbitrary persecution on account of their religion, and shall not be 
 made the victims of a barbarous law, which it may be sought to enforce for 
 their destruction. Whatever may have been tolerated in former times, by 
 the weakness or indifference of Christian Powers, those Powers will now 
 require from the Porte due consideration for their feelings as members of a 
 religious community, and interested as such in the fate of all who, notwith- 
 standing shades of difference, unite in a common belief in the essential 
 doctrines of Christianity ; and they will not endure that the Porte should 
 insult and trample on their faith by treating as a criminal any person who 
 embraces it. Her Majesty^ s Gcrjenuuent rajiiire the Forte to abandon, once 
 for all, so revoltin^s; a principle. They lia\e no wish to humble the 
 Porte by imposing upon it an unreasonable obligation ; but as a Christian 
 government, the protection of those wlio profess a common belief with 
 themselves, from persecution or oppression, on that account alone, by their 
 Mohammedan rulers, is a paj-amount duty with them, and one from which 
 they cannot recede. Your Excellency will therefore press upon the Turkish 
 Government, that if the Porte has any regard for the friendship of England 
 — if it has any hope that, in the hour of peril or of adversity, that protection, 
 which has more than once saved it from destruction, will be extended to it 
 again, it must renounce absolutely, and without equivocation, the barbarous 
 practice v/hich has called forth the remonstrance new addressed to ii. Your
 
 436 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 not yet set suflkiently strongly in the other direction, to attract 
 attention, yet the careful observer cannot fail to note the evi- 
 dent and rapid fall of Turkey and the incipient revival of Pal- 
 estine. Jerusalem has not yet ceased to be trodden under 
 
 Excellency will require an early answer; and you will let the Turkish 
 Ministers understand that if that answer does not fully correspond with the 
 expectations which Her Majesty's Government entertain, your Excellency 
 is instructed to seek an audience of the Sultan, and to explain to his High- 
 ness, in the most forcible terms, the feelings of the British Government, 
 and the consequences, so injurious to Turkey, which a disregard for those 
 feelings will involve. Her Majesty's Government are so anxious for the 
 continuance of a good understanding with Turkey, and that the Porte 
 should entitle itself to their good offices in the hour of need, that they wish 
 to leave no expedient untried before they shall be compelled to admit the 
 conviction that all their interest and friendship is misplaced, and that 
 nothing remains for them but to look forward to, if not promote the arrival 
 of, the day when the force of circumstances shall bring about a change 
 which they will have vainly hoped to procure from the prudence and 
 humanity of the Porte itself. 
 
 " ' Your Excellency will seek an interview with the Reis Effendi, and 
 having read to him this despatch, leave a copy of it, with an accurate 
 translation, in his hands. 
 
 "'lam, etc., (Signed) Aberdeen.'" 
 
 Count Nesselrode's despatch of February 27, 1844, on the part of the 
 Russian Government, is instructive as opening out the weakness of the 
 Ottoman Government. "It is the Emperor's intention that you should 
 declare to the Ottoman Porte, in the form of friendly counsel, that we 
 positively expect no longer to witness executions which array against it the 
 indignation of all Christendom. It is with a view to its own interest, that 
 we address to it this demand. The Porte must not delude itself with 
 regard to the elements now in a state of fermentation in Turkey. Instead 
 of alienating from itself the feelings of the Christian population, the Ottoman 
 Government our^ht more than ever to labour to conciliate them to itself." 
 
 The magnitude of the question is thus forcibly stated, February 22, 1844, 
 by the Turkish minister. "No fresh step was requisite to make us sensible 
 of the importance of this question, with which we are deeply impressed. 
 We are dealing with it with all the seriousness and all the care which its 
 gravity requires. Yes, what your respective chiefs say is true ; this ques- 
 tion has its political as also its religious side. It is requisite, in fact, that 
 we should separate ourselves from the nation, or otherwise from the Chris- 
 tian Powers ; those are two great evils to be equally avoided. The Sultan 
 has commanded that this question shall be discussed in the council of 
 Oulemas, which will be opened on next Saturday, at the Sheik-ul-Islam's, 
 to which the tlazi-Askes, and the other principal persons among the men 
 .if the law will be summoned ; after which the council of ministers will 
 ngain apply themselves to it. Do not suppose, however, that we have 
 confined ourselves to directing their attention, purely and simply, to the
 
 SOLI-LUNAR CYCLES, AND CHRONOLOGY. 437 
 
 foot ; but what of the two great Powers which for eighteen 
 hundred years (with a few brief intervals) have successively 
 trodden her down— Rome, and the various forms of that Mo- 
 hammedan power, whose present head is Turkey ? 
 
 ciuestion as it regards religion : we have likewise submitted to tiiem the 
 protocols of the conferences, the despatches of the two Governments, and 
 even the extracts of the newspapers which have discussed this question ; 
 and we shall likewise communicate to them the instructions which you 
 have iust delivered to me. and which, although superfluous as far as the 
 Porte is concerned, may still add to the impression produced by the other 
 documents in their hands." c , c- 
 
 In communicating the Queen's approbation, Aprd 19, 1^44, to bir 
 Stratford Canning, Lord Aberdeen ends the correspondence with these 
 words " You have brought to a successful close a question of which the 
 importance cannot be too highly rated." Events will show the truth of 
 
 these words. , ^ , , , . cc .i,„ 
 
 The Porte, even on the I4lh of March, 1S44, would have put off the 
 European Powers with a statement that the law did not admit of any 
 change ; but such measures as were possible should be taken, ihe Am- 
 bassadors of the European Powers refused to receive this. 
 
 At length, on the 21st March, 1S44, the question of religious execution 
 was, as our Ambassador observes, "happily and, to all appearance, con- 
 clusively settled. The concession has been obtained with great dithculty ; 
 and even to the last moment it required the firmness of resolution, inspired 
 by your Lordship's instructions, to overcome the obstacles which were 
 
 raised against us." _ • , t^ 1 ,■ r ti,„ 
 
 He inclosed in this letter the following " Ofhcial Declaration of the 
 
 Sublime Porte, relinquishing the practice ot Executions for Apostasy. 
 (Translation.) 
 "It is the special and constant intention of His Highness the Sultan that 
 
 his cordial relations with the High Powers be preserved, and that a perfect 
 
 reciinocal friendship be maintained, and increased. 
 
 "The Sublime Porte eng.\ges to take effectual measures to 
 
 PREVENT HENCEFORWARD THE EXECUTION AND PUTTING TO DE.VTII 
 
 OF THE Christian who is an afostate. 
 
 "March 21, 1844." 
 
 To this must be added the following " Declaration of His Highness the 
 Sultan to Sir Stratford Canning, at his audience on the 22nd of March, 
 
 ^ ^ilencefonvard neither shall Christianity be insulted in my dominions, 
 nor shall Christians be in any way persecuted ior their religion. 
 
 "The date of the official declaration, March 21, is very remarkable as 
 bcintr in fact the first day of Isisan, the first sacred month of the Jews. 
 And this is the more remarkable, as IT is connected with the ter- 
 
 MIN\TION OF THE REMARKABLE DATE OF 23OO YEARS. ., , , 
 
 "liwill be observed that Ezra is very specific m staUng the dates
 
 43 S DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 Rome trod down Jerusalem in the days of Tilus, and Turkey- 
 holds her down now. " Rome cast her to the ground, and 
 when she was down, Turkey set its foot on her neck. Rome 
 hurled her to the dust, Turkey trampled her in the mire ; Rome 
 
 n.C. 457. On the first clay of the first month began he to go up from Baby- 
 lon (Ezra vii. 9) u.c. 457. And they made an end v.-ith all the men that 
 had taken strange wives by the first day of the first montli (Ezra x. 17). 
 The whole time of the return and restoration taking exactly a year." 
 
 The prophecy of this period is in these words (Dan. viii. 13, 14): "How 
 long shall be the vision of the daily sacrifice, and of the transgression of 
 desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under 
 foot ? And he said unto mc, unto two thousand and three hundred days 
 (or evening-morning) ; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed." (For tlie 
 proof of this being the period of 2300 years, the reader is referred to Birks" 
 "Elements of Prophecy," pp. 356-363.) Ezra's commission for the 
 restoration of the sacrifice (Ezra vii. 15 ; viii. 35) was 457 years u.c. The 
 period of a year was occupied in his return, and the cleansing of the 
 sanctuary, that is to B.C. 456 (Ezra vii. 9; x. 17.) The restoration of 
 sacrifice continued with slight exceptions, fo the destruction of Jerusalem 
 by the Romans, since which Jerusalem has been trodden down of the Gen- 
 tiles, to the period of March 21, 1S44 ; this period, according to the Jewish 
 year, ending March 20, 1844, makes 2300 years; and on the 1st of Nisan. 
 1S44, the power of the Mohammedans to persecute Christianity passed 
 away, and liberty is given for Christian worship, the true cleansing of the 
 sanctuary. Tins IS the more re.markable also as this is the 
 1260th year of the Hegira (tiie date fixed by the Mohammedan Anti- 
 christ as the rise of this branch of the Apostasy) and so the closing year in 
 Mohammedanism of that remarkable prophetical period, 1260 years. In 
 a letter from Tangicrs, dated June 20th, 1844, given in the public journals, 
 speaking of the difficulties besetting the kingdom of Morocco, it is stated, 
 '' It seems that the Moors have always had forebodings of this year. For 
 a long time they have been exhorting each other to beware of 1260 (that is, 
 of the Ilcgira), which according to our reckoning is tlie present year." 
 
 "It was a common remark in Egypt in 1839, 'The spirit of the Arab 
 is gone.' Events in Sidon, Acre, Persia, India, Affghanistan, Bokhara, 
 Algiers, illustrate the same view." 
 
 "Another material point connected with this event is the passing away of 
 the Turkish Woe. It is the general voice of Christian interpreters, that 
 the sixth angel sounding the second Woe Tnimpet, describes the Turkish 
 Woe. We have in this event a most remarkable feature of the ending of 
 that woe. The importance of this fact will be seen by tlic prophecy 
 (Rev. ii. 14-18), 'The second woe is past; .and behold, the third woe 
 Cometh quickly. And the seventh angel sounded ; and there were great 
 voices in heaven, saying. The kingdoms of this world are become the king- 
 doms of our Lord, and his Christ, and He shall reign for ever ; ' and 
 immediately associated with this is the coming of God's wrath, and the 
 time of the dead that they shall be judged. We are therefore clearly 0:1 
 the verge of these great events." — Bickerstcih, '■'Guide tc tlic Prophecies" 
 Nintit Edition, p- 'y\\-
 
 SOLl-L'uNA^. CVCLES. AND CHRONOLOGY. 439 
 
 destroyed God's temple and ploughed up the sacred site on 
 which it stood, Turkey maintains the Mosque of Omar on 
 that sacred site ; and on the holy hill where Abraham offered 
 Isaac, where David offered the oxen of Araunah, where Solo- 
 tnon built his temple, and where the Lord Jesus, the Son of 
 David, cast out all that was unholy, there, by Turkish authority 
 now stands a Mohammedan mosque, and there no J e\v is per- 
 mitted even to set his foot." * 
 
 But Pagan Rome passed away long since, and Papal Rome 
 is no longer a political power in the earth ; the first oppressor 
 is gone, and Turkey, the second, is fast going. " The foot oi 
 the sick man is the only one now remaining on the neck of 
 Jerusalem, and the sick man is dying; when he dies, why 
 should not Jerusalem arise and be free ? " Every step in the 
 downfall of Turkey, is a step in the direction of the cleansing 
 of the sanctuary, .and these steps are in our day succeeding 
 each other rapidly. Since 1S21, Turkey has lost Greece and 
 Servia, Moldavia and Wallachia, Morocco, Algeria, and Egypt; 
 and now in the recent war, Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Bulgaria. 
 The once mighty Ottoman Empire is in Europe practically ex- 
 tinct. Its power in Asia is also seriously diminished, and not- 
 ably so in Syria. Aliens, or non- Mussulmans, are now allowed 
 to hold landed property in Palestine, and the number of Jews 
 resident in their own land is every year on the increase. Thou- 
 sands of intelligent Christians visit its shores annually, and the 
 Palestine Exploration has completed a survey of its every square 
 mile. " Thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour 
 the dust thereof." There is every sign, when the present is 
 contrasted with the past, that the time for the complete libera- 
 cion of Palestine from Moslem tyranny is at hand. 
 
 The second starting-point from which these 2300 years may 
 be dated is the era of the Seleucida^, b.c 312. The Seleucidre 
 were the race of monarchs (descended from Seleucus Nicator, 
 one of the four notable horns of the he-goat,) from which 
 Antiochus Epiphanes sprung. 
 
 • '■ RoMK, Ttrkev, .\m> Ji:iM <ali;m," by Canon Ilor.iv.
 
 440 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 As THIS ERA OF THE SeLEUCID.^, LONG USED BY THE JeWS 
 THEMSELVES, AND STILL EMPLOYED BY THE NeSTORIAXS AND 
 
 OTHER Eastern nations, is dated from the great foun- 
 der OF THE dynasty OF THE PRECURSORY " LITTLE HORN," it 
 
 is not an unsuitable point of departure. The period of 2300 
 years measured from it, and reckoned in lunar years, runs out 
 in A.D. 1919-20, seventy-five years later than its first termin- 
 ation in 1844, and the same year as the main measurement of 
 the Times of the Gentiles, dated from Nebuchadnezzar's over- 
 throw of Jehoiakim, B.C. 602. 
 
 p p ^ J -, 1-K-x, LUNAR YEARS FROM TlIK VW.\ OF THH SeLEUCID-I;, A.T). IQIQ— 20. 
 
 It remains to show that the soli-lunar measures of 2300 years 
 assign to it a place in the great septiform series of prophetic 
 times. 
 
 The sun gains on the moon in this vast period of twenty- 
 three centuries seventy lunar years and seven months.* 
 
 2520 Years, or "Seven Times" (Dan. iv.). 
 
 As we have already considered this period pretty fully (p. 341) 
 as to its distinctive moral characteristics, and as to its historical 
 chronological features (p. 369), we need in this place dwell 
 only on its arithmetical peculiarities and astronomic measures. 
 It is the great dispensational week, the arc of time which spans 
 ahke each of the three moral divisions of human history ; it is 
 the period of the fourfold image of Gentile rule, which is to 
 introduce the everlasting kingdom of the Son of God. It is 
 the most important of all the prophetic periods, and the oft- 
 repeated 1260 years of the Apostasy, is its second half. 
 
 * Tlie accuracy of these measures is very striking. In 2300 years there 
 is a remainder of one year over and alwve 121 lunar cycles ; and the 
 solar gain of this one year, just makes up fur the loss occasioned by the 
 121 repetitions of the small error of the lunar cycle, so that the solar 
 gain is as staled above, within less than a quarUr of a day ; 2300 years is, 
 in fact, as we have before said, the most perfect secular soli-lunar cycle 
 known.
 
 SOLI-LUNAR CYCLES, AND CHRONOLOGY. 44i 
 
 With regard to it we note in the first place, that 2520 is 
 arithmetically a most remarkable number ; a number as dis- 
 tinct from all other numbers as the circle is from all other 
 forms. It is not a number that could possibly have been 
 selected by chance, or put inadvertently into the important 
 position it occupies in the prophetic word. Its selection in 
 preference to all other numbers, is an indication of intelligent 
 design which candour cannot fail to recognise. The omniscient 
 God has deliberately passed by all other conceivable numbers, 
 any one of which might have been made the basis of chronologic 
 prophecy, that He might select, to occupy this position, a 
 number which is sui generis, altogether unique, one which 
 stands forth by its very nature as a king among other numbers, 
 conspicuous and paramount. 2520 is the least common multiple 
 of the first ten numbers ; in other words, it is the first in the 
 entire series of numbers, that is exactly divisible by all the 
 first ten numerals. 
 
 1 is contained in it 2520 times without remainder. 
 
 2 „ 1260 r 
 
 3 « ^40 »» 
 
 4 » ^30 " 
 
 s » 504 
 
 6 „ 420 » 
 
 7 » 360 
 
 8 „ 315 » 
 
 9 » 2^° » 
 
 10 „ 252 „ 
 
 Now fen, be it remembered, is a natural numeiical radix, 
 employed in Scripture and in world-wide use, so that the first 
 ten numbers form a complete and fundamental series, and their 
 least common multiple is a great fundamental number in 
 
 arithmetic. 
 
 It is like a complex crystal, capable, from its very nature, of 
 numerous regular divisions, and it is adapted to harmonize in one 
 several series of periods of different orders and magnitudes, in 
 a wny that no other conceivable number coild do. Is it by
 
 44= DIVINE SVSrEM OF TIMES A AD SEASONS. 
 
 cliance that f/i/s is the number of years of the great " seven 
 
 times," which is the vertebral cokimn of prophetic chronology ? 
 
 Further: perfect arithmetically, 2520 years is also perfect 
 
 astronomically. It contains 132 lunar or Metonic cycles, in 
 
 which the cpact amounts to — 
 
 ssventy-seven lunar years. 
 
 Over and above these cycles there is a remainder of twelve 
 years, which raises the epact of the entire period to — 
 
 seventy-five solar years. 
 
 Now, here we are confronted with another startling fact, a 
 fact which it will ])uzzle the ingenuity of sceptics to account 
 lor, a fact which must have been unknown to Daniel, for the 
 state of astronomic science in his day (nearly six centuries 
 n.c), was such that he could not have been acquainted with 
 it ; yet a fact which is absolutely indisputable, and which a very 
 short calculation will demonstrate. In the last chapter ot 
 Daniel the angel intimates to the prophet in answer to his 
 chronological inquiries, that while the scattering of the power 
 of the holy people, should terminate at the end of the second 
 half of the 2520 years, yet that there should be additions of thirty 
 and forty-five years, before the era of full blessedness would 
 arrive. (Dan. xii. 11-13.) In other words, to the long period 
 of 2520 years Scripture adds a brief period of seventy-five years, 
 and as we have just seen, astronomy does the same. The 
 difiference between 2520 true lunar and the same number of 
 true solar years is seventy-five years. In other words, the 
 seventy-five years added in the prophecy is exactly equal to 
 the epact of the whole " seven times." if 2520 lunar, and the 
 same number of solar years begin together, the former will run 
 out seventy-five years before the latter. The seventy-five years 
 added to the " Times of the Gentiles " are equal to the epact 
 of that great dispensational period. 
 
 Was it by chance that Daniel lit upon these two periods, so 
 widely dissimilar, and which yet bear to each other f/a's remark- 
 able astronomic rclatio7i ? Impossible I as impossible as that he
 
 SOLI-l.UXAR CYCLES, .hXD CHRONOLOGY. 443 
 
 could either have known that 2300 years (Chap, viii.) was a 
 son-lunar cycle, or that he could have selected by chalice the 
 exact number of years in that cycle, as tlie period of the re- 
 stored temple and subsequent desolation of the sanctuary. Such 
 coincidences are not the work of chance. Such Bible state- 
 ments must be accepted with reverential awe, as evidences that 
 tlie Divine mind which planned tlie universe, inspired also the 
 sacred Book. 
 
 In these added seventy-five years, having this peculiar astro- 
 nomic character, we see also one of those evidently intentional 
 elements of uncertainty which meet us so frequently in chrono- 
 fogic prophecy. Just as it would be impossible, prior to 
 fulfilment, to say which of several probable eras was the real 
 commencing era of the seventy years captivity, and hence of 
 the " Times of the Gentiles," so it is impossible in this case to 
 decide, whether these added seventy-five years are to have an 
 inclusive fulfilment in 2520 solar years, or an added fulfilment. 
 or both. Regarding the 2520 years as lunar, and dating them 
 from 59S B.C., which, as we have seen, is the latest com- 
 mencement of the " Times of the Gentiles," they terminated 
 A.D. 184S, and we are now living in the interval created by the 
 inequality of solar and lunar movements during the lapse of 
 the whole " seven times." 
 
 But if the 2520 years be regarded as solar years, and dated 
 from the same commencing era, they do not terminate, as we 
 have seen, until a.d. 1923, and the concluding seventy-five 
 years may possibly be added to that date. But the pro- 
 phecy implies an cud at the beginning of this supplementary 
 seventy-five years; a fuller and more blessed end at the 
 close of their first section — 30 years (a month) of years ; and 
 the fullest and most blessed terminal point at the close of the 
 supplementary forty-five years; that is, at the close of the whole 
 seventy-five. What mysteries are here indicated who shall say ? 
 The full establishment of Messiah's kingdom on earth may, 
 even after his glorious epiphany, be a work of time. The down- 
 fall of the '• little liorn '' seems to be the event presented in
 
 444 DIVI.XE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 the prophecy as marking the first close. No events at all are 
 assigned to the other two chronological points. They are 
 simply indicated, and a character of final blessedness is stamped 
 on the last ; but this is all. It is vain to speculate where Scrip- 
 ture aftbrds no clue. " The secret things belong unto God, 
 but the things that are revealed to us and our children." 
 
 " Tw::lve Hundred and Ninety Days" (Dan. xii. ii). 
 
 We must briefly glance at the two periods of thirty years and 
 forty-five years, by which the main period of 1260 years, the 
 latter half of the " Times of the Gentiles," is lengthened. 
 
 The glorious One, who makes this final revelation to Daniel, 
 swears by Him that liveth for ever and ever, that " time, times, 
 and half a time/' 1260 years, should bring to an end the 
 scattering of the holy people, and the " wonders " of judgment 
 which had been foretold to the prophet. Daniel, longing to 
 know more, inquires, " O my Lord, what shall be the end of 
 these things ? " The answer is a refusal at that time to reveal 
 more, or make plainer what had been revealed, coupled with an 
 intimation that in the time of the end the prophecy should be 
 better understood. " Go thy way, Daniel, for the words are 
 closed up and sealed till the time of the end." In the mean- 
 time he is assured that the blessed sanctifying work of God in 
 individual souls would go on, in spite of national apostasies and 
 the machinations of the Evil One. " Many shall be purified, 
 and made white, and tried, but the wicked shall do wickedly ; 
 none of the wicked shall understand " (these prophecies appa- 
 rently), "but the wise shall understand." And then the great 
 Revealer adds one or two further mysterious chronological 
 hints, evidently designed for the guidance of the saints at the 
 time of the end, which show plainly, what the analogy of the 
 Captivity period not indistinctly intimates, that the time of the 
 end, brief as it is when compared with the " time, times, and 
 a half,'' and very brief when compared with the whole " seven 
 times," is yet a period, and not a point — a course of years, not 
 a crisis ; that the full end is to CQ\\\t gradually, not suddenly
 
 SOLI-LUNAR CYCLES, AND CHRONOLOGY. 445 
 
 Tlius the rising and falling of the waters of the flood were 
 gradual ; the enslaving and the redeeming of Abraham's seed 
 from Egyptian bondage were gradual ; the downfall of Jewish 
 monarchy was by stages, and the final expulsion of the Jews 
 from their land was equally gradual and by stages. These 
 closing verses of Daniel prove beyond a doubt that the eleva- 
 tion of Israel, and the introduction of millennial blessedness, 
 will also be gradual, and that marked stages will occur in its 
 course. 
 
 " From the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, 
 and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall 
 be a thousand two hundred and ninety days. Blessed is he 
 that waiteth and cometh to the thousand three hundred and 
 five and thirty days." 
 
 The remarkable feature about these two closing chronologi- 
 cal statements is, that they name no terminal event ; the former 
 does not even suggest any ; the latter only implies that its close 
 will introduce the era of blessedness. The emphatic " blessed 
 is he that waiteth and cometh " to it, recalls the " Blessed and 
 holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection," of Rev. xx. ; 
 and we may probably assume that the 1335 days is, in the 
 fullest sense, ''the end,'' to which the Angel alludes" in his 
 closing words ; " Go thou thy way till the end be, for thou 
 shalt rest (in death), and stand (in resurrection) in thy lot at 
 the end of the days " [i.e., of these 1335 days, or years). 
 
 In considering the 1290 years, we note that it passes beyond 
 the limits of the primary period by thirty years, or one pro- 
 phetic MONTH. 
 
 As no event marking its close is given, in the prophecy, it is 
 impossible to decide whether it is to be added to the earlier or 
 to the later close of the " seven times," and its second half, the 
 1260 years of the domination of the Desolator. 
 
 Astronomicall}', thirty years is a soli-lunar cycle in ivhich the 
 solar year and the lunar month agree within a day. 
 
 In the whole 1290 years the epact amounts to the septiforiu 
 period of 2004 weeks, or 14,0J?8 day:'.
 
 .U6 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AXD SEASONS. 
 
 Thirteen Hundred and Tiiirtv-five Days (Dan. xii. 12). 
 
 Forty -five years more are in ver. 12 added to 1290, making 
 1335 years, carrying us seventy-five years beyond the termina- 
 tion of the Times of the Gentiles, and introducing the era of 
 full blessedness. 
 
 An analogous forty-five years terminated in the inheritance 
 of the typical rest of Canaan. It will be remembered that 
 Caleb, when appealing to Joshua to give him the promised 
 possession, said, " The Lord hath kept me alive these forty 
 and five years, ever since the Lord spake this word unto 
 Moses, while the children of Jsrael v/andered in the wilder- 
 ness, and now I am this day fourscore and five years old . . . 
 Now therefore give me this mountain whereof the Lord spake 
 in that day. And Joshua blessed him, and gave unto Caleb 
 the son of Jephunneh, Hebron for an inheritance, and the land 
 had rest from Avar" (Josh. xiv. 10-13). 
 
 Forty-five years was also a terminal period in the history of 
 the Jewish dispensation. Our Lord's crucifixion took place in 
 the year a.d. 29, and his ministry began 3J, years previously, 
 or in the year a.d. 25 ; the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus 
 was in the year a.d. 70, forty-five years from the commence- 
 ment of our Lord's ministry. 
 
 The soli-lunar measures of this brief terminal period are 
 strikingly septiforin. During its course the sun gains on the 
 moon seventy weeks, or 490 days. 
 
 In the whole period of " 1335 days," or years, there are 
 seventy lunar cycles, and five years over. The epact of 
 these five years is 54 to 55 days, from which the slight error 
 of tlie lunar cycle has to be deducted. In 1335 years this 
 error amounts to nearly a week ; the result is, that the solar 
 gain duving the whole 1335 years is seventy weeks of months, 
 and seven weeks of days. 
 
 I^Ieasured by the prophetic, or calendar year, the solar gain 
 on the calendar year of 360 days in the 1335 years is a thou- 
 sand weeks.
 
 SOLI- LUNAR CYCLES, AND CHRONOLOGY. 4-17 
 
 Two Thousand Five Hundred and Ninetv-five Years. 
 
 These two brief periods of thirty and forty-five years make 
 together 75 years, and are added to the second half of the 
 great "seven times'' of prophecy; if we consider them as 
 added to the whole "seven times," or 2520 years, tiicy raise 
 that period to 2595 years. 
 
 We may therefore, in closing, glance at the astronomic 
 measures of this period. It contains 136 lunar cycles, and 
 the solar gain over the lunar year in this period, is 
 
 seventy-seven solar years. 
 In other words, this comprehensive period consists of 
 
 seventy-seven soli-lunar cycles. 
 There is a remainder of eleven years, which— minus the ac- 
 cumulations of the small error of the lunar cycle— gives an 
 additional septiform solar gain of fourteen weeks, makmg the 
 epact of the whole accurately 
 
 seventy-seven solar years, and twice seven weeks. 
 
 Grouping together the cpacts of the prophetic times, we 
 observe among them a striking similarity, and indications ot 
 the existence of some underlying law inviting research.* 
 
 I. Epacts of the Prophetic Times, as measured bv 
 True Solar and Lunar Years. 
 
 rROPiiETic Times. Epacts. 
 
 45 years . Seventy weeks of days. 
 65 „ . Soven hundred and seven days. 
 490 „ . Twice seven solar years, and seven months. 
 1290 „ . Twice seven thousand and four times seven 
 
 days (two thousand and four weeks). 
 1335 J, . Seventy weeks of months, and seven weeks of 
 
 days. 
 2300 ., . Seventy lunar years, and seven months. 
 
 * See Appendi:: A.
 
 44S DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 2520 years . Seventy-five solar years. 
 
 B593 „ . Seventy-seven solar years, aiid twice seven 
 
 weeks. 
 1000 „ . A month of solar years, 
 1260 „ . Sixty-six weeks of months, and sixty days. 
 1810 „ . Six hundred and sixty-six months. 
 
 II. Epacts of the Prophetic Times, as measured by 
 THE Prophetic, or Calendar Year of 360 Days. 
 
 Prophetic Times. Epacts. 
 
 70 years . One calendar year and one week. 
 490 „ . Seven calendar years and seven weeks. 
 1335 „ . A thousand weeks. 
 2300 „ . Thirty-three solar years. 
 1000 „ . Twice seven calendar years and seven months. 
 1260 ., . Thrice six calendar years, and thrice six 
 weeks ; or six thousand six hundred and 
 six days.
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 SOLI-LUNAR MEASURES OF OUR LORD's EARTHLY LIFETIME, 
 AND OF HUMAN HISTORY AS A WHOLE. 
 
 WE have shown in the foregoing chapters, that the lead- 
 ing prophetic times are accurate astronomic cycles, — 
 cycles not remote from terrestrial affairs, but connected with 
 our ordinary calendar measurements of time — cycles harmoniz- 
 ing, more or less perfectly, the unequal yet intimately related 
 solar and lunar revolutions. 
 
 We have also shown that the epacts ot these prophetic times 
 form, with one peculiar exception, a remarkable series of septi- 
 form periods or weeks, of years, months, weeks, and days ; 
 and that, in the one instance where it is not septiform, the 
 epact assumes a strikingly sixfold character, in harmony with 
 the sixfold number, attached by Divine inspiration to the power 
 of which that period is the duration. 
 
 These prophetic times become in due course Jiistoric times; 
 and the question naturally arises, Will this principle of 
 epact measurement yield analogous results, when extended to 
 dther historic times, and to the whole chronology of human 
 history ? 
 
 In what follows we must endeavour to show that it does, 
 and that a marvellous law of harmonious proportion is clearly 
 observable between the chronology of certain types of the 
 course of redemption history and that of the actual events 
 typified — the reality being to the chronological type, not as a 
 year to a day, but as a soli-lunar cycle to a day. And what is 
 still more remarkable is that this cycle — a cycle whose epact 
 is exactly one solar year, fneasurcs the most important period 
 
 G G
 
 450 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 in all human history — the earthly lifdinic of our Lord Jesus 
 Christ.-'^ 
 
 We ask special attention to this statement. The evidence 
 which justifies it amounts — not to demonstration, for the 
 nature of the case forbids this — but to so high a degree of 
 probabiUty, as to be almost moral certainty, and the fact, if it 
 be such, is a deeply interesting and important one, indicating 
 another underlying link of connection between the assertions of 
 Scripture history, and the phenomena of astronomic science. 
 
 A brief consideration of the statements of the New Testa- 
 ment on the period in question is needful here. 
 
 We learn from St. Luke that at the time of his baptism, 
 when the Holy Ghost, in bodily shape like a dove, descended 
 on Him to anoint Him for his ministry, and when the voice 
 from heaven proclaimed Him the beloved Son of God, "Jesus 
 Himself began to be about thirty years of age." 
 
 His entrance on his career of public service to God at this 
 age, was in accordance with the principles of the Levitical 
 Law, and with the practice of the Levites. Thirty years of age 
 is the time of mental, moral and physical maturity — a man's 
 prime. " From thirty years old and upward, until fifty years old, 
 shalt thou number them," was the law respecting the Levites, 
 " all that enter in to perform the service, to do the work in the 
 tabernacle of the congregation." This is seven times reiter- 
 ated in the fourth of Numbers (w. 3, 23, 30, 35, 39, 43, 47). 
 
 David a type of the Messiah, began to reign at this same 
 age. " David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and 
 
 • In every solar year there is an excess of ten days and twenty-one 
 hours, or nearly eleven days, over the lunar year, i.e., over the year as 
 measured by twelve revolutions of the moon, so that when the sun com- 
 mences his second round, the moon is between ten and eleven days behind 
 hand. In three solar years, the moon has fallen back rather more than a 
 month, in nineteen years it has retrograded seven months, and in 33 years, 
 7 months and 7 days, it has fallen back one solar year. This period is 
 therefore A soli-lunar cycle of a certain order, and seven such periods, 
 or 235 solar years, is a cycle of the same kind, and at the same time a 
 number of complete solar years.
 
 SOU-LUNAR CYCLES, AND CHRONOLOGY. 451 
 
 he reigned forty years." So the Son of David was thirty years 
 old when He began his pubhc Hfe. 
 
 The gospels nowhere expressly state the exact duration of 
 our Lord's ministry, yet that it lasted three years and a half, is 
 clearly deducible from what they do state. The gospel of 
 John distinctly mentions three " feasts " of Passover in the 
 course of our Lord's ministry, and implies a fourth. The 
 first, at which He cleansed the temple (chap, ii.) ; the second, 
 when He healed the impotent man at the pool of Bethesda 
 (chap, v.); the third, about the time of his feeding the mul- 
 titude (chap. vi. 3) ; and the fourth, which He ate with his 
 disciples before He suffered, the same night in which He 
 was betrayed (chap, xviii. 28). Four Passovers of course 
 include three years. There was also evidently an interval of 
 some months between our Lord's baptism by John in Bethabara 
 beyond Jordan, and the first of these Passovers. The events 
 which had intervened were his forty days' fast, and subsequent 
 temptation in the desert of Judea ; his return journey to 
 Galilee ; his visit to Cana at the time of the marriage, when 
 He turned the water into wine ; his subsequent brief visit to 
 Capernaum ; and his return to Judea. All this can scarcely 
 have occupied less than six months ; so that it is with good 
 ground that, from the early Fathers onwards, our Lord's minis- 
 try is assumed to have lasted three years and a half.* 
 
 • " On the phrase yi'^ J-/ of tJic Jc'os (iopr'q tCiv '\o\ioa.Mv), Jolin v. I, turns 
 mainly the question as to tiie duration of our Lord's public ministry. Joliii 
 notes disl'uuily three Passoz'crs ; John ii. lj\ vi. 4; xii. I. If now this 
 feast be another Passover, then our Lcsrd's public labours continued during 
 three and a half years ; if not, then the time of his ministry must in all 
 probability be rcclconed one year less. 
 
 The only reasonable ground of doubt in this case, is the absence of the 
 defmile article before A'aj/. But even as the text now stands, it //wv as- 
 suredly in itself just as well denote the threat Jewish festival as any other. 
 Tlie following; considerations seem to show that it docs most probably 
 thus stand for a J'assover, viz. the seeojid in our Lord's public ministry. 
 
 1. The word feast (ecfl-rj), without the article, is put dehnitely for the 
 Passover, in the phrase Kara iopr-qv, ^Latt. xxvii. 15 ; Mark xv. ; Luke 
 xxiii. 17. Comp. John xviii. 39. 
 
 2. In Hebrew a noun before a gcniiive is made definite by prefixing tlie
 
 452 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 We assume then, that at the time of his death, our blessed 
 Lord was thirty-three and a half years of age. Now, the soli- 
 lunar cycle of which we speak is thirty-three years, seven 
 
 article, not to the noun itself but to the !:;renitive ; see Davies's translation 
 of Gesenius's Heb. Gr. § 109 ; I Nordhcim Hcb. Gr. ii. p. 14, 7. This 
 idiom is transferred by the LXX. into Greek ; e.g. Deut. xvi. 13, kopTy\v tQv 
 CKT]vCov TTot^o-eis creavrw, Heb. ni^DH JH i.e. the festival of tabernacles. 
 So too in the New Testament ; ^iatt. xii. 24, iv rw BeeXfe^oi'X dpxovri 
 Tuv oaifiovluv, i.e. the prince of demons. Ilence, in the passat^e before us, 
 according to tlie analogous English idiom, we may render the phrase by 
 the Jaus' festival ; which marks it definitely as the Passover. 
 
 3. It is not probable, that John means here to imply that the festival 
 was indefinite or uncertain. Such is not his usual manner. The Jewish 
 festivals were to him the measures of time ; and in every other instance 
 they are definitely specified. So the Passover, John ii. 23 ; xii. i ; even when 
 Jesus does not visit it, vi. 4; and also when it is expressed only by the feast, 
 iv. 45; xi. 56; xii. 12, 20, al. So too the festival of Tabernacles, vii. 2; 
 and of the Dedication, x. 22. This is all natural in him ; for an indefinite 
 festival could afford no note of time. 
 
 4. The plucking of the ears of grain by the discijiles shows that a 
 passover had just been kept; which tallies accurately M'ith this visit of our 
 Lord to Jerusalem. 
 
 5. Til is feast could not have been the festival either of Pentecost or of 
 Tabernacles next following our Lord's first Passover. He returned from 
 Judea to (ialilee not until eight months aifter that Passover, when both 
 these festivals were already past. That it might by possibility have been 
 the Pentecost after a second Passover not mentioned, and before that in 
 John vi. 4, cannot perhaps be fully disproved ; but such a view has in 
 itself no jirobability, and is apparently entertained by no one. At any rate, 
 it would also give the same duration of three and a half years to our Lord's 
 ministry. 
 
 6. Nor can we well understand here the festival of Purim, which oc- 
 curred on the fourteenth and fifteenth of the month Adar, or March, one 
 month before the Passover; see Esth. ix. 21, 22, 26-2S. Against this the 
 following considerations present themselves : {a) 'llie Jews did not go up 
 to Jerusalem to celebrate the festival of Purim. The observance of it 
 among that people throughout the world consisted solely in reading the 
 Book of Esther in their synagogues on those days, and making them 
 "days of feasting and joy and of sending portions (dishes) one to another 
 and gifts to the poor;" Esth. ix. 22; Jos. Ant. xi. 6, 13, Keland, Antiq. ; 
 Heb. iv. 9. But the " multitude," John v. 13, seems to imply a concourse 
 of strangers at one of the great festivals. (?>) It is very improbable that 
 Jesus would have gone up to Jerusalem at the Purim, towhicli the Jews 
 did not go up, rather than at the Passover which occurred only a month 
 later. His being once present at the festival of Dedication (John x. 22) is 
 not a ])arallel case ; since He appears not to have gone up for that purpose, 
 but this festival occurred while He remained in or near Jerusalem after the 
 festival of Tabernacles, John vii. £, scj. (c) The inthm man was healed on
 
 SOU-LUNAR CYCLES, AND CHRONOLOGY. 453 
 I — . . — 
 
 months and seven days, so at first sight it seems more than 
 a month longer than the Ufe of Christ, but it must be remem- 
 bered that our Lord's connection with this earth did not 
 
 the sabbath, John v. 9 : which sabbath belonged to the festival, as tha 
 whole context shows, John v. i, 2, 10-13. Eut the Purim was never 
 celebrated on a sabbath ; and, when it happened to fall on that day, was 
 regularly deferred ; see Reland 1. c. 
 
 7. The main objection urged against taking Wns feast as a Passover, is 
 the circumstance, that in such case, as our Lord did not go up to the 
 Passover spoken of in John vi. 4, but only at the subsequent festival of 
 Tabernacles in John vii. 2, sq.. He would thus have absented Himself from 
 Jerusalem for a year and six months ; a neglect, it is alleged, inconsistent 
 with his character and with a due observance of the Jewish law. But a 
 sufficient reason is assigned for this omission, namely, " because the Jews 
 sought to kill Him " (John vii. i ; comp. v. iS). It obviously had been our 
 Lord's custom to visit the holy city every year at the Passover ; and be- 
 cause, for the reason assigned. He once let this occasion pass by, He there- 
 fore went up six months afterwards, at the feast of Tabernacles. All this 
 presents a view perfectly natural ; and covers the whole ground. Nor 
 have we any right to assume, as many do, that our Lord regularly went up to 
 Jerusalem on other occasions besides those specified in the New Testament. 
 
 In this instance, the most ancient view is that which takes feast for a 
 Passover. So Irenxus in the third century : " Et postiiac iterum secunda 
 vice adscendit [Jesus] in diem paschai in Hierusalem, quando paralyticum, 
 qui juxta natatoriam jacebat xxxviii annos curavit ; " Adv. Hcer. ii. 39. 
 The same view was adopted by Lusebius, Theodoret, and others ; and in 
 later times has been followed by Luther, Scaliger, Grotius, Lightfoot, 
 Le Clerc, Lampe, Hengstenberg, Greswell, etc. Cyril and Chrysostom 
 held to a Pentecost, as also the Harmony ascribed to Tatian ; and so, in 
 modern times, Erasmus, Calvin, Beza, Bengel, etc. The festival of Purim 
 was first suggested by Kepler ("Ecloga: Chronicre," pp. 72, 129, sq. Fran- 
 cof. 161 5); and at the present day this^is the only view, aside from the Pass- 
 over, that finds advocates. Those who hold it, as Hug, Neandcr, Olshausen, 
 Tholuck, Meyer, Wieseler (Liicke and De Wette leave the question un- 
 decided), regard John vi. 4 as having reference to the second Passover 
 during our Lord's ministry; v.hich thus becomes limited to two and a half 
 years. See generally, Creswcll's Dissert, viii. vol. ii., Neander's Lebcn 
 Jesii, 3te Ausg. p. 434. Wieselcr's Chronol. Synopse dcr Vicr Evangelien, 
 pp. 211-222. 
 
 From " Harmony of the Gospels," following that in Greek, by Ed. 
 Robinson, D.D., LL.D., published by the Religious Tract Society (pp. 
 199-200). " That this feast was a passcnrr, was certainly the most ancient 
 opinion, and it is the opinion of the great majority of critics, being that of 
 Irena-'us, as early as the second century, Eusebius and Tlicodorct among the 
 fathers ; and of Luther, Beza, Maldonat, Grotius, Lightfoot, La Clerk, 
 Lampe, Hengstenberg, Greswell, Rolimson, Tholuck in his 6th edition, and 
 apparently in his 7tli and last, Middlcton, Trench, V.'ebstcr and\Nilkirt 
 son," etc. Commentary on N. Test., Rev. D. Brown, on John v. I.
 
 454 DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 terminate with liis death and resurrection. He walked and 
 talked with his disciples, He ate and drank before them ; and 
 manifested Himself to them during forty days after his resur- 
 rection before He left the world altogether, and "a cloud 
 received Him out of their sight." These forcy days must 
 therefore be included in any estimate of his earthly life, for 
 not until the final parting on the mount of Olives did it cease 
 to be true that God in human form was tabernacling among 
 nren. 
 
 Our Lord's life, then, was composed of the 30 years prior to 
 his baptism, the three years and a half of his ministry, and 
 40 days after his resurrection, and as it terminated between the 
 feasts of Passover and Pentecost, it must have commenced 
 about the time of the feast of Tabernacles. Now from the day 
 of ascension in a.d. 29, to the first day of the feast of Taber- 
 nacles in the 34th preceding year, the interval (as we show in 
 the Appendix) was 2,Z solar years 7 lunar months and 7 days, 
 which is the exact measure of the soli-lunar cycle in question. 
 
 If it be objected that Avhile the first and last periods of our 
 Lord's life were clearly 30 years and 40 days, yet that the 
 central period of his ministry cannot be proved to have been 
 just three years and a half, we reply that it cannot be proved 
 to have been more or less than that period, and there are the 
 following good grounds for believing that the general view as 
 to its duration is con-ect. 
 
 (i) The Divine system of times and seasons is, as we have 
 seen, one of weeks. Messiah's coming and death had been 
 announced in the prophecy of* 70 week?," and that prophecy 
 speaks of a division in the midst of a week. A week of years 
 and a half week of years, are periods recognised and often 
 employed in Scripture, and the latter is notably used in con- 
 nection with the testimony of God's faithful witnesses. " Elias 
 was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed 
 earnestly that it might not rain ; and it rained not on the earth 
 by the space of three years and six months^' (James v. 17). 
 Similarly the two sackcloth-clothed witnesses in Rev. xi. pro-
 
 SOLI-LUNAR CYCLES, AND CHRONOLOGY. 455 
 
 phesy during three symbolic years and a half (1260 days), and 
 then during three literal years and a half (symbolised by 
 " three days and a half") they lie unburied. 
 
 The great " seven times " of the " Times of the Gentiles " is 
 divided as we have seen, into two equal portions, each con- 
 sisting of " time, times, and a half," or three years and a halt 
 (symbolic). 
 
 Now since the first period of Christ's life (30 years) was in 
 harmony with Old Testament chronological usage, and also 
 the forty days closing period, it seems reasonable to suppose 
 that the central, and most important section of it, occupied by 
 his public ministry, should not have been an irregular interval, 
 unlike any other in Scripture. In assuming it to have been the 
 important definite period to which toe kjioiu it closely opproxi- 
 maicd, we only assume that it was in full harmony with sacred 
 analogy, and not at variance with the law of weeks, which 
 pervades the Bible. 
 
 (2) The events which took place before the first passover 
 of Christ's life, when compared with subsequent similar journey- 
 ings and tarriances, seem likely to have occupied about six 
 months; and as there are no counter judications, but the 
 reverse;, we may safely assume that the Lord's ministry was 
 three years and a half, so nearly as to justify our regarding his 
 earthly life, including its 40 days post rcsun-ection period as 
 in close, if not exact agreement with the 33 years 7 months 
 and 7 days cycle, and to warrant our naming this soli-lunar 
 cycle, "The Messianic Cycle." 
 
 Now the fact that this central and all important period— the 
 lifetime of our Lord — was comprised in such a cycle, naturally 
 suggests the use of that cycle, as a unit for the measurement of 
 larger periods. Before we point out the results of regarding it 
 as one day of a great year of similar cycles, it is needful briefly 
 to recall two points already discussed. 
 
 In our study of the law of completion in weeks (p. 270), we 
 showed that a Divine chronologic system exists in Scripture ; 
 ihat it is a system of weeks ; that it pervades the law and the
 
 456 DIVIAE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 prophets, and is traceable in the Gospels and Epistles ; that it 
 is especially conspicuous in the Jewish ritual, and in the sym- 
 bolic prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse ; and that it 
 comprises weeks, or scptiform periods, on a variety of scales, 
 according to the day, or unit of computation, employed. 
 
 We considered the week of days, of months, of years, of 
 decades, of weeks of years, of months of years, of years of 
 years, and of millenaries ; and we saw good reason to endorse, 
 on new grounds, the ancient view, that in the course of the six 
 first days of the week on this last scale, the mystery of God is 
 destined to be finished, and that the seventh millenary of the 
 world's history is to be its sabbath — the millennial reign of 
 Christ on earth. 
 
 In considering the week of months (p. 276) we showed 
 further that seven lunar months comprised all the feasts of the 
 Lord, and constituted the sacred portion of the Jewish year, 
 and that these feasts of the Lord, the observances and chrono- 
 logy of which are set forth at length, and with great exactness 
 in Leviticus xxiii., form A complete calendar of divinely 
 
 ORDAINED TYPICAL CEREiMONIES, PREFIGURING THE GLORIOUS 
 
 HISTORY OF REDEMPTION. The scries of feasts thus prophetic 
 of the future, — for the law had " a shadow of good things to 
 come," — is introduced by the great law of the sabbatic, or 
 weekly rest, a law involving a main principle of all these reli- 
 gious festivals ; redemption terminating in the rest of God, and 
 the rest of man in and with his Divine Redeemer. " There 
 remaineth a rest— a eabbatism — to the people of God." Then 
 follows the setting apart of the paschal lamb, and, after a 
 definite period, its redeeming death, pointing to " Christ our 
 Passover sacrificed for us." 
 
 The closely connected feast of unleavened bread, with its 
 rigid exclusion of leaven in every form, the type of sin, suc- 
 ceeded. It is explained by the Apostolic commentary, 
 "Therefore let us keep the feast, not with the old leaven, 
 neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the 
 unleavened bread of sincerity and truth."
 
 SOLI-LUNAR CYCLES, AND CHRONOLOGY. 457 
 
 Then on the day after the sabbath following the passover, a 
 first-fruit sheaf of the early harvest was waved before God, 
 emblematic of the resurrection of " Christ the first fruits of 
 them that slept," and pointing with no obscurity to the occur- 
 rence of his resurrection on the first day of a new week. 
 
 Fifty days {i.e. seven weeks and a day) reckoned from this 
 wave-sheaf day, brought Pentecost, or the feast of weeks, with 
 another wave offering, emblematic of the church. It consisted 
 not of a single first-fruit sheaf, but of ttvo loaves baked with 
 leaven (typical of evil), and consequently accompanied by a 
 sin offering. These loaves prefigured the Church of redeemed 
 sinners in their present imperfect state, accepted by God, but 
 only in and through the Beloved. 
 
 The next feasts prescribed were the terminal group in the 
 seventh month, the feast of trumpets, the great day of atone- 
 ment, and the feast of tabernacles. The first seems to point 
 to a universal gospel testimony and to the future awakening 
 of Israel, and to be chronologically connected with the final 
 trumpets of • the Apocalypse ; the second foreshadows the 
 national repentance of Israel, when " they shall look upon 
 Him whom they have pierced, and mourn because of Him"; 
 and the third, the glad concluding harvest home feast of 
 tabernacles, typifies " the times of the restitution of all things," 
 " of which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy pro- 
 phets since the world began." 
 
 The antitypical realities which these feasts prefigure centre 
 in the incarnation. The rejection of " God manifest in the 
 flesh," and dwelling among men, led to Christ, our Passover, 
 being sacrificed for us. At that historical point the type and t/ie 
 antitype met, for the crucifixion, the great act of redemption, 
 was accomplished on an anniversary of the Exodus Passover, 
 and the resurrection itself fell on the very day of the annual 
 wave sheaf, which had for ages prefigured it ; while the descent 
 of the Holy Ghost, which baptized the separate disciples into 
 one Church and Body of Christ, took place on the '• day of 
 Pentecost fully come," so that the birth of the Christian
 
 45S DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 Church, in its corporate character, synchronized with the 
 observance of the ceremonies which had so long foreshadowed 
 it. 
 
 Thus three of the most momentous and sacred events in the 
 whole course of history (events than which none of greater 
 importance have ever taken place), the atoning death of the 
 Son of God, his glorious resurrection, and the descent of the 
 Holy Ghost, coincided chronologically with their prcfiguraiive 
 ceremonial observances enjoined in Leviticus xxiii. 
 
 Thus far the prophecy of the Jewish ritual is, therefore, ful- 
 filled. The remaining three feasts have yet to receive their 
 antitypical accomplishment, but we know from other scriptures 
 that the restoration, repentance, salvation, and blessing of 
 Israel which they foreshadowed, are to take place at the close 
 of the " Times of the Gentiles." This is implied in our Lord's 
 own expression, "Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the 
 Gentiles, U7iiil the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled ; " and in 
 the statement of St. Paul, "bUndness in part is happened to 
 Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in" (Rom. 
 xi. 25). 
 
 Now, the event which terminates the "Times of the Gentiles" 
 is the coming of Christ and the establishment of his millennial 
 kingdom on earth. Cut this event does not terminate redemp- 
 tion history. It is only at the close of his millennial reign, 
 when the Son shall have put down all rule and all autliority 
 and power, subdued all things to Himself, and destroyed the 
 last enemy, death; and delivered up the kingdom to God, 
 even the Father, it is only then, that his peculiar work as 
 Redeemer and Mediator is accomplished. 
 
 Redeeming work, therefore, extends, according to Scripture, 
 from the days of Eden to the end of the millennium. Thence- 
 forward the perfect results of the great work remain, but the 
 work itself is accomplished and over. Satan and death and 
 Hades arc cast into tlie lake of fire. There is no more death, 
 neither sorrow, nor crying. Tlic former things are passed 
 away, and the tabernacle of God is for ever witli men.
 
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 We have then two leading facts ; first, that the type of re- 
 demption embodied in the Jewish ritual extended over seven 
 months of the ordinary year ; and secondly, that as far as can 
 be ascertained from Scripture the actual history or course of 
 redemption extends over seven millenaries. Now the re- 
 markable result of the application of the soli-lunar cycle 
 of II years 7 months and 7 days to these periods is, that 
 it brings the week of millenaries into close and special har- 
 mony with the week of months. A thousand years contains 
 as many of these soli-lunar cycles as there are days in a month, 
 and consequently seven 77iiUenaries are seven months of such 
 cycles. The agreement between the chronological type and the 
 great antitype is not, therefore, merely that between a week 
 of months and a week of millenaries, it is far more close and 
 remarkable. The type bears to the antitype the per- 
 fect PROPORTION OF A V/EEK OF MONTHS ON ONE SCALE TO 
 
 A WEEK OF MONTHS ON ANOTHER. Either may be regarded 
 as a week of months contained in a year ; the former a year 
 of 360 to 365 days, the latter a year of 360 to 365 soli-lunar 
 cycles. 
 
 In the adjoined plate the millenaries measuring the course 
 of human history are divided into Messianic cycles, and may 
 be compared with the months and days of the Levitical 
 calendar sketched in the centre. 
 
 A thousand years equal 29!- Messianic cycles (analogous with 
 the 29|d. lunar month) ; thirty Messianic cycles (analogous with 
 the 3od. calendar month of the Prophetic Times) equal exactly 
 1007 solar years and 7 lunations; and 180 Messianic cycles 
 (half 360) equal 6045 solar years, 5 months. 
 
 According to the Hebrew chronology, as shown by Mr. 
 Clinton, we have now about reached the termination of the 
 first six thousand years of human history ; and history as well as 
 prophecy abundantly confirm tli-e view this fact suggests, that 
 we are now living in the last or closing days of the third great 
 dispensation, and on the verge of another and a better age. 
 Half a vast year of Messianic cycles, measured frojn the creation
 
 46o DIVINE SYSTEM OF TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 of man, is tio'v expiring; and as it expires, there dawns upon the 
 world the Hght which immediately precedes the sun-rising; 
 there arise around us the solemn yet joyful evidences of the 
 nearness of the glorious kingdom of our God.* 
 
 * For further particulars with reference to the Messianic cycle see Ap* 
 pendit
 
 CHAPTER VI. 
 
 CONCLUDING REMARKS. 
 
 WE have in the foregoing pages, traversed a considerable 
 range of subjects ; we have endeavoured to elucidate 
 the fundamental principles of progressive revelation and 
 progressive interpretation, and we have under their guidance 
 traced the historic fulfilment of two of the main symbolic 
 prophecies of Scripture. In this fourth part of the work we 
 have directed attention to a variety of facts, in the realms of 
 physiology and astronomy, and shown their connection with 
 another series of facts, the facts of Biblical chronology. We 
 have traced, very imperfectly, but still sufficiently to demon- 
 strate its existence, a system of times and seasons running 
 through nature — organic and inorganic, — and through Scripture 
 — historic and prophetic : — a system which consequently we 
 have ventured to call, a Divine system of times and seasons. 
 We have shown that this system is characterized by soli-lunar 
 dominion causal and chronological, and by a marked and 
 peculiar septiformity ; that a law of completion in weeks can 
 be traced alike in Scripture, in physiology (normal and abnor- 
 mal), in history, and in astronomy. 
 
 We have endeavoured to avoid mere hypothesis, and to build 
 on the basis ot solid unquestionable facts. It remains in con- 
 clusion to show the bearing of the facts of this Divine system 
 of times and seasons, — 
 
 I. On some of the main controverted points of prophetic 
 interpretation dealt with in the earlier part of this volume ; 
 
 II. On the evidence of the inspiration of Scripture; and, 
 
 III. On the profoundly interesting question of the chrono- 
 logical point now reached in human history, and the nearness 
 of " the end of the age."
 
 463 CONCLUDING REMARKS. 
 
 I. The Divine system of times and seasons, which we have 
 traced, strongly discredits \hQ futurist system of interpreting the 
 symboUc prophecies of Daniel and St. John, and in the fullest 
 and most remarkable manner confirms i/ie Protestant historic 
 system. We have shown that if the true meaning of the 
 chronologic statements connected with these prophecies can be 
 determined, it would of itself and without the aid of further 
 argument, settle the question at issue between these tw'o schools 
 of interpreters ; inasmuch as the nature of the predicted 
 Antichrist is decided by the duration of his existence. If 
 the 1260 days of his dominion be (unlike all the other features 
 of the prediction) literal, then the futurists are right in looking 
 for a future division of the Roman earth into ten kingdoms 
 with a coincident future rise of an individual Antichrist, whose 
 advent shall precede by three and a half years that of Christ ; 
 and in denying that these prophecies have already received 
 their fulfilment. But if the 1260 days be (like the predictions 
 in which the period occurs), symbolic, then the Httle horn and 
 the ten horns, herein g a duration of 1260 years attached to thetn, 
 and their rise immediately succeeding the break-up of the 
 undivided Roman Empire, the fulfilment must be looked for in 
 the past ; and can only be found in the history of the Papacy, 
 and its relations to the kingdoms of Christendom, and to the 
 true Church of Christ, during the last twelve centuries. In 
 consequence of this, its great importance, we dwelt at some 
 length on the evidence in favour of the year-day system of 
 interpretation, and we must now direct special attention to the 
 confirmation of its truth afforded by the Divine plan of times 
 and seasons, which we have been investigating. 
 
 The period which, — as marking the duration, and therefore 
 the nature of the great Antichristian Apostasy, — is the disputed 
 period, is seven times designated by expressions synonymous 
 with half a week of years: " forty and two months," 1 260 days, etc. 
 Now this alone would prove nothing, because weeks on an 
 almost infinite variety of scale, are found, as we have shown, in 
 the word and works of God. Eut this half week leads up to a
 
 CONCLUDING REMARKS. 463 
 
 certain terminal point, the establishment of the kingdom of the 
 God of heaven, the overthrow of Antichrist and his armies, the 
 cessation of the treading down of the holy city. These same 
 events mark the termination of one of the weeks we have con- 
 sidered, the last of the three great dispensational weeks, the 
 times of the Gentiles ; this also ends in the establishment of the 
 kingdom of God, the overthrow of Babylon and the beast, and 
 the Second Advent of Christ. That is, we find a tvhole week 
 of "seven times," or 2520 years, leading up to that; and we 
 find also a half-week of " time, times and a half," leading up 
 to THAT. How can we question that the latter is half of the 
 former ? that the half-v/eek of years, is symbolic of a half-week 
 of prophetic times, or years of years? that the predicted 1260 
 '■^ days'' represent the 1260 years which are the last half of the 
 Gentile dispensation ? 
 
 If this be so, if this period be-the solemnly momentous and 
 important last half of the last great dispensation, the twelve 
 centuries which have rolled over Christendom since the rise of 
 the Papacy, including the dark ages, the Reformation, and the 
 modern revival of primitive Christian doctrine, and spread of 
 missionary enterprise, with the coincident rise and spread of 
 infidelity, then it is easy to understand the prominence assigned 
 to it in the prophetic word. But if it be literally half a week 
 of years, it is a brief half withoitt a corresponding half, and no 
 reason consistent with the wisdom and goodness of God can 
 be assigned for the great importance which is attached to it in 
 Scripture. 
 
 And when, further, turning to the scroll of history, 
 
 WE SEE that the GREAT WEEK OF THE TIMES OF THE GeN 
 TILES WAS, AS A MATTER OF FACT, BISECTED BY THE RISE OP 
 
 AN Antichristian POWER, accurately fulfilling the conditions 
 of the prophecy, and whose political existence demonstrably 
 did endure 1260 years, or half a week on the year-day scale, 
 it seems almost impossible to resist the conviction that this 
 is the scale employed, and this the Po^ver foretold. 
 
 It is a further argument in favour of the year-day system,, that
 
 464 COXCLUDLYG REMARKS. 
 
 the periods of symbolic prophecy, interpreted in accordance 
 with it, form parts of a great septenary system ; the previous 
 links in the chain being found in other portions of Scripture, 
 and the subsequent ones in the movements of the universe. In 
 the law, in the prophets, and in the Psalms, we found the week 
 of days, the week of weeks, the week of months, the week of 
 years, the week of weeks of years, the week of decades, and 
 the week of weeks of decades. Now the dispensational " seven 
 times," and its half, the 1260 years, are a week and a half-week 
 of prophetic times, ox years of years, the next step in advance ; 
 and they are followed by the week of millenaries, and by the 
 higher and vaster weeks marked out by the revolutions of the 
 solar system. But for the clue afforded by the prophetic times 
 interpreted according to the year-day system, the true measures 
 of the dispensational divisions of history, would probably never 
 have been surmised. Is it likely that a key which has un- 
 locked so much, should be a wrong key, that the period which 
 has proved a clue to the entire labyrinth, should itself have 
 been misapprehended ? 
 
 But further, the fact that these periods of Daniel, 
 
 INTERPRETED ON THE VEAR-DAY SCALE, ARE FOUND TO BE 
 NATURAL ASTRONOMIC CYCLES OF SINGULAR ACCURACY AND 
 BEAUTY, UNKNOWN TO MANKIND UNTIL DISCOVERED BY MEANS 
 OF THESE VERY PROPHECIES, SEEMS ALONE TO SETTLE THE 
 QUESTION THAT THIS IS THE TRUE SCALE. Is it nOt moSt 
 
 natural and suitable, that great events, deemed worthy of pre- 
 diction by the Spirit of God ages before they occurred, should 
 have had their fore-ordained duration marked off by the occult 
 movements and coincidences of those orbs, which together 
 constitute God's glorious chronometer? Taken literally, the 
 periods of symbolic prophecy, are astronomically notlmig. In- 
 terpreted on the year-day principle, they are natural cycles, as 
 distinctly marked out as such, as our ordinary months or years. 
 Would this be so, were the brief symbolic period, everything, 
 and the antitypical, the year-day period, nothing ? Taken liter- 
 ally, 2300 days are astronomically nothing ; while 2 t^oo years 
 form precisely the largest secular soli-lunar cycle known.
 
 CONCLUDING REMARKS. 465 
 
 When these dispensational, chronologic, and astronomic 
 harmonies, are allowed their due weight in determining the 
 true scale of prophetic chronology, only one conclusion seems 
 possible. The system employed is that of denoting a year by 
 a day ; not brief, but long periods, are therefore predicted, not 
 passing events occupying only a few years, but stupendous 
 ones, enduring through centuries, and affecting many genera- 
 tions of men. And these events are not to be looked for in 
 the future, they are already for the most part fulfilled. This 
 conclusion overthrows the entire futurist system, and fixes the 
 application of the main symbolic prophecies of Daniel and the 
 Apocalypse to the past and present, rather than exclusively to 
 the future. 
 
 We invite futurist expositors of the prophetic word, to con- 
 sider all the arguments on this subject which we have adduced, 
 and either to refute them, or to acknowledge their force. Pro- 
 phetic discussion and controversy are often feared and depre- 
 cated, because they have in other days degenerated into strife, 
 and occasioned separation among brethren. These, however, 
 are happily, not necessary results of searching the Scripture on 
 this or any other topic, and they are evils from which humility 
 and a real desire to discover the truth of God, will effectually 
 preserve sincere inquirers and students. 
 
 We are strongly of opinion that the questions at issue between 
 presentist and futurist interpreters of prophecy, should be both 
 patiently studied, and fully discussed, both from the platform 
 and by the press, with a view to their removal. 
 
 One system or other must be erroneous ; surely it is not hope- 
 less to discover which ! No generation of Christians could 
 ever have attempted the task with such a prospect of success as 
 our own ; not only is there a special promise to the wise in the 
 time of the end, that they shall understand these things, but the 
 very nature of the case makes it clear, that if the 'historic system 
 be the true one, we are in a better position to prove it, than our 
 predecessors could be, for every fresh fulfilment that can be 
 indicated, strengthens the proof That most notable event the 
 
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 466 CONCLUDING REMARKS. 
 
 downfall of the Temporal Power of the Papacy exactly 1260 
 years after the edict of Phocas, ought to provoke a calm and 
 thorough fe-examination of the subject, on the part of our 
 futurist friends. 
 
 " The days are at hand," and the eftect of every vision, and 
 the testimony of the Church on this great subject should be as 
 dear and as unanimous as possible, for if the trumpet give an 
 uncertain sound, who shall prepare for the battle ? The world 
 will never give heed to the warnings of the prophetic word, 
 while the ministers of that word differ diametrically among 
 themselves as to its true meaning ; nor will Christians be 
 roused to any such deep and real conviction of the nearness of 
 the end as will produce practical results, by the exposition of 
 varying and inconsistent views. At this eleventh hour, if ever, 
 the predictions of the word of God ought to be clear to wise 
 and humble students, nor should such rest content without an 
 honest endeavour to compare and resolve their differences. 
 We humbly hope that our own discoveries as to the epact 
 measures of the prophetic times, may be helpful in the con- 
 sideration of the question ; and that, the year-day system oj 
 interpreting the chronologic statements of symbolic prophecy, — 
 that main pillar of the Protestant historic view, may, in the 
 light of the confirmatory evidence of its truth afforded by this 
 investigation of the Divine system of times and seasons, be 
 generally received among students of prophecy, as a truth 
 which has been demonstrated. 
 
 II. The facts we have adduced have also an important bear- 
 ing on the fundamental question of the inspiration of Scripture, 
 and thus indirectly on the subject of Christian evidences. We 
 have shown that nature is characterized by a septiform perio- 
 dicity, and that many of its revolutions are regulated by a 
 law of weeks ; also that Scripture, in a great variety of ways, 
 embodies the same septiform system. Now it must be borne 
 in mind that the existence of this system in nature, has only 
 been recognised of late years. Modern science, — with its careful 
 •md allembracing scrutiny of investigation into natural phe-
 
 CONCLUDING REMARKS. 467 
 
 nomena, with Its reverential attention to even the minutest 
 details of physical function, with its rich accumulations of 
 tabulated records of observed facts, and its unprejudiced 
 candour in submitting all its theories to the test e^f experiment, 
 — has come to perceive, and for the first time, a law of septi- 
 form periodicity in nature. Mankind in all ages must of 
 codrse have been practically familiar with certain obvious 
 and universal instances of its prevalence ; but the wide extent 
 G-f its operation, its exactness, and the variety of the spheres 
 in which it may be traced, is matter of very recent discover^-. 
 The papers contributed by Dr. Laycock to the Lancet, whicli 
 we have quoted, were written less than forty years ago ; and 
 even now the subject is imperfectly understood. 
 
 It is thus abundantly evident tliat the writers of Scripture, 
 in attributing to their Mosaic legislation, embodying in their 
 historical narratives, and in concealing in their symbolic pro- 
 phecies, this same scptiform system, or law of completion in 
 weeks, were not adopting a principle already acloiowledged in 
 the world at large, or even kno^Ti to the men of science of 
 their day. They were entirely ignorant of the recently dis- 
 covered septiformity of nature, and the exact harmony of their 
 writings with this widely operative, but to them utterly unknown 
 principle, must, on their part, have been perfectly undesigned. 
 
 On the other hand, it is equally impossible that this harmony 
 should be the result of chance : the use of the system in 
 Scripture is too thorough and all-pervading to admit of such 
 an explanation. It does not consist in a few minor arrange- 
 ments enacted by a single legislator ; it is the consistent and 
 complex system underlying the law and ritual, which, for 
 three thousand five hundred years have been obeyed by an 
 entire nation; a system running unperceivcd through thsj 
 historical records of the Old Testament, and lying hidden 
 under mystic expressions, in its symbolic prophecies — pro- 
 phecies understood at the time neither by those who gave, nor 
 by those who received them, and whose ti'ue scale has only 
 become ap[)arcnl in these latter days, in the light of their own
 
 468 CONCLUDING REMARKS. 
 
 fulfilment. Creation, history, and Mosaic law, agree with the 
 predictions of the prophets and apostles, and with the words of 
 our Lord Himself, in recognising this system. It pervades 
 Old and New Testaments, and harmonizes Jewish and Chris- 
 tian predictions. The actual events of redemption history, are 
 found to be in chronological harmony with the octave or New 
 Creation and Jubilee reckoning of the Law ; the chronology of 
 the types of Leviticus is the chronology of Christianity antici- 
 pated. Intentionally then, and of set purpose, and in the most 
 consistent way, the septiform law so prevalent and controlling 
 in nature, is employed by the WTiters of Scripture, though they 
 cannot have derived it from nature. Whence then did they 
 derive it ? How came they thus to etnpioy it ? There is only 
 one reply ! Holy men of old spake as they were moved by 
 the Holy Ghost. 
 
 Further ; we have seen that the septiform divisions of time 
 in the Old Testament, run on constantly to an octave, and 
 give a glad and glorious prominence to the eighth day and the 
 fiftieth day, in connection with observances intimating that a 
 new and better economy was destined to succeed the Jewish ; 
 that in a New Creation, to follow the old, and in that alone, 
 would full purity and peace, perfect joy and liberty be found. 
 Would Jewish legislators and prophets have invented or con- 
 ceived such an idea as this ? Would they, of their own accord, 
 have embodied in their law, in their history, in their prophecies, 
 a silent testimony that Judaism was destined to be succeeded 
 and set aside by a better order of things ? Would they who 
 held themselves to be the sole and peculiar people of God, 
 have incorporated in their sacred books, a chronologic system, 
 which poiats with no obscurity to the passing away of Judaism ? 
 No ! Such a system cannot have originated in the Jewish 
 mind, and yet the books are, as regards their human source, 
 unquestionably Jewish. The fact can be explained only by 
 admitting, that these Jewish minds were inspired, and these 
 Jewish pens guided, by Him who from the beginning foresaw 
 and planned the end, who intended Christianity to succeed
 
 CONCLUDING REMARKS. 469 
 
 Judaism, the heavenly to follow the earthly, the substance to 
 replace the shadow. 
 
 It may be urged, that though the law of septiform periodicity 
 in vital function was unperceived by the ancients, that yet 
 conspicuous celestial phenomena, such as the lunar quarters, 
 may accoimt for the Bible use of the week, without supposing 
 inspiration. But the plea has no force, for the lunar quarter is 
 not so near seven days as to make the observance of the week 
 compulsory or inevitable, and as a matter of fact, it is not 
 observed by two-thirds of mankind. China and, till quite 
 recently, Japan, and all heathen nations, do not recognise the 
 septiform division of time. Unlike the day, the month, and 
 the year in this respect, the week is not marked out by an 
 obvious and complete celestial revolution. Its observance 
 evidently springs from a higher source, even the direct primi- 
 tive mandate of the Most High : it has been imposed on man 
 from Eden onwards (as well as indelibly impressed on his 
 physical constitution), by the Creator Himself directly, and 
 not indirectly, as the day, month, and year. 
 
 Again, what but inspiration of God can account for the fact 
 that the prophetic periods of Daniel and St. John are found to 
 be accurate soli-lunar cycles ? and that their very epacts form 
 a septiform series of periods as we have shown ? Was Daniel 
 acquainted with these facts ? Could John have adapted his 
 writings to the discoveries of modern science ? Impossible! 
 Candour must acknowledge that in the existence of such a 
 system of times and seasons as we have traced, in the Bible, 
 there is a proof of the Divine inspiration of the authors of that 
 volume. Man never originated its holy and harmonious laws, 
 with their wonderful septenary system of typical times and 
 seasons, fulfilled, and still fulfilling, in the sacred events of 
 Redemption Story. Man could not have invented its equally 
 wonderful prophecies, unfolding as they do the whole plan and 
 course of history, alike in its grand outline, and in its minor 
 detail, and including even, in many cases, the accurate chron- 
 ology of the things foretold. Man can never have been the
 
 470 CONCLUDING REMARKS. 
 
 author of a system of times and seasons which involves the 
 co-ordination of things celestial and terrestrial ; the mutual 
 adaptation of the periodicity of vital phenomena, the sacred 
 seasons of legal type, the periods of prophecy and the chron- 
 ology of histor}', with the periods of the revolutions and cycles 
 of sun and moon and planet, or those of the movements of the 
 whole solar system. INIan can neither foretell the future nor 
 control it ; man cannot order on a definite plan, the course of 
 ages, or so direct the revolutions of the moral world, as that 
 they shall harmonize with those of the material universe. Such 
 operations can be accomplished only by Omnipotence, such 
 acts can be attributed to God alone. The sacred volume, — 
 that unfolds the Divine world-system, including the course and 
 chronology of the ages of history, of ages future at the time 
 when it was Avritten, as well as of ages past ; foretelling periods 
 since fulfilled, and found, 2000 years after their prediction, to 
 be celestial cycles, — must be from God, and he who refuses to 
 acknowledge this, is bound to find some other satisfactory ex- 
 planation of facts which true science cannot deny, nor common 
 honesty ignore. And this evidence may be adduced in favour 
 of each portion of the sacred volume ; the Pentateuch and the 
 prophets, the historical books of the Old Testament and the 
 gospels of the New, the Psalms and the Epistles and the 
 Apocalypse, all are more or less pervaded by the same system 
 of times and seasons. A Divine unity pervades the volume in 
 this as in other res])ects, and the chronology of the Bible, in- 
 dependently of any other line of evidence, proves it to be the 
 word of God. 
 
 III. And finally, the Divine system of times and seasons, 
 which we have been investigating, has an evident bearing on 
 the deeply important and profoundly interesting subject of the 
 nearness of the end of the age, — of the close of these Times of 
 the iG-entiles, and the simultaneous inauguration of the " Times 
 of restitution of all things, of which God hath spoken by the 
 mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began." 
 
 It bears on this question mainly by the evidence it affords
 
 CONCLUDING REMARKS. 4/1 
 
 of the existence of a definite and predetermined chronological 
 system, in the providential dealings of God with man ; in the 
 proof it gives that this system is a system of weeks, and that the 
 great week of this_third or Gentile^ dispensatipiij has almost 
 run its course. Further, by confirming as we have seen that it 
 does, in the fullest way, the year-day system of interpreting the 
 chronology of symbolic prophecy, it brings the celebrated half- 
 week of the great Antichristian apostasy into perfect harmony 
 with all the other weeks of Scripture and of nature, determin- 
 ing its character thus by its duration, and leaving no doubt as 
 to the power intended. The fulfilments which this system 
 enables us to trace in the past, are so many guides as to the 
 future, so that by its help chronologic prophecy, instead of 
 being a puzzling mystery, is felt to become emphatically^.^; 
 light shining in a dark plac,e, — a light which throws its beams 
 5ack over the complex mazes of history, and forwards over the 
 transcendently interesting events of the rapidly approaching 
 crisis, which is to usher in the sabbath of humanity. 
 
 We must therefore briefly review the evidence of the nearness 
 of the end of the age which is afforded by chronologic prophecy, 
 and confirmed by non-chronologic predictions, and Ave must 
 show, that while there is irresistible evidence to prove that the 
 end is near, there are positively no data to enable us to fix on 
 any exact year, as the probably predestined time of the con- 
 summation. According to the testimony of the sure word of 
 prophecy, the end is near, but none can say hoK< near, or 
 determine its actual epoch. 
 
 First, then, in proof that it is near, let the measures of the 
 three dispensations be remembered, and the wide and almost 
 universal range of the law of completion in weeks. "Seven 
 times " and seven times only are appointed as the period of 
 Jewish degradation and dispersion. He who predicted the 
 four hundred years affliction of the seed of Abraham at the 
 beginning of their history, and who when those four hundred 
 years were fulfilled, delivered Israel from Egyjit, and judged 
 the nation which had held them in bondage, predicted later
 
 472 CONCLUDING REMARKS. 
 
 on, that for a great week of 2520 years, Gentiles should rule 
 over and afflict the Jewish people, and that at the end of that 
 time Gentile monarchy should be destroyed, and the kingdom 
 restored again to Israel, in the person of their Messiah. Inde- 
 pendent Jewish monarchy fell as we know in the Babylonish 
 captivity, since which event the tribes of Israel have existed 
 only in bondage or dispersion. In about forty-five years from 
 '■'"-. the present time (1879 a.d.) the great week of the Times of 
 
 -'' '' ' the Gentiles will have nm out, even measured from its latest 
 "l *■" possible commencing date, the final conquest of Jehoiachin 
 by Nebuchadnezzar, B.C. 5 98. The great image of Gentile 
 monarchy has but a few years longer to exist ; the period of 
 Gentile supremacy is all but ended ; the great but hidden 
 dispensational prophecy of the " seven times " clearly teaches 
 that we are near the end of the age. 
 
 And secondly, let the measures of the Antichristian apos- 
 tasy, which is predicted under seven different aspects, be 
 remembered. Half a week is assigned as its duration, half 
 this great dispensational week of seven times — 1260 years. 
 Like all the other periods we have considered, this half-week 
 may be dated, as we have seen, from a variety of starting-points ;* 
 either from the decree of the Emperor Justinian constituting 
 the bishop of Rome head of all the Churches, and so deliver- 
 ing the saints into his hands, (a.d. 533), — when it ends in the 
 French Revolution, a.d. 1793 ; or from the decree of the 
 Emperor Phocas, conceding to Boniface the Third, not only the 
 primacy of the Church of Rome and all the Western Churches, 
 but that of Constantinople and all the Eastern Churches 
 (a.d. 606), which makes it run out at the recent complete 
 destruction of the Papal temporal power and dominion (1866- 
 70) ; or the period may be dated from the year a.d. 663, when 
 Vitalian, the bishop of Rome, enjoined the services of the 
 
 * This is the case even with the comparatively brief period of the Baby- 
 lonish captivity, whose seventy years may be dated either from Nebuchad- 
 nezzar's lirst invasion, li.c. 606, to the edict of Cyrus, B.C. 536, or from 
 the destruction of the temple, L.c. 5S7, to the temple restoration, E.c. 517.
 
 CONCLUDING REMARKS. 473 
 
 Church to be read in Latin throughout all Christendom, — 
 when the half-week would (like the whole week) expire, in a.d. 
 1923. We have seen the two first measures of this period 
 expire, and we have seen the events predicted take place. 
 The prophecy implies a brief succeeding period before the 
 close, " they shall take away his kingdom, to consume and to 
 destroy it to the end : and the kingdom and dominion, and 
 the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be 
 given to the people of the saints of the Most High, whose 
 kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall 
 serve and obey Him." We have seen the kingdom taken 
 away ; we wait to see the full consumption and destruction, 
 and the establishment of the kingdom of the Most High. The 
 prophecy of the " time, times and a half," by its fulfilment, 
 proves, that we are close upon the end of the age. 
 
 And thirdly, the prediction relative to the cleansing of the 
 sanctuary does the same. The Holy Land, the Holy City, 
 and the site of the Temple or Sanctuary of God at Jerusalem, 
 are to be finally " cleansed " 2300 years from some starting 
 point which is not exactly defined, but which appears from the 
 prophecy to be closely connected with the restoration of Judah 
 from Babylon ; that is, Jerusalem is, after that period, to cease 
 to be trodden down of the Gentiles, the times of the Gentiles 
 having been fulfilled. Dated from the earliest possible starting 
 point, the commission given by Artaxerxes to Ezra, B.C. 457, 
 this period expired as we have seen in 1844, which was a 
 marked epoch in the fall of that Mohammedan power which 
 has long defiled the sanctuary and trodden down Jerusalem. 
 But dated 145 years later, from the era of the Seleucidcc, this 
 period measured in lumr years expires, seventy-five years later, in 
 A.D. 1 91 9. We have noted various indications in the condition 
 of Palestine and of Israel, and in the political events of our 
 own day which seem to indicate that the cleansing of the sanc- 
 tuary and the restoration of Israel are not distant. When these 
 shall take place, when the Moslems, now driven out of Bulgaria, 
 shall be driven also out of Syria, when the nations of Europe,
 
 474 CONCLUDING REMARKS. 
 
 actuated it may be merely by mutual distrust and political 
 jealousy, or it may be by higher motives, shall conspire to re- 
 instate the Jews in the land of their forefathers, then the last 
 warning bell will have rung ; then the last of the unfulfilled 
 predictions of Scripture as to events prior to the great crisis, 
 will have received its accomplishment, then the second advent 
 of Israel's rejected Messiah to reign in conjunction with his 
 risen and glorified saints as King over all the earth, will be 
 close at hand, then the mystery of God will be all but finished, 
 and the manifestation of Christ immediate. '^^ How long a time 
 may be required to bring about this restoration of Israel — who 
 shall say ? Never within the last 1 800 years has it seemed so 
 likely as now, for never, since it first arose, has Moslem power 
 lain so low as it does at the present moment. The destruc- 
 tion OF THE POWER AND INDEPENDENCE OF THE OTTOMAN 
 
 Empire, like the annihilation of the temporal dominion 
 OF THE Papacy, should be as a trumpet-blast to Chris- 
 tendom, proclaiming that the day of Christ is at hand. 
 
 The sanctuary cycle of 2300 years, equally with the two pre- 
 vious prophecies, indicates that the end is near. 
 
 Though diftering as to many minor details, students of chro- 
 nological prophecy with one consent agree in this conclusion. 
 which is in itself a strong argument that it rests on a solid 
 basis of revealed truth. The fact that many premature antici- 
 pations of the end, have by the event been proved mis- 
 taken, is sometimes adduced as a proof that all expectations 
 based on chronologic prophecy, are of the nature of vain and 
 foolish speculations, deserving only of ridicule and contempt 
 from sober-minded practical Christian people. But when 
 viewed in the light of the revealed purpose of God, to make 
 known the future only by degrees, and only as the Church was 
 able to bear it, the fact alluded to, is merely a proof that the 
 symbolic language in which these chronological predictions 
 
 • We say emphatically "manifestation," because Scripture tlocs not 
 seem absolutely to exclude the jiossibility that the rapture of the Church 
 (i Thess. iv.) may have taken place before.
 
 CONCLUDING REMARKS. 475 
 
 were expressed, has answered its divinely intended purpose, 
 and disguised, till nearly the time of its accomplishment, the 
 true meaning of the prophecy. To the early generations of 
 the Church it was not given to understand these chronologic 
 prophecies at all ; later generations made a good guess at their 
 general drift and scale ; the Reformers obtained approximately 
 true ideas of their scope and application ; to many of the 
 prophetic expositors and commentators of the last two centuries 
 very clear light was granted, and (in spite of the obscurity which 
 rash futurist speculations have cast over the subject) it may 
 safely be said that in our own day the light has become so 
 strong, clear, and bright, that the historic and doctrinal portions 
 of Scripture are scarcely more simple and comprehensible than 
 are its main prophetic outlines, to those who carefully study 
 them. 
 
 And further, though foolish speculators have brought ridicule / 
 on the study of prophecy, by carnal, presumptuous, and baseless! 
 attempts to fix the day and the hour of the Second Advent, and i 
 though even cautious and learned students have often erred in 
 their anticipations, yet it must in all fairness be granted on the 
 other hand, that no sooner was the historic system of interpret- 
 •ing the Apocalypse received, and the true scale of enlarging the 
 miniature periods of symbolic prophecy adopted, than some 
 remarkably correct anticipations of future events were made 
 and published. Since then, expositors of chronologic prophecy 
 have proved over and over again, that they are oa the right 
 track, even though they may have erred in the application of 
 certain principles, or in selection of certain data, on which to 
 base their calculations. And it is evident that even when they 
 had rightly accepted the year-day system, and when they had 
 correctly apprehended the meaning of the symbols employed, 
 and duly applied them to the events intended, they were by no 
 means secure from minor errors. The very fact that all the 
 prophetic periods have double, and some of them triple and 
 even fourfold eras of commencement and conclusion. — coin- 
 cident with definite stages of development and decay in the
 
 476 CONCLUDING REMARKS. 
 
 Powers symbolised, leaves room for such errors, and accounts for 
 them, without detracting from the value of the system employed. 
 And if such false anticipations are noted, correct ones should 
 in all fairness be remembered also. One of the earliest and 
 most remarkable of these is that of Robert Fleming, who in 
 his work on the "Rise and Fall of Rome Va.\)di\," published 
 in the year 1701 (a hundred and seventy-eight years ago), anti- 
 cipated the years 1794 and 1848, as critical years in the down- 
 fall of the papacy ; he added " yet we are not to imagine that 
 these events will totally destroy the papacy, although they will 
 exceedingly weaken it, for we find that it is still in being and 
 alive, when the next vial is poured out." Is it not a proof that 
 this expositor was working on right lines, and had seized the 
 true clue, that he should thus have fixed 7icarly a century before- 
 hand, on the close of the iSth century, as the commencement 
 of the era of Divine vengeance on the Papal power, and have 
 pointed out within a single year, the very central period of that 
 signal judgment? The year 1793 was that of the Reign of 
 Terror, and of the temporary suspension of the public profession 
 of Christianity in France, the first of Papal kingdoms ; and 
 five years later the Papal government in Italy was overthrown^ 
 and the Pope carried captive to Sienna. There was not a sign 
 in the political heavens when Fleming wrote, that such events 
 were impending ; he foresaw them solely in the light of chron- 
 ologic prophecy, and had he weighed a little more maturely 
 the relative importance of the various Pope-exalting decrees 
 and acts, which form the starting-points of the prophetic 1260 
 years, he would have fixed on that of Phocas, as the most im- 
 portant, and have added to the above two accurate and conect 
 anticipations, a tJiird, that the years 1866-70, would be years 
 of even more decided crisis in the history of the Papal apostasy, 
 and would probably witness the entire and final overthrow of 
 the temporal sovereignty of the Popes. A very considerable 
 number of expositors agreed, in indicating long before their 
 arrival, the remarkable years a.d. 1S4S, and a.d. 1S66-70, as 
 years of crisis in the downfall of despotic power in Europe, and
 
 CONCLUDING REMARKS. 477 
 
 of Papal usurpation ; while this half-century as the appointed 
 period in which should be finished the long-continued exhaus- 
 tion and decay of the Ottoman Empire, symbolised by the 
 drying up of the Euphrates, has been indicated by an equally 
 large number. Mr. Habershon, in his " Dissertation on the 
 Prophetic Scriptures," published in 1834, pointed out that the 
 year a.d. 1844 ought to be a year of crisis in this process, which, 
 as we have seen it proved to be, the year in which the perse- 
 cuting sword of Islam was by the power of the Christian nations 
 of Europe, forced back finally into its sheath, since which 
 Ottoman independence has never been a reality. 
 
 Let those who have justified themselves in turning from any 
 deep or thorough study of the prophetic word, on the plea 
 that interpreters differ among themselves, and that their prog- 
 nostications have often proved false, remember that this must 
 have been the case with regard to each one of the chronologi- 
 cal prophecies that have now passed into the realms of history. 
 Though each one has, as ive can see, been fulfilled with mar- 
 vellous exactitude, error would have been not only possible, 
 but almost inevitable, in any attempt to fix beforehand the 
 exact date of the predicted event. Had Israel in Egypt, or 
 Moses in Midian, endeavoured to discover beforehand the 
 precise year in which the 400 years of affliction and bondage 
 predicted by God to Abram as to befall his seed, would ter- 
 minate, they would have been sorely puzzled to select a com- 
 mencing epoch. Was it to be dated from the call of Abram, 
 or from the day the promise was given ? or from the birth of 
 Isaac, the promised seed ? or from the descent into Egypt ? or 
 from the commencement of the cruel treatment of the children 
 of Israel by the Egyptians, when there arose a king who knew 
 not Joseph? There was a wide choice of possible commenc- 
 ing epochs, and it was easy to select a wrong one ! The event 
 proved that none of these was the real starting-point ; that while 
 the call of Abram was the terminus a quo of the main period, 
 modified by an addition of thirty years (Exod. xii. 40-42 ; Gal. 
 iii. 17), yet that the main period itself started from neither of
 
 478 COXCLUDIXG REMARKS. 
 
 the above-mentioned probable epochs, but//w« the time when 
 Isaac was Jive years old; and to this day it is a matter of con- 
 jecture what the event was which marked that year, though 
 there is little doubt that it was the casting out of the bond- 
 woman and her son, on the occasion of the mocking of the 
 heir of promise by the natural seed. This mocking, or ^^ perse- 
 cuting^' (Gal. iv. 29) is the first affliction of Abraham's seed of 
 which we have any record, and its result demonstrated that it 
 was in Isaac the seed was to be called. The 430 years would 
 thus start from the grant of the land to Abram's seed, and the 
 400 from the act showing which of the two seeds of Abram was 
 to possess it. The important allegorical meaning attributed to 
 this casting-out of Ishmael, confirms the impression that // was 
 the starting-point ; but the fact cannot be proved, and all we 
 know is that the Exodus (which took place on the selfsame day 
 that the 430 years ran out — Exod. xii. 40) Avas 405 years after 
 the birth of Isaac, so that tJic a,oo years dated from Isaac's fifth 
 year. How could Israel in Egypt possibly have guessed that ? 
 Their prophetic students (if they had any) would most likely 
 base their calculations on the supposition, that the period 
 started from the year the prediction was given, — twenty or 
 twenty-two years before the true point. And when the 400 
 years from that epoch expired, sceptics and objectors may 
 have derided them, and they themselves may have had their 
 faith in the Divine prediction and their long-cherished hope of 
 deliverance sorely tried, by the fact that their expectation had 
 failed ! But God is not a man, that He should lie ; neither 
 the son of man, that He should repent ; hath He said, and 
 shall He not do it? When the appointed period ended, the 
 promised deliverance came. Little as Pharaoh and all Egypt 
 feared their degraded bondslaves, or the God they professed 
 to serve ; little as either tyrant or captives foresaw any impend 
 ing crisis of judgment and deliverance, suddenly and un- 
 expectedly it came. In the short space of a few weeks, 01 
 months, Egypt was covered witli confusion and horror and 
 death. The fruits of the earth were blasted and devoured by
 
 CONCLUDING REMARKS. 479 
 
 locusts, the waters of the Nile were turned to blood, the tattle 
 were destroyed throughout the land, filthy insects and noisome 
 diseases afflicted the Egyptians, vermin filled their houses and 
 their fields, thunder and lightning and fire and hail devastated 
 the land of Ham, a horror of great darkness prevailed for three 
 days, death raised a great cry in Egypt, and at last its proud 
 monarch and all his hosts perished in the Red Sea, while Israel 
 sang unto the Lord, who had triumphed gloriously, and who, 
 according to his faithful word, had brought forth the people 
 whom He had redeemed. 
 
 A longer bondage is now drawing to a close, and a greater 
 Exodus awaits both the natural and the spiritual seeds of Abra- 
 ham ; its date is similarly fixed in the purpose of God and 
 similarly defined by chronologic prophecy, and though some 
 students may mistake its exact era, and be discouraged by an 
 apparent failure of their hope, and though the world may exult, 
 and the mockers say, Where is the promise of his coming ? yet 
 the vision is for an appointed time, at the end it shall speak 
 and not lie, or be found false ; therefore we will wait for it, 
 '\for it will surely come, it zvill not tarry.'' 
 
 It was the same, both with the chronological prophecy of 
 the seventy years' captivity in Babylon, and with that of the four 
 hundred and ninety years, from the restoration to Messiali the 
 Prince ; both were clear in their main tenor, but both obscure 
 as regards their exact termini. As to the *' seventy weeks,"' 
 even when its true year-day scale was miderstood, it was mi- 
 possible to fix its commencing date with any certainty, because 
 there were several edicts of restoration issued by the Persian 
 kings, any one of which might well have been supposed to 
 mark the starting-point of the 49° years ; and there was no 
 deciding whether the terminal event was to be the birth, or the 
 maturity and presentation to Israel, or the death, of Messiah. 
 Even now, in the light of the historic fulfilment, it is not alto- 
 gether easy to affix the exact limits of these 49° years, though 
 it is plain that such was the interval, because several import- 
 ant termini seem to possess claims to be the intended ones.
 
 48o CONCLUDING REMARKS. 
 
 In short it is clear that a knowledge of the exact 
 
 YEAR OF its TERMINATION, IS NOT NEEDFUL TO AN INTELLI- 
 GENT AND CORRECT APPREHENSION OF THE FACT, THAT A 
 GREAT CHRONOLOGIC PROPHECY IS NEAR ITS CLOSE. Daniel 
 
 understood by the writings of Jeremiah that the seventy years' 
 captivity had nearly expired, and set himself to pray for the 
 promised restoration. Those who looked for redemption in 
 Israel were right in conceiving that the time for Messiah's 
 appearance had come, though neither they, nor Daniel, could 
 in all probability have assigned the correct chronological 
 termini of the predictions on which their hopes were based. 
 
 This is exactly the position of the students of the prophetic 
 word in our day ; they kno'u that they are living in the time of 
 the end, but guided by the experience of these earlier saints, 
 they see also, that the two great T^zxir^y fulfilled chronological 
 prophecies, that of the seven times, or 2520 years of Gentile 
 dominion, and that of the 2300 years to the cleansing of the 
 sanctuary, have several possible dates of rise and close. (The 
 1260 years of the duration of the Papal dynasty as a political 
 power, must, since the events of 1870, be placed in the category 
 oi fulfilled, rather than unfulfilled predictions.) On this account, 
 alone, as well as other grounds, the wise among them refrain 
 from any attempt to assign the precise date of the consum- 
 mation. These " times " appear to run out first in a.d. 1844-48 
 and fully in a.d. 1919-23, but whether these are the final dates, 
 and what the cxaet nature of the terminal event may be, it is 
 impossible to ascertain and foolish to surmise.* We are in the 
 
 It should be noticed in thb connection, that from the year 606 B.C., 
 the year in which "the Lord gave Jehoiakim, kin;; of Judah," into the 
 hand of Nebuchadnezzar, " with part of the vessels of the house of God, 
 which he carried into the land of Shinar" (Dan. i.), to the year a.d. 637, 
 in which Jerusalem was providentially given into the hands of the Caliphs, 
 there is a period of 1260 calendar years (1260 360-day years are 1242 
 solar years; and m adding B.C. to a.d. periods, one year has to be sub- 
 tracted); and that from a.d. 637 to a.d. 1S79 there is a similar period 
 of 1260 calendar years, or together 2520 calendar YEARS. 
 
 As to the first of these dates, B.C. 606, Clinton states that the fourth year
 
 CONCLUDING REMARKS. 4S1 
 
 position of travellers, approaching a large and to them unknown 
 ;ity, at the end of a long railway journey. They are aware of 
 the distance to be traversed, of the stations to be passed on the 
 way, and of the time required for the transit. The milestones 
 have long shown them that they are rapidly nearing their goal ; 
 the time the journey was to occupy has elapsed, and they have 
 observed that the station just passed was the last 'but one. 
 Yet the terminus in the strange city may have several distinct 
 platforms, separated from each other by short distances ; the 
 train may draw up at one or two before it comes to a final stand 
 at the last : they are ignorant of the exact localities in the great 
 metropolis, and hardly know at which station they will be met 
 by their expectant friends. Still they have no hesitation in 
 making their preparations for leaving the carriage, and in con- 
 gratulating each other with a glad " here we are at last ! " They 
 would smile at the man who should dispute their conviction, 
 though they may be unable to decide whether it will be five 
 minutes or ten, or only two or three, before they actually reach 
 their destination. It is a mere question of minutes and miles ; 
 if one platform is not the right one, the next may be ; at any 
 rate, the long journey lies behind, the desired goal is all but 
 
 of Jehoialdm is to be reckoned from Aug., n. c. 606. Tlie deportation 
 of Daniel was in the third year of Jehoialdm (Dan. i. i) whence we may 
 place the expedition of Nebuchadnezzar towards the end of the third, and 
 beginninf^ of the fourth year, in the summer of B.C. 606. In the fourtii 
 year of Jehoiakim, Baruch writes the book : Jer. xxxvi. i, 2. (Fasti 
 Hellenici, p. 328. ) As to the second of these dates, A.D. 637, Clinton states 
 in his Fasti Romani, that "Abu Obeidah having received orders at the 
 close of 636 to besiege Jerusalem, sent Yczid hither first with 3000 men. 
 At last the patriarch Sophronius consented that the city should be sur- 
 rendered upon condition that the inhabitants should receive the articles 
 from the Caliph himself. Omar entered the city in 637. Omar' 
 while at Jerusalem divided Syria into two parts, and committed all between 
 the Hauran and Aleppo to Abu Obeidah. Yezid took charge of all Palestine 
 and the seashore" (Ockley). llow grave the crisis just reached in 
 1878, in the overthrow of tlie once miglity Ottoman empire in the east ! 
 The mosque of Omar still stands on the site of the ancient temple of 
 Jehovah, the temple which God of old filled with his glory. The Mo- 
 hammedan is still the ruler of Talestinc, but how soon we may see tlie 
 mosque of Omar taken down, and Palestine delivered from its last oppressor 1 
 
 1 I
 
 4S3 COXCLUDING REMARKS. 
 
 reached. It is easy to be patient, and not difficult to bear a 
 momentary disappointment, because the main result is certain, 
 and the end in any case close at hand. 
 
 Let it also be noted that the conviction of the nearness of 
 the end derived from chronologic prophecy, and from a study 
 of the Divine system of times and seasons, is abundantly con- 
 firmed by a multitude of predictions, wholly destitute of the 
 chronologic element, as is proved by the fact, that the futurist 
 school of interpreters, who are deprived by their system of all 
 the guidance afforded by chronologic prophecy, are convinced 
 equally with their opponents, that these are the last days. 
 
 Space obliges us to select only one or two " signs of the 
 times" of this nature. The angel mentions to the prophet 
 Daniel two very peculiar and definite characteristics of the 
 last days. " ]\Iany shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall 
 be increased." Now if any well informed and intelligent per- 
 son were asked. What have been the leading and distinctive 
 characteristic marks of the last half century, as distinguished 
 from any previous period in the world's history ? he would at 
 once reply, ^' steam'locomotion, and the universality of educa- 
 tion and spread of scientific knowledge." Where one person 
 travelled formerly, ten thousand travel now; universally, in- 
 cessantly, and in every corner of the earth, the wheels of 
 locomotion arc annihilating distance, and facilitating the 
 running to and fro of millions, making the inhabitants of the 
 most distant quarters of the globe almost like ne.xt-door neigh- 
 bours. And never before in the history of mankind has this 
 or anything like it been the case. Similarly, where one person 
 could read and write in the olden time, ten thousand are fairly 
 .educated now; and where one secret of nature was known 
 to the ancients, a thousand are known and turned to practical 
 account by the men of our day. Knowledge is increased as 
 it never was before ; indeed, the school and the locomotive might 
 be adopted as the devices of the nineteenth century. 
 
 Our Lord Himself gave another sign of the closing days of 
 this age. He said, " This gospel of the kingdom must first
 
 CONCLUDING REMARKS. 483 
 
 be preached among all nations, and then shall the end 
 come." 
 
 It may safely be asserted that never shice the words were 
 spoken, has the gospel been so widely preached among the 
 nations as it has during the present century. Since the year 
 I So I, when the Church Missionary Society was founded, almost 
 all the Missionary Societies in existence have sprung up, as 
 well as all the Bible Societies, Within the last fifty years, the 
 gospel story has been translated into between two and three 
 hundred additional languages, spoken by six or eiglit hundred 
 millions of mankind. Colporteurs are distributing it, and 
 preachers expounding it in all lands ; and though there are still 
 alas ! countless tribes and peoples in the heart of Africa, in 
 the continent of South America, and in the isles of the sea 
 who have never yet heard the gospel message, yet we may say 
 there is no kingdom, no regularly organized civilized " nation " 
 or community, in which it has not been proclaimed, and in 
 which it has not won some trophies. When it has been preached 
 in all nations, then shall the end come. 
 
 But perhaps there is no sign of the times more solemnly 
 indicative to the humble student of Scripture, of the approach 
 of the end, than the confident conviction that seems universally 
 ■ to prevail in the professing church, and in the world, that all 
 things continue as they were, and will so contimic. Not only 
 :s there no expectation of impending judgment, there is a bold 
 assumption that no change in the existing order of things is 
 probable, or even possible. 
 
 The very idea of a Divine interference in the affairs of this 
 world is scouted as foolish and fanatical ; the testimony of his- 
 tory to past interferences of the kind is superciliously explained 
 away, or plainly pronounced to be myth, not real history, and 
 any faith in the testimony of prophecy is regarded as antiquated 
 folly. The reign of eternal law is proclaimed, while a Law- 
 giver is ignored, the theory of progressive development is 
 advocated, and the evidences of supernatural interrujnions 
 in the past, neglected. The state of popular opinion in
 
 484 CONCLUDING REMARKS. 
 
 Christendom at this hour on this point is foretold with mar- 
 vellous exactness by the Apostle Peter, and the true antidote 
 to it prescribed. " There shall come in the last days scoffers, 
 walking after their own lusts, and saying Where is the promise 
 of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things 
 continue as they were, since the beginning of the creation. 
 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of 
 God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing in the 
 water, and out of the water ; whereby the world that then was, 
 being overflowed with water perished. But the heavens and 
 earth which are now, by the same word are kept in store, 
 reserved unto fire, against the day of judgment and perdition 
 of ungodly men. But beloved be not ignorant of this one 
 thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and 
 a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack concern- 
 ing his promise as sonve men count slackness, but is long- 
 suffering to usward, not willing that any should perish, but that 
 all should come to repentance. But the day of the Lord will 
 come, as a thief in the night." 
 
 This pecular form of scoffing unbelief foretold as to charac- 
 terize the last days, and most conspicuously characterizing 
 these days, has never before prevailed widely in Christendom. 
 It is an oftspring of advanced scientific knowledge, a result 
 and accompaniment of nineteenth-century attainments. The 
 ignorance of other ages made men superstitious. Far from 
 denying the existence of an invisible and immaterial world, far 
 from questioning the possibility of the supernatural, they were 
 slaves to credulity, and groundless apprehensions, and fell easy 
 victims to the false miracles and lying wonders of a cunning 
 and covetous priesthood. Apprehensions of an approaching 
 end of the world, were from time to time widely prevalent in 
 the dark ages. Bold infidelity, general scepticism as to all 
 that is supernatural, gross materialism and positive philosophy, 
 the foolhardy presumption that dares to assert ''all things 
 continue as they were since the beginning of the creation " 
 and to argue " and will so continue for ever " — these features
 
 CONCLUDING REMARKS. 485 
 
 are peculiar to the last 150 years, and were never before so 
 marked as they are now. 
 
 Were it otherwise, were men willing to heed the testnnony 
 of the word of God, were they observant of the fast thickening 
 signs of the end, were they generally expecting the final crisis, 
 we might be perfectly certain, the end would not be near. Such 
 is not to be the tone and temper of the last generation. " In 
 such an hour as ye think not the Son of Man cometh." Never 
 was there a day when men were so firmly convinced, that no 
 supernatural event is to be expected, as they are now. But 
 "when they shall say. Peace and safety; then sudden destruction 
 cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child ; and 
 they shall not escape." 
 
 That the end of this Christian age, that end so bright with 
 the glow of coming glory to the true Church, so lurid with the 
 fires of approaching judgment to apostate Christendom, so big 
 with blessing to Israel, and so full of hope for the nations of 
 the earth,— is close at hand, seems for those who accept the 
 testimony of Scripture, beyond all reasonable question. 
 
 It is true Israel must first be restored to Palestine ; it is true 
 the gospel must probably first be preached more widely even 
 than it now is ; it is true that " Babylon " must first fall more 
 completely, as far as we can judge ; and it is true that these 
 things take time. But when we consider the progress that has 
 been made in all these directions during the last thirty or forty 
 years— the elevation in the condition of the land and people 
 of Israel, the removal of Jewish disabilities, the formation of 
 the Universal Israelite Alliance, the exploration and survey 
 of Palestine, the decay of the Turkish power ; the increase of 
 missions, the opening up of China, Japan, and interior Africa, 
 the revival of evangelical truth and eftbrt in the Protestant 
 Church, and the consequent increase of missionary effort; the 
 separations of Church and State, and the discndowments of 
 national Churches which have taken place; the spread of 
 infidelity in Christendom, and the increase of open ungodli- 
 ness ; the overthrow of despotisms, and the establishment of
 
 486 CONCLUDING REMARKS. 
 
 democratic forms of government in their place, — we feel that 
 supposing we arc still thirty or forty years distant from the end 
 of the age, all that is predicted may easily come to pass in the 
 interval. Events in our day move rapidly, as if they too were 
 impelled by steam, so that the apparent rate of progress, 
 
 AND THE APPARENT DISTANCE COINCIDE WELL. 
 
 Unless the entire biblical system of sabbatic chronology, 
 have no application at all to the measures of human history as 
 a whole, unless the moral and chronological harmonies which 
 we have traced between the three dispensations be utterly 
 illusive and unreal, unless -the divinely instituted typical ritual 
 of Leviticus, have no chronologic agreement with the long course 
 of redemption history, unless there be no meaning in soli-lunar 
 chronology, unless the employment of great astronomic cycles 
 to bound the duration of historic and prophetic periods be a 
 matter of pure accident, unless the singular septiform epacts of 
 these periods be the result of chance, unless in short the 
 whole system which we have traced out in the word and works 
 of God, be utterly groundless and erroneous — tlien there can 
 be no question that we are living in the very last days of this 
 dispensation. 
 
 And what is the great event which is to close it ? Speaking 
 broadly and generally, it is the return in glory of the Son of 
 Cod to this earth, to establish therein the kingdom of the 
 Most High. Christ when on earth often alluded to the end of 
 the age (or world, as atwi'os is often wrongly rendered in the 
 A. v.), and He did so most definitely in his parting command 
 to his apostles. "Co ye therefore and teach all nations, 
 baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and 
 of the Holy Chost : teaching them to observe all things what- 
 soever I have commanded you : and, lo, I am with you always 
 even unto the end of age" (Matt, xxviii. 19, 20). 
 
 This commission and this promise taken together, clearly 
 imply that evangelistic, missionary, and pastoral labours were 
 to continue under the patronage and in the power of an absent 
 and ascended Saviour, tintil the end of the age ; //// i/ic/i He
 
 CONCLUDING REMARKS. 487 
 
 promises to be with his people ; after that, according to a pre- 
 viously given promise, He would come again and receive them 
 to Himself, that where He is they may be also. He with them 
 till the end of the age by his Spirit, while still absent in per- 
 son ; they with Him after the end of age, " for ever with the 
 Lord." The return of Christ, and the rapture of his Church to 
 meet Him in the air, is then the great event which closes this 
 age, and marks the transition to another age— even the millen- 
 nial; that personal Epiphany which is the event symbolised 
 by theTall of the stone cut out without hands, which destroys 
 the image of Gentile monarchy, and becomes a mountain and 
 fills the whole earth. We are living within half a century of 
 what appears to be the latest close of the Times of the 
 Gentiles, which introduces this millennial reign of Christ. 
 
 That the transition from this age to the next, Avill occupy a 
 period, and not be a point of time, seems likely from analogy, 
 and seems to be" indicated in the two brief supplementary 
 periods added to the main one, by the closing words of the angel 
 to Daniel. That there will be marked stages in the accomplish- 
 ment of the stupendous change from the world that is, to the 
 world that shall be, and that it is impossible to fix their dates, 
 or to determine beforehand the precise order of the various 
 events, revealed as destined to occur in the course of the great 
 crisis and consummation, may be freely admitted, without 
 detracting in the least from the momentous weight and solemn 
 importance of this most blessed conclusion. That the rapture 
 will precede the glorious manifestation of Christ with his 
 saints, and the marriage of the Lamb antedate the destruction 
 of Antichrist and his host, is clear from New Testament pro- 
 phecy, but what the interval between the two events may be, 
 whether the twinkling of an eye or a longer space of time, 
 there are no data to enable us to determine. 
 
 That a period of awful and destructive judgments on apostate 
 Christendom, is to prepare the way for the full establishment 
 of the millennial throne of Christ, and the world-wide recogni- 
 tion of his peaceful righteous sway, is also abundantly clear
 
 488 CONCLUDING REMARKS. 
 
 (2 Thess. i. ii. ; Rev. xix.) ; but the precise nature, duration, 
 and effect of these judgments, it is impossible to define. 
 
 And while the chronological revelations of Scripture seem 
 to prove that we are living within a i^v^ years of the latest close 
 of all the prophetic periods, there is nothing whatever to forbid 
 the thought that the end may come before that latest close. 
 The main measures of the periods viay be from the earlier 
 terDiiiii a quo. We may be already far advanced in the supplc- 
 n>ental seventy-five years. If the glorious Epiphany were to 
 take place at any time, chronologic prophecy would still have 
 been fulfilled, and as the Rapture of the Church precedes 
 that Epiphany, who shall say how near that blessed hope 
 may be? There is no ground for concluding it will not 
 take place this year or next, any more than for asserting 
 that it will. An intentional and impenetrable obscurity and 
 uncertainty is even now, with all our perception of the Divine 
 system of times and seasons, left around this point, and must 
 be till the event itself shall occur. Each passing year diminishes 
 the number of the few remaining years of this " time of the 
 end," somewhere in the course of which, the advent apparently 
 must take place, and should therefore quicken our hope, and 
 increase our watchfulness : but to tlie last we shall not know 
 the day or the hour. 
 
 This wholesome and divinely appointed ignorance of the 
 exact period, is perfectly consistent with an intelligent appre- 
 hension'of the true chronological character of the days in which 
 we live, and a profound conviction that they are emphatically 
 and literally, the last days. An approximate knowledge of 
 the truth on this great subject is all we can gain, and it is all 
 that we require^ anvtiiing further would be injurious. Such a 
 
 KNOWLEDGE WAS ALL THAT WAS EVER GRANTED TO THE SAINTS 
 OF GOD IN CONNECTION WITH THE FULFILI^IENT OF OTHER 
 CHRONOLOGICAL PROPHECIES IN OTHER DAYS ; FOR PROPHECY 
 IS NOT GIVEN TO GRATIFY CURIOSITY, OR TO MINISTER TO MERE 
 EXCITEMENT, BUT TO SERVE HIGH AND HOLY MORAL ENDS. 
 
 And our ignorance and uncertainty on the subject, are of a
 
 CONCLUDING REMARKS. 4^9 
 
 very different nature from those which were appointed for the 
 early Christian church. Just as the patriarchs had the promise 
 and hope of Christ's first coming, but no clue whatever as 
 to the time of that greatly desired event ; while the expecta- 
 tions of the faithful in Israel subsequent to the restoration from 
 Babylon were definitely guided by the chronologic prophecy 
 of the seventy weeks, to the century and decade, though 
 not to the very year of Messiah the Prince, so the earlier 
 generations of Christians, had the blessed hope of Christ's 
 second coming, but no clue whatever as to its period. The 
 widest possible range was purposely left, for uncertainty on 
 the subject ; they were told that the Master might return in 
 the evening, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the 
 morning, and they had no idea which period was the most 
 probable. For though they held in their hands chronological 
 prophecies containing mystic intimations of the appointed 
 duration of this dispensation, they knew not the language in 
 which the revelation was written, and to them it remained, as 
 the Lord had ordained that it should remain, a hidden mystery. 
 We are in a widely diff"erent position ; not a fresh revelation, 
 but new light on old revelations, has by the course of events, 
 and by the enlightenings of the Spirit of God been granted to 
 us. The facts of history have explained the predictions of 
 Scripture ; experience has demonstrated the true scale of the 
 chronology of symbolic prophecy, our expectations are conse- 
 quently confined to a much narrower range. The evening 
 light of the early ages of church history faded away, long long 
 ago, into the "mi4night" of the dark ages of the great 
 Apostasy ; the " cockcrowing " of the Reformation has already 
 brightened into the dawn of morning light, and our uncertainty 
 is limited to ignorance of the precise moment, at which the 
 Sun of Righteousness will rise in visible glory above our horizon. 
 The scheme of Divine providence has been by degrees un- 
 folded, and the signs of the times assure us, that we are not 
 out in our reckoning. We are far advanced in the last days of 
 the Christian dispensation ; and though still ignorant of the
 
 490 COXCLUDING REMARKS. 
 
 day and the hour of our Lord's return, we know that that 
 great event must be close at hand. 
 
 If the uncertainty of the early Christians, was intended to have 
 and calculated to have a sobering, sanctifying and stimulating 
 effect on their minds, what should be the effect of this com- 
 parative certainty on ours ? If there is immense practical 
 power in the thought, the Lord may come at any time; how 
 much more in the conviction He is sure to come before many 
 years are past. This certainty is one which no previous 
 generation of Christians could have had, because the great pro- 
 phetic period of 1260 years was never demonstrably fulfilled 
 before the complete fall of the temporal power of the Papacy 
 in 1S70, and the true nature of the Divine system of times and 
 seasons, never before demonstrated, as now. The present 
 generation ought therefore to exhibit fruits of holy living, and 
 earnest service, never seen before, and if this truth were mixed 
 with faith in the heart, it would. . Hence our deep regret that 
 futurist expositions should take off the edge of this mightily 
 practical truth; and just as at the Reformation they blinded 
 the eyes of Papists to the true character of the Papacy, and 
 to their consequent personal duty with regard to it, — so they 
 should now blind Protestants to the real nature of the days 
 in which we live ; depriving them of the certainty afforded by 
 the sure word of prophecy in this time of the end, and throw- 
 ing them back on the uncertainty of earlier ages. 
 
 A moment's reflection will show that in the past, while the 
 beginnings of the ages and dispensations had general promises 
 and predictions only, chroxological prophecy was always 
 
 PERMITTED TO THROW ITS SOLEMNLY HEl^PFUL GUIDING LIGHT 
 
 ON THE CLOSE. The first prediction of this character ever 
 given was that of the 120 years to elapse prior to the flood, 
 that great close of the antediluvian age. The second — the 400 
 years to the Exodus, marked the close of the entire patriarchal 
 dispensation ; the third — the 65 years to elapse before Ephraim's 
 overthrow, led up to the close of the kingdom of the ten tribes ; 
 and the fourth — the 70 years captivrty of Judah, marked out by
 
 CONCLUDING REMARKS. 49 » 
 
 its commencement the dose of Jewish monarcliy, and by its 
 own termination, the close of the Babylonian Empire ; the fifth 
 — the 490 years to Messiah the Prince, led up the close of the 
 Jewish dispensation ; and the remaining three great chronologic 
 prophecies of the Bible, the 2520, the 2300 and the seven times 
 repeated 1260 years, all indicate the close of the Times of the 
 Gentiles, the oft-mentioned " end of the age." The reason seems 
 to be, that each fresh age has been inaugurated and introduced 
 by miracle on so grand a scale that faith needed for a time no 
 further aid than that afforded by history and promise. But as 
 the era of miracle receded, the temptation to doubt and un- 
 belief strengthened, and God graciously provided the help of 
 chronologic prophecy to sustain to the end, the faith and hope 
 of his people. They who in this day despise that aid, or 
 make it void by fanciful, unhistoric futurist interpretations, 
 cast aside an invaluable weapon for the special conflict of these 
 closing days. An age which rejects the argument from miracle, 
 is confronted by that from the fulfilment of prophecy. As tlic 
 evidence of \X\t first becomes more questionable on account of 
 its remote antiquity, that of the second becomes more irresistible 
 year by year. Fulfilled prophecy is miracle in the highest 
 sphere,— that of mind. It is the ever growing proof ol Divine 
 prescience in the authors of sacred Scripture. 
 
 To one who notes the peculiar characteristics of the con- 
 dition of Christendom in our day, it seems evident, that the 
 testimony which specially needs to be borne throughout its 
 length and breadth at this solemn juncture, is a testimony not 
 only to the goodness but the severity of God. " Behold 
 therefore the goodness and severity of God," says the apostle 
 Paul to the Gentile church, speaking of God's dealings with 
 Israel; "on them which fell severity, but toward thee good- 
 ness if thou continue in his goodness, otherwise tliou also shalt 
 be cut off.'' Christendom has no more continued in the good- 
 ness of God, than did Israel, and as surely as Israel fell and 
 was cut off in judgment, so surely docs a still more terrible 
 doom await the apostate professing Christian church.
 
 492 CONCLUDING REMARKS. 
 
 It needs faith in Divine revelation to believe this, and 
 perhaps few of the clear teachings of Scripture are more 
 generally disbelieved in our day ; but unbelief will not make 
 the promise or the threatening of God of none effect, and 
 though myriads may ignore the solemn fact, and though 
 myriads more may — as predicted — laugh to scorn the Divine 
 denunciations of impending doom, // is at hand. If the Bible 
 be true there can be nothing more certain than this, that 
 Divine judgment must close this dispensation, and that in 
 all probability within a brief period of time. Introductory and 
 premonitory vials of wrath, have already been poured out on 
 the Papal kingdoms of Western Europe, and on the Ottoman 
 Empire of Eastern Europe ; the sixth vial has been pouring out 
 for the last fifty years, and seems to have all but accomplished 
 its appointed task, of drying up the Euphrates, or wasting 
 away the power of Turkey ; the seventh vial brings the fall of 
 Babylon, the marriage of the Lamb, and the final destruction of 
 Antichrist and all his hosts. It is the vial of the consumma- 
 tion, and when it is poured forth the great voice out of heaven 
 proclaims " it is done." 
 
 The political events of the last century have been the swift 
 and sure precursors of the long-foretold destruction with the 
 brightness of Christ's coming, which awaits the apostate church 
 of this dispensation. But men's eyes are blinded and they see 
 it not ! Let the watchmen who do see it, sound the alarm, if 
 perchance they may awake some to the danger. Let the 
 servants of the Most High preach to an unrepentant world, 
 the preaching that He bids them, for '■'•yet forty days and 
 Nifieneh shall be destroyed I" As foretold in the Apocalypse, 
 all the sore judgments that have been sent on apostate 
 Christendom have failed to lead it to repentance (Rev. ix. 21 ; 
 xvi. 11), and a contemplation of its actual state affords the 
 strongest of all arguments for a belief in its impending doom. 
 There is such a thing as the measure of iniquity being full ; 
 there is such a thing as the long-suffering of God being ex- 
 hausted !
 
 CONCLUDING REMARKS. 49j 
 
 Let the universality and intensity of the apostasy of the 
 professing Christian church be considered, and the length of 
 time during which it has existed, as well as the way in which 
 it has rejected every call to repentance. It is not the Papal 
 church alone that has become apostate; look at the lands 
 where Christianity took its rise, and established itself in the 
 earliest centuries. What is the state of the Syrian, the 
 Nestorian, the Armenian, the Maronite, the Coptic churches, 
 with their millions of so-called Christian adherents? They 
 are systems in which the grossest ignorance, idolatry, priest- 
 craft, and corruption prevail, and in which the true gospel is 
 almost as much ignored as among the heathen themselves. 
 They who have traversed these lands, witnessed the unmean- 
 ing and degrading bodily exercises, and heard the endless 
 vatn repetitions which pass in their churches for Christian 
 worship, have marvelled how anything so unlike the religion 
 of Christ and his apostles, can retain even the name of 
 Christianity. It should be remembered also that the majority 
 of the population of these once Christian lands, long ago 
 abandoned even the name of Christ, and under the pressure 
 of Mohammedan conquest and persecution, became avowedly 
 followers of the false prophet. 
 
 When from these smaller and more ancient Eastern churches 
 we turn to the great Greek church with its ninety millions of 
 members, and all its minor subdivisions of Syrian, orthodox and 
 schismatic, Bulgarian and Russian, matters are little better : 
 idolatry is universal, and the prevalent ignorance of the true 
 gospel almost as great as in China or Japan. Do not the very 
 missionary efforts we, as Protestants, are making in all these 
 lands, prove, that we are driven by the appalling facts of the 
 case to regard them as little more enlightened than heathen 
 countries, as possessed merely of the names and forms of 
 Christianity, but as destitute of its spirit and power ? 
 
 And what pen can paint in its true tints, the dark depths of 
 apostasy in which Papal Europe has long been plunged! 
 Familiarity with its enormity may blunt our sense of Us awful
 
 494 CONCLUDING REMARKS. 
 
 guilt, but this continuance in sin only serves to enhance the 
 long slumbering wrath of God. Reformations have separated 
 fragments from an idolatrous and Christless church, but the 
 church as a whole has remained unreformed. Two hundred 
 millions of souls are still bound in its hopeless bondage of soul- 
 destroying error ; its blasphemous head still lords it, with ever 
 increasing claims to Divine prerogatives, over all these multi- 
 tudes. Religion is there, but it is a hollow mocking form : 
 worship is there, but it consists in lip service and genuflexions, 
 it is not worship in spirit and in truth ; the word of God is 
 there, but it is locked in an unknown tongue, and studiously 
 withheld from the people; adoration is there, but it is the ador- 
 ation of saints and angels, of Pope and Virgin Mary, of picture 
 and crucifix, of statues and dressed-up dolls, of shrines and 
 relics, and of a breaden God. Before all these they bow ! 
 How loio they bow ! How low the blind leaders of the blind 
 bend, before the idol-God they create ! Dressed in fine linen 
 and gorgeous silk, in lace and scarlet, and robes of glittering 
 gold, they lead the people from the pure spiritual religion of 
 Jesus Christ, to holy sacraments without regenerating power, to 
 holy places of stone and marble, to holy fumes of burnt-wood, 
 to holy days of their own appointment, to holy water which can 
 never wash away sin, to holy candles which enlighten no dark 
 mind, to the mass, to confession, to penance, to indulgences, 
 to extreme unction, to anything, everything, except to God 
 the Judge of all, to Jesus Christ the only Saviour, and to the 
 Scriptures which testify of Him. 
 
 How much longer shall the poison-bearing vine of this Papal 
 apostasy cumber the earth with its rank branches, and destroy 
 men with its fatal clusters of falsehood ? How much longer 
 shall this man of sin and son of perdition show himself as God 
 on earth, and blasphemously claim to be infallible ? IJow 
 much longer shall the nations of Europe be by it deceived 
 and deluded into foul superstitions, or driven to revolt against 
 God in open infidelity ? Are these things to be suftcred to 
 continue under the name of the reli'aon of Christ ? Zion has
 
 CONCLUDING REMARKS. 495 
 
 become Babylon, and the professing church a harlot; and 
 Babylon has grown old in sin, and become ripe for retribution. 
 All the judgments that have been sent on her, have failed to 
 lead her to repentance, all protests against her corruption have 
 proved powerless to abate one iota of her idolatries and false 
 assumptions. Rome has proved herself irreformable and de- 
 serving of the dreadful doom so long decreed against her. 
 
 At the door of the apostate church of Rome lies the guilt 
 of having given rise to modern continental infidelity, that 
 plague which is ruining in its turn untold millions. Who shall 
 number the so-called Christians in Europe and elsewhere, who 
 scorn all religion as hypocrisy, and sneer at all sacred truth as 
 legends and lies ; who worship only self and mammon and 
 pleasure, and live in the unceasing pursuit of vanity ? What 
 thousands of such, openly deride and deny Jesus Christ, and 
 even make a mock at God ; they refuse to the Creator a place 
 in his own creation, and question his very existence. 
 
 And when we turn our eyes to the reformed Protestant 
 churches of Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and England, what 
 do we behold ? The power of godliness to a greater extent, a 
 purer creed, an open Bible, an educated people, a general 
 respect for the things of God, and some vital godliness, some 
 faith. But even here how much of covert or open infidelity, 
 what rationalism, what scepticism, what " brqad,church " views, 
 what oppositions of science falsely so called ! What world- 
 liness, what national sins, what confusion and strife in the 
 church, what loathsome vice and ungodliness in the world ! 
 National churches honeycombed with infidelity, even when 
 not relapsing back to Popery under another name, and Non- 
 conformist churches fast admitting the same deadly leaven. 
 Where can we find a Christianity worthy of Christ ? Where 
 a church, like a chaste virgin, fit to be his bride ? 
 
 The Christian church as a witness for God in the world has 
 failed, like the Jewish nation, and become apostate. There 
 is a little flock, there is a true Church, but its members are 
 scattered abroad and almost invisible in the great Babylon;
 
 496 COXCLUDING REMARKS. 
 
 they are the seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to 
 Baal, they are the caUed and chosen and faithful who follow 
 the Lamb, they are those who have turned to God from idols, 
 to serve the living and true God, and to wait for his Son from 
 heaven ; they are those who have not the form only, but the 
 power of' godliness, those who keep themselves unspotted from 
 the world, and overcome through faith. They are found in 
 every section of the professing church, and the Lord knoweth 
 those that are his—" They shall be mine saith the Lord of 
 Hosts, in the day when I make up my jewels." 
 
 But for the rest, — for the vast professing body which bears 
 the name of Christ, it has not continued in the goodness of 
 God, it has turned his grace into licentiousness, its sentence 
 is gone forth, it must be " cut off." The long-suffering of 
 God has been abundantly manifested, it is right that his holy 
 severity should be again revealed. The professing church has 
 long been unworthy of the sacred name it bears, and of the 
 high and holy responsibility of being God's witness on earth, 
 which belongs to it ; it is time it should cease to hold the 
 position it has so fearfully forfeited. Instead of being the 
 instrument of spreading the truth of the gospel among men, it 
 is the worst hindrance to their attaining that knowledge of God, 
 and of Jesus Christ whom He has sent, in which life eternal 
 lies ; like the Pharisees of old it stands as the great obstruction, 
 neither entering itself into the kingdom, nor suffering those 
 who would, to enter in. The name of God is blasphemed 
 among the nations, by reason of the corruption of the pro- 
 fessing church ; the light that should have been in it, is become 
 darkness, and great is that darkness ! The church is con- 
 founded with the world, and the true saints are strangers in its 
 society ; it is no longer the pillar and ground of the truth, it 
 is the hotbed of heresy, false doctrine, and corruption of every 
 kind. What contrast can be more complete, than that between 
 the church as Christ intended it to be, and the church as it 
 now exists in the world ! An end must come to all this ! Not 
 only does the word of God predict it, not only does our own
 
 CONCLUDING REMARKS. 497 
 
 sense of righteousness demand it, but the solemn analogies of 
 history distinctly intimate it. Let the undeniable fact that 
 past apostasies brought down the judgment they deserved, 
 forewarn men what must be the end of the existing apostasy 
 of the professing people of God. Babylon must fall ! Great 
 Babylon must come in remembrance before God, who will give 
 unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath, 
 for her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remem- 
 bered her iniquities ! The testimony of the Apocalypse is full 
 and fearful as to the doom that is now impending over Chris- 
 tendom. He who destroyed Pagan Rome, is about to destroy 
 Papal Rome and all kindred apostasies ; He who punished 
 Jerusalem is about to punish Babylon ; heaven waits to rejoice 
 over her fall. The harpers on the crystal sea, the myriad 
 martyrs who overcame her specious seductions, and endured 
 her cruel torments, resisting unto blood her soul-destroying 
 errors and superstitions, — wait to make heaven reverberate 
 with the melodious voice of their triumph, over her utter 
 downfall, and fiery destruction. The same severity of God, 
 illustrated of old in the flood, in the plagues of Egypt, and in 
 the fall o^ Jerusalem, is to be exhibited afresh in the cutting off 
 of the apostate Christian Church ; and the analogies of chron- 
 ology teach us, that the great change and termination of the 
 present state of things is near at hand. When the "seven 
 times " of the patriarchal age of human history were finished, 
 Egypt fell, and the Exodus of Israel took place. When the 
 " seven times "' of the Shemitic or Jewish age e-xpired, Messiah 
 appeared ; and Israel, having filled up the measure of its iniquity 
 by rejecting Him, was rejected in its turn, and given up by 
 God to judgment. And now the " seven times " of this Gentile ' 
 age are all but run out ; the dispensation of the Christian 
 Church has produced an apostasy worse than any preceding dis- 
 pensation, — and shall the end be different ? Only in this respect, 
 that the judgment predicted is more terrible, as the sin has been 
 more fearful and prolonged ! Babylon must fixll, and her fall 
 will be great, for " strong is the Lord God who judgeth her." 
 
 K K
 
 49S CONCLUDING REMARKS. 
 
 The prospect of the judgments which are to bring to a 
 close this dispensation, and which are described in terms of 
 appalhng strength by inspired apostles (2 Thessalonians ii. ; 
 2 Peter iii. ; Revelation xviii., xix.), cannot in itself be an 
 attractive one to the Christian heart. It must, when they 
 realize it, excite in his people, the compassions of Christ; 
 and incline them, as they see the ungodly turning from the 
 only way of escape, to weep, as their Master wept over Jeru- 
 salem, in the prospect of its coming doom, and to exclaim 
 with Him, " If thou hadst known, at least in this thy day, the 
 things that belong to thy peace ! Eut now they are hid from 
 thine eyes ! " 
 
 Yet, while sorrowing in Christlike compassion, we can also 
 acquiesce in Christlike righteousness with the just judgments of 
 God. It needs but a glance over the wide extent and awful 
 character of the evils which those judgments are to ranove, 
 and the unspeakable, multiplied, and universal blessings which 
 they are to introduce^ to make a true Christian even from 
 motives of humanity desire the hastening of the day of God. 
 if use had not familiarized us with the miseries born of sin, 
 if our standard of human duty and human privilege, had not 
 bccu debased by ages of acquaintance with things as they are, 
 if our ideal of the destiny of mankind was the true one,— that 
 it is, " to glorify God, and to enjoy Him for ever,'' — the present 
 state of the wide world would fill us with grief and amazement, 
 and with impatient longings for a change. 
 
 Two-thirds of the human race are buried still in heathen 
 darkness, sensual and ignorant as animals, selfish and cruel as 
 v/ild beasts, bowing down to the creature, and knowing nothing 
 of the Creator ; of the other third, a hundred millions, cursed 
 with the degrading creed of the false prophet, are almosc 
 equally sensual and equally ferocious and cruel, while they 
 dishonour God still more by blaspheming and rejecting His 
 only Son ; two hundred millions are nominally involved in the 
 Papal apostasy, and about ninety millions in the Greek ; how 
 little is God either glorified or enjoyed among tliuse ! How
 
 CONCLUDING REMARKS. 499 
 
 little is his character understood, or his will done, or his 
 communion sought ! And in the small remainder, in the 
 Protestant world, oh, what national sins bring national miseries 
 even here, and how little is God either enjoyed or gloritied ! 
 Take England, with her opium trade, her drink traffic, and her 
 legalized immorality. Heathen China conceives us and our 
 religion to be diabolic rather than Divine, since we deliberately 
 persist in ruining her million-peopled empire for the sake of 
 gold. At home the drink fiend is destroying our people and 
 our national prosperity ; sixty thousand drunkards die a miser- 
 able and disgraceful death annually in our land ; murdered 
 wives and starving children, and an immense and ever-increas- 
 ing pauper, criminal, and lunatic population, cry aloud for some 
 restraint to be put on the fell destroyer ; but they cry in vain ; 
 our Government suffer and even encourage the traffic. It 
 is acknowledged on all hands that in the metropolis of the 
 greatest Protestant country in the world, where, .if anywhere 
 on earth, pure Christianity is acknowledged, there^ instead of 
 God being gloritied and enjoyed, his laws are by the masses, 
 trampled under foot, and sin and misery in one form or other 
 abound. 
 
 Where in the wide world can we then find purity and peace ? 
 Where holiness and happiness ? Oh, the foul lives, tlve defiled 
 consciences, the troubled minds, the broken hearts, the crying 
 oppressions, the multiplied miseries of our race ! What a world 
 of sin and woe is contained in that one word, war, and in that 
 other word, slavery ! What famines and pestilences, and revo- 
 lutions and massacres arise from misgovernment ! How truly 
 the whole creation groans, and travails in pain together, waiting 
 for the manifestation of the sons of God ! The deepest and 
 truest compassion for the sufferings of humanity must prompt 
 the cry, How long, O Lord ? And apart altogether from the joy 
 that is to be brought to Z'tA-by the revelation of Jesus Christ, the 
 church must long for his coming, that the creation itself may 
 be delivered from the bondage of corruption, and brought into 
 the glorious liberty of the sons of God. Israel's conversion,
 
 50O CONCLUDING REMARKS. 
 
 and the world's jubilee of liberty and gladness, date alike from 
 the coming of the Lord with all his saints, to execute judgment 
 on the ungodly. Of the blessed condition of things which 
 shall succeed, during the world's millennial sabbath. Scripture 
 gives many a glorious sketch ! and though we may be, and 
 must be, unable to image it to ourselves in its detail, we know 
 its broad essential features, and they imply almost all we can 
 desire. Satan, the source of all sin, the great deceiver and 
 seducer of men, is to be bound, imprisoned, rendered perfectly 
 powerless and inoperative ; Christ, the source of all blessing, 
 spiritual and temporal, is to reign, to govern the nations of the 
 earth Himself, suffering no sin or oppression, and protecting 
 the poor and needy. The seventy-second Psalm, the thirty- 
 second chapter of Isaiah, and similar scriptures, describe his 
 glorious, peaceful, righteous reign, and its blessed results to 
 mankind. 
 
 And while compassion for our fellow-creatures would make 
 us long for the dawn of the day of Christ, how much more, 
 desire for his glory ! Can we, who own Him Lord, be content 
 to have Him despised and rejected still by his ancient people 
 Israel, denied, mocked, and insulted by the vast infidel host, 
 displaced from his rightful throne, by this self-styled Vicar on 
 earth, robbed of all his peculiar glories by an apostate priest- 
 hood, unknown to the great majority of the sinners He died 
 to save, poorly obeyed and honoured by his best friends and 
 followers, and practically forgotten and disowned by the mass 
 of those who bear his name ? Can we be content with a 
 continuance of this treatment of the only begotten Son in 
 whom God is well-pleased? Can we endure to see this treat- 
 ment still accorded to Him who for our sakes humbled Him- 
 self and became of no reputation, and took upon Him the 
 form of a servant, and became obedient unto death, even the 
 death of the cross ? Is He to have nothing but what He had 
 before, the adoration and love of the heavenly hosts ? Or, 
 rather, is not every knee to bow to Him, and every tongue to 
 confess Him Lord, to the glory of God the Father? Are not
 
 CONCLUDING REMARKS. 50i 
 
 our hearts impatient for the day when eartli shall own her 
 King, and Israel its Messiah, and our blessed Lord alone be 
 exalted ? Do we not cry,— 
 
 Our longing eyes would fain behold 
 
 That bright and blessed brow, 
 Once wrung with bitterest anguish, wear 
 Its crown of glory now ? 
 And does not the cry gush from the depth of our souls? 
 The near approach of the day of Christ, must rejoice the heart 
 that adores Him ; for never till then will He have his ngUtful 
 place, or receive from the sons of men, the love and the sub 
 mission which He so richly deserves. 
 
 And without being selfish, we rejoice and must rejoice for 
 our own sakes in the prospect of the near approach of the end 
 of the age, notwithstanding its accompanying judgments. 
 
 For whatever the exact portion it may bring to others, what- 
 ever its immediate and precise effect on Israel, on Christendom, 
 and on the heathen nations of the earth,— and there may be room 
 for some doubts and differences of opinion as to these,— there 
 can be no question whatever, as to the portion it brmgs to the 
 true church and to each individual Christian. " In a moment, 
 in the twinkling of an eye," the dead in Christ shall rise, and 
 the living " in Christ " be changed, the corruptible put on in- 
 corruption, and the mortal immortality, when the Lord Himself 
 descends from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the arch- 
 angel and the trump of God ; we shall be caught up together 
 in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so shall we be 
 for ever with the Lord. We shall see Him, and be like Him, 
 for we shall see Him as He is; we shall go in, dad m pure 
 linen, clean and white, to the marriage supper of the Lamb; 
 we shall, as his blood-bought bride, sit with Him on his 
 throne, and share his glory, according to his word, " the 
 glory which Thou hast given Me, I have given them." Simple, 
 clear, abundant, and unmistakable are the predictions with 
 reference to our portion at the coming of the Lord. " It is a 
 righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to those
 
 502 CONCLUDING REMARKS. 
 
 that trouble you ; and to you who are troubled rest with 
 u.s when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with 
 his mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on those 
 that know not God, and obey not the Gospel of our Lord 
 Jesus Christ : who shall be punished with everlasting de- 
 struction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory 
 of his power ; when He shall come to be glorified in his 
 
 SAINTS, AND ADMIRED IN ALL THEM THAT BELIEVE in that 
 
 day" (2 Thess. i. 6-10). Rest ! that is to be one feature of 
 our portion, rest with Christ, rest with the saints and martyrs 
 that are gone before. Rest from conflict with the world, 
 the flesh, and the devil ; rest from the life and walk of faith, 
 in the more glorious life and walk of sight, for we shall be- 
 hold his face, and sec Him, whom not having seen we love ; 
 rest of heart in love's full fruition, in complete and eternal 
 union with our Lord, — the marriage of the Lamb ; rest of 
 mind, in perfect knowledge, for then shall we know, even as 
 also we are known ; rest from the burden of this body of 
 humiliation, rest from labouring in vain, and spending our 
 strength for nought, rest from all care and fear, from all strife, 
 and all pain and sorrow ; and from the heart-ache produced by 
 the daily sights and sounds of ungodliness. The day of Christ 
 shall bring rest to the weary ! Nor rest only, but fulness of 
 joy, and pleasures for evermore ! The joy of seeing Him 
 glorified and acknowledged by all, and the joy of being glori- 
 fied and acknowledged ourselves by Him ; the joy of perfect 
 holiness, the joy of possessing a new and incorruptible spiritual 
 body in which to serve Him as we cannot do here, and to 
 enjoy his glory, as would now be impossible. "Beloved ! now 
 are we the sons of God ; but it doth not yet appear what ivc 
 shall be; but wc know that when He shall appear, wc shall Ic 
 like Him for we shall see Him as He is." Ours shall be the 
 joy, not only of being like Him ourselves, but of beholding all 
 those we love like Him also — the joy of seeing eye to eye, and 
 of having every feeling in perfect unison, with all the children 
 of God, the joy of meeting the saints of other days, the
 
 CONCLUDING REMARKS. 5^3 
 
 patriarchs and prophets and apostles, and the noble army of 
 martyrs ; of seeing, crowned with crowns of life, those who 
 loved not their lives to the death— the joy of unhindered com- 
 munion and worship, the joy of perpetual and perfect service. 
 And all these joys sweetened by the assurance that they are 
 ours for ever, that we shall go no more out from the temple of 
 the immediate presence of God, that we are to be for ever with 
 the Lord! Earth's millennium is to end, like all previous 
 dispensations, in apostasy and judgment ; but to the risen saints 
 no change, no apostasy can ever come. Christ is their life ; 
 because He lives, they live also, in Him and with Him indis- 
 solubly and eternally one. Their eternal state begins at his 
 Epiphany, at the Second Advent for which we wait. 
 
 Men and brethren, are these things so ? Have we a hope 
 thus full of glory, and does our hope draw nigh, yea very nigh ? 
 " What manner of persons then ought we to be in all holy con- 
 versation and godliness ? " Ought we not to be persons filled 
 with faith, even as the world is filled with scepticism ? Ought 
 we not to be moved with fear for the ungodly around us, and 
 burning with earnest zeal for their salvation ? If the day^ of 
 Christ be so near, how should we employ the brief remaining 
 interval ? Many a task which it might have been wise and 
 well to undertake in the earlier days of the dispensation, would 
 be sadly out of place now ! This is no time for controversies 
 about ecclesiastical organizations and abstruse questions of 
 doctrine. To proclaim^far and wide throughout the earth the 
 everlasting Gospel before it is too late ; to lay hold of men and 
 women and pull them out of Sodom ere the fire from heaven 
 fall ; to cry aloud as regards Babylon, " Come out of her, my 
 people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive 
 not of her plagues ;" to spend and be spent in seeking to 
 rescue the perishing, this is the work that becomes us. To 
 warn the world that the sword of destruction is coming, to ex- 
 plain to men that the long-suffering of God is for salvation, 
 and that it is nearly over, and to live as though wc believed 
 these things— this is our plain duty.
 
 504 CONCLUDING REMARKS. 
 
 When the destruction of Jerusalem, and the ruin of Palestine 
 were approaching, when fearful judgments were on the eve of 
 being poured forth on the Jewish nation, our Lord forewarhed 
 his disciples against laying up treasures for themselves upon 
 earth. He counselled and commanded them to lodge what- 
 ever treasures they had beyond the spoiler's reach. What the 
 position of these early Christians in Palestine was, such is our 
 position now. The judgment of God is at hand : destruction 
 is about to break forth upon Christendom, In the coming 
 conflagration, the church and her earthly possessions shall be 
 parted. What a burning up of hoarded wealth shall take place 
 then ! Let us be warned in time. Let us make haste to lay 
 out all our buried talents in Christ's service, instead of laying 
 them up for condemnation and confusion of face. Let none 
 of us imitate an unbelieving selfish world. Oh the obstinate 
 folly of those who spend all their strength in gathering worth- 
 less fuel for the flames of that great day ! Let every Christian 
 bring forth his hidden treasures, if he has any, and use them as 
 they are most needed, without delay, lest that day should come 
 upon us as a thief, and our wealth become a witness against 
 us. There is a deadly famine in the world. Men are perish- 
 ing in every land for lack of that whicli we possess. We have, 
 and they have not, the gospel. We have, and they have not, 
 eternal life. Let us expend our means and lives in taking to 
 them, or sending to them, that which has saved our souls, that 
 we may be clear from the blood of all men, and may by all 
 means save some. Love to men and love to God alike demand 
 it, and the example of an impoverished and crucified Redeemer 
 points us to this path. Behold the footprints of Jesus ! Let 
 us trace and tread them till He comes ! How much there is 
 to be done for a dying world ! How little time in which to do 
 it ! Let us be up and doing. It is the evening of this dis- 
 pensation. The harvest — alas, how little reaped — is red with 
 the glow of the setting sun. Who will bring in these waiting 
 sheaves? China's millions are there; India's countless idol- 
 ators, and Africa's innunicrable degraded sons arc there. The
 
 CONCLUDING REMARKS. 505 
 
 children of error and superstition, the mass, the multitude are 
 there. Not a few whom we personally know and love are 
 there. Let us reap while the light lasts. Bring in these golden 
 sheaves ! Now, or never, bri7ig them hi ! 
 
 Brethren, let us lift up our heads, for our redemption draweth 
 nigh. We see on every hand the signs, the predicted signs of 
 the nearness of the Advent. Let us not wait till it comes to 
 rejoice in it. Let us rejoice now, because the joy of Christ 
 and of his church is near. Superstition's fall and error's flight, 
 the casting out of Satan, and the coming of the King are nigh .' 
 Ye graves, how soon shall ye give up your prey ! Resurrection 
 life and glory, how soon shall ye burst upon us ! Children of 
 the coming kingdom, this is no time for gloom, for mourning, 
 or for tears, — let us rejoice, for our redemption, long waited-for 
 ■ — our longed-for redemption is at hand. 
 
 And you who neither desire nor dread that day — you who 
 love not our Lord Jesus Christ — you whose busy thoughts, 
 and whose warm affections are still in the world, whose 
 motives and objects and treasures are of the earth, you whose 
 minds are in darkness ; whose consciences, when they speak 
 at all, accuse ; whose hearts and souls are indifferent to eternal 
 truth, destitute of real holiness, dead to Him in whom you live 
 — dead to God — through the darkness and the death of your 
 souls, let the light of the gospel you have heard but never 
 understood, now shine at length ! 
 
 Hear ye the word of the Lord. God who is light and love, 
 "God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, 
 7iot imputing their trespasses unto them ; and hath committed 
 unto us the word of reconciliation. Now then we are ambas- 
 sadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us ; we 
 pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God. For 
 He hath made Him to be sin for us who knew no sin ; that 
 we might be made the righteousness of God in Him." Oh 
 glorious gospel of the blessed God ! Shine, shine in some 
 dark heart through these most jo}-ful words of saving truth ! 
 Jesus made sin for sinners ! The Son of God suffering in the
 
 5o6 COXCLUDING REMARKS. 
 
 sinner's place ! The sinner who delieves, — who trusts in Him 
 justified and saved ! The darkness is past, the true light now 
 shineth. O thou who hast hated Him without a cause, He 
 takes thy place, He gives thee his ! 
 
 O Thou who hast taken on Thyself humanity, that Thou 
 mightest bear our griefs, and carry our sorrows, and atone for 
 all our sins, — Thou whose loud expiring cry upon the cross rung 
 through the universe the triumphant truth that our redemption 
 is accomplished, that its battle has been fought, its victory won ; 
 the foe vanquished ; sin cancelled, made an end of, and known 
 no more, — Thou whose tender sympathies and whose immortal 
 love surpassing knowledge are with us still, whose sacred pre- 
 sence unseen, but ever felt, guards and guides thy redeemed in 
 all their pilgrim way, — Thou who art coming in the brightness 
 of thy majesty, in the sweetness of thy grace, in the fulness of 
 thy strength, to finish our redemption, and complete thy triumph 
 over all our fears, and all our foes, — Thou whose unchangeable 
 purpose it is to surround thyself with the spotless beauty of a 
 new creation, whose voice shall yet proclaim the renovation of 
 a ruined world, the completion of the conquest of our evil by 
 thy good, the consummation of the moral movement of all 
 these ages carried forward by thine unwearied Spirit in the souls 
 of men, the perfecting of thy redeemed in the holy image of 
 their Redeemer ; whose faithful hand shall yet finish the true 
 temple of Jehovah, the living temple of his fulness, and habi- 
 tation of his glory for ever and for ever, — Thou whose latest 
 promise and last recorded utterance is, " Surely I come 
 QUICKLY," and whose coming is now near at hand — Life of our 
 life — Light of our light — God manifested — God with us— our 
 everlasting all — we long, we watch, we wait to welcome Thee, 
 — come as Thou hast said — come soon — "Even so, ccmk, 
 L(>RU Jesus ! "
 
 APPENDICES.
 
 APPENDIX A. 
 
 Soli-lunar Cycles, and their Relation to the 
 Chronology of History. 
 
 I. levitical chronology soli-lunar. 
 
 THE divinely ordained Levitical chronology was soli-lunar ; 
 i.e., it was regulated by the revolutions of both sun and 
 moon. Its years were solar, for they followed the seasons, 
 as in the various ordinances connected with the ingathering of 
 the fruits of the earth ; while its months were strictly linmr — 
 not artificial months, but lunations — certain ordinances being 
 connected with the recurrence of every new moon. The ad- 
 justment of solar to lunar years was effected by the inter- 
 calation of months, as the epact grew by repetition to complete 
 lunations. 
 
 II. TvricAL feasts regulated by lunations. 
 The feasts of the Lord, representing the history of redemp- 
 tion, were connected luith certain days of lunations and phases of 
 lunar fulness ; as the passover with the tenth and fourteenth 
 day of the first montli ; tlie feast of unleavened bread with the 
 fifteenth ; the feast of trumpets, the day of atonement, and the 
 feast of tabernacles, with the first, tenth, and fifteenth day of 
 the seventh month, etc. Lunar revolutions were the chrono- 
 metric wheels measuring tlie intervals of the Le\ itical calendar. 
 
 III. closeness of the adjustment. 
 There is a close adaptation in lunar phases to the scptiform 
 arrangements of the calendar. The earliest phasis or appear-
 
 5IO APPENDIX. 
 
 ance of the new moon occurs when the moon is eighteen hours 
 old. Sir Isaac Newton mentions in his work on the Prophe- 
 cies of Daniel that this number of hours was indicated by the 
 rule which the Jews observed in regulating the commencement 
 of their months, and to which they gave a name whose numeric 
 cal value is eighteen. Now, from the eighteenth hour of earliest 
 phasis to full moon is exactly fourteen days, which was the 
 interval appointed to extend in the first month to the passover, 
 which thus coincided with full moon ; and thus the fifteenth 
 day, which was the first of unleavened bread in the first month, 
 and the fifteenth day, which was the first of the feast of taber- 
 nacles in the seventh month, immediately followed the time of 
 lunar fulness, in harmony with the octave, or new creation, 
 character of these feasts. 
 
 IV. REiMARKAELE ADJUSTMENT IN THE JUEILEE — THE 6oO 
 LUNATIONS. 
 
 The nature and closeness* of this adjustment was very re- 
 markable in the case of the jubilee. The jubilee reckoning, 
 regulating important civil arrangements in the land of Canaan, 
 began with tlie day on which Israel crossed Jordan and entered 
 Palestine. Like the sabbatic law, of which it was an expan- 
 sion, its point of commencement is thus defined, "when ye be 
 come into the land " etc. (Lev. xxv.) Now, as the jubilee was 
 regulated by years, for it recurred every forty-ninth year at the 
 time of the autumnal harvest, and was also regulated by nio7itks, 
 for it was reckoned from the tenth day of the first month when 
 Israel crossed Jordan, and the jubilee day was the tenth day of 
 tlie seventh month (that of atonement), it was important that 
 the year and months should closely agree. It is most inter- 
 esting to observe that such is their natural adjustment that, in 
 the first place, forty-nine years form a soli-lunar cycle ; and in 
 the second place the interval from the tenth day of the first 
 month of the first year, to the tenth of the seventh month of 
 the forty-ninth, is exactly 600 lunations. 
 
 (i) Foriy-ninc complete years arc a oolilunar cycle eoiuaining
 
 APPENDIX. 511 
 
 606 lunations. The 606 lunations are less than forty-nine solar 
 years by id. yh. 58m. ; an agreement of the month and year 
 in the jubilee sufficiently close to render the intercalation of an 
 extra month unnecessar}' in any period under one thousand 
 years. 
 
 (2) The interval from the tenth day of the first month of the 
 first year, to the tenth of the seventh month in the forty-ninth 
 year, was exactly 600 lunations ; (forty-eight solar years, six 
 lunar months, nine days, and fourteen hours of a tenth day, or 
 i7,7iSd. 8h., are the measures of 600 lunations.) It should be 
 observed that the day of atonement was reckoned from the 
 evening of the ninth day to the evening of the tenth, " in 
 the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even shall 
 ye rest " (marginal reading). 
 
 It will be seen from this, that the jubilee redemption rest 
 followed immediately on the expiration of the complete period 
 of 600 months. As 600 months are exactly fifty lunar years, 
 the fiftieth lunar year terminated on the day of atonement, on 
 which day the jubilee year commenced. The jubilee year, which 
 is called the fiftieth, extended from the day of atonement in 
 the forty-ninth year to the same date in the fiftieth year, and 
 was thus an overlapping year, the course of jubilees being 49 + 
 49 ■{- 49 years, etc. 
 
 V. IMPORTANT ANALOGOUS ADJUSTMENT IN THE "•SEVENTY 
 
 WEEKS'"' — THE 6000 lunations; or, the correspondence 
 between the i'une of our Lord's death, in the "seventy 
 weeks," and that of the day of atonement and liber- 
 ation in the jubilee. 
 There was a coincidence between the time of our Lord's 
 death and the day of passover, a fact of very deep interest 
 and importance in connection with the fulfilment in Christ of 
 the Divine pro])hccies and forcshadowings of redemption. As 
 our Lord's death coincided with the passover day in the first 
 month, it could not coincide with the day of atonement in the 
 seventh; \'_t I'jc l;ig'! [.'ricol cnlerii'j wilhin tiie veil on the
 
 513 APPENDIX. 
 
 day of atonement, set forth our Lord's entrance into heaven 
 itself after He had obtained for us eternal redemption. It was 
 impossible that the one event should fall on two distinct days ; 
 but was it not possible that our Lord's death, while coinciding 
 with a passover day, should also have been accomplished at a 
 time in some way analogous, and strikingly analogous, to that 
 occupied by the great atoning day when the high priest entered 
 within the veil? An attentive study of the subject will show 
 that such a coincidence existed. 
 
 The day of atonement was annual, and its forty-ninth occur- 
 rence was the day of jubilee. 
 
 The " seventy weeks " appointed to extend from the going 
 forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem 
 unto Messiah the Prince, was an enlarged jubilee— \\\Q. former 
 being forty-nine and the latter 490 years. 
 
 Now, the death, resurrection, and ascension of Christ, by 
 which He atoned for sin, brought in everlasting righteousness, 
 and entered within the veil, even into heaven itself, were ac- 
 complished at the very time in the 490 years which perfectly 
 answers to that of the atoning day in the forty-nine years jubilee. 
 In order to demonstrate this it will be necessary to show the 
 exact date from which the 490 years are reckoned, and also 
 the date of the crucifixion. 
 
 The terminal point from which the 490 years are reckoned 
 is " the going forth of the command to restore and to build 
 Jerusalem," or the beginning of the passover month in the 
 year 457 b.c. Of this we subjoin satisfactory evidence, drawn 
 principally from the careful calculations of Sir Isaac Newton, 
 with reference to the exact date of the seventh year of Arta- 
 xerxes in which, according to the testimony of Ezra (chap, vii.), 
 this edict went forth, and this restoration commenced. The 
 record of several eclipses which occurred in the reigns of Darius 
 and Cambyscs enabled Sir Isaac Newton to fix the required 
 date with gaeat accuracy. 
 
 Our Lord's passion is assigned by Lactantius, Augustine, 
 Origen, Tertullian, and other ancient authors to the year a.d. 29,
 
 APPENDIX. Sn 
 
 and the correctness of this conclusion has been confirmed 
 by Brown ("Ordo Sceclorum," sec. 2), and at a later date by 
 Clinton (" Fasti Romani," p. 326). The interval between b.c. 
 457 and A.D. 29 is 485 years, and that period contains 6000 lu- 
 nations, less 41-42 days. Now, the interval from our Lord's 
 death to His ascension was 41-42 days ; therefore 485 solar 
 years, terminating with our Lord's death, together with the 
 41-42 days which followed, to His ascension, are 6000 lu- 
 nations. We have previously shown that 600 lunations mea- 
 sured the interval in the jubilee which terminated with tlie 
 day of atonement,— the tenth day of the seventh month 01 
 the forty-ninth year ; it therefore follows that the time of the 
 occurrence of the true atonement, and entrance " into heaven 
 itself" in the 490 years, was in marked and perfect corre- 
 spondence with the time of the typical atonement on the day 
 of jubilee in the forty-nine years. 
 
 Proofs of the correctness of these conclusions will be found 
 further on. In the first edition of this book, we assigned, in 
 accordance with the most trustworthy authorities, the years 
 B.C. 457 and A.D. 29 as those of the beginning of the " seventy 
 weeks," and of our Lord's crucifixion ; it has only been in 
 correcting for a second edition that we have discovered the 
 deeply interesting and important proportion which the interval 
 connecting these termini bears to that which extended in the 
 marvellous Levitical type to the great day of atonement and 
 jubilee. 
 
 VI. THE GROUNDS OF THE CIIRONOLOCV HERE FOLLOWED, 
 (l) As to THE TERMINAL POINT FROM WHICH THE "SEVENTY 
 
 WEEKS " ARE TO BE RECKONED, wc quotc the following from 
 the work of Sir Isaac Newton on the Prophecies of Daniel, 
 part I, ch. 10. 
 
 " ' Seventy weeks are deterniincil (or " cut out ") upon lliy people and 
 upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression.' 
 
 " Here, by putting a week for seven years, are reckoned 490 years from 
 the time that the dispersed Jews should be re-incorporated into a people 
 
 L L
 
 514 APPENDIX. 
 
 and a holy city until the dcalli and resuiTcction of Christ. . -. . Now 
 the dispersed Jews became a people and city when they first returned into 
 a polity, or body politic, and t/iis was in the seventh year of Artaxerxes 
 Longimamis, when Ezra returned with a body of Jews from captivity and 
 revived the Jewish worship, and, by the king's commission, to judge and 
 govern the people according to the laws of God and the king. (Ezra vii. 
 7, 25.) There were but two returns from captivity — Zerubbabel's and 
 Ezra's ; in Zerubbabel's they had only commission to build the temple ; in 
 Ezra's they first became a polity, or city, by a government of their own. 
 Nov,', the years of this Artaxerxes began about two or three months after 
 the summer solstice, and his seventh fell in with the third year of the 
 eighteenth Olympiad ; and the latter part thereof, wherein Ezra went up to 
 Jerusalem, was in the year of the yulian period, 4257 [i.e. B.C. 457). 
 
 • • • 
 
 " The grounds of the chronology here followed I v/ill now set down as 
 briefly as I can. 
 
 " The Feloponnesian war began in spring. An. i, Olymp. 87 (E.G. 432), 
 Diodorus, Eusebius, and all other authors agree. It began two months 
 before Pythodorus ceased to be Archon (Thucyd. 1. 2), that is, in April, two 
 months before the end of the Olympic year. Now, the years of this war 
 are most certainly determined by the fifty years distance of its first year 
 from the transit of Xerxes inclusively (Thucyd. 1. 2), or forty-eight years 
 exclusively (Eratosth, apud Clem. Alex.); by the sixty-nine years distance of 
 its end, or twenty-seventh year, from the beginning of Alexander's reign in 
 Greece ; by the acting of the Olympic games in its fourth and twelfth years 
 (Thucyd. 1. 5); and by three eclipses of the sun and one of the moon, men- 
 tioned by Thucydides and Xenophon. Now, Thucydides, an unquestion- 
 able witness, tells us that the news of the death of Artaxerxes Longimanus 
 was brought to Ephesus, and from thence by some Athenians to Athens, 
 in the seventh year of the Feloponnesian war, when the winter half-year 
 was running, and therefore he died An. 4, Olymp. S8, in the end of An. 
 J.P, 4289 (B.C. 425), suppose a month, or two, before mid-winter; for so 
 long the news would be in coming. Now, Artaxerxes Longimanus reigned 
 forty years, by the consent of Diodorus, Eusebius, Jerome, Sulpitius, or 
 forty-one, according to Ptol. in Can., Clem. Alexand. (1. i), Strom., Chron. 
 Mexandr., Abulpharagius, Nicephorus, including therein the reign of his 
 successors, Xerxes and Sogdian, as Abulpharagius informs us. After Ar- 
 taxerxes, reigned his son, Xerxes, two months, and .Sogdian seven months ; 
 but their reign is w'-' reckoned apart in summing up the years of the kings, 
 but is included in the forty, or forty-one, years reign of Artaxerxes ; omit 
 these nine months, and the precise reign of Artaxerxes will be thirty-nine 
 years and three months. And, therefore, since his reign ended in the 
 beginning of winter. An. J.P. 42S9 (i;.c. 425) it began between midsummer 
 and autumn An. J.r. 4250 (b.c. 464I.
 
 APPENDIX. 515 
 
 "The same thing I gather also thus. Cambyses began his reign in 
 spring, An. j.P. 4185 (B.C. 529), and reigned eight years, including the 
 five months of Smerdes ; and then Darius Hystaspis began in spring, An. 
 J.P. 4193 (E.G. 521), and reigned thirty-six years, by the unanimous con- 
 sent of all chronologers. The reigns of these two kings are determined by 
 three eelipses of the moon, observed at Babylon, and recorded by Ptolemy ; 
 so that it camiot be disputed. One was in the seventh year of Cambyses, 
 An. J.P. 4191 (B.C. 523), July i6th, at eleven at night ; another in the 
 twentieth year of Darius, An. J.P. 4212 (B.C. 502), Nov. 19th, at 11.45 ^t 
 night; a third in the thirty-first year of Darius, An. J.P. 4223 (B.C. 491). 
 April 25th, at 11.30 at night. By these eclipses, and the prophecies of 
 Haggai and Zechary compared together, it is manifest that his years began 
 after^'the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh Jewish month, and before the 
 25th day of April, and by consequence about March. Xerxes, therefore, 
 began in spring. An. J.r. 4229 (b.c. 4S5), for Darius died in the fifth year 
 after the battle of IMarathon, as Herodotus (lib. 7) and Plutarch mention ; 
 and that battle was in October, An. J.P. 4224 (B.C. 49°). ten years before 
 the battle at Salamis. Xerxes, therefore, began within less than a year 
 after October, An. J.P. 4228 (B.C. 486), suppose in the spring following, 
 fur he spent his first five years, and something more, in preparations for his 
 expedition against the Greeks ; and this expedition was in the time of the 
 Olvmpic games, An. i, Olymp. 75. Calliade Athenis Archonte, twenty- 
 eight years after the regifuge and consulship of the first Consul, Junuis 
 Brutus, Anno Urbis Conditx 273 (c.c. 48 1), Fabio and Furio Coss. The 
 passage of Xerxes' army over the Hellespont began in the end of the 
 fourth year of the seventy-fourth Olympiad, that is, in June, An. J.P. 4234 
 (B.C. 480), and took up one month ; and in autumn, three months after, on 
 the full moon, the l6th day of the month Munychion, was the battle of 
 Salamis, and a little after that an eclipse of the sun, which, by the calcula- 
 tion fell on October 2nd. His sixth year, therefore, began a little before 
 June, suppose in spring. An. J.P. 4234 (b-C 480), and his first year conse- 
 quently in spring, An. J.P. 4229 (^-C 485), ^^ above. Now he reigned 
 almost twenty-one years, by the consent of all writers. Add the seven 
 months of Artabanus, and the sum will be twenty-one years and about 
 four or five months, which end between midsummer and autumn, An. j.p. 
 4250 (B.C. 464). At this time, therefore, began the reign of his successor, 
 Artaxerxes, as was to be proved. _ 
 
 "The -ame thing is aL.o confirmed by Julius Africanus, who mforms us 
 out of former writers that the twentieth year of this Artaxerxes was the 
 1 1 ah year from the beginning of the reign of Cyrus in Persia, and fell in 
 with An. 4, Olymp. 83. It began, therefore, with the Olympic year soon 
 after the summer solstice. An. l.P. 4^^69 {x^-^- 445)- ^"^^^'^^^ nineteen 
 years, and hi:, first year will begin at the same tunc of the year, An. J.P. 
 4250 (B.C. 464), as above.
 
 5i6 APPENDIX. 
 
 '• Ills SEVENTH VEAK, THEREFORE, BEGAN AFTER MIDSUMMER, 
 An. J.P. 4256 (li.C. 458), AND THE JOURNEY OF EZRA TO JERUSALEM, 
 IN THE SPRING FOLLOWING, FELL ON THE BEGINNING OF AN. J.P. 
 4257 (li.C. 457) AS ABOVE." 
 
 (2) On THE THREE ECLIPSES ill the reigns of Cambyses and 
 Darius, by means of which Sir Isaac Newton determines the 
 date of the seventh year of Artaxerxes (the starting point of 
 the " seventy weeks,") we cite the testimony of Ptolemy, by 
 whom ''a foundation has ken laid for chronology sure as the 
 stars." Ptolemy's account of ancient echpses, and of their 
 connection with historic facts, is more precious than gold, and 
 warrants a translation of the Almagest into every language. 
 The astronomer Laplace says of this work, " L' Almagest, consi- 
 dere comme le depot des anciennes observations, est un des 
 plus pre'cieux monuments de I'antiquite." 
 
 i. Of the eclipse in the seventh year of Cambyses (d.c 523), 
 Ptolemy mentions : 
 
 "111 the seventli year of Cambyses, which is the 225th year of Nabonas- 
 sar, between the 17th and iSth of Phamenoth, at one hour before midnight, 
 the moon was eclipsed at Babylon by half the diameter on the north. At 
 Alexandria the eclipse niHst thus have been nearly ih. 50m. before mid- 
 night." 
 
 The era of Nabonassar (in whose 225th year this eclipse 
 took place) is one fixed with certainty by recorded eclipses to 
 Feb. 26th, 747 B.C. The month of Phamenoth is the seventh 
 in the Egyptian year, and the time of this eclipse was July i6th, 
 at II at night, B.C. 523. 
 
 ii. The eclipse in the twentieth year of Darius is thus 
 described by Ptolemy : 
 
 "The second eclipse, which also Hipparchus employed, was in the 
 twentieth year of the Darius who was after Cambyses, in the Egyptian 
 month Epiphi 28 to 29, at 6^ equinoxial hours of the night, at which time 
 the moon was likewise eclipsed on the south by one-fourth of her diameter, 
 and the middle time at Babylon was two-fifths of an equinoxial hour before 
 midnight, since half the night was then 6,^ equinoxial hours nearly, but 
 in Alexandria it v,-as l\ equinoxial hours before midnight."
 
 APPENDIX. 517 
 
 P'piphi was the eleventh Egyptian month. The time of the 
 eclipse was Nov. 19th, iih. 45ra. at night, B.C. 502. 
 
 iii. With reference to the eclipse in the thirty-first year of 
 Darius, Ptolemy writes as follows : — 
 
 " For the purpose of determining the node, we have taken the first 
 eclipse observed at Babylon in the thirty-first year of Darius I. in the 
 Egyptian month Tybi, third to fourth day, in the middle of the sixth hour, 
 in which it is declared that the moon was eclipsed two digits on the south. 
 With this we have compared another observed at Alexandria in the eighth 
 year of Adrian," etc. 
 
 The month Tybi was the fifth in the Egyptian year, and the 
 date of the eclipse, as given by Sir Isaac Newton, is April 25th, 
 iih. 30m. at night, An. j.p. 4223, which is b.c. 491. (The 
 An. J. p., or year of the Julian period, is not reckoned from 
 the creation, or from any historic date, but is a valuable arti- 
 ficial combination of several cycles in astronomical and chro- 
 nological use.) 
 
 For commentary on these eclipses see the Chrono- Astrolabe 
 by James Bowman Lindsay, pp. 75, 80-82 5 from which we 
 have taken Ptolemy's statements as above given. 
 
 Having thus shown that the point from which the " seventy 
 weeks " are reckoned — the going forth of the edict of Arta- 
 xerxes to restore the Jewish polity, in the seventh year of his 
 reign — is the spring (passover month) of b.c. 457, we have now 
 to establish, both by historical and astronomical means, as ap- 
 proximately as possible, the dates of the nativity, and of the 
 death and resurrection of our Lord. 
 
 (3) As TO THE PARTICULAR HISTORIC INTERVAL OCCUPIED 
 
 BY OUR Lord's life, the following passage from Mr. Lindsay's 
 valuable work, the Chrono-Astrolabe, presents the facts with 
 great force and clearness : — 
 
 "Christianity exists now, and we know from Greek, Roman, and Jewish 
 history that there was a time when it was not. The Jews were strictly for- 
 bidden to hold intercourse with foreigners ; but, notwitlistanding their ex- 
 clusiveness, the Gentile writers often mention them. The founder of Chris*
 
 5iS APPENDIX. 
 
 tianity, at what time soever He lived, gave His followers a law the veiy 
 reverse of exclusiveness, by going to all nations to make known His doc- 
 trines. Hot a word about Christianity is mentioned by Ca:sar, Cicero, 
 Livy, Virgil, or Ovid, and to believe that it existed without being men- 
 tioned by them is preposterous credulity. A century after these writers, 
 Christians are mentioned by Josephus, Tacitus, Pliny, and Suetonius, and 
 the advent of their Master must have been in the interval. Four different 
 accounts of the life and death of Christ are given ; the difference of author- 
 ship is proved by apparent discrepancies, and the truthfulness is confirmed 
 by the general harmony. Luke relates several dates with great minuteness, 
 and this affords a strong argument of veracity. He says that John com- 
 menced his preaching in the fifteenth year of Tiberius, and that soon after 
 Jesus also commenced, when He was about thirty years of age. He also 
 says that Christ was bom in the reign of Augustus, and both he and Matthew 
 place this event a little before the death of Herod. Now, from Ptolemy's 
 canon we know exactly the times of Augustus and Tiberius, and the time 
 of the death of Herod is determined from Josephus. The time thus ob- 
 tained for the origin of Christianity is just the interval of those Roman 
 icriters xoho do not tnention it and those who do, and there is no other time 
 possible that can be fixed upon for its origin. False religions may arise 
 from small beginnings as well as true ; the utmost care and caution are 
 necessary to discriminate, and credulity is as culpable as scepticism. A 
 remarkable dissimilarity is observed in the teaching of the founder of Is- 
 lamism and of the Founder of Christianity. The former affirmed that he 
 had interviews with heaven, and, without giving any proof of the truth of 
 his assertion, condemned all who disbelieved him to future punishment. 
 The latter never found fault with the Jews for disbelieving His word, but 
 for denying the evidence of their senses, or attributing His gracious miracles 
 to demons. The Jews were trained from infancy to entertain the highest 
 respect for the laws of Moses, and the most thorough contempt for all other 
 religions. That a handful of persons thus trained should spontaneously 
 arise and denounce those laws that they were taught to venerate is contrary 
 to experience. No such example in the annals of history is anywhere found, 
 and its occurrence would be as great a miracle as any in the Bible. No 
 cause conceivable could effect such a change, except miracles addressed to 
 the senses, or a direct voice from heaven ; and those who deny those 
 miracles as being contrary to experience, are compelled to admit a still 
 greater miracle. Christianity certainly had an origin, and no other than 
 that assigned to it would consist with experience. The books of the New 
 Testament, also, can be proved to have been written in the first century, 
 and not long after the events recorded in them. They could not have been 
 written in the century before, for the events recorded did not then exist, 
 neither could they have been written in the century after, for they art: quoted
 
 APPENDIX. 519 
 
 and commented upon by a host of vjriters that then lived. The writers ol 
 the second century are quoted by those of the third ; and thus a regular 
 chain of writers, that has never been broken, never will, never can be 
 broken, has been formed from the apostles to the present day."— C/^r^w^- 
 Astrolabe, Lindsay, p. 142, 
 
 (4) The Date of the Nativitv. 
 Our present era for the nativity, or that in popular use, is 
 not of apostolic, or even of early, origin. It is that which was 
 fixed upon by Dionysius Exiguus, in the sixth century, and is 
 proved to be erroneous by the fact that it places the birth of 
 Christ no less than four years after the death of Herod— of 
 the Herod who, when our Lord was born, sought " the young 
 child to destroy him." 
 
 Our Lord was certainly born before the death of Herod, 
 and the time of Herod's death is ascertained by means of an 
 eclipse of the moon recorded by Josephus (Antiq. xvii. 4)- 
 Just before his death Herod burnt alive, along with his com- 
 panions, one iVLatthias, who had been made high priest,— 
 ^'And that very iw;htf says Josephus, " there was an eclipse of 
 the moony The passover occurred immediately after the 
 death of Herod, and before this came the funeral feast of 
 some days duration, which Archelaus appointed in honour of 
 his father. " Such an eclipse of the moon, visible at Jcrti- 
 salem, as Ideler and Wurm have proved, actuall)' occurred at 
 that time, in the night between the 12th and 13th of ^Larch, 
 and according to Ideler beginning at ih. A^m., and endmg 
 at4h. 12m. The full moon of Nisan, i.e., the 15th day of 
 Nisan, occurred in 750 a.u.c. (u.c. 4) on the 12th of April. 
 If, therefore, as we have seen above, Herod died some days 
 before this, and consequently at the beginning of April, this 
 note of time would harmonize most excellently with the date 
 of the eclipse of the moon." 
 
 " Wurm, considering that an astronomical datum furnished 
 a basis superior to all doubt, undertook the praiseworthy 
 labour of calculating all the lunar eclipses from 6 13. c. to i e.g.,
 
 520 APPENDIX. 
 
 and has tabulated the results. He shows that in the year 
 u.c. 750 (u.c. 4) the only lunar eclipse visible at Jerusalem was 
 that already mentioned, and that in the only other year which 
 can enter into consideration for the year of Herod's death, 
 there was not one." — Wieseler's " Chronological Synopsis of 
 the Four Gospels," p. 51. 
 
 (5) Kepler's Calculations as to the Star of the 
 Nativity. 
 
 *" The credit of having been the first to employ the data derived from 
 astronomical and chronological calculations respecting this star, as the basis 
 of his investigations concerning the year of our Lord's birth, is due to the 
 celebrated astronomer Kepler. At the close of 1603, the very time that a 
 violent controversy was raging among theologians as to the year of our 
 Lord's birth, a phenomenon appeared in the starry heavens, which drew this 
 celebrated astronomer into the ranks of the combatants. On the l^th of 
 December of that year, tiiere occurred a conjunction of the planets 'Jupiter and 
 Saturn. In the spring of 1604, Mars also came to the same place, and in 
 the autumn an entirely new body, resembling a fixed star, appeared in the 
 neighbourhood of those tv/o planets at the east part of Serpentarius, 
 shining at first like a star of the first magnitude and very bright, but be- 
 coming gradually dimmer, until in October, 1605, it was scarcely visible, 
 and at last, in March, 1606, had totally disappeared. Kepler, well aware 
 that the astrologers of all times, and therefore certainly also the JMagi men- 
 tioned by Matthew, attached great importance to the conjunction of Jupiter 
 and Saturn, which recurs about every ivocnty years, and knowing that for 
 that very reason they had divided the zodiac, zahich it traverses in about Soo 
 years, into four trigons, he calculated whether such a conjunction had taken 
 place shortly before the commencement of the era at which, according to 
 historical data, the birth of our Lord must be placed. He arrived at the 
 remarkable result that this conjunction had happened three times in 747 u.C, 
 B.C. 7, and that in the last half of Pisces, near the first point of Aries, 
 while in the spring- of the follor.uing year the planet Mars also came to the 
 same spot. lie therefore argued, that the star seen by the Magi from the east, 
 at the birth of Christ, was identical with iiie conjunction of those three 
 supci'ior planets, and that probably an extraordinary star, like that which 
 had blazed forth in the foot of Serpentarius in his oiun time, was added to the 
 group. Accordingly he placed the eirtii of Jesus in the year 
 748 A.U.C, B.C. 6. 
 
 " Ideler, pursuing Kepler's view still further, has given us two calcu- 
 lations of the conjunction of the two planets. The later, and, in Encke's
 
 APPENDIX. 521 
 
 opinion, the most accurate, furnishes us with the following data to deter- 
 mine the three planetary conjunctions. The first took place on the 29th 
 of May, in 21° of Pisces, when the planets were visible in the East before 
 sunrise, and Jupiter and Saturn were only one degree apart ; the second, 
 on the 1st of October, in iS"" of Pisces; and the third, on the 5th of 
 December, in 16^ of Pisces. Ideler, therefore, as had been previously 
 done by Sanclemonti on other grounds, which Ideler accepts as valid, 
 places the birth of Christ in 747 a.u.c."— Wicseler's " Synopsis of the Four 
 Gospels," pp. 56-8. 
 
 The following passage on this remarkable conjunction at 
 the time of the nativity is from Dean Alford's Commentary 
 on the New Testament : — 
 
 " The expression of the Magi, 'we have seen his star,' does not seem to 
 point to any miraculous appearance, but to something observed in the 
 course of their watching in the heavens. We know the Magi to have been 
 devoted to astrology, and, on comparing the language of our text with this 
 undoubted fact, / confess that it appears to me thi most ingciuioits way 
 fairly to take account of that fact in our exegesis, and not to shelter our- 
 selves from an apparent difficulty by the convenient, but forced, hypothesis 
 of a miracle. , . . Now, we learn from astronomical calculations that 
 a remarkable conjunction of the planets of our system took place a short 
 time before the birth of our Lord ; . . . these statements have been 
 remarkably confirmed, except in the detail now corrected, ' that an ordinarj- 
 eye would regard them (the planets) as one star of surpassing brightness,' 
 by the Rev. C. Pritchard, in a paper read by him before the Royal 
 Astronomical Society, containing his calculations of the times and near- 
 nesses of the conjunctions, as verified by the Astronomer Royal at Greemvich. 
 In the year of Rome 747, on the 20th May (29th, Pritchard) there was a 
 conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn in the twentieth degree of constellation 
 Pisces, close to the first point of Aries, which was the part of the heavens 
 noted in astrological science as that in which the signs denoted the greatest 
 and most noble events. On the 27th October (29th Sept., Pritchard), in 
 the same year, another conjunction of the same planets took place in the 
 sixteenth degree of Pisces; and on the 12th November (5lh Dec, 
 Pritchard) a third, in the fifteenth degree of the same sign (Ideler, ' Iland- 
 buchder Chronologic,' ii. 399). • • • It is fair to notice the infiuencc 
 on the position maintained in this note of the fact, which Mr. Pritchard 
 seems to have substantiated, that tlie planets did not, during the year 
 B.C. 7, approach each other so as to be mistaken by any eye for one star : 
 indeed not 'within double the apparent diameter of the moon.' I submit, 
 that even if this were so, the inference of the note remains as it was. Tiie 
 conjunction of the two planets, complete or incomplete, would be that
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 which would bear astrological significance, not their looking like one star." 
 — Alford, Comm. on Matt. ii. 
 
 With all due deference to Dean Alford as an able and 
 candid critic, we do not think that any of these conjunctions 
 can be referred to in the words, '"'■ Lo, the star which they saw 
 in the east went before them, till it cavic and stood over where the 
 young child was." We think it not improbable that there was 
 a coincidence of the appearance of some bright particular 
 star with the earliest of these conjunctions 07i the year which 
 preceded that of the nativity, judging from the fact that 
 after Herod had '' privily called the wise men and inquired 
 of them diligently what time the star appeared," he "sent 
 forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in 
 all the coasts ihQxto^, from two years old aiid iuider, according 
 to the time which he had diligently inquired of the 7uise 7nen" — 
 a fact which implies that the first appearance of the star was 
 7vithin two years of the slaughter in Bethlehem, which followed 
 the nativity. It seems to us that the star which, reappearing to 
 the wise men, '• went before them and stood over where the young 
 child 7uas," must have been something very difterent from the 
 mere proximity of two distinct planets revolving in common 
 with the rest of the stellar heavens in a westerly direction. 
 
 (6) Luke's Date foii the Ministry of John. 
 
 The evangelist Luke connects the ministry and baptism of 
 John with the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Coesar 
 (Luke iii. i). 
 
 " Tiic fifteenth year of the sole principatc of Tiberius, began August 19th, 
 U.C. 7S1 (a.d. 28) and reckoning backwards thirty years from that time 
 (sec vcr. 23), we should have the birth of our Lord in U.C 751, or about 
 then ; for wav. rpiaK. will admit of some latitude. But Herod the Great 
 died in the beginning of the year 750 (D.c. 4), and our Lord's birth fnus( 
 be fixed some months, at least, di/orc the death of Herod. If, then, it be 
 placed in 749 He would have been, at least, thirty-two at the time of his 
 baptism, seeing that it took place some time after the beginning of John's 
 ministry. This difl'iculty has led to tlie supposition that this fifteenth year 
 is not to be dated from the soJj but from the associated principate of
 
 APPENDIX. 5=3 
 
 Tiberius, which commenced most probably at the end of U.c. 764 (a.d. ii). 
 According to this the fifteenth of Tiberius will begin at the end of U.C 779." 
 — Alford, on Luke iii. 
 
 (7) The Date of our Lord's Passion. 
 
 We have already cited testimony (p. 451) to show that the 
 ministry of our Lord included four passovers, and lasted for 
 three and a half years. 
 
 His passion is placed in the year a.d. 29,—; 
 
 " By many authors, by Lactantius, Augustine, Sulpicius, Idatius, Fast, 
 apud Noris, the Catalogue Pont. Rom. apud Bucherium, by Origcn. 
 Hieronymus, and TertuUian. It is most probable that the nativity was in 
 B.C. 5, that the ministry extended to a fourth passover, and that the 
 crucifi.Kion and ascension were in a.d. 29" [Clinton, Epitomy of Chron. 
 of Rome, p. 7). Among modern chronologists this date is accepted by 
 Benson, Brown, Mann, Ideler, Bianchini, Sanclemonti, etc. "If the first 
 passover after the baptism was in the spring of a.d. 26, the crucifixion and 
 the fourth passover are determined to the year 29 ; and it remains to 
 inquire whether the passover of that year was in March or April. The 
 full moon of March is fixed by I\Ir. Cuninghame's calculation to Friday, 
 March iSth, at gh. l6m. p.m. If that was the paschal moon, we obtain 
 these dates :— the 14th of Nisan began at 6 p.m. of March 17th, and the 
 15th of Nisan at 6 p.m. March iSth, 3h. l6m. before the full moon; and 
 the paschal lamb was slain at 3 p.m. of Friday, March \%th, 6h. i6m. 
 before the full moon. It is no insurmountable objection that this was three 
 days before the equinox ; for we have seen from the preceding testimonies 
 that a Jewish passover was sometimes celebrated before the equinox ; and, 
 as Mr. Benson properly remarks, in the Mosaic law there is no injunction 
 which refers to the equinox at all. It has been objected, however, that 
 March i8th is inadmissible, because if the i6th of Nisan is at March 20th, 
 the corn would not be ripe for an offering. But the law seems only to 
 require that when the sheaf was offered on the l6th of Nisan the barley 
 should be in the ear. That it could be ripe enough to be reaped, and used 
 for food, at that early season is scarcely credible. If the passover had been 
 delayed until ripeness in the latter sense had been attained, not only a fuD 
 moon at the equinox would have been excluded, but many vernal full 
 moons after the equinox, and it could rarely happen that the passover could 
 be celebrated at a full moon at all" (Clinton, Epitomy Chron. Rome, 
 p. 326). ■ The full moon of April, a.d. 29, fell on Sunday, the 17th, 
 and if this was the month, the paschal lamb was slain at 3 p.m. of Friday, 
 April 15th, one day nineteen hours before the full moon ; an irrcwndarity and
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 want of adaptation to the lunar revolutions measuring the feasts, which 
 nothing short of absolute demonstration should compel us to admit in such 
 a case. The conclusion is tl:at the day of that supreme passovcr was 
 according to the normal Lcvitical arrangement that oi full moon, March 
 iSth, A.D. 29, and that the resurrection immaliatdy preceded the vernal 
 equinox. 
 
 (8) Conclusions as to the Dates in the "seventy 
 WEEKS " of our Lord's Death, Resurrection, and Ascen- 
 sion. 
 
 {a) We showed that the 490 years are to be reckoned from 
 the beginning of Ezra's journey to Jerusalem, or "the first day 
 of the first month," that of passover, in the year 457 B.C. 
 
 (/>) We concluded that our Lord's death took place on the 
 day of passover, Friday, March iS, a.d. 29. His resurrection 
 followed two days later (Sunday), and his ascension forty days 
 subsequently (the forty days apparently included the day on 
 which He rose). 
 
 {c) The interval in solar years between these dates is 485 
 years, and 485 solar years equal 6000 lunations, less 41-42 
 days. Therefore reckoning from the spring of e.g. 457, when 
 Ezra set out on his journey, 485 solar years, terminating with 
 our Lord's death, together with the 41-2 days to his ascension, 
 equalled 6000 lunations. 
 
 {d) The interval measured by viontiis. Ezra began his 
 journey on the first day of the passover month. Our Lord's 
 death was on the 14th day of a passover month, and Ids ascen- 
 sion near the end of the follozving viontJi. 
 
 Now, by the most exact calcrdation (given in the Tables in 
 the fourth edition of the " Encyclopedia Britannica ") the 
 new moon of the passover month, b.c. 45S, fell on March 31 
 (or April 6, o.s.). 
 
 From April 6, r.c. 45 S, to April r, a.d. 29, are 4S6 
 equinoxial years. Now 486 years are one day less than 60 11 
 lunations; therefore from April 6, E.c. 458, to April 2, 
 A.D. 29, were 601 1 lunations. To this add the lunation which 
 followed, near ivJiose end the ascension took place, .r.nd the sum
 
 APPENDIX. 525 
 
 is 6012 lunations. But B.C. 45S was, as Sir Isaac Newton has 
 shown, the year which preceded Ezra's journey; therefore sub- 
 tract for the Jewish lunar year 458-7 twelve lunations, and 
 there remain, from the passover month B.C. 457 to the month 
 which terminated with the ascension, 6000 lunations. 
 
 It follows from this that there exists a perfat chronological 
 analogy between the date in the 49 years jubilee of typical 
 atonement and liberty, and the date in the 490 years of the 
 accomplishment of true atonement, ending with the glorious 
 ascension of the great High Priest into heaven itself, there ta 
 appear in the presence of God for us, having obtained eternal 
 redemption. 
 
 In the 49 years, exactly 600 lunations to a day terminated 
 with the one ; in the 490 years, 6000 lunations terminated with 
 the other. 
 
 HoAV wonderfully does Jesus of Nazareth' fulfil the Divine 
 Old Testament prophecies of redemption ! His death was on 
 the very day of passover ; his resurrection on the day of the 
 presentation of the wave sheaf firstfruits of the early harvest ; 
 the coming of his Spirit was on the day of Pentecost ; and his 
 glorious ascension was accomplished at the close of that month 
 whose end in the " seventy weeks " exactly answers to the 
 position of the day of jubilee, and of the High Priest's entering 
 within the veil, in the glad and beautiful Levitical symbol. 
 
 VII, THE DURATION OF OUR LORD'S TERRESTRIAL LIFE, AND 
 ITS AGREEMENT WITH THE 33 YEARS, 7 MONTHS, AND J 
 DAYS SOLI-LUNAR CYCLE, THE CYCLE IN WHICH THE SUN 
 GAINS ON THE MOON ONE SOLAR YEAR. 
 
 We have now cleared the way for a more accurate study of 
 the duration of our Lord's life on earth. We have shown that 
 his birth took place de/ore B.C. 4, according to calculations of 
 the eclii)se which preceded Herod's death, and also that our 
 Lord's death was accomplished in the year a.d. 29, on the day 
 of passover, and tliat his ascension followed 41-42 days later. 
 
 We must now bricHy consider the grounds of the popular
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 view that the jiativity took place in the inonlh of December, 
 and endeavour to ascertain as nearly as possible the true date 
 of the nativity. 
 
 "The vulgar DAY OF OUR Lord's nativity, Dec. 25, though an early 
 tradition, as appears irom the Apostolical Constitutions, lib. 5, cap. 13, was 
 not established till the time of the Emperor Constantine, who died A.D. 
 337, when it was enacted, probably about the Council of Nice, A. T). 325, by 
 the Roman Church, and adopted by the Greek Church ten years after at 
 Constantinople, according to Chrysostom in his homily on the day of the 
 nativity." "The true cause of their fixing on the 25th of December is thus 
 perhaps best explained by Sir Isaac Newton." 
 
 " The times of the birth and passion of Christ being not material to 
 religion, were little regarded by the Christians of the first age. They who 
 began first to celebrate them placed them in the cardinal periods of the year ; 
 as the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary on the 25//^ ^yJ/a;r/j, which when 
 Julius Caesar corrected the calender was the verjial eqninox; the feast of 
 Tohn ]'>aptist on the 2a,th yiinc, which was the summer solstice; the feast of 
 St. Michael on Sep. 29, which was the autumn equinox; and the birth 
 OF Christ on thu; winter solstice, Dec. 25, with the feasts of 
 St. Stephen, St. John, and the Innocents, as near as they could place 
 them. And because the solstice in time removed from the 25th Dec. to the 
 24th, the 23rd, the 22nd, and so on backwards, hence some in the follow- 
 ing centuries placed the birth of Christ on Dec. 23, and at length on 
 Dec. 20, and for the same reason they seem to have set the feast of St. 
 Thomas on December 21, and that of St. Matthew on Sept. 21. So 
 also at the entrance of the sun into all the signs in the Julian Calendar, 
 they placed the days of other saints ; as the Conversion of Paul on Jan. 
 25, when the sun entered ;::;:; ; St. Matthias on Feb. 25, when he 
 entered ^ ; St. Mark on April 25, when he entered Q ; Corpus Christi 
 on May 26, when he entered JJ ; St. James on July 25, when he 
 entered 05; St. Bartholomew on Aug. 24, when he entered ITO ; SS. Simon 
 and Jude on Oct. 28, when he entered tt^ ; and if there were any other 
 remarkable days in the Julian Calendar, they placed the saints upon them, 
 as St. Barnabas on June 11, where Ovid seems to place the feast of Vesta 
 and Fortuna, and the goddess Matuta ; and SS. Philip and James on the 
 first of May, a day dedicated both to the Bona Dea, or Magna Mater, and 
 to the goddess Flora, and still celebrated with her rites. All which shows 
 that these dates were fixed in the first Christian calendars by mathematicians 
 at pleasure, without any ground in tradition ; and that the Christians after- 
 ■wards took up 7uith what they found in the calendars." — Sir I. Newton on 
 Daniel, p. 145. 
 
 " Hospinian, a learned German antiquary, is of opinion that the Christians
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 527 
 
 at Route did not celebrate the 25th of December as thinking Christ was 
 then bom, but to make amends for the heathen Saittrnalia ; Avhich was a 
 season of great festivity, beginning on Dec. 16, and lasting three days, 
 but usually prolonged to the end of the week on account of the succeeding 
 feast of the Sigillarii (Macrob. Saturnal. , lib; i, cap. 10), and indeed the 
 crowding together so many holidays near the end of December, as we find 
 in the calendar, strongly comfirms this opinion. 
 
 " To determine the true day of Christ's birth, as Scaliger says, belongs to 
 God alone, not man. Of all the various conjectures that have been pro- 
 posed, the most probable are, either (i) that 'Christ our Passover' was 
 bom about the time of the vernal equinox, when the fassover was cele- 
 brated ; or (2) ABOUT THE AUTUMNAL EQUINOX AT THE CELEBRATION 
 
 OF THE FEAST OF TABERxNACLES, when ' the WORD became flesh and 
 (e(TK7ji'a;(rej') TABERNACLED among us ' (John i. 14) ; or (3) on the great day 
 of Atonement, the tenth day of the seventh month, as ' a faithful high priest 
 in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people ' 
 (Heb. ii. 17), to be Himself 'a propitiation for our sins, and not for ours 
 only, but also for those of the whole world' (i John ii. 2). And if this 
 last (adopted by Primate Usher) be preferred, it gives a peculiar emphasis 
 to the declaration of the angel to the shepherds on the night of the nativity : 
 ' Fear not : for, lo ! I bring you glad tidings of great joy, which shall be 
 unto all people ; for unto you is born this day a Saviour, who is Christ the 
 Lord. Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will towards 
 men ' (Luke ii. 10-14). And indeed either of the last tzao epochs agrees 
 better than the first luith the prevailing traditions of the duration of the 
 ministry of Christ." — Hales' Chron. v. i, p. 199. 
 
 •The coincidence of our Lord's death with the passover, and 
 of His resurrection with the wave sheaf offering, suggests the 
 probabiUty of the coincidence of his birth with some one of the 
 feasts of the law. 
 
 That his birth should have coincided with the fassovet is 
 not only most unlikely, if not inadmissible, from a chronolo- 
 gical point of view, but also on the grounds (i) that it makes 
 two so different events coincide with anniversaries of the same 
 typical feast, and (2) that our Lord's birth had not the sacrifi- 
 cial character vi\\\z\\ belonged to his death, and which justified 
 the coincidence of the latter with the slaying of the paschal 
 lamb. 
 
 On the same ground the day of Atonement is also excluded ; 
 the birth of Christ was not an atonement for sin, neither did Pie
 
 SzS APPENDIX. 
 
 enter on the day of his birth " within the veil," as the high 
 priest did on the atoning day. 
 
 There remains then the probabiHty, on typical and moral 
 grounds, that the nativity coincided with the feast of tabernacles, 
 that most joyous feast which celebrated \}ci^ dwelling of Israel 
 in booths, when God brought them out of the land of Egypt, a 
 coincidence in perfect harmony with Jehovah's tabernacling 
 amongst us when He became incarnate (" the word became flesh 
 and TABERNACLED AMONG US '') to bring us out of the antitj'pical 
 Egypt in order that we may diuell unth Him in the place He i3 
 preparing for us. This strong probability is confirmed by the 
 age of our Lord at his baptism, and the three and a half years 
 duration of his ministry, for as his death was on the day of 
 Passover in spring, his birth, if thirt>'-three and a half years 
 previously, took place at the opposite season of t lie year, near the 
 autumnal equinox, and about the time of the feast of taber- 
 nacles. 
 
 It becomes then a matter of much interest to ascertain what 
 the exact interval was which extended from the day of our 
 Lord's ascension back to the commencement of the feast of 
 tabernacles in the thirty-fourth preceding year. 
 
 To render the calculation as simple as possible, we will show, 
 first, the interval from the feast of tabernacles B.C. 6, to tkat 
 of tabernacles in a.d. 29, and then subtract the difference be- 
 tween the date of the ascension and that of this latter feast 
 of tabernacles. 
 
 (i) From tabernacles to tabernacles equals a mnnber of com- 
 plete hinations, for the feast was regulated by lunations. 
 
 (2) From the feast of tabernacles, B.C. 6, to that of taber- 
 nacles A.D. 29, extends 34 years, and in 34 years there are 
 twelve complete 7>ionths of epact ; the months to be intercalated, 
 therefore, are twelve. 
 
 (3) Thirty-four lunar years are 40S months, which with 
 twelve months intercalation are 420 months. 
 
 (4) The feast of passover was on the 14th day of the first 
 month, and the feast of tabernacles commenced on the 15th
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 529 
 
 day of the seventh, and therefore six months and one day 
 later; we must, therefore, subtract six months from 420, 
 leaving 414, and also subtract ox^q day. We have then to add 
 41-42 days to the result to obtain the distance to the day of 
 ascension. 
 
 414 months contain .... i2,225d. 15I1. 
 Subtract one day id. 
 
 i2,224d. ish. 
 Add 2d. and 4od 42d. 
 
 i2,266d. i5h. 
 
 We now compare tliis period of 12,266-7 days with the soli- 
 lunar cycle in which the sun gains on the moon one solar year. 
 
 That cycle occupies exactly 33 'sSsy.; or n solar years, 
 seven months, and seven days. 
 
 We inquire what this period is in days. 
 
 Thirty-three solar years are a cycle of the day and year, and 
 contain 12,053 days within ten minutes. 
 
 33 solar years contain . . . . 12,053d. 
 
 7 lunations 2o6d. i7h. 
 
 7 days yd. 
 
 Measure of the cycle .... i2,266d. lyh. 
 
 We previously concluded that as our Lord was thirty years 
 old at his baptism, and as his ministry lasted for three and a 
 half years, and terminated with a passover. He must have been 
 born about the time of the feast of tabernacles, and now we 
 find that the interval from the commencement of the feast of 
 tabernacles B.C. 6, to the day of our Lord's ascension, or 
 i2,266-7d., was a soli-lunar cycle, in which the sun gained on 
 the moon exactly one solar year. 
 
 This is the cycle which we consider to be the //;///, or day, 
 
 » U M
 
 530 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 in the measurement of redemption history, and which we have 
 named the ^Messianic Cycle. 
 
 Vlir. CONFIRMATION OF THE CHRONOLOGY THUS UNFOLDED, 
 
 1. As to the date of the first of Nisan, B.C. 457. 2300 years 
 is a soH-lunar cycle ; therefore the sun and moon occupy the 
 .same position at its beginning and end. From B.C. 457 to 
 A.D. 1S44 is 2300 years; and the new moon in March, 1844, 
 occurred on the i9-2oth (March igd. 2h. 39m. astron. time 
 of new moon at Jerusalem). The phasis occurred, of course, 
 later, and stands in the viodcrn Jeicish calendar for that date on 
 March 2\sf. This confirms the date March i9-2oth for new 
 moon of first Nisan, B.C. 457. 
 
 2. Reckoning the "seventy weeks" from B.C. 457, "the 
 seventy weeks of years are Jewish weeks ending with sabbatical 
 years, which is very remarkable." (Sir I. Newton.) 
 
 
 Table of Sabbatic Years 
 
 IN THE 
 
 "Seventy Weeks." 
 
 \VI.-s 
 
 ISt 
 
 W 
 
 2nd 
 
 W 
 
 3rd 
 
 W 
 
 4th 
 
 \y 
 
 sth 
 
 w 
 
 6th ^ 
 
 7th 
 
 
 70 yrs. 
 
 
 70 yrs. 
 
 
 70 yrs. 
 
 
 70 yrs. 
 
 
 70 yrs. 
 
 
 70 7rs. 
 
 70 yrs. 
 
 
 B.C. 
 
 
 B.C. 
 
 
 B.C. 
 
 
 B.C. 
 
 
 B.C. 
 
 
 B.C. 
 
 
 B.C. 
 
 I 
 
 4.^7 
 
 II 
 
 3^7 
 
 21 
 
 317 
 
 31 
 
 247 
 
 41 
 
 177 
 
 51 
 
 107 
 
 61 
 
 37 
 
 2 
 
 450 
 
 12 
 
 380 
 
 22 
 
 310 
 
 32 
 
 240 
 
 42 
 
 170 
 
 52 
 
 100 
 
 62 
 
 30 
 
 
 44.^ 
 
 13 
 
 373 
 
 23 
 
 303 
 
 33 
 
 233 
 
 43 
 
 1^3 
 
 53 
 
 93 
 
 b3 
 
 23 
 
 4 
 
 43^' 
 
 14 
 
 300 
 
 24 
 
 296 
 
 34 
 
 226 
 
 44 
 
 156 54 
 
 86 
 
 64 
 
 16 
 
 5 
 
 429 
 
 M 
 
 3S9 
 
 2.S 
 
 289 
 
 3S 
 
 219 
 
 4.S 
 
 149 55 
 
 79 
 
 b5 
 
 9 
 
 6 
 
 422 
 
 16 
 
 3,S2 
 
 26 
 
 282 
 
 3(3 
 
 212 
 
 4b 
 
 142 
 
 5b 
 
 72 66 
 
 2 
 
 7 
 
 41=; 
 
 17 
 
 34=; 
 
 27 
 
 27^ 
 
 37 
 
 205 
 
 47 
 
 13=; 
 
 57 
 
 65 
 
 67 
 
 A.D. 6 
 
 8 
 
 408 
 
 18 
 
 3.3^ 
 
 28 
 
 268 
 
 35^ 
 
 198 
 
 48 
 
 128 
 
 5« 
 
 5« 
 
 68 
 
 13 
 
 9 
 
 401 
 
 19 
 
 331 
 
 29 
 
 261 
 
 39 
 
 191 
 
 49 
 
 121 
 
 59 
 
 51 
 
 69 
 
 20 
 
 10 
 
 394 
 
 20 
 
 324 
 
 30 
 
 254 
 
 40 
 
 1 84 
 
 50 
 
 114 
 
 00 
 
 44 
 
 70 
 
 \ 27 
 
 ( 34 
 
 It is needful to guard against the mxistake that the sabbatic 
 year exactly coincided with the interval, January to December, 
 in any of the years in the above table. In each case it in- 
 cluded parts 9f two years. The years on which it fell seem 
 to have been 458-7 b.c, and so en to a.d. 33-34. The series
 
 APPENDIX. 531 
 
 is confirmed by the repeated statements of Josephus, that the 
 capture of Jerusalem by Herod and Sosius, which took place 
 at the end of B.C. 38, and the beginning of 37 (see Clinton, 
 " F. Hellenici"), occurred in a sabbatical year. 
 
 There is some difficulty in adjusting its exact position, for in 
 Ant. xiv. 16. 2 it is spoken of as current at the time of the 
 siege : the Jews " erected new works when the former were 
 ruined," etc., " and this they did while a mighty army lay 
 round about them, and while they were distressed by famine 
 and the want of necessaries, for this happened to be a sabbatic 
 year " ; and in Ant. xv. i. 2 it is current after the capture, for 
 then the distress was aggravated " by the sabbatic year, which 
 was still going on, and forced the country to lie still unculti- 
 vated, since we are forbidden to sow our land that year." 
 
 It should be noticed that while the law commanded that the 
 year of jubilee should commence on the day of atonement in 
 the seventh month, it gave no such command with respect to 
 the commencement of the sabbatic year. The traditions of 
 the Talmud (Rosh Hashana) assign its beginning to the month 
 Tisri. A tradition preserved by Maimonides informs us that 
 " only Sh'mittahs were kept, and no Jobel, after the return 
 from Babylon." 
 
 The Roman historian Tacitus testifies to the observance of 
 the sabbatical year by the Jews in his time : " they give the 
 seventh day to ease, because it put an end to labour ; more- 
 over, through the allurements of idleness, the seventh year also 
 is given to inactivity " (Tac. Hist. v. 4). 
 
 Compare also the very important testimony of Caesar's 
 decrees, recorded by Josephus, Ant. xiv. 10. 6 : 
 
 "CaiusCKsar, impevator the second time, hath ordained that all the 
 country of the Jews, excepting Joppa, do pay a tribute yearly for the city 
 of Jerusalem, excepting the srjenth, which they call the sabbatical year, 
 because thereon they neither receive the fruits of their trees, nor do they sow 
 their land; and that they pay their tribute in Sidon on the second year 
 (of that sabbatical period) the fourth part of what was sown ; and, besides 
 this, they are to pay the same tythes to Ilyrcanus and his sons, which they 
 paid to their forefathers. And that no one, neither president, nor lieu-
 
 532 APPEXDIX. 
 
 tenant, nor ambassador, raise auxiliaries within the bounds of Judxa, nor 
 any soldiers exact money of them for winter quarters, or under any other 
 pretence, but that they be free from all sorts of injuries ; and that wliat- 
 soever they shall hereafter have, and are in possession of, or have bought, 
 they shall retain them all. It is also our pleasure, that the city Joppa, 
 which the Jews had originally when they made a league of friendship with 
 the Romans, shall belong to them, as it formerly did ; and that Ilyrcanus, 
 the son of Alexander, and his sons, have a tribute of that city from those 
 that occupy the land for the country, and for what they export every year 
 to Sidon, twenty thousand six hundred and seventy-five modii every year ; 
 ihe srjcittk year, -d'hick they call the sabbatic year, excepted, whereon they 
 neither plough, nor receive the product of their trees." 
 
 3. According to this chronology, the seventh week of decades, 
 or period of seventy years, in the 490, commences with the taking of 
 Jerusalem by Herod, and the termination of ihe government of 
 the Asmoneans. "And thus did the government of the As- 
 moneans cease, an hundred, twenty, and six years after it was 
 set up. This family was a splendid and an illustrious one, 
 both on account of the nobility of their stock, and of the 
 dignity of the high priesthood, as also for the glorious actions 
 their ancestors had performed for our nation" (Ant. xiv. 16). 
 The sceptre did thus depart from Judah, and before the end of 
 the government of the base and cruel monarch who seized it, 
 Shi/oh came. 
 
 4. Let the 490 years and the 2300 years of Dan. viii., which 
 are clearly connected with the long Mohammedan down-tread- 
 ing of the sanctuary, begin together, in the year B.C. 457 ; then 
 will the 2 T^QO years end in the 1260th of the MoJiammcdan era. 
 
 The Mohammedan year is strictly lunar — twelve lunations. 
 The starting-point of the Mohammedan calendar is the nno 
 moon of July 15-16///, a.d, 622. This was the first of the 
 Mulharram (or first month) preceding the so-called " tiight of 
 Mohammed." 1260 Mohammedan, or lunar years, are 1222 
 solar years and six months, so hhat the 1260th Mohammedan 
 year coincides with a.d. 1844. 
 
 We have given (p. 437) the Mohammedan Edict of Tolera- 
 tion, granted in 1844.
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 533 
 
 '« It is an interesting fact connected with the duration of the Moham- 
 medan power, that the firman, granted to the Society for Promotmg 
 Christianity among the Jews, to build the Church of Christ in Jerusalem, m 
 the year 1845, was dated the first day of Ramazan, 1261, answermg to our 
 September loth, 1845 " (Letter of Rev. R. M. Chatfield in the Record, 
 dated December 13th, 1S7S). 
 
 An inspection of the subjoined Mohammedan calendar for 
 the present year (1879) will show its strictly lunar character, 
 i.e., that the first day of each month coincides with the first 
 appearance of the new moon. Ramadan is the ninth month ; 
 and the first month (Mulharram) begins this time in December, 
 
 1878. ^ , 
 
 The astronoviic new moons this year (1S79) occur on the 
 following days : Jan. 22, iih., m. ; Feb. 21, 4^-, m. ; Mar. 22, 
 9h., aft. ; Apr. 21, 2h., aft. ; May 21, 5^-, m. ; June 19, 8h., 
 aft. ; July 19, Q^^m m. ; Aug. 17, 8h., aft. ; Sept. 16, 6h m. ; 
 Oct. 15, 3h., aft.; Nov. 14, oh. 38m., m. ; Dec. 13, nh., m. 
 It will be observed that in the Mohammedan Calendar, the 
 commencement of each month takes place about Uuo days after 
 astronomic new moon, soon after the lunar phasis (or appear- 
 ance). 
 
 Mohammedan Calendar (Years 1296-97). 
 
 Year. ' Month. 
 
 Name of Months. 
 
 Month begins. 
 
 
 
 
 a.d. 1879 
 
 1296 
 
 
 
 Saphar 
 
 Ian. 25 
 
 
 3 
 4 
 
 Rabia 
 
 Lcb. 23 
 
 " 
 
 Latter Rabia 
 
 INLar. 25 
 
 " 
 
 5 
 6 
 
 Gomada 
 
 Ajml 23 
 
 " 
 
 Latter (Jomada 
 
 i\lay 23 
 
 
 7 
 
 Rajab 
 
 June 21 
 
 ' 
 
 8 
 
 Schaban 
 
 |uly 21 
 
 
 9 
 
 Ramadan 
 
 Aug. 19 
 
 " 
 
 10 
 
 Schawal 
 
 Sep. 18 
 
 
 II 
 
 Dulkaadah 
 
 Oct. 17 
 
 '* 
 
 12 
 
 Dulhagee 
 
 Nov. 16 
 
 1297 
 
 I 
 
 Mulharram 
 
 Dec. 15
 
 ;34 APPENDIX, 
 
 5. This chronology is confirmed by the interval of twelve 
 jubilees, which it shows, between the termination of the 
 •''seventy weeks," in a. d. 34, and the beginning of I\Ioham- 
 medan reckoning, a.d. 622 — the Hegira. 
 
 The " seventy weeks," which, reckoned from B.C. 457, ter- 
 minate in A.D. 34, are ten jubilees, 490 years. The period 
 which follows from that date to the setting up of the Moham- 
 medan desolation, in a.d. 622, is twelve jubilees, 588 years. 
 
 The two periods together form twenty-two jubilees — 1078 
 years ; which is, as we have yet to sliow, a perfect Jubilee cycle. 
 
 6. It is a further confirmation of Sir Isaac Newton's view 
 that the " seventy weeks " are to be reckoned from b.c. 457, 
 and not from b.c. 45 S, that the first of Nisan of the latter fell 
 upon the Jewish Sabbath. 
 
 As the date of the new moon of INIarch, e.g. 458, was on 
 Thursday, March 30th, i4h. 4Sm. (according to Greenwich 
 time), \\\Q. phasis, or appearance of the new moon, did not take 
 place till Friday evening, and the first of Ni.san, therefore, fell 
 on Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath. "We are distinctly informed 
 that Ezra commenced his journey on " the first day of the first 
 month," which he would hardly have done had that day hap- 
 pened to be the Jewish Sabbath, seeing he attached so much 
 importance to its strict observance as a day of rest. 
 
 7. It has been objected by some that if the passover in 
 A.D. 29 coincided with the full moon of March i8th, \l preceded 
 the equinox by about three days. " This objection will be seen 
 to be of no moment when it is considered that this very day, 
 the 1 8th March, was regarded by the Western Church, prior to 
 the Council of Nice, as the anterior paschal limit " (Browne's 
 Chron. p. 55, who refers to the paschal cycle of St. Hippolytus). 
 
 Clinton, as previously quoted, says : — 
 
 " It is no insurmountable objection that this was three days before the 
 equinox, for we have seen from the preceding testimonies that a Jewish 
 passover was sometimes celebrated before the equinox, and, as Mr. Benson 
 properly remarl<s, in the Jlcsaic law there is no injunction which refers to 
 the equinox at all. It has been objected, however, that March iSth is in-
 
 APPENDIX. 535 
 
 admissible, because if the i6th Nisan is at March 20th, the com would not 
 be ripe for an offering. But the law seems only to require that when the 
 sheaf was offered on the i6th of Nisan the barley should be m the ear. 
 That it could be ripe enough to be reaped, and used as food, at that early 
 season, is scarcely credible. If the passover had been delayed until ripeness 
 in this latter sense had been attained, not only a full moon at the equmox 
 would have been excluded, but many vernal full moons after the equmox ; 
 and it could rarely happen that the passover could be celebrated at a vernal 
 full moon at all " ("Epitome of Chron. of Rome," p. 326). 
 
 The fact that the full moon of March i8th, a.d. 2^^, preceded 
 the vernal equinox by about three days, to our view only renders 
 it the more suitable as the paschal date, since it brings the resur- 
 rection and the vernal equinox into close proximity. What more 
 probable than that the new year, dating from the vernal 
 equinox, and the new era, dating from the glorious resurrection, 
 should commence together? The resurrection took place in 
 the early morning before sunrise, and if in this month, but some 
 hours before the sun entered the equinox of spring. 
 
 8. This chronology is further confirmed by the coincidence 
 between the beginning of the " seventy weeks," and the date 
 of the vernal cqtdnox (or beginning of the equinoxial year). 
 The ''seventy weeks" began on the ist of Nisan, which in b.c. 
 457 fell on the day of the vernal equinox, March 20-2 1 (March 
 26, O.S.), just as both new moon and vernal equinox fell on 
 March 20-21, 2300 years afterwards, in a.d. 1844. The exact 
 time of the passover new moon in 1844 was as follows :— 
 Astronomical time of true new moon at Jerusalem, Tuesday, 
 March 19th, 2h. 39m. Phasis by the modern Jcxoish calendar, 
 Thursday, March 21st, first of Nisan. Nciu moon thus fell on 
 March 19-20, in 1844, and by the 2300 years cycle, it fell on 
 the same date in the year e.g. 457- To this let it be added, 
 that if the supreme passover was on March iS, a.d. 29, the 
 resurrection day was March 20 (as.). With this month of 
 Nisan and resurrection day, what a grand scries of dates 
 begins. This v/as the month of Israel's exodus from Egypt ; 
 thi°s was the date, 43° years before that exodus, of the call 
 of Abraham and of his exodus. This was the month on 
 whose first day the tabernacle was reared uj^ ; and thi.s the
 
 536 APPENDIX. 
 
 month in wliich all Israel crossed Jordan, and entered the 
 promised land. This was, from the exodus onwards, and still 
 IS, \\iQ first month of the sacred seasons of the Jewish people; 
 and this has been for eighteen centuries the joyfully com- 
 memorated resurrection season in the Christian Church. 
 
 How eminently suitable that the " seventy weeks," extending 
 to the time of Messiah the Prince, should commence with such 
 a date ! that its beginning should be in harmony with the sub- 
 sequent starting-point in the _ wondrous history of the new 
 creation ! 
 
 9. The chronology we have reached is still further strength- 
 ened by the solar date rahich it gives for the day of Ezra's 
 reaching Jerusalem on his divinely ordained mission of restora- 
 tion, and the harmony of that date with a most important series 
 of dates connected with the national calamities and deliver- 
 ances of his people and of the city of Jerusalem. 
 
 " Upon the first day of the first month began he to go up 
 from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month came he to 
 Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon him " 
 (Ezra vii. 9). 
 
 As the ist of Nisan, b.c 457, fell on March 20-21, the first 
 day of the fifth month, just four lunations later, fell on July 
 16th. Reckon from that date, July 16, 457 e.g., twenty-two 
 jubilees (10 -f 12), or 1078 years, a cycle of great importance in 
 connection with the intercalation of months in the Jewish soli- 
 lunar year, — reckon, we say, from the new moon of July 16, 
 457 B.C., 1078 years, and to what date does it exactly reach? 
 It reaches just to the new moon of July 16, a.d. 622 — the 
 Hegira date, the first of Mulharram, ox the new moon from which 
 the whole Mohammeda7i calendar has dated for now more than 
 twelve hjindrcd years. 
 
 We may say, in passing, that the cycle of 107 8 years is a 
 combination of the most perfect soli-lunar cycle known, 1040 
 years (that which Mr. De Cheseaux named the Daniel cycle), 
 and two lunar cycles of 19 years (the most perfect of short 
 soli-lunar cycles), so tliat its accuracy is indisputable, tlie sun
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 and moon returning at its dose to within a very few hours of 
 their position at its commencement. (We have yet to show 
 that this cycle of iin lunar years i vionth, or i3,333 months, 
 which just equal 107S solar years, is the astronomic foundation 
 for a perfect jubilee reckoning.) 
 
 From this era (July 16, a.d. 622,) dates the Mohammedan 
 conquest of half the world, the chronology of the scourge 01 
 Eastern Christendom, and the period of the long last down- 
 treading of Jerusalem. 
 
 From this era, July 15-16, a.d. 622, sweep forward 477 
 complete solar years to its anniversary on July 15, a.d. 1099. 
 What date have we here ? That of the day of the recapture and 
 rescue of Jerusalem in the first Crusade. 
 
 In 1094, Peter the Hermit received his commission from 
 the Pope to preach the Crusade. In 1096, Godfrey of Bouillon, 
 Hucrh of Vermandois, Robert of Normandy, Robert of Flanders, 
 Stephen of Chartres, Raymond of Toulouse, Bohemond, a«d 
 Tancred, set out with 600,000 crusaders, besides priests and 
 monks, for the rescue of Jerusalem. 
 
 In 1099, on July 15, Jerusalem was taken by the Crusaders, 
 and 70,000 Saracens put to the sword. Then was founded 
 the kingdom of Jerusalem by Godfrey of Bouillon. 
 
 What an association of names : Ezra, Mohammed, Godlrey 
 of Bouillon! What events linked with that date, July 15-16, 
 and with that month of Ab ! 
 
 This was the month of the death of Aaron: "Aaron the 
 priest went up into mount Hor, at the commandment of 
 the Lord, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children 
 of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the first day of 
 the fifth month" {^Vim.Ti^\\\\. S^). 
 
 Could the dying eyes of that first of Israel's high priests 
 have but looked from the awful summit of mount Hor, down 
 the long line of disasters and deliverances, which the recur- 
 rence of that memorable day and month should bring to his 
 people, what scenes would he have beheld ! . ' , , 
 
 Far down the future he would have seen the burning of the
 
 538 APPENDIX. 
 
 first glorious Temple, " the house of the Lord," and beyond it, 
 the more awful burning of the second Temple ! Both these 
 burnings, the first by Nebuchadnezzar, the second by Titus, 
 took place in the month of Ab, and on the recurrence of the same 
 day, the tenth of the fifth month. The historian Josephus was 
 much impressed by this solemn coincidence. 
 
 "As for that house," he says of the Temple, " God had for certain lonj 
 ago doomed it to the fire, and now that fatal day was come according to 
 the revolution of ages. 
 
 " It was the tenth day of the month Louis (Ab), upon which it was for- 
 merly burnt by the king of Babylon ; although these flames took their rise 
 from the Jews themselves, and were occasioned by them ; for upon Titus' 
 retiring, the seditious lay still for a while, and then attacked the Romans 
 again, when those that guarded the holy house fought with those that 
 quenched the fire that was burning in the inner (court of the) Temple ; but 
 these Romans put the Jews to flight, and proceeded as far as the holy house 
 itself, at which time one of the soldiers, without staying for any orders, and 
 without any concern or dread upon him at so great an undertaking, and 
 being hurried on by a certain Divine fury, snatched somewhat out of the 
 materials that were on fire, and being lifted up by another soldier, he set 
 fire to a golden window, through which there was a passage to the rooms 
 that were round about the holy house, on the north side of it. As the 
 flames went upward the Jews made a great clamour, such as so mighty an 
 affliction required, and ran together to prevent it ; and now they spared 
 not their lives any longer, nor suffered anything to restrain their force, 
 since that holy house was perishing, for whose sake it was that they kept 
 such a guard about it. . . . Now though any one would greatly 
 lament the destruction of such a work as this was, since it was the most 
 admirable of all the works that we have seen or heard, both for its curious 
 structure and its magnitude, and also for the vast wealth bestowed upon it, 
 as well as for the glorious reputation it had for its holiness ; yet might such a 
 one comfort himself with this thought, that it was fate that decreed it so to 
 be, which is inevitable, both as to living creatures, and as to works and 
 places also. Hovoevcr, one cannot but wonder at the accuracy of this period 
 thereto relating ; for the same month and day zvere now observed, as I said 
 before, wherein the holy house was burnt formerly by the Babylonians " (Ant. 
 vL 4). 
 
 Eighteen hundred years have rolled away since that event, 
 but to this day the Jewish nation scattered throughout the 
 \sox\^ fasts on the ninth of Ab. They regard this day as the
 
 APPENDIX. 539 
 
 most fatal in Jewish history, and consequently keep this fast 
 " with greater rigour than any other in the Jewish calendar, the 
 day of atonement alone excepted." In the synagogue service 
 of the evening, the scriptures read are from the book of Lamen- 
 tations. This year, 1S79, the new moon of Ab (the phasis) 
 falls on the 21st of July, and the feast of the ninth of Ab, on 
 July 29. 
 
 "When the stars appear the feast is over; after which the month is 
 generally called Menachcm Av, i.e. Av the Comforter. All letters are 
 particularly thus dated. And the Sabbath following the fast is called the 
 Sabbath of Comfort " (Mills on the Religious Ceremonies of the Jews, 
 p. 212). 
 
 (We should note in connection with this date Ezek. xx. : "It 
 came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth 
 day of the month, that certain of the elders came to inquire of 
 the Lord, and sat before me. Then came the word of the 
 Lord unto me, saying, Cause them to know the abominations of 
 their fathers." Also Zech. vii. 3 : " Should I weep in W\q fifth 
 month, separating myself, as I have done these so many 
 years?" Also Zech. viii. 19 : " Thus saith the Lord of hosts ; 
 the fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the 
 fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the 
 house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts ; therefore 
 love the truth and peace,") 
 
 We have endeavoured to show that the seven months of the 
 Levitical calendar correspond with the seven months of soli- 
 lunar cycles, measuring the seven millenaries of redemption 
 history. In this connection " the first day of the fifth month " 
 corresponds Avith the end of the first four, and the beginning of 
 the last three millenaries of the world's history, or in other 
 words with the era which witnessed the advent and rejection of 
 the world's Redeemer, and the simultaneous abolition oi 
 Judaism, a fact which casts fresh light on the suitability of the 
 occurrence of Aaron's death, and of Ezra's arrival at Jerusalem 
 on his mission of restoration on the typical date in question.
 
 ?4o APPENDIX. 
 
 10. This chronology is confirmed by the coincidence in their 
 termination of the following three great periods : — 
 
 Let tlie "seventy weeks," and with them the prophetic 
 period and astronomic cycle of two thousand three hundred 
 years, be reckoned from B.C. 45 7, 'then will the end of the 2300 
 years coincide, not only with the izdoth year of the Mohaiinne- 
 dan c?-a, but also with the end of the proj)hetic " day, month, 
 and year" period of t/ie Ottoman Empire. 
 
 The rise of the Ottoman Empire coincides with the capture 
 of Constantinople in 1453, which was t/ie end of t/ie Eastern 
 Roman Empire. In his magnificent history of the Decline and 
 Fall of the Roman Empire, Gibbon traces the course of events 
 from the days of Augustus Coesar to this date and this event, 
 and there terminates. The Constantine who fell before Ma- 
 homet II. was the last of the Romans. On the 29th of May, 
 1453, after a prodigious struggle and enormous loss of life, 
 Constantinople was captured by the Ottomans, and a Turkish 
 empire founded on the ruins of the nominally CJiristian et?pire oj 
 the East. 
 
 From that date the Cross, so called, throughout the entire 
 East has been subject to the Crescent. 
 
 The predicted duration of the Turkoman power (the Eu- 
 phratean Avoe) is "a day, a month, and a year" (Rev. ix. 15). 
 This on the year-day scale is one year, plus 30, plus 360, or 
 391 years. The terminus a quo of the Turkoman power being 
 the subversion of the Eastern Christian Empire in 1453, the 
 391 years must be reckoned from that date, and so reckoned 
 they end in 1844, in the 1260th year of the Mohammedan era, 
 and the 2300th year from i;.c. 457. 
 
 11. A further confirmation is found in the fact that the year 
 1844, the terminus of the periods already named, is also the 
 terminus of twice 1260 lunar years, or 2520 lunar years 
 (" seven times ") as reckoned from the overthrow of the throne 
 of David, B.C. 602.
 
 APPENDIX. 541 
 
 CONVEI^GENCE OP .30° SOLAR AND .5^0 '•^•"^[V^^^^^™ 
 
 A D 1S44. Let the prophetic period of 2300 years be reckoned 
 
 of 2=20 lunar yean, reckoned from E.c. 602-the date 01 t 
 s-ubve sion of the throne of David, and the transference o 
 sovere^nty to the Gent,les-««^ the 2520 lunar years ...U be 
 .°;:;St'/« He,ira date, A.B. 622, that is, by the notable era 
 ofthe rise of the Mohammedan power ,-, •„ „.n, c c 
 
 The commencement of the Eabyloman captivity uas B.C. 
 
 ^°"Th=>--« year of JehoiaUni, .he son of Jo^»h J:,„s '^'^^ 
 
 „. .„. >,.. year "f Ne^»*f '-"--^ tfflr^d'l^d Ve.el.od 
 
 «'Teholakim became his servant /A; ^£ years, ,^ , . 
 
 against him, and the Lord sent agamst hnn ^-'^^ ^^^^^f ^^^^f ..i.h He 
 alainst J.nlah to destroy it accor ing -^-^ .^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^f the 
 spake by his servants the prophets. Surely by t ^.^^ 
 
 ..isainst him came up ^''^'''f '"iJ^,'' J.^ ,!«/l/» .«"»' 'ff "" 
 
 ^t':M:£.'.^°e";oS:m t 'rL^ucC. -ovca r,„„, ...c .>.™e. »n^. 
 .,,f;, so„„ after, is succeeded by his son Je'™"^-.; >; " '^^f^^. 
 Babylon, ana remains in -Pt'v'V--" -^jj' J^^^.^ ;^^^^^^^^^ ,•„,. ,/,. 
 
 W .520 lunar years are ^445 -lar (for the drffcrencc 
 between 2S20 lunar years, and 2520 solar, is, as 
 'r shoL, r5.««). Tire i"-a. from - '020 - 
 ,844 is exactly 2445 solar years, and is, therelorc, o 
 
 ^"^2) .260 years are consequently ^^f^f^^'^:}^^ 
 soL years, 6 months), and from ..c. <;- ° ' -^V' 
 are .222-3 solar years, and, *"f -■ - t! ".^.^ L, and 
 (3) From A.D. 622 to a.d. 1844-3 ^"^"^ ^--^ '"'' -
 
 542 AfPENDIX. 
 
 therefore 1260 lunar years. (The 1260th year of the Hegira 
 began in the middle of January, 1S44, and ended early in 
 January, 1845.) 
 
 Thus, from the overthrow of the throne of David, B.C. 602, 
 to the Mohammedan Edict of Toleration in 1844, there is an 
 interval of " seven times " in lunar years, and this period is 
 bisected by the rise of the Mohammedan power — " time, times, 
 and half a time," extending t© the Hegira date, a.d. 622 ; and 
 ** time, times, and half a time," from that date to the Edict of 
 Toleration in 1844; which latter date is that of the termina- 
 tion of 2300 years from the commencement of the "seventy 
 weeks," B.C. 457 ; and also of "a day, a month, and a year" 
 (or 391 years) from the rise of the Ottoman Empire in 1453. 
 
 12. These dates are further confirmed by the following 
 important harmony. 
 
 The complete overthrow of the throne of David was 
 followed, ^/^^;/ years aftenaards, by the destruction of the 
 Temple ; and the setting up of Mohammedanism at the 
 Hegira date was followed, fifteen years aftenaards, by the 
 CAPTURE OF Jerusalem, and the erection of a Mohammedan 
 mosque on flie foundations of the Temple. 
 
 From this it follows that as from the overthrow of David's 
 throne, in 602 B.C., to the setting up of Mohammedanism, a.d. 
 622, there are 1260 lunar years, so from the destruction or 
 THE Temple by Nebuchadnezzar, b.c. 587, to the capture 
 of Jerusalem by Omar, in a.d. 637 (followed by the erection 
 of the mosque of Omar), there are also 1260 lunar years (that 
 is, " time, times, and half a time " in lunar years). 
 
 Through this memorable conquest by the Saracens — 
 
 " Jerusalem, oncQ the glory of the East, was forced to submit to a 
 beavier yoke than ever it had borne before. For though the number of 
 (he slain, and the calamities of the besieged, were greater when it was 
 taken by the Romans ; yet the servitude of those who survived v/as nothing 
 comparable to this, either in respect of the circumstances or the dura- 
 tion. For however it might seem to be utterly ruined and destroyed by 
 Titus, yet by Hadrian's time it had greatly recovered itself. AVw it fell,
 
 APPENDIX. 543 
 
 as it were, once for all, into the hands of the viost mortal enemies of the 
 Christian religion, and has continued so ever since; with tfie exception of a 
 brief interval of about ninety years, during which it was held by the Chris- 
 Hans in the holy war " (Ockley's "History of the Saracens," p. 212). 
 
 The great battle of Yermouk, which decided the fate of 
 Syria, was fought in November a.d. 636 (year of the 
 Hegira 15). In that battle the Saracens were victorious. 
 Tlie siege of Jerusalem followed, and lasted for four months, 
 the Saracen besiegers suftering much from the severity of 
 winter (the winter of 636-7). On the Christian defenders 
 yielding to the Saracens, " the Patriarch Sophronius appeared 
 on the walls, and, by the voice of an interpreter, demanded a 
 conference. After a vain attempt to dissuade the lieutenant 
 of the Caliph from his impious enterprise, he proposed in the 
 name of the people a fair capitulation, with this extraordinary 
 clause, that the articles of security should be ratified by the 
 authority and presence of Omar himself (the successor of 
 Abubecker, who was successor of Mohammed). "The 
 question was debated in the council of Medina ; the sanctity 
 of the place and the advice of Ali, persuaded the Caliph to 
 gratify the wishes of his soldiers and enemies." Omar came, 
 signed the capitulation, and entered the city. "Sophronius 
 bowed before his new master, and secretly muttered, in the 
 words of Daniel, "The abomination of desolation is in 
 THE HOLY PLACE." ''^ By his conwiand the grotind of the 
 temple of Solomon was prepared for the foundation of a moschj* 
 
 " According to the accurate survey of D'Anville (" Dissertation sur 
 Tancienne Jerusalem," pp. 42-54) the mosch of Omar, enlarged and 
 embellished by succeeding Caliphs, covered the groutid of the ancient temple 
 {■KoiKaLov Tov fieyaXov vaov 5aTredoi>, says Phocas), a length of 215, a breadth 
 of 172, toises" (Gibbon, " Decline and Fall," p. 949). (The words of 
 Sophronius were To (SoeXiry/xa ttjs eprjixwffeu)^ to ptjOev oia AaviriX tov 
 ■irpoipTjTov cffTws ev totti^i iiyiui (Thcophan. "Chronograph," p. 2S1 ; foot- 
 note, Gibbon). 
 
 " Omar, while at Jerusalem, divided Syria into two parts, and com- 
 mitted all between llauran and Aleppo to Abu Obeidah. Yczid took 
 charge of all Talcstine and the seashore. Amrou was sent to invade
 
 544 APPENDIX. 
 
 •Egypt " (Ockley). (Compare invasion of Egypt by Nebuchadnezzar after 
 his conquest of Jerusalem, Jer. xliii. lo ; xlvi. 13). "Aleppo and its 
 castle was taken in four or five months '' ; Clinton says, "probably before 
 the close of 637." Meanwhile Yezid attempted Cxsarea in vain, and 
 Amrou "did not march directly to Egypt, but continued awhile in 
 Palestine." "As he was marching towards Cresarea the Saracens found 
 the weather extremely cold." " Constantine guarded that part of the 
 country." " We discern here the winter of 637-8 " (Clinton, " Epit. Chron. 
 Rome," p. 262). 
 
 Thus the capture of Jerusalem by the Saracens took place 
 in the summer of a.d. 637, fifteen solar years after the 
 Hegira commencement {i.e., from July 15-16, a.d. 622), and 
 this chronology harmonized with that of the destruction of the 
 Temple and City of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar " in the 
 fifth month" of the year 587 B.C., 1260 lunar years before 
 (1223 solar), (a-d. 637, the fifteenth solar year from the 
 Hegira era, was the sixteenth year of the Mohammedan 
 reckoning, the Mohammedan calendar being lunar.') 
 
 13. The foregoing chronology is confirmed by the interval 
 which extended from the full commencement of the Times of 
 the Gentiles, B.C. 602, to the supreme passover of a.d. 29 : — 
 
 That interval is 630 years, or just half of 1260 solar years; 
 or, one quarter of the great " seven times." 
 
 Now, 630 solar years consists of two very perfect soli-lunar 
 cycles of 315 years ; and at its close the sun and moon agree 
 within less than seven hours. 
 
 In other words, 630 solar years, and 7792 lunations, measure 
 the same within six to seven hours. 
 
 It follows that the position of the passover month in the 
 year a.d. 29 corresponded with that of the passover month 
 in B.C. 602 ; and as the passover day in a.d. 29 seems con- 
 clusively fixed to March iS, it fell on the corresponding day 
 in the year 602 B.C.* 
 
 * Lunations in 630 solar year3 = 7777 + 7 + 7, a perfect septenary, plus i, 
 which in this case coincides with passover nionlh A.D. 29. 
 
 7777 + 7 + 7 lunations =^159 liinidluDial cycles; or cycles of forty-nine
 
 APPENDIX. S4S 
 
 14. Lastly, this chronology is confirmed by its remarkable 
 agreement with that of the four empires and " Times of the 
 Gentiles" as reckoned from the era of Nabonassar, n.c. 747. 
 From the rise of the Babylonian kingdom at that era, to the 
 fall of the Western Roman Empire, tJie interval is exactly 1260 
 lunar years (see appended calendar of the " Times of the 
 Gentiles ") ; and the commencement of the " seventy weeks," 
 B.C. 457, is in the 300/// hinar year from the same starting- 
 point, while the supreme passover year, a.d. 29, coincides with 
 the Zooth of the same. 
 
 Further, a.d. 29, the Sooth lunar year from the beginning 
 of Babylonian chronology, is the 777th Nabonassar year, for 
 the Babylonian and Egyptian year was one of 365 days, and 
 between Feb! 26, b.c. 747, and the corresponding date in 
 A.D. 29, it fell back i87d. i7h. from the true solar year, 
 which placed its commencement in a.d. 28, about seven 
 months before the passover day, March 18, a.d. 29, making 
 the latter year the 777th of the era. a.d. 29 was also the 
 70th year of the life of the Roman Emperor, Tiberius Caesar ; 
 and IMarch 18 (the passover day) was the 77th day of the 
 year. 
 
 A.D. 29 was thus the Sooth lunar year from the Babylonian 
 starting point; the 777th year of the Nabonassar era; the 
 70th year of Tiberius Caesar ; and IMarch 18, the 77th day of 
 the year. The importance of these dates is confirmed by the 
 consistency and perfection of the entire calendar of the 
 " Times of the Gentiles " as reckoned from the Nabonassar 
 era — a calendar which embraces not only the first four 
 empires from the rise of the Babylonian to the fall of the 
 Western Roman Empire, but also the whole duration of the 
 
 months, in which day and month agi-ee within a minute and a half. The 
 forty-nine months hini-diurnal cycle = 1447 days ; and vhcn it bctjins on 
 the first day of week, succcedinj^ cycle begins on Friday. If cycle of 
 r'lin yf;nrs begin on first day of week, it cuds 011 Friday. March iS, 
 a'!'d.'29, "mu Friday ; therefor- ]\Tp,rch liJ, B.C. <3o2, was Sunday : if the 
 former was passover day, so was the latter.
 
 546 APPENDIX. 
 
 empire of Eastern Rome, together with the rise and fall of 
 the Papal and IMohammedan powers. 
 
 IX. GREAT JUDILEE CYCLE HARMONIZING THE MONTH AND 
 
 YEAR. 
 
 The divinely instituted Jewish calendar was sabbatic, and 
 consisted of a series of weeks of years, in which every seventh 
 year was one of rest, and every forty-ninth a year of jubilee. 
 The jubilee year began in the seventh month of the forty-ninth 
 year, and extended to the same date in the fiftieth, and thus 
 overlapped, and linked together, the forty-nine year periods. 
 
 Thus the great jubilee restoration period was not ten times 
 fifty, but ten times forty-nine, or 490 years (the "seventy 
 weeks" of Dan. ix.). 
 
 The Levitical calendar was both solar and lunar. Unlike 
 the purely lunar Mohammedan calendar, it was adapted to the 
 equinoctial, or solar year, for its feasts were linked with harvest 
 ingatherings, while, at the same time, its months were strictly 
 lunar. From this there necessarily resulted the intercalation of 
 months of epact. As the annual difference between the lunar 
 and solar year grew to months, such months were intercalated. 
 
 The Jewish calendar was thus a natural, and not an artificial 
 one. Its months and years were those of nature, which is in 
 harmony with the fact that the Author of that system was none 
 other than the Author of nature. 
 
 Now, if this calendar was from the Author of nature, it seems 
 reasonable to believe that it was adapted to some natural system 
 harmonizing the unequal measures of the mouth and year. We 
 inquire, then, to what system of intercalation was the Levitical 
 calendar adapted — with what cycles of solar and lunar harmony 
 does its chain of jubilees agree? 
 
 First, then, the forty-nine years jubilee period is a soli-lunar 
 cycle, in which the epact amounts to eighteen months, or one 
 and a half lunar years, so that in two jubilee cycles the epacf 
 is three lunar years; ninety-eight solar years equal loi lunar 
 (100 -^ I, a measure analogous with octave numbers).
 
 APPENDIX. 547 
 
 This ninety-eight years double jubilee cycle, or first, plus a 
 second, or new week cycle (the octave principle), advances in its 
 repetitions as follows: — 2 jubilees; 4; 6; 8; 10; 12; 14; 
 16; 18; 20; 22 jubilees, ox thrice seven, plus one, jubilees (an 
 octave number) and then reaches a very perfect cycle of soli- 
 lunar harmony. The lunar years in these periods are striking, 
 and form the following series : — 
 
 loi lunar years ; 202 ; 303 ; 404 ; 505 ; 606 ; 707 ; SoS ; 909 ; 
 loio; 1 1 1 1 lunar years. 
 
 In 22 jubilees, or iiii lunar years, the error of the jubilee 
 cycle, which is id. 7h. 55m., amounts to just a complete month, 
 which is then added by intercalation to the calendar, so that 
 
 nil LUXAR YEARS, I MONTH, EQUAL EXACTLY 22 JUBILEES, 
 OR 1078 SOLAR YEARS. 
 
 And in this period of 1078 solar years, or 11 11 lunar years 
 I month, the sun recedes in tlie zodiac (by precession) just half 
 a sign ; so that in two such jubilee cycles, the equinoxes shift back 
 one complete sign in the stellar heavens, and in twenty-four such 
 jubilee cycles (a new creation period 12 -F 12) the direction of the 
 pole of the earth's axis completes the circuit of its rrvolution. 
 
 The measure of the epact in this cycle of 107S years is very 
 remarkable, as being equal in amount to the first cycle 
 HARMONIZING THE LUNAR AND SOLAR YEAR. This fact Con- 
 nects the jubilee cycle with the primary cycle of the soli-lunar 
 calendar. The law of intercalation may be stated as 
 follows : — 
 
 X. The first cycle harmonizing the lunar month with the solar 
 year is 1 9 solar years ; but the first cycle of the lunar year and 
 solar year is 32 solar years, which nearly equal 33 lunar. 
 
 2. The second and more perfect cycle of the lunar and 
 solar year is 2)Z solar years, in which the epact amounts to one 
 complete lunar year. This period is also the first most correct 
 cycle of the solar year and day. 
 
 3. The calendar error introduced by this natuial cycle is 
 corrected by the natural jubilee cycle of 49 years, according to
 
 548 APPENDIX. 
 
 which, instead of intercalating 3 lunar years in 3 times 33 
 solar, or 99 years, 3 lunar years are intercalated in ttvo jubilees, 
 or 98 solar years. 
 
 4. The jubilee cycle has itself an error of nearly \\ days, 
 which is naturally corrected as follows : when the intercalated 
 months in the jubilee accumulate to n lunar years, that is, 
 
 WHEN THEY EQUAL IN AMOUNT THE FIRST CYCLE OF THE 
 
 SOLAR AND LUNAR YEAR, that error accumulates to just one 
 month, and the period reached is a very perfect cycle, har- 
 monizing year, month, and jubilee, — 1078 solar years. 
 
 An e.\amination of the appended " Calendar of the Times 
 of the Gentiles," will show the coincidence of leading divisions 
 of this cycle, as reckoned from the Nabonassar era, with cer- 
 tain great historic termini. 
 
 (i.) Measured from the Nabonassar era, the Babylonian 
 terminus a quo, the duration of the first three empires was 707 
 lunar years, or 14 jubilees. 
 
 (2.) The death of Tiberius, under whom our Lord suffered, 
 took place in the SoSth lunar year from the same starting-point 
 — or the completion of 16 jubilees. 
 
 (3.) The end of the Jewish war, a.d. 135, the full com- 
 mencement of Jewish desolation, was in the 909th lunar year, 
 — the close of 18 jubilees. 
 
 (4.) The dedication of Constantinople by Constantine the 
 Great (called New Rome), and the rise of Arianism, in a.d. 
 330, 331, events which prepared the way for the division of 
 the Roman world into the Eastern and Western empires, 
 and the Eastern and Western Churches, occurred in the 
 moth and 11 nth lunar years from the Nabonassar era, or at 
 the expiration of 22 jubilees, — the complete 1078 years cycle. 
 
 (5.) The final division of the Roman Empire by Valentinian 
 took place in the 11 nth solar year from the same terminus, 
 A.D. 364. (Thus to tlic analogous events of the last two dates, 
 there extend the analogous periods, 11 11 lunar and iiii 
 solar years.) 
 
 (6.) I'rom the death of Valentinian, a.d. 375, to the end of
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 549 
 
 the Eastern Roman Empire, at the fall of Constantinople, a.d. 
 1453, is one such cycle of iiii lunar or 1078 solar years. 
 
 (7.) We may add that from the commencement of the great 
 "seventy weeks" jubilee period, connected with Jerusalem, 
 B.C. 457, to the year of the Hegira, a.d. 622, there elapsed one 
 such cycle of 22 jubilees — ten jubilees to the close of the 
 seventy weeks, and /k'c'/z'^ jubilees from their termination to the 
 beginning of Mohammedan reckoning; and from the new 
 moon, or " the first day of the fifth month," July 16, B.C. 457, 
 the date of Ezra's reaching Jerusalem, to the new moon of 
 July 15-16, A.D. 622, the starting-point in the Mohammedan 
 calendar, elapsed exactly one such cycle, or 1 1 1 1 lunar years 
 I month (1078 solar years). 
 
 The perfection of this cycle will be seen when it is added 
 that // is formed by the combination off two of the most perfect soli- 
 lunar cycles knoion ; viz. 1040 yea'' 5, which is the most perfect 
 soli-lunar cycle of large dimensions (named by Mr. De Che- 
 seaux "the Daniel cycle"), and the nineteen years cycle, which 
 is the most perfect among smaller lunar cycles. 
 
 (1040 + 19 + 19 years = 1078 years =22 jubilees.) 
 
 The number of months to be intercalated in this 107S years 
 cycle is striking. 
 
 In one jubilee, or 49 years, 18 months ; in ten jubilees, or 
 490 years ("seventy weeks"), iSo months — lialf a year of 
 months ; in twenty jubilees, 360 months — a year of months ; 
 in twenty-two jubilees, 36 montlis more, or 30 + 6 months, 
 which, with the one extra month then to be added to correct the 
 error of the jubilee cycle, amounts to 30 4- 7 months, making the 
 whole intercalation in the 10 78 years cycle 
 
 360, plus 30, plus 7 months ; or 
 
 A YEAR, A MONTH, AND A WEEK. OF MONTHS. 
 
 Surely, the discovery of this X078 years jubilee cycle is one 
 of deep interest, as unveiling (lidden features in the perfection
 
 550 APPENDIX. 
 
 of that sacred calendar whose observance was appointed by the 
 all-wise Author of the perpetual revolutions of the solar 
 system. 
 
 X. THE CYCLE OF THE PRECESSION OF THE EQUINOXES. 
 
 The year of Messianic cycles (12,091 years), which we 
 have- already considered, is not an actual year, marked off as 
 such by a revolution of one of the heavenly bodies. It is a 
 period whose epact is a year of years, or a prophetic " time," a 
 period into which, regarded as a vast year, a variety of impor- 
 tant biblical and historic periods fit, as proportionate parts. 
 
 We have now to deal with a period of still larger dimensions, 
 which is definitely marked out as an immense year, by a slow 
 but majestic motion of the axis of our earth; a motion imper- 
 ceptible even by its results to the ordinary observer, but one 
 with which astronomers are exceedingly familiar, and the results 
 of which they have constantly to take into account ; one which 
 in the slow course of ages produces very palpable effects. 
 
 It is the revolution called the "precession of the equinoxes." 
 Its precise scientific nature, and the mode and history of its 
 discovery need not, however interesting, be here explained. It 
 consists in a real but very slow change in the direction of the 
 earth's axis, and may be detected by the change in the position 
 of that point in the heavens, to which the earth's axis is directed. 
 The star popularly supposed to mark that point, and called in 
 consequence the " pole-star," is not really over the vanishing 
 point of the earth's axis, conceived as indefinitely prolonged ; 
 It is nearer to it than any other conspicuous star, and it is 
 every year getting nearer ; in the year a.d. 2095 it will reach 
 its nearest approximation as the earth's pole-star ; but after the 
 lapse of ages, it will cease to afford any indication of the true 
 position of the pole ; one star after another will become " pole- 
 stars," and twelve thousand years hence, the peculiarly brilliant 
 star Vega in Lyra, will be in close proximity with the point 
 in the heavens to which the earth's axis will then be directed. 
 
 This result is produced by a slow movement of the axis of
 
 APPENDIX. 551 
 
 the earth, of which the motion of a well balanced top or tee- 
 totum, when it is spinning not quite upright, may give a good 
 idea. The handle or prolonged axis of the little toy will be 
 observed to describe a small circle in the air ; just so, the pole 
 of the earth's axis is directed in succession to every point in a 
 circle in the northern heavens. 
 
 The direction of the earth's equator varies of course with this 
 variation in the direction of its axis ; and the equinoctial points 
 (or points at which the equator cuts the ecliptic, or sun's path 
 in the heavens) must needs vary also. The equinoctial points 
 slowly retrograde through all the signs of the zodiac, at the rate 
 oi twenty niinutes and tiuenty seconds of time every year. 
 
 This is the movement called by astronomers the precession 
 of the equinoxes. It is a distinctly terrestrial movement, and 
 therefore as much adapted as the daily axial revolution of the 
 earth, to measure terrestrial time. The mechanism of the solar 
 • system is like an elaborate and complex chronometer, with a 
 variety of golden hands of different lengths, all in ceaseless 
 and harmonious motion ; one marking seconds, another minutes, 
 a third hours, a fourth days, a fifth weeks, a sixth months, a 
 seventh years, an eighth cycles of years, a ninth cycles of 
 cycles, and so on. 
 
 The advance of the moon in the ecliptic a distance equal to 
 its own diameter, marks an hour ; the revolution of the earth 
 on its axis, a day ; the lunar quarter, a week ; the complete lu- 
 nation, a month; the circuit of the earth in her orbit, a year ; 
 the revolution of the lunar node, the nutation of the earth's 
 axis, the falling back of the lunar year from the solar, the 
 periods of the planets and their conjunctions, etc., measure 
 various longer cycles, and this '' annus magnus," or revolution 
 (if the equinoxes, measures the course of ages, for it requires 
 twenty-Jive thousand eight hundred ordinary }ear3 to complete 
 one revolution. 
 
 Can this vast period have any connection with mundane 
 chronology and human history? Creation itself was less than 
 three months ago on the scale of this great year ; is it likely
 
 552 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 that any harmonies exist, between its measures and those of 
 human cln-onology ? If the universe and its lavv'S were the 
 result of chance, nothing could well be less likely ; but if they 
 are the work of a God who governs all the events of history, 
 and who inspired every record and every prophecy in the 
 Bible— nothing would be more natural. Let then the following 
 facts speak for themselves, and bear their witness along with a 
 thousand others, to the wisdom and power of the eternal God ! 
 
 We have seen in a previous chapter, that the full 7iormal 
 period of human existence (including its initial, intra-uterine 
 stage), is seventy years and from ?iine to tefi months. 
 
 In each of these years the equinoxes advance as we have 
 said, t-.i'cniy minutes and twenty seconds. ^Multiply this brief 
 period by seventy and ten-twelfths, and the product is exactly 
 four and twenty hours. In other words, the rate of the pre- 
 cession of the equinoses has been so adjusted that the full 
 normal period of human life, is its day.* 
 
 So then, it is no mere figure of rhetoric that "our life is but 
 a day ; " no mere poetic simile ! It is a hard astronomic fact, 
 an accurate scientific statement ! As really as the life of an 
 ephemera, which is born at sunrise and dies at sunset, is a day 
 measured by one axial movement of our globe, so really is our 
 life a day, measured by another I 
 
 Nor should the duration of human life in this connection be 
 regarded merely as an arbitrary appointment. Let its strange 
 septiform stages of growth, maturity, and decay, its all-pervad- 
 ing septiform periodicity be borne in mind ; and let it be 
 realized that human life itself is a mysterious cycle of cycles of 
 changes, adapted in a marvellous way to the changes of inor- 
 ganic nature. And yet this complex, crowded, changeful, and 
 
 ♦ ?Ierschel assigns 25,870 years, and Chambers 25,817 years, as the 
 period of precession. 70 years -{-40 weeks = 707666 years, which multi- 
 plied by 365.'( = 25,847 years, is a mean between the periods named. 
 Seventy years and nine to ten months is as nearly as we can estimate the 
 Jay of tile vast equinox year. The average amount of precession in eacli 
 such day is 59' S", or one degree all but fifty-two seconds.
 
 APPENDIX. 553 
 
 to the individual, all-important " threescore years and ten," is 
 thus but a day, marked off as such by the ordinances of the 
 sun and moon, and a slow majestic movement of our mighty 
 globe ! The morning of a day of the precession of the 
 equinoxes, sees our conception and birth, its noon beholds our 
 maturity, marriage, and multiplication, its night closes over our 
 decay and death. 
 
 Is this accident ? Consider ! If the rate of precession 
 differed from what it is, only by a single minute in a whole 
 year, this harmony would be utterly destroyed ! Or if normal 
 human existence were only seventy years, as it is popularly 
 considered, instead of as it is accurately, between nine and ten 
 months more (dated from conception, its true commencement), 
 this accurate coincidence would entirely disappear.* But the 
 two widely severed and dissimilar phenomena, being exactly 
 what they are, it is astronomically as well as figuratively true, 
 that our life is a day, and we — ephemera ! 
 
 The term appointed by God for Judah's captivity in Baby- 
 lon, was " seventy years." As the mournful years of this week 
 of decades of exile, drew to a close, it was revealed that a 
 larger and a brighter week, each day of which should equal 
 the entire captivity, was about to dawn upon the two tribes — 
 and that its seventh or sabbath day, was to witness the advent 
 of Messiah. The prediction was accomplished ; the closing 
 70 of that 490 years, contained the life-time of our Lord Jesus 
 Christ. This memorable period, the period of Judah's restored 
 national existence, of the rebuilt city and second temple, with 
 its deeply moving Maccabean exploits and episodes, and its 
 eventful and all-tragic close ; that period of final probation, 
 between the Babylonish captivity and the present prolonged 
 dispersion among the Gentiles— the "seventy weeks" of' 
 Daniel, was one week of the year of the precession of the 
 equinoxes. 
 
 If now we examine seven weeks of the year of the precession 
 
 See Dr. Laycock's statement, quoted [>. 266.
 
 554 APPENDIX. 
 
 of the equinoxes, plus a fiftieth day — a pentecostal period — 
 we find it is 3539 years. The period extending from the 
 Exodus (B.C. 1625) to the final close of the "Times of the 
 Gentiles"' (a.d. 19 19) is about this interval. Fifty days of 
 the ordinary year were appointed to elapse between Israel's 
 passover and the day of Pentecost \ fifty such days did elapse 
 between the death and resurrection of Christ our Passover 
 and the outpo'uring of the Holy Ghost ; and fifty days of the 
 immense year of the precession of the equinoxes, — 3539 
 years, seem to be similarly appointed to elapse, between the 
 exodus redemption of Israel from Egypt, and that yet future 
 Pentecost, when on the house of Judah and the inhabitants of 
 Jerusalem, shall be poured the spirit of grace and of suppUca- 
 tion, leading them to national repentance ; when they shall 
 look upon Him whom they pierced and mourn because of Him, 
 and say " blessed be He that cometh \\\ the name of the Lord." 
 Is not this the finger of God ? Who appointed the magnifi- 
 cent cycle of the precession of the equinoxes and measured 
 out its days and weeks ? Pie who enacted the ordinances of 
 Lev. xxiii.. He who arranged in his providence, the historic 
 intervals of redemption history ! 
 
 The adaptation of the precession of the equinoxes to the 
 measurement of long intervals of time, is one of its most im- 
 portant features.* Just as in the course of one year the sun 
 
 • " Although this motion, slow as it is, is easily detected from year to 
 year by modern instruments, it was not until the sixteenth century that its 
 precise rate was ascertained. Small as is its annual amount, its accumula- 
 tion, continued from year to year for a long period of time, causes a great 
 displacement of all the objects in the heavens, in relation to the equi- 
 noctial points from which longitudes and right ascensions are measured. 
 In 7 1 '6 years, the equinoxes retrogade 1°, and therefore in that time, the 
 longitudes of all celestial objects of fixed position, such as the stars, have 
 their longitudes augmented i^ Since the formation of the earliest cata- 
 logues in which the positions of the fixed stars were registered, the retro- 
 gression of the equinoctial points has amounted to 30^, so that the present 
 longitudes of all the objects consigned to these catalogues is 30^ greater 
 than those which arc assigned to tliem." 
 
 " Since the equinoctial points thus move back-cuard on the ecliptic, it follows 
 that the sun, after it has in its annual course passed round the ecliptic, will
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 advances through all the signs of the zodiac, so in the course 
 of a number of ages it recedes through them all by another 
 movement. Its rapid progressive motion, and its slow retro- 
 grade motion, through the same signs, measure the months 
 and the ages, just as its apparent diurnal motion m.easures the 
 day. 
 
 The precession of the equinoxes affords in consequence of 
 this fact, an exceedingly interesting testimony to the truth of 
 Scripture statements about the antiquity of the human race. 
 The stars of the zodiac were at an early period in the world's 
 history, divided into twelve groups or constellations corre- 
 sponding with the twelve months of the year, and these were 
 naturally known by names descriptive of the phenomena of the 
 seasons in the northern hemisphere, in which, of course, the 
 science of astronomy originated. Thus the constellations oc- 
 cupied by the sun, in spring and early summer, were called 
 by names indicative of the fertilizing influence of the sun at 
 that season ; that occupied by the sun at the summer solstice, 
 when it reaches its highest elevation and begins to go back, 
 was called " Cancer " from the supposed resemblance to the 
 movement of the crab ; the powerful heat of the sun during the 
 next month (the hottest in the year) suggested the name of 
 the most powerful of beasts, " Leo," the lion \ the next constel- 
 
 arrive at either equinoctial point before it has made a complete revolution. 
 The equinoctial point being 50-1" behind the position it had when the sun 
 started from it, the sun will return to it after having moved through 50-1" 
 less than a complete revolution. But since the mean hourly apparent 
 motion of the sun is 147 '8", it follows that the centre of the sun will return 
 
 to the equinoctial point -^_:g7,= 0-33898 hrs. =20 min. 20-3 sec, before 
 
 completing its revolution. Hence is explained the fact that while the 
 sidereal year, or actual revolution of the earth around the sun, is 365 days 
 6 h. 9 m. lO'38 sec, the equinoctial revolution or tlie time betiaeen tioo 
 successive equinoxes of the same name, is 365 days 5 h. 48 m. 50 '4 sec, the 
 latter being less than the former by 20 m. 20 s. 
 
 " The successive return of the sun to the same equinoctial point, must, 
 therefore, always precede its return to the same point of the ecliptic, by 
 20 m. 20 s. of time, and by 50-1" of space."— Z«;fl';^i.v'j Astronomy (pp. 
 710-II).
 
 556 APPENDIX. 
 
 lation, the one in which the sun is in harvest-time, was taken 
 to resen'ble a virgin bearing a sheaf of corn ; the next, that 
 of the autumnal equinox, when day and night arc equal, was 
 named *• Libra," the balance ; the remaining five traversed 
 by the sun after the turn of the year — the winter months, of 
 severe winds, rains and storms, — were called the scorpion, the 
 archer, the goat, the pourer forth of water, and the fishes, or 
 dwellers in water — Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius, 
 Pisces. 
 
 The characteristic names thus early attached to the twelve 
 constellations of the zodiac, indicating the season, which, when 
 the names were given, was connected with the sun's presence 
 in any one constellation, have remained unchanged ; but the 
 sun has been slowly passing out of its proper relation to them, 
 in consequence of this precession of the equinoxes which we 
 are considering. The sun of the vernal equinox is no longer 
 in the constellation Aries, nor that of the autumnal in Libra. 
 At the autumnal equinox nozv, the sun is in Virgo, and its 
 distance from its old position indicates the length of time 
 which has elapsed, since the autumnal equinox did take place 
 on the sun's entering the constellation I,ibra. 
 
 Now astronomy is naturally one of the oldest of the 
 sciences, and the naming of the signs of the zodiac would, of 
 course, be one of its first achievements. We can judge from 
 the degree by luliich the signs now differ from the seasons how 
 long ago astronomy became a science, and approximately, 
 therefore, the age or antiquity of man. 
 
 If that antiquity be as great as some surmise, men must 
 have lived without becoming astronomers — or, at any rate, 
 without naming the signs of the zodiac ; for, apart from all 
 historical testimony, their very names tell us, that they were 
 given only about the time to which Scripture assigns the rise 
 of the earliest post-diluvian civilization — between two and 
 three thousand years ago. 
 
 Tlie position of the vernal equinox at the epoch of the crea- 
 tion of iK,i.n was nearly one (juarter of tlie lieavens distant from
 
 IPPEXDIX. 
 
 557 
 
 its present place. Its close proximity to that grand starry 
 circle, the milky way, which cuts the sun's path at two 
 opposite regions, and its nearness to the most splendid con- 
 stellation in the heavens, Orion, gives the position of the 
 vernal equinox at the creation of man a very marked place on 
 the map of the heavens, and one suitable to be a starting-point 
 in its measurement of the ages of history. 
 
 Seventeen centuries later, or at the time of the repeopling of 
 the earth after the flood, the sun at the vernal equinox was near 
 one of the most remarkable constellations in the zodiac, the 
 Pleiades, and at the summer solstice near the bright star 
 Regulus in Leo. The question addressed to the patriarch 
 Job, "Canst thou bind the sweet influences of the Pleiades?" 
 may have alluded to the place of the sun at the spri/ii^ equinox 
 in that early age, and thus indicate the high antiquity of tlie 
 period in which the patriarch lived, if not of the book which 
 contains his story. 
 
 Our Lord's 7iatlvity took place probably about the time of 
 the autumn equinox, which eighteen centuries ago occupied a 
 place in the constellation Virgo, near the star of the first mag- 
 nitude in Spica Virginis. 
 
 " The star which crowns the golden slieaf, 
 And wants a name, O glory of the skies." 
 
 The constellation Virgo is remarkable for the number of its 
 nebulae, there being more in that region than in any other of 
 equal space in the heavens (above three hundred). 
 
 At the present time the positions of the sun at the summer 
 and winter solstices, coincide with opposite points of the 
 sublime starry circle, or milky way, with which the equinoxes 
 coincided at the time of man's creation. 
 
 The change in the direction of the earth's axis, which gives 
 rise to the precession of the equinoxes, has caused the earth to 
 have many a different pole-star during the last 6000 years ; but 
 most of these have been too minute to attract attention. The 
 pole-star of Abraham's day was, however, as conspicuous as
 
 SSS APPENDIX. 
 
 our present one. It was the star "aDraconis." The pyra- 
 mids of Egypt were so constructed, that the narrow passages 
 by which alone they can be entered, opening on their northern 
 sides, pointed to its lo^cer culmination. There is evidence to 
 show that it was a much brighter star formerly than it is now. 
 The two well-known stars which we call the Pointers, indicate 
 by the direction of a line passing through them, our present 
 pole-star. A line through the other two bright stars of Ursa 
 Major,- which are nearly parallel to the Pointers, will indicate the 
 pole-star of Abraham's day. It is interesting to look from one 
 to the other of these two pole-stars, and to trace the arc in the 
 heavens, through which the pole of the earth's axis has swept, 
 since God led Abram forth at night, and bade him count the 
 stars, saying to the childless patriarch, " So shall thy seed be ! " 
 remembering, how while that arc has been slowly traversed, 
 the promise has been fulfilled ; till Abraham's seed now em- 
 braces, not only the myriads of the natural, but the tenfold 
 myriads of the spiritual Israel ! And yet the promise was only 
 made two months ago, reckoning by the '' annus magnus " of 
 the equinoxes ! What will the seed of Abraham number, when 
 it shall have completed its revolution, w^hen the starry sphere 
 shall have returned to the poiiition it occupied when " God made 
 promise to Abraham " ? * 
 
 * "Though the rate at which the equinoctial points move backward on 
 the ecliptic is so slow, yet the accumulated effects in the lapse of ages 
 become very sensible ; and even in a moderate number of years, astrono- 
 mers are obliged by those effects to reconstruct their catalogues of the stars. 
 About 200O years ago, the 360^ of the ecli[)tic were divided in twelve 
 equal portions, each of 30^, and were named after the most remarkable 
 constellations of the zodiac, which they respectively crossed ; thus, the 
 first 30^ of the ecliptic, running across the constellation Aries, was called 
 the sign of Aries, and the equinox was called the first point of Aries ; at 
 that time the constellations, and the divisions of the ecliptic were equally 
 called signs of the zodiac, without causing confusion. Since that epoch, 
 by reason of the annual increase of longitude of 5o"2, common to all the 
 stars, the constellations have all changed their places relatively to the 
 divisions of the ecliptic. Though the vernal equinox is still called the 
 first point of Aries, the circumstance which gave rise to that name exists 
 no longer ; that point of the constellation is now removed 30^ east of the 
 equinox, and the beginning of Pisces has taken its place. Hence it is
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 559 
 
 XI. CYCLE OF THE REVOLUTION OF THE SOLAR PERIGEE. 
 
 Not only has the earth's axis the slow secular movement 
 just described, but the earth's orbit has a similar one, which 
 occupies even a longer period. The path in which the earth 
 travels round the sun is not a circle, but an ellipse, the sun 
 occupying one of the foci. The earth's distance from the sun 
 consequently varies continually. The sun is three millions of 
 miles nearer to the earth when in perigee, or at its nearest 
 point, than it is when in apogee, or at its farthest point. When 
 we speak of the sun's distance from the earth as ninety-two 
 millions of miles, we allude to its mean, or medium distance. 
 The line which joins the perigee and apogee points, is called 
 the line of apsides. This line revolves from west to east, — in 
 other words, the longer axis of the ellipse, turns gradually 
 round in that direction. The motion is slower, even than that 
 of the precession of the equinoxes, and is in the opposite 
 direction. It has a perceptible effect on our seasons, as will 
 be easily believed. When the sun is in perigee in summer, 
 and apogee in winter, the former season will be hotter, and 
 the latter colder, than when the reverse is the case. The sun 
 is now in perigee in January, so that the winters in the 
 northern hemisphere are milder, and the summers cooler. As 
 the seasons are reversed at the antipodes, the opposite effect 
 is produced there. 
 
 The period of the revolution of the perigee, according to 
 its present rate, is about 109,800 years, or more than four times 
 that of the precession of the equinoxes \ but it varies enor- 
 
 neccssary to make a distinction between tlie s!:^ns of the ecliptic, and those 
 groups of stars wliich bear tlie same name ; the former are spaces of 30'^ 
 reckoned from the actual position of the vernal equinox ; the latter also 
 occupy 30^^, but are in continual motion along the ecliptic, and are at 
 present about 30° in advance of the signs of the same name. The begin- 
 ning of the sign Aries will always be in the intersection of the ecliptic 
 and equator, the beginning of the constellation Aries, only after intervals 
 of twenty-six thousand years ; when the sun enters the sign Cancer, it 'will 
 always be midsummer ; but he will, in the course of ages, enter the constel- 
 lation Cancer at every season of the year." — I/ymcrs' Astron., p. 43.
 
 ;6o APPENDIX. 
 
 mously at distant intervals. All the changes of human history 
 are, of course, dwarfed into insignificance by such a stupendous 
 year as this, and can have little relation to it as a whole, or to 
 its major divisions. If the revolution of the line of the apsides 
 is intended, as doubtless it is, to be a useful hand on the face 
 of the great chronometer, it must be to future generations of 
 men, and in the ages to come. Yet we may inquire whether 
 there is any observable harmony between its least and our 
 greatest measures, and we find that, as far as the thing is pos- 
 sible, relations similar to those we have noted elsewhere, exist 
 here also. 
 
 The day of this great revolution is 300 years, and its week 
 is 2100 years — nearly the same period as the month of the 
 precession of the equinoxes, and measuring the Jewish age 
 from Abraham to the fall of Jerusalem, and the patriarchal 
 age from Abraham, back to Adam. This period was, by the 
 Hebrew chronology, as nearly as can be calculated, 4200 
 years, — tn'o weeks of the slowly accomplished year of the solar 
 perigee, bisected by the life of the Father of the faithful. 
 
 Seven months of this great year comprise about three revolu- 
 tions of the equinoxes with reference to the solar perigee, — 
 another cycle which we must now consider. 
 
 XII. CYCLE OF THE VARIATION IN THE LENGTH OF THE 
 
 SEASONS. 
 
 We have already considered two vast revolutions connected 
 with the solar system : that of the equinoxes, and that of the 
 solar perigee. We now glance at a third, which is created by 
 ihe combined effects of these two, and which causes a cyclical 
 variation in the length and character of our seasons. 
 
 Astronomically, spring, summer, autumn, and winter, are 
 measured by the sun's passing the four quarterly points of his 
 annual path, the vernal and autumnal equinoxes, and the winter 
 and summer solstices. These four seasons are neither equal 
 nor unifonn in length ; they differ among themselves every 
 year, and they all vary from year to year.
 
 APPENDIX. 561 
 
 Were the earth's orbit a true cirele they would be of uni- 
 form length, and invariable. The existing irregularities are 
 occasioned by the form, and by the movement, of the earth's 
 orbit. Being elliptical, its quarters are of course unequal ; and 
 changing as it does continually, the direction of its longer axis, 
 the relation of the different quarters to the equinoxes changes 
 also. 
 
 The length of the seasons would therefore vary, even if the 
 equinoxes were stationary.* But we have seen that while the 
 solar perigee advances, they retrograde, in consequence of the 
 slow change in the position of the earth's axis ; and the cycle 
 of the variation in the length of the seasons, results from both 
 these movements. It is shorter consequently either than the 
 perigee or equinox cycle, and runs its course in 20,900 years. 
 
 The same causes affect the comparative length of the fore- 
 noon and afternoon of the day. These two are not equal as 
 might be supposed. Only four times a year, is the interval 
 from sunrise to noon (mean) equal to that from noon to sunset. 
 The variation, as a glance at the almanac will show, sometimes 
 amounts to half an hour. This variation is not the same from 
 year to year, but changes throughout this same cycle of 20,900 
 years. 
 
 The equinoxes retrograde at the rate of one day in 70-71 
 years ; the perigee advances at the rate of one day in 300 
 years. The compound result in this cycle ofthe length of the 
 seasons, is an advance of the perigee, with reference to the 
 true equinoctial year, of one day in 57|- years, or one week in 
 400 years. 
 
 On the scale of this great season year of 20,900 years, the 
 
 • In the year 1850, or the middle ofthe present century, tlie time clapsins; 
 between the equinoxes and solstices was as follows : — 
 
 (1. ii. ni. 
 
 Spring equinox to summer solstice . . . . 02 20 57 
 
 Summer solstice to autumnal equinox . , . ')3 14 o 
 
 Autumnal equincx to winter solstice . . . 89 17 38 
 
 ■yVinter solstice to spring equinox . , . 89 i 17 
 
 O O
 
 562 APPENDIX. 
 
 interval between the creation and the flood was about one vionih. 
 According to the Bible chronology the creation took place 
 1656 years before the deluge. The flood lasted one year, so 
 that the interval between the creation of Adam, and Noah's 
 entrance on a new world, was 1657 years. This is 29 days or 
 about one month, of the season cycle (four weeks and a day).* 
 
 The period revealed in vision to Abram, during which his 
 seed should be a stranger in a land not their own, was a week 
 of this cycle, " four hundred years." This was the period which 
 terminated at the exodus passover. (Gen. xv. 13 ; Exod. xii. 41.) 
 
 In this vast cycle of 20,900 years the solar perigee coincides 
 in turn with each of the four quarterly points, the equinoxes 
 and solstices.f 
 
 • 400x4=1600 + 57 = 1657. 
 
 + "In the year 3958 B.C., or, singularly enough, near the epoch of the 
 creation of Adam, the longitude of the sun's perigee coincided with the 
 autumnal equinox ; so that the summer and autumn quarters were of equal 
 length, but shorter than the winter and spring quarters, which were also 
 equal. In the year 1267 A.D., the perigee coincided with the luintcr sol- 
 stice ; the spring quarter was therefore equal to the summer one, and the 
 autumn quarter to the winter one, the former being the longest. In the 
 year 6493 A. D., the perigee will have completed half a revolution, and will 
 then coincide with the -jernal equinox ; summer will then be equal to 
 autumn, and winter to spring ; the former seasons, however, being the 
 longest. In the year 11,719 A. D., the perigee will have completed three- 
 fourths of a revolution, and will then coincide with the summer solstice ; 
 autumn will then be equal to winter, but longer than spring and summer, 
 which will also be equal, and thially, in the year 16,945 A.D., the cycle will 
 be completed by the coincidence of the solar perigee with the autumnal equi- 
 nox. This motion of the apsides of the earth's orbit, in connection with the 
 inclination of its axis to the plane of it, must quite obviously have been the 
 cause of very remarkable vicissitudes of climate in pre-Adamic times. One 
 result of this position of things we may readily grasp at this moment. As a 
 matter of fact, in consequence of our seasons being now of unequal length, 
 the spring and summer quarters jointly extend to 1S6''. ; while the autumn 
 and winter quarters only comprise 178''. The sun is therefore a longer 
 time in the northern hemisphere than in the southern hemisphere : hence the 
 northern is the warmer of the two hemispheres. Probably it may be taken 
 as an incidental proof of this fact, that the north polar regions of the earth 
 are easier of access than the south polar regions. In the northern hemi- 
 sphere navigators have reached 81' of latitude, whereas 71 Ms the highest 
 attained in the southern hemisphere." — Chambers' Astron., p. 75. 3rd edit. 
 1877.
 
 APPENDIX. 563 
 
 These coincidences are the leading epochs in its long dura- 
 tion. Human history goes back far enough to take in two of 
 them only. The first — the coincidence of the solar perigee with 
 the autumnal equinox, took place near the era of the creation, B.C. 
 3958, or, according to the vulgar chronology, within fifty years 
 of that event. But the date of the creation as given by Clinton, 
 probably the nearest possible approach to the truth (absolute 
 certainty being unattainable from lack of Scripture data, to within 
 forty or fifty years) is B.C. 413S. From B.C. 3958, to a.d. 29, 
 the date of the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, 
 there elapsed ten weeks or severity days of this year.* 
 
 The predicted interval (Gen. xv.) preceding the typical re- 
 demption of the Passover, was 400 years ; the interval from 
 this great astronomic epoch to the antitypical redemption — 
 Christ our passover sacrificed for us — was ten times as long, 
 4000 years. 
 
 The second era of coincidence between the perigee and the 
 equinox revolutions, was in the middle of the 13th century. 
 
 " In the year a.d. 1250, the major axis was perpendicular to 
 the line of the equinoxes, the solar perigee coincided with the 
 solstice of winter, and the apogee with tliat of summer. On 
 that account Laplace proposed the year a.d. 1250, as a univer- 
 sal epoch, and that the vernal equinox of that year, should be 
 the first day of the first year." 
 
 The more accurate measures of modern astronomy, place 
 this coincidence in a.d. 1267, a few years later. It occurred 
 in the middle of the dark ages, and without laying much stress 
 on the fact, it is surely worthy to be noted. The solar perigee 
 influences had to struggle with the winter position of the sun ; 
 and were reduced to a lower ebb than either before or since. 
 Two winters coincided, the lowest wintry depression of the 
 sun, and the shortest day of his influences, at the moment of 
 liis nearest approach to the cartli, or perigee, and winter, cold, 
 
 * B.C. 395S to A.D. 29 = 3986 years, which wants only 14 years (a frac- 
 tion of a day on this scale) of 4000 years.
 
 564 APPENDIX. 
 
 dark, icebound, and fatal, in the moral world of Christendom. 
 The 13th century was the darkest in all Papal history, persecu- 
 tion was at its height, the crusade against the faithful Albigenses 
 raged for twenty years from a.d. 1208; the Inquisition arose 
 about the same time. Riddle, the ecclesiastical chronologist, 
 fixes on this period, and especially the year a.d. 1268, as that 
 in which "the Papal dominion was at its utmost height." As- 
 tronomy assigns a.d. 1267, as the year of this coincidence of 
 the solar perigee with the ruinter solstice. But whether any such 
 harmony be admitted or not, the fact remains, this great turn- 
 ing point in the revolution of the perigee took place at a turn- 
 ing point of history — the culmination of the power of the 
 Papacy, since which it has steadily declined to its fall. 
 
 And lastly, as seven months of the ordinary year compre- 
 hended the typical history of redemption, embodied in the 
 ordinances of the feasts of the Lord, and as seven months of the 
 year of Messianic cycles comprehend the entire range of the 
 historic and prophetic times of human history as revealed in 
 Scripture, so the entire year of Messianic cycles is about seven 
 months of this great cycle of the variation of the seasons. We 
 have reached here almost the top step of the ladder, the last 
 " week " in the wonderful ascending scale of periods which we 
 fmd in Scripture, in physical nature, and in the solar system. 
 We have passed in review, the week of days, the week of weeks, 
 the week of months, the week ot years, the week of weeks of 
 years, the week of decades, and the week of weeks of decades 
 (490 years) ; the week of years of years, or the " seven times " 
 of prophecy (2520 years); and the week of millenaries. 
 Here where Scripture leaves us, astronomy takes us by the 
 hand, and shows us that this vast and comprehensive week of 
 millenaries, is only a week of months, seven months of a larger 
 solar year, a year whose days are soli-lunar cycles, and that this 
 year itself is again a week of months — seven months of a solar 
 year, more gigantic still. 
 
 Nor have we any reason to suppose the series of septiform 
 periods ends here I As the telescope reveals worlds on worlds,
 
 APPENDIX. 56: 
 
 system behind system, and nebula behind nebula, as far as 
 human eyesight, aided by the finest optical instruments, can 
 penetrate into the profundities of space, so this septiform sys- 
 tem of measurement of times and seasons, may have pervaded 
 all the past eras of geologic change, and may be destined to 
 pervade all the ages to come, and the revolution of our own sim 
 and all its attendant planets, in its incalculable orbit around its 
 centre of gravity, wherever and whatever that be, a revolution 
 whose period is so vast that inconceivable ages may roll away, 
 ere it can even be calculated, that revolution itself, may prove 
 to be only " a week " of some other, bordering even more nearly 
 on eternity. 
 
 XIII. CYCLE OF THE EXCENTRICITY OF THE EARTH'S ORBIT. 
 
 Reference has already been made to the fact that the earth's 
 orbit is not a perfect circle, but slightly oval in form, the cx- 
 centricity of the ellipse being about one sixtieth part of its 
 semi-diameter. 
 
 This excentricity is not uniform, but gradually decreasing. 
 It will continue to decrease for many thousands of years, and 
 then, having reached the nearest approach to a circular form 
 which it will ever make, the orbit will, during succeeding ages, 
 elongate once more, and slowly resume its more elliptical form. 
 
 A change in the excentricity of the earth's orbit means a 
 diminution or increase in the length of its longer axis, and 
 consequently of the mean amount of heat actually received 
 from the sun ; and as animal and vegetable life are dependent 
 on a certain uniformity in the supply of heat, the question as 
 to the limits of change of excentricity in the orbit of the 
 earth, becomes one of vital importance. 
 
 These limits have been ascertained. The amount of excen- 
 tricity for many ages, past and future, has been calculated. 
 It has been proved that the change has narrow limits^ and a 
 tendency to correct itself M. Leverrier, with the aid of per- 
 fectly reliable data, as Herschel tells us, has assigned both the 
 superior and inferior limits of the excentricity of the earth's
 
 5 66 APPENDIX. 
 
 orbit, and Ins shown tliat the inferior limit, or nearest approach 
 to a circle, will be reached in about 23,903 years from the 
 present time, a.d. 1S79. 
 
 The revolution of the equinoxes occupies, as we have seen, 
 25,800 years. It follows, therefore, that the greatest event in 
 all human history, the incarnation and death of the Son of God, 
 took place about one revolution of the precession of the equi- 
 noxes from this great epoch of the inferior limit of the earth's, 
 excentricity : for 23,903 + 1879 = 25,782; and the equinox 
 year is 25,800. 
 
 In other words, the immense interval between the accom- 
 plished advent of Immanuel, and that great astronomic era, 
 the still f:;r-distant " inferior limit," is measured by one revo- 
 lution in the direction of the earth's axis. 
 
 Now, the precession of the equinoxes is a primary element 
 in all astronomical calculations ; it affects the place of every 
 object in the heavens with reference to the earth. If we admit 
 the principle that the revolutions of the heavenly bodies, have 
 any connection with the cycles of history, as marking the 
 chronological positions of their great crises, the question has 
 a deep interest, — What was the position of the heavens when 
 the Son of God was on earth, and when will that position be 
 restored ? The reply is : When the earth's orbit attains the 
 inferior limit of its excentricity, and not till then, will the pre- 
 cession year have run its round, and tlie position of the pole, 
 of the sun in the zodiac, and of the starry heavens above 
 us, be restored to what they were when the star stood over the 
 manger of the Eabe of Bethlehem. The return of the universe 
 to the position it occupied 1S79 years ago, will be a milestone 
 in the journey through endless ages. 
 
 XIV. THE PROPORTION WHICH SOLAR REVOLUTIONS BEAR TO 
 LUNAR, AND DIURNAL TO ANNUAL, IS OCTAVE, OR JUBILAIC. 
 
 In order to understand and appreciate this remarkable fact, 
 we must look at it in the light of the Divine system of times 
 and seasons revealed in Scripture.
 
 APPENDIX. 567 
 
 Scripture sets before us two creations, and two chronologies. 
 Nothing can be more evident than that wnile septenarv 
 
 NUMBERS ARE LINKED IN SCRIPTURE WITH THE OLD CREATION, 
 OCTAVE NUMBERS ARE AS CONSISTENTLY ASSOCIATED WITH THE 
 NEW. 
 
 The day which commemorated the completion of the old 
 creation was the seventh ; whereas the day on which the 
 glorious resurrection of our Lord took place, and which still 
 commemorates it, the day which completed the work of re- 
 demption, is the eighth, or first of a new week. The same 
 distinction pervades the whole Bible. The ancient ordinance 
 of circumcision, which typified, as we learn from the Apostle 
 Paul, the putting off of the old nature, in order to a renovation 
 of the being, was appointed to take place on the eighth day 
 after birth. The leper could not be cleansed till the eighth 
 day. The first sheaf of harvest was presented on an eighth 
 day, and the day of Pentecost, with its fuller first-fruit offering, 
 was an eighth day, which was also a fiftieth. The feast of 
 tabernacles both began and terminated on an eighth day, "the 
 last day, that great day of the feast." The year of jubilee, 
 with its restorations and rejoicings, was a fiftieth year. 
 
 Not only did our Lord's resurrection take place on an eighth 
 day, a first day of the week, but by his subsequent appearances 
 in the midst of his disciples on that day. He sanctioned the 
 recognition of the first day of the week, instead of the seventh, 
 as the day of Christian worship and rest. The early disciples 
 met together to break bread on that day, the Apostle Paul 
 enjoined collections to be made on that day for the poor, and 
 the Christian Church in all lands and ages, has, ever since 
 apostolic times, recognised the eighth, or first day, as the 
 Lord's day. 
 
 The advent of the quickening Spirit, accompanied by the 
 sudden coming of a sound from heaven as of a mighty 
 rushing wind, and the appearing of cloven tongues like as of 
 fire on the disciples, their baptism with the Holy Ghost, and 
 endowment with power from on high, toolc place on an eighth
 
 S6S APPENDIX. 
 
 day, which was also a fiftieth ; for it was '' when the day of 
 Pentecost was fully come," that by one Spirit they were all 
 baptized into one body, (i Cor. xii. 13.) 
 
 And as seven is a Scripture number of old creation com- 
 pleteness, so also is twelve. There is an analogy between 
 these two numbers ; the first is three added to four and 
 the second is three multiplied by four. In the Jewish 
 tabernacle the seven-branched candlestick, and the table with 
 its twelve loaves of shew-bread, emblematized one and the same 
 Israel. Of both, the tribes of Israel and the Apostles of Christ, 
 the primary number is twelve ; but just as seven, and its square 
 forty-nine, are in the new creation numbers changed into 
 eight and fifty, so twelve in the same way is changed or merges 
 into thirteen. The multiplication of Joseph, who was typically 
 raised from the dead, into two tribes, and the addition to the 
 number of the Apostles of the one born out of due time, the 
 Apostle of the Gentiles, Paul, raised the number of the tribes 
 of Israel, and the Apostles of Christ, respectively, from twelve 
 to thirteen. In the new Jerusalem, where the two are united, 
 in the names on the gates and foundations of the city, the 
 thirteen are again resolved into twelve plus twelve, twenty-four 
 in all ; and twenty-four symbolic elders are seen in vision, seated 
 around the throne. To the twelve of the natural Israel, God 
 has added a new twelve; the final number is twice twelve, — 
 twenty- four. 
 
 From all this it is obvious that a transition from the seven- 
 fold and the forty-nine fold, to the eightfold and the fifty- 
 fold, and from tlie twelvefold to the thirteen-fold, and the 
 final twenty-four fold, takes place in the formation of Bible 
 new creation numbers. 
 
 The principle of all this is simple. It is a question of two 
 orders of things, a first and a second, an old and a new ; 
 Creation and Redemption ; the heaven and the earth that are 
 now, and the new heavens and the new earth, the earthly and 
 the heavenly ; the first man a living soul, the second man the 
 Lord from heaven ; man in Adam, and man in Christ; and a?
 
 APPENDIX. 569 
 
 the numbers seven and twelve are connected vv-ith the old, so 
 eight and thirteen are linked with the new ; the eighth is the 
 first of a new seven, the thirteenth, of a new twelve. 
 
 Thus in music, the scale consists of seven tones (diatonic), or 
 twelve semitones (chromatic). The eighth tone, or octave, and 
 the thirteenth semitone are identical, and are the first of a ncv/ 
 or second scale. 
 
 We shall now show that these are the numbers stamped on 
 the proportion which solar revolutions bear to lunar, and diurnal 
 to annual. 
 
 First : This is the case in the proportion which the solar day 
 bears to the lunar quarter. Let it be noted that the lunar 
 quarter is a distinct interval marked out by obvious phases, 
 and by definite world-wide tidal phenomena. The lunar quarter 
 contains always seven days, and nine hours of an eighth— its 
 measures, as estimated by solar days, have an octave character. 
 
 Secondly : The same measure on a larger scale marks the 
 proportion of the lunar quarter to the solar year. The solar 
 year contains seven times seven, or forty-nine lunar quarters, 
 plus half 3.Jifiieth. 
 
 Thirdly : Octave measures mark the proportion which cycles 
 of the day and month bear to cycles of the day and year. The 
 first accurate day and month cycle is seven times seven months 
 (in forty-nine months the day and month agree within a minute 
 and a half). The first cycle of the day and year is four years 
 (leap year). The four years cycle is the forty-nine months 
 cycle, plus half z. fiftieth. 
 
 Fourthly : Octave measures mark the still more perfect day 
 and year cycle of thirty-three years— a cycle so perfect that its 
 slight error does not grow by repetition to a day in less than 
 5000 years. The fraction of a 366th day in the solar year 
 grows in 33 years to eight days : in other words, when the solar 
 year fraction accumulates to a week, plus the first day of a new 
 '.veek, the solar day and year agree. 
 
 Fifthly : Analogous measures mark the proportion of the 
 lunar month to the solar year. The eightfold and tlie thirteen-
 
 S70 APPENDIX. 
 
 fold harmonize. Eight is the first of a new seven ; thirteen 
 the first of a new twelve. "We have already observed that the 
 eighth tone in music, and the thirteenth semitone, are identi- 
 cal. The solar year contains twelve months, and about the 
 tliird of A THIRTEENTH. Further, this fraction of a thirteenth 
 montli grows to a complete lucck of months in the cycle of nine- 
 teen solar years : in other words, when the soli-lunar difterence 
 has accumulated to seven months, or when it has produced a 
 neiu week of months, then solar year and lunar month agree. 
 
 Sixthly : The same thing marks the proportion of the calen- 
 dar year of 360 days to the solar. The calendar year is a 
 natural one. There are nearer 30 days in a lunar month than 
 29, and nearer 12 months in the year than 13; hence 12 
 months of 30 days each, form a natural calendar year. The 
 difference between this year and the solar is 5} days, and this 
 fraction grows first to a complete year in the septiform period 
 of seventy years. Seventy solar years contain seventy soli- 
 lunar, plus a seventyfrst. A septenaiy measure of the one and 
 an octave measure of the otlier, unite in a cycle of harmony. 
 
 Seventhly : There is a slow revolution of the equinoxes, in 
 which the place of the sun at the equinox recedes 20m. 20s. 
 every year, and recedes one whole year in 25,850 years. Tlie 
 day of this vast year measures seventy solar years plus nine to 
 ten months oi a seventy first : and the sun gains on the moon 
 every such day, seven hundred and seventy days. From the first 
 to the last, all these proportions have an octave character. 
 These are the mutual proportions which have been given by 
 the Almighty Power which controls the revolutions of worlds, to 
 days and months and years. These, too, are the measures 
 which the Author of Holy Scripture has impressed on the entire 
 system of neiu creation numbers, running through the whole 
 complex economy ot law and gospel. How profound the 
 agreement between these two portions of the one glorious 
 plan ! How full of resurrection new creation hopes and har- 
 monies, this wondrous structure of the v/orks and word of 
 God!
 
 APPENDIX. 571 
 
 XV. GROWTH OF THE EPACT TRACED, FROM ITS PRIMARY 
 CYCLES, TO ITS DEVELOPMENT IN THE PROPHETIC TIMES. 
 
 There are nearer twelve months than thirteen in the solar 
 year, twelve months, therefore, constitute a lunar year. 
 
 The surplus fraction of a thirteenth month may be considered 
 a 71CW lunar year clement in the solar year. It is commonly 
 called " the epact." 
 
 We have already pointed out the association in Scripture 
 of eight and thirteen as new creation numbers ; and we noticed 
 the analogous fact that in the natural arrangement of sounds 
 the eighth tone and thirteenth semitone are the same, and form 
 the first note of a new scale. 
 
 We have now to trace the growth of this new lunar year 
 element in the solar year, to complete periods of months and 
 years. In doing so we shall follow its development in its 
 elementary natural cycles, and in the Levitical and prophetic 
 times. 
 
 1. The First Period in which the Epact becomes a 
 COMPLETE Month, is three Solar Years. 
 
 Under the Divine law the time appointed for the presenta- 
 tion of tithe offerings was the end of every three years, an 
 interval analogous with the oft-recurring three days resurrection 
 period. Our Lord's ministry also extended over three full 
 years. 
 
 (Three solar years exceed three lunar by one lunar month 
 and 3d. 2h. 17m.) 
 
 2. The Second Epact Cycle, Eight Years. 
 
 As the seventh year was made Sabbatic in the Levitical law, 
 the eighth was the first of a new series. In eight years the 
 epact grows to three months. Both eight and three are used in 
 Scripture as new creation numbers. 
 
 (Eight lunar years + three months, exceed eight solar years 
 by id. i4h. iim.) >
 
 573 APPENDIX. 
 
 3. The Third Epact Cycle, Eleven Years. 
 
 This cycle is a combination of the two previous ones ; it Is 
 one-third of the thirty-three years cycle. Its epact is four 
 luoiitJis, or tlic iJnrd of a lunar year. 
 
 (Eleven solar years exceed eleven lunar + four months by 
 1 d. 12 h. 7 m.) 
 
 4. The Nineteen Years, or Lunar Cycle. 
 
 A celebrated soli-lunar cycle, discovered by the Greek Meton, 
 and hence often called the INIetonic cycle. As the eight years 
 cycle errs by excess, and the eleven years by defect, the combina- 
 tion of the two makes this very perfect cycle. 
 
 Here we have the combination of two cycles whose epacts 
 are three months and four months, producing a perfect cycle 
 whose epact is seven months. 
 
 Tims, when the epact, orjido month clement, has so accumulated 
 as to produce a new week of months, the sun mid moon almost 
 perfectly agree, ?.nd this cycle of their harmony becomes the 
 7init of higher cycles. 
 
 (The 235 months of this cycle exceed nineteen solar years 
 by only 2h. 4m. 4s.) 
 
 5. The Thirty Years, or Prophetic Month Cycle. 
 The combination of the nineteen years and eleven years 
 
 cycles produces this cycle, which measured the life of our 
 Lord up to his baptism, and is also the prophetic montli. 
 (Thirty solar years exceed 371 months by id. loh. 2m.) 
 
 6. The Messianic, or Tpiirty-three Years Cycle. 
 
 In this period the fraction of a thirteenth month in the solar 
 year grows to twelve complete months. 
 
 In the same period the fraction of a day in the solar year 
 gro7vs to eight complete days. 
 
 This cycle measured the number of complete years in our 
 IvOrd's earthly life. 
 
 He is the head of the new creation, the founder of a second 
 Israel, building his churcli on a ncio twelvefold foundation, and
 
 APPENDIX. 573 
 
 his earthly days were measured by the period in which the nexo 
 month clement in the solar year becomes tit'clvefold, and as such a 
 new year. 
 
 7. The full Messl\nic Cycle, Thirty-three Years, 
 Seven Months, and Seven Days. 
 
 In the period of the previous cycle, phis seven months, and 
 seven days, the epact becomes a complete solar year— a complete 
 neiu year. 
 
 This soli-lunar cycle which we shall henceforth call the The 
 Messianic Cycle, contained, as we have shown, the entire 
 period of our Lord's life on earth. 
 
 This cycle is the day, or unit in the chronology of 
 Redemption history. 
 
 8. The Thirty-eight Years Cycle. 
 
 This is two lunar cycles, and its epact two weeks of months. 
 In the history of Israel it was the period which followed the 
 solemn oath, that that generation should not enter into God's 
 rest— the period of the wandering in the wilderness of tlie 
 rejected race.* 
 
 9. Forty-five Years, the Terminal Period of the Pro- 
 phetic Times. 
 
 This is an historic period, linked with full entrance into 
 Canaan rest, and also, as we have seen, the terminal one in 
 the series of proplietic times. 
 
 Its number of years is the sum of the first nine numbers. 
 
 It is not a cycle of the month and year, but its epact is 
 seventy weeks of days (49od.). 
 
 The week, the square of the week, ten times the square of the 
 week, are associated in Scripture witli completeness. We have 
 
 • Forty years, the full term of the wilderness journey, contauis ten cycles 
 of the sobr year and dav, and consequently ten of the lunar month and day, 
 or seventy ivccks of moiiiiis. The ditterence between these two sets of cycles 
 amounts in forty'years to a septiiorm measure, tiviee sanity days.
 
 574 APPENDIX. 
 
 seen this in days, and in years ; here it is in cpad. Forty-five 
 years is a period producing a 710:0 seventy weeks of days in the 
 i7iter-rclation of solar a)id lunar years. 
 
 10. The Jubilee, Forty-nine Years. 
 
 The seven weeks and a day of the pentecostal period in the 
 Levitical calendar, and the seven weeks of years and a year, 
 or fifty years, of the Jewish jubilee, were analogous, and pro- 
 portioned to each other on the scale of a year for a day. Both 
 terminated in seasons of sacred joy. 
 
 They were simply octave periods on a higher scale. The pro- 
 portion of seven days to seven weeks is that of a week to its 
 square. The eighth day follows the termination of the first, 
 the fiftieth of the second. 
 
 The jubilee, or 49 years, is an epact cycle. 
 
 (49 years exceed 606 months by id. 7h. 55m.) 
 
 "The fiftieth year," or year of jubilee (Lev. xxv. 9, 10), began 
 on the loth day of the seventh ?nojith of the forty-ninth year, the 
 day of ATONEMENT. All our deliverance, all our liberty, all 
 our restoration, all our springs of joy, date from the atoning 
 work of Him who has entered for us within the veil, having 
 obtained eternal redemption. From his atoning work dates a 
 new beginning, and noisier order of things, in the experience 
 of his people. 
 
 11. The Millennial Cycle, 1000 Years. 
 
 The epact in 1000 years is a month of years. 
 
 We stated that the chronology of Redemption history is 
 measured by periods in which the epact (or new year element) 
 grows to months and years, and to weeks of years, months of 
 years, and weeks of months of years. 
 
 " A thousand years are with the Lord as one day," a mil- 
 lenary therefore may be considered a unit in the Divine reckon- 
 ing. In this period the epact becomes also a unit — a month 
 of years. 
 
 From tiiis it follows that seven thousand years are as a week,
 
 APPENDIX. 575 
 
 and that the epact of seven iJiousand years is a week — seven months 
 of years. 
 
 The week of millenaries is in obvious harmony with the 
 Scripture series of weeks on various scales, and its epact with 
 the 7ueck of months of the sacred Levitical calendar. 
 
 There are two kinds of months, the lunar and the soli-lunar ; 
 the former is 29^ to 29! days ; the latter is 30 days. 
 
 T/'ic epact in 1000 years amounts to months analogous to thesf 
 In 1000 true solar years the epact is 29I solar years : — 
 
 In 1000 solar years of 365 days measure (the Babylonian 
 and Egyptian year), the epact is just 30 lunar yeais. (1000 
 365-days years are 365000 days ; and 1000 and 30 lunar 
 years are 365000 days, less 2 days.) 
 
 The 365-days year nas a 25-years cycle of remarkable exact- 
 ness, in which the epact is just nine months. This cycle is 
 more accurate than the lunar, and was known to the Egyptians. 
 There are four times 25 years in 100, forty in 1000, and 280 
 in 7000 years ; consequently the epact is 3 lunar years in 100, 
 ■^o lunar years in 1000, and 210 lunar years, or seven months 
 of years, in j 000 years. 
 
 In the period which exceeds 1000 true solar years, by 7 
 solar years, and 7 months, the epact is 30 complete solar 
 years : ioo7y. 7m. are a month of Messianic cycles. 
 
 12. Epact in the "Seventy Weeks " of IMessiaxic Pro- 
 phecy. 
 
 The "seventy weeks," or 490 years, are a great jubilee. 
 They bear the same tenfold proportion to the 49 years jubilee 
 period, that the 70 years of Captivity bore to the Levitical 
 week of years. 
 
 The epact of 490 years, — t7cu'ce seven solar years, plus seven 
 mo7iths, and by calendar measure seven calendar years plus srven 
 weeks, — has the octave form of a larger week plus a lesser. 
 
 In the chronology of Redemption history the Messianic 
 cycle is a day. and the millenary, a month. In 490 years there 
 are fourteen and a fraction such days (half a month), so that
 
 576 APPENDIX. 
 
 490 years bears the same proportion to the week of millenaries 
 (7000 years) that half a lunar month does to seven lunar months 
 \n the Lcvitical calendar. 
 
 A half-month period in the Levitical calendar terminated 
 i\Mth the feast of passover ; as here, half a month of larger 
 measure terminated in the accomplishment of Redemption. 
 
 13. The Sanctuary Cycle, 2300 Years. 
 
 This is the third in centuries of 7000 years. One-third of 
 the seven months Levitical calendar terminated in the feast of 
 Pentecost. One-third is a characteristic Scripture portion, 
 whether of the week of months, or of that of millenaries. 
 
 One-third of seven lunar months is 68-69 days. 
 
 The cpact in 2300 solar years is 68-69 solar years. 
 
 In 2300 365-day3 years, the epact is exactly 69 lunar years. 
 
 In 2300 solar years the epact (68-69 solar years) is exactly 
 seventy lunar years and seven montlis. The accuracy of this 
 measure is such as to make 2300 years a secular soli-lunar 
 cycle. 
 
 14. The 1260 Years Papal Cycle contrasted with 
 the 1335 Ye.\rs Prophetic Period terminating in 
 Resurrection Blessedness. 
 
 The first of these is the period of the dominion of the 
 persecuting Papal power — " They shall be given into his hand 
 until a time, times, and the dividing of time " — " It shall be 
 for a time, times, and a half, and when he shall have accom- 
 plished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these 
 tilings shall be finished." (Dan. vii. 25 and xii. 7.) 
 
 The second of these terminates in resurrection blessedness. 
 
 " Blessed is he that waitclh and comelh unto the thousand, 
 three hundred, and five and thirty days." 
 
 The epact of the first is eminently sixfold, just as is the mark 
 or number attached to the power of which it is the period. 
 The epact of the second is eminently sevenfold.
 
 APPENDIX. 577 
 
 To exhibit the contrast, let us place them side by side. 
 1260 years contains 66 kinar cycles. 
 1335 years contains 70 lunar cycles. 
 (The lunar cycle is the first closely harmonizing solar 
 
 and lunar movements. Its epact is seven months, as 
 
 we previously stated.) 
 
 The epact in 66 lunar cycles is 66 weeks of months. 
 The epact in 70 lunar cycles is 70 weeks of months, or 
 490 months. 
 
 1260 years contain 66 lunar cycles, plus 6 years. 
 
 Epact, 66 weeks of months, plus 60 days. 
 1335 years contain 70 lunar cycles, plus 5 years. 
 
 Epact, 70 weeks of months, plus 7 weeks of days. 
 
 By Prophetic or Calendar year measure. 
 The epact in 1260 years is thrice six calendar years, 
 
 plus thrice six weeks, or — 
 Six thousand, six hundred and six days : 
 The epact in 1335 years is a thousand weeks, (within 
 
 a day.) 
 The contrast is complete. 
 
 15. The ''seven times," with its added seventv-five 
 years. 
 
 The " time, times, and a half," is half a week of '' times "— 
 1260 years. 
 
 To this period prophecy adds 75 years, making 1335 years. 
 (Dan. xii.) 
 
 The week of which 1260 years is the half, is 2520 years. 
 
 The epact of 2520 years is 75 solar years. 
 
 Thus to the half week of "times" prophecy adds 
 A period equal to the epact of the entire week of 
 *' times." 
 
 The addition to 2520 years of a period equal to its epact is 
 .a remarkable fact, and cannot be accidental. Let it be noted 
 
 p P
 
 573 APPENDIX. 
 
 that 2520 ///;z^r /ears, fhis 75 solar years, equal 2520 solar 
 years. How came the prophet to add to the half week of 
 times a period equal to the epact of the whole ? He could 
 not have known the epact of this period, for the true measures 
 of solar and lunar years had not then been ascertained j 
 nor indeed could he have ksown the true interpretation 
 of the prophetic times which he announced, — that the 1260 
 and 1335 days would be fulfilled on the year-day scale; and 
 that the 1260 years would prove the second half of a great 
 historic week of double the length. The correspondence 
 of these astronomic measures of the " seven times " with the 
 period which prophecy adds to its close, is a confirmation of 
 )hc year-day interpretation, an astronomic seal on its correct- 
 uess, and opens the way for a double fulfilment of the final 75 
 years, an inclusive and also a subsequent one. 
 
 The addition of 75 years to 1260 years, extending the 
 prophetic interval to 1335 y^-xx?,, raises the epact from sixfold 
 imperfection to sneiifold completeness : it raises it — 
 
 From (id weeks of months, plus 60 days, 
 
 To 70 weeks of months, plus 7 weeks of days ; 
 
 And by a second measure (that of the prophetic or calendar 
 360-days year), the addition changes the epact — 
 
 From SIX thousand, six hundred and six days — 
 To A thousand weeks. 
 
 In the same way this addition of 75 years, by extending the 
 full period from 2520 to 2595 years, raises the epact of the 
 whole — 
 
 From sei'entyfive solar years, 
 
 To sroenty-seve?i solar years, plus t^vice seven weeks of 
 days. 
 It may also be noted that the epacts in 1335 and 2595 years 
 are harmonious ; for — 
 
 In 1335 years the enact is srcenty weeks of mont/is arid 
 seven weeks of days ;
 
 APPENDIX. 579 
 
 And in 2595 years it is seventy-seven solar years, and 
 twice sa'cn weeks of days ; 
 
 16. The Epact in the remaining Prophetic Times. 
 
 The epact in the 65 years and the 1290 years are equally 
 scptiform with the preceding ; in the one, sa'en hundred and 
 seven days (loi weeks) ; in the other, twice srden thousand and 
 four times seven days (2004 weeks). 
 
 The epact of 2300 years by calendar year measure (360-day 
 years) is 33 SOLAR years, and this 33 years is itself a cycle 
 of the true solar and lunar years,— a cycle whose epact is 
 twelve lunar months, or a lunar year. Thus, according to the 
 calendar year measure, the epact of the Sanctuary cycle equals 
 the soli-lunar cycle which comprehends the complete years of 
 the earthly life-time of Immanuel. 
 
 17. The Epact in the full Normal Period of Hu- 
 man Life and in the Annus Magnus of the Preces- 
 sion of the Equinoxes. 
 
 In our chapter on periodicity in vital phenomena we showed 
 tliat the full normal period of human life is forty weeks plus 
 seventy years. The epact in this period is the septiform num- 
 ber of sa'en hundred and sevcfity days. 
 
 This period of human life bears the same proportion to the 
 magnificent cycle of the precession ot the equinoxes that a 
 solar day does to a solar year, and as the epact of the former 
 is 770 days, that of the latter is 770 solar years. 
 
 In conclusion : the simplest and most fundamental natural 
 units of time are the solar day, tlie lunar month, and the solar 
 
 year. 
 
 None of these is an exact multiple of any other. The lesser 
 are contained in the greater with fractional remainders. 
 
 These fractional remainders grow to complete 
 days, months, and years, and to weeks of these in 
 the prophetic periods, and in certain natural cycles funda-
 
 ■So APPENDIX, 
 
 mentally connected with the measurement of terrestrial time 
 on a large scale. 
 
 We previously showed that the prophetic times are soli- 
 lunar cycles ; we now see that they form a septenary series, 
 as measured by the conjoint movements of the two glorious 
 worlds which rule the orderly succession of terrestrial times 
 and seasons. In conclusion we refer the reader to Sec. iii. 
 ch. v., where we endeavour to show ta/iai that whole is oj 
 which tlu prophetic periods and their epact measures are parts. 
 
 Calendar 
 
 OF 
 
 «CI)e Cimed of t\)t 6entile5." 
 
 This Calendar 
 
 I. Presents in their order the leading events of the " Times 
 of the Gentiles," with their dates B.C. and a.d., together 
 with the names and periods of the reigns of an unbroken 
 succession of Gentile monarchs, from the beginning of 
 the kingdom of Babylon to the present day. 
 
 z. It gives the chronological distance of each reign and 
 event from the accession of the first king of Babylon, 
 both in solar and lunar years. 
 
 3. It also gives (Part II.) the chronological distances of 
 
 reigns and events from the edicts of Justinian and 
 Phocas, and from the era of the Hegira, the papal and 
 Mohammedan starting-points ; the former being stated 
 in solar, and the latter, in accordance with Moham- 
 medan chronology, in lunar years. 
 
 4. It exhibits the fulfilment of the various chronological 
 
 and other prophecies referring to these Gentile " Times."
 
 APPENDIX. 581 
 
 The date of the commencement of the first of the four great 
 monarchies, and thus of the whole " Times of the Gentiles," 
 that of the accession of the first king of Babylon," — after the 
 overthrow of the Assyrian empire, — is the well-known Era 
 OF Nabonassar, from which all the reigns of the Babylonian 
 kings and other events of history are computed by Babylonian, 
 Egyptian, and other ancient chronologers and historians. 
 
 This date, the noon of Thoth I., Nabonassar I,, is astrono- 
 mically determined as February 26th, B.C. 747, by the records 
 of a series of eclipses and planetary positions extending 
 through nine centuries, all measured from that point by the 
 astronomers who recorded them (notably Ptolemy). 
 
 These eclipses and planetary positions have, during the last 
 three centuries, been verified by the labours of modern astrono- 
 mers, and thus the exact point of the era of Nabonassar 
 precisely ascertained. 
 
 The chronological starting-point of the Babylonian kingdom 
 stands out therefore, in the providence of God, amid the mists 
 of ancient chronology, as a clear, salient, accurately ascertained 
 date, known to a year, to a month, and to a day — the noon of 
 February 26th, B.C. 747. 
 
 From this date to the date of the deposition of Romulus 
 
 AUGUSTULUS, THE LAST RULER OF THE WESTERN ROMAN 
 
 Empire, August 22nd, a.d. 476, the interval is 
 
 TWELVE HUNDRED AND SIXTY 
 LUNAR YEARS. 
 
 "time, TIMES, AND AN HALF TIME."
 
 582 APPENDIX. 
 
 OF 
 
 TART I. From the Era of the Rise of the Baby- 
 lonian, 
 To that of the FALL of the WESTERN 
 Roman Empire. 
 
 "TIME, times, and AN HALF TIME." 
 
 TART II. From the Rise to the Fall of the 
 
 Papal and Mohammedan 
 Powers. 
 
 "time, times, AND AN HALF TIME."
 
 APPENDIX. 583 
 
 PART I. 
 CALENDAR OF THE FOUR GREAT EMPIRES, 
 
 BABYLONIAN, PERSIAN, GRECIAN, ROMAN. 
 
 From the era of the accession of NABONASSAR, the com- 
 
 mencement of Babylonian Chronology, 
 
 Feb. 26th, B.C. 747 
 
 [date, Astronomically Determined], 
 
 To the END of the Government of 
 
 ROMULUS AUGUSTULUS, 
 
 August 22nd, A.D. 476, 
 
 a period of exactly 
 
 Twelve Hundred and Sixty Lunar Years 
 
 [" a thousand two hundred and threescore days "] 
 
 iFirst lEinpire-THE BABYLONIAN. 
 
 First Beast— Lion with eagle's wings. Kingdom of gold. 
 
 Duration— 210 years— seven prophetic months ; 
 
 analogous with seven Babylonian months, or 210 days, and 
 
 also one-twelfth of seven times. 
 
 ANTECEDENT VISION OF 
 
 THE GLORY OF JEHOVAH SABAOTH, 
 AND OF THE DESOLATIONS OF ISRAEL, 
 granted to the prophet Isaiah 
 in the year that King Uzziah died, b.c. 757. 
 « Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of Hosts : 
 The whole earth is full of His glory." 
 "Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but under- 
 stand not ; and see yc indeed, but perceive not. Make the
 
 5S4 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut 
 their eyes ; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their 
 ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be 
 healed. Then said I, Lord, how long ? And He answered. 
 Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses 
 without man, and the land be utterly desolate, and the Lord 
 have REMOVED MEN FAR AWAY, and there be a great for- 
 saking IN THE MIDST OF THE LAND, And Still there shall 
 be A TENTH therein that shall return, and there shall be 
 wasting ; but as a teil tree and as an oak, whose life is in 
 them when they are cut down : the holy seed shall be the life 
 thereof" (Isa. vi.) 
 
 B.C. 770. Accession of Mcnahem, king of Israel, who reigned 
 10 y. In his days Pul, the _/?;-j/ king of Assyria 
 named in Scripture, "came against the land," and 
 in the reign of Pekah, Menaliem's successor, Tiglath- 
 pilcser, king of Assyria, invaded it. By these were 
 carried captive the Reubenites, Gadites, and half 
 tribe of Manasseh (2 Kings xv. 17, 20; I Chron. 
 V. 3, 25, 26). 
 
 LUNAR SOLAR. 
 
 747 
 
 741 
 
 KINGS OF LABi^LON. 
 
 Accession of Nabonassak, Thoth. r, Feb. 26th. 
 From the noon of which day Babylonian chrono- 
 logy is reckoned— date accurately determined by 
 the verification of a series of astronomical obser- 
 vations, including eclipses, recorded by Ptolemy, 
 the time of whose occurrence was measured by 
 ancient astronomers from this point. 
 
 FIRST CHRONOLOGICAL PROPHECY OF 
 ISRAEL'S DESOLA TION [sixty-five years], 
 AND PROMISE OF IMMANUEL (given on 
 the very spot where Sennacherib's invading army 
 afterwards stood : Isa. vii. 2, compare with xxxvi. 
 2), "witllin THREESCORE AND FIVE YEARS shall
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 58s 
 
 LUNAR SOLAR. 
 
 16 
 18 
 23 
 
 26 
 
 41 
 46 
 
 48 
 
 57 
 58 
 62 
 
 15 
 17 
 
 22 
 
 25 
 
 27 
 
 35 
 
 39 
 44 
 
 46 
 49 
 
 55 
 56 
 60 
 
 733 
 731 
 
 726 
 
 723 
 
 721 
 
 713 
 
 709 
 704 
 
 702 
 699 
 
 693 
 692 
 688 
 
 Ephraim be broken that it be not a people" 
 
 (Isa. vii.). 
 
 Nadius. Ahaz. Micah. 
 
 Chinzirus and Torus. Hosea. 
 
 JUG/Eus. Hezekiah. Nahum. 
 
 Samaria Besieged, 4th year of Hezekiah; 
 
 7th of Hosea. 
 
 Shalmanezer (2 Kings xvii.). 
 Mardocempadus. Fall of Samaria. 
 
 {First historical eclipse is mentioned in Annals 
 of Sargon, king of Assyria, and by Ptolemy. 
 Total eclipse of moon, March igth, four and 
 a half hours before midnight, Babylon, B.C. 721.) 
 
 CAPTIVITY OF TEN TRIBES. 
 
 {Second historical eclipse. Lunar eclipse, March 
 8th, iih. 56m., B.C. 720, Babylon.— Ptolemy.) 
 
 {Tldrd historical eclipse. Lunar eclipse, Sep- 
 tember ist, job. i8m., B.C. 720, Babylon. — 
 Ptolemy.) 
 
 Sennacherib's Invasion of Judea in 14th year 
 of Hezekiah, 713 B.C. (2 Kings xviii., xix. ; 
 Isa. .xxxvi. 39.) 
 
 Archianus. 
 
 Interregnum. 
 Hagisa, 3od 
 Marudach 
 
 " I occupied the town of Samaria, 
 and brought into captivity 27,280 
 persons. ... I took them to As- 
 syria, and instead of them I placed 
 men to live there whom my hand 
 had conquered." — Annals of Sargon, 
 BaLDANES, 6mo. king of Assyria (Shalmanezer). 
 
 " Records of Past," vol. vii., Assyrian 
 texts. — Bagster. 
 
 From the srEcn of Samaria by Shal- 
 manezer, B.C. 723, TO THE Papal over- 
 
 THKOW IN THE FrEN'CH ReVOL., 1798 A.D. 
 
 2520 Y. OR "Seven Times." Bisected by 
 PERIOD OF Justinian. 
 
 Belibus. 
 
 Apronadius or Asordanes. 
 
 Manasseh, B.C. 697. Joel. 
 
 Regibaltis. 
 Mesesimordachus. 
 Interregnum.
 
 586 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 LUNAR, 
 t 70 
 
 SOI.AR. 
 
 68 
 
 n.c. 
 
 680 
 
 75 
 
 72-3 
 
 676-5 
 
 84 
 
 104 
 
 Si 
 
 lOI 
 
 667 
 647 
 
 127 
 
 123 
 
 625 
 
 147 
 
 142 
 
 605 
 
 149 
 
 144 
 
 604 
 
 150-1 
 
 146 
 
 602 
 
 155 
 
 150 
 
 598 
 
 asaridinus. 
 
 Completion of exile (of Israel) by 
 EsARiiADDON (son of Sennacherib, 2 Kings 
 xix. 37), and their replacement by heathen 
 colonists. Manasseh's captivity in his 
 22nd year, B.C. 676-5 (2 Chron. xxxiii. II, 
 Ezra iv. 2), TIIENCE SEVEN TIMES, or 
 2520 SOLAR. YEARS to the i26oth year of 
 the riegira. 
 
 Saosduchinus. 
 
 ClIINALADINUS. 
 
 Jeremiah begins to prophesy in the 13th year 
 of Josiah, B.C. 62S. 
 Naeopolassar. 
 
 {Fourth historical eclipse. Lunar eclipse, April 
 
 2ist, iSh. 22m., B.C. 621.) 
 Birth of Anaximander, B.C. 610: discovered 
 
 obliquity of ecliptic : disciple of Thales. 
 
 FULL DEVELOPMENT OF BABYLONIAN 
 EMPIRE. 
 
 Nebuchadnezzar. Nineveh destroyed, 606. 
 
 Prophecies of Jonah and Nahum. 
 SEVENTY YEARS CAPTIVITY OF JUDAH 
 BEGINS (Jer. xxv. i), B.C. 605 (in the year be- 
 fore the sole reign of Nebuchadnezzar. Clinton). 
 Nebuchadnezzar's vision of the Great 
 
 Image (Dan. ii.). 
 Complete subjugation of Jchoiakim (2 Kings 
 xxiv. i). Thence 1260 lunar years to 
 the ERA of Hegira, a.d. 622. 
 Full commencement of the "times of 
 the Gentiles " (2 Kings xxiv. 14). "All 
 Jerusalem carried away" captive. Thence 
 1260 solar to a.d. 663, commencing date of 
 Latin Church, and " seven times " lunar 
 to a.d. 1848(2445 solar years =2520 lunar) 
 and seven times solar to A.D. 1923 (differ-
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 5^7 
 
 LUNAR.. ?OLAR. 
 
 i66 
 
 193 
 
 195 
 198 
 199 
 
 217 
 
 161 587 
 
 187 
 
 1S9 
 192 
 193 
 
 210 
 
 561 
 
 559 
 556 
 555 
 
 538 
 
 ence between the last two is the epact of the 
 whole, or 75 years). 
 
 19th year of Nebuchadnezzar. The Temple BURNED, 
 loth day of the 5th month (2 Kings xxv. 
 compared with Jeremiah lii. 12). Thence 
 an interval of 1260 LUNAR years to the 
 Mohammedan capture and desolation 
 of Jerusalem, a.d. 637 (Mosque of Omar). 
 
 Abilmarodachus (Evil Merodach), 37th year of 
 Jehoiachim's captivity, B.C. 562, falls within 
 the 1st of Evil Merodach (2 Kings xxv. 27). 
 
 NiGLlSSARUS (Neriglissar). 
 
 Labosoarchodus. 
 
 Baltasarus (Belshazzar). Daniel's vision of the 
 four great beasts in the ist year of 
 Belshazzar (Dan. vii.). 
 Daniel's vision of the ram and he goat 
 in the 3rd year of Belshazzar (Dan. viii.). 
 
 BeLSHAZZAR'S feast. " MENE, MENE, TEKEL, 
 
 upharsin " (Dan. v.). 
 Darius. 
 
 Belshazzar slain. 
 Fall of Babylon { Darius the Median takes 
 the kingdom (Dan. v.). 
 
 Seccnti ISmptvc-THE PERSIAN. 
 
 Second Beast— The bear. Kingdom of silver (Dan. ii. 7)- 
 
 Duration— 210 lunar years, B.C. 538 to c.c. 334-scven 
 
 months of years. 
 
 In the first year of Darius, 
 
 Daniel's prayer. 
 
 The angel Gabriel sent to reveal to him the 
 
 SEVENTY WEEKS RESTORATION PEI^IOD, 
 
 extending to the 
 Advent of MESSIAH THE PRINCE (Dan. ix.).
 
 588 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 LUNAR. 
 
 226 
 
 sni.AR. 
 212 
 
 n.c. 
 
 536 
 
 -JO 
 
 234 
 
 271 
 
 292 
 
 293 
 
 300 
 
 !I9 
 
 226 
 
 227 
 
 283 
 2S4 
 
 291 
 
 529 
 
 522 
 521 
 
 485 
 
 465 
 464 
 
 457 
 
 CVRUS. First year oi sole government of Cyras, from 
 death of Darius, called in Daniel 3rd of 
 Cyrus. 
 
 EDICT OF CVRUS. END OF SEVENTY 
 YEARS CAPTIVITY (Ezra i., Dan. x.). 
 
 Cambyses (Dan. xi. 2). 
 
 {Fifth historical eclipse. " In the seventh year 
 of Cambyses, which is the 225th year of 
 Nabonassar, between the 17th and iSth of 
 Phamenoth, at one hour before midnight, the 
 moon was eclipsed at Babylon by half the 
 diameter on the north." — Ptolemy, July i6th, 
 II p.m., B.C. 523.) 
 
 Smkhdis (Dan. xi. 2). 
 
 D.\Rius Hystaspis. Second decree for rebuilding 
 
 of THE Temple (Dan. xi. 2 ; Ezra iv. 5, 
 
 V. 6). 
 
 HaGGAI, ZECHAraAH, Zerubbabel. 
 
 {Sixth historical eclipse, 20th of Darius. Lunar 
 eclipse, Nov. 19th, 11.45 ^t night, B.C. 502-) 
 
 {Seventh historical eclipse, 31st of Darius. 
 Lunar eclipse, April 2Sth, 11.30 at night, 
 B.C. 491.) 
 
 Xerxes. The fourth king of Daniel xi. 2, Ezra 
 iv. 6. Passage of Hellespont. Battle of 
 Salamis, followed solar eclipse verified as 
 Oct. 2nd, B.C. 4S0. — Herodotus ix. 10. 
 Birth of Socrates, April or May, 468 B.C. 
 .Artabanus. 
 
 Artaxer.xes Longimanus (Ezra viL). Seventh 
 monarch from Cyras. 
 Issue of command " to restore and to build 
 Jerusalem." Latter part of 7th year of 
 Artaxerxes. Thence 500 lunar years, or 
 6000 lunations, to the Ascension, a.d. 29; 
 Phasis I Nisan, March 21st, B.C. 457. 
 COMMENCEMENT OF THE SEVENTY 
 WEEK'S. Thence 2300 solar years to the 
 1260th year of the Ilegira.
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 5S9 
 
 LUNAR. 
 
 SOLAR. B.C. 
 
 304 444 
 
 334 
 
 354 
 
 401 
 
 423 
 
 425 
 
 III 323 
 
 323 
 
 324 
 
 343 
 
 ;89 
 
 410 
 412 
 
 425 
 
 425 
 424 
 
 405 
 
 359 
 
 338 
 336 
 
 Nehemiah's commission in 20th year of 
 Artaxerxes (Neh. ii.)- 
 
 Meton commences his cycle with the new moon 
 nearest the summer solstice, B.C. 432. 
 
 (Solar eclipse, August 3rd, 6h. ssra., B.C. 431, 
 Athens.) 
 
 Herodotus, Thucydides, Hippocrates. 
 
 E.VD OF O. T. Canon. Close of Sacred History. 
 
 Birth of Plato, May, b.c. 429. 
 Xerxes II. 
 
 (Lunar eclipse, Oct. gth, 6h. 45m., total, D.c. 
 425, Athens.) 
 
 soodianus. 
 Darius Nothus. 
 
 (Solar eclipse, March 20th, 2oh. 17m., B.C. 424, 
 
 Athens.) 
 Crucian defeat. Surrender of Nicias (Thucyd 
 vii. 50, 75), eight or nine days after lunai 
 eclipse, Aug. 27th, loh. 15m., total, B.C. 413. 
 Temple erected on Mount Gerizim by Ma- 
 nasseh, B.C. 408. 
 Artaxerxes Mnemon. 
 
 (Lunar eclipse, April 13th, Sh. 50m., B.C. 406, 
 
 total, Athens.) 
 (Solar eclipse, September 2nd, 2ih. 12m., B.C. 
 
 404, Athens.) 
 
 Death of Socrates, at end of Thargelion, 
 B.C. 399, when he had just entered his 70th 
 year. 
 
 Johanan, the high priest, kills his brother 
 Jeshua in the Temple, for which the Persian 
 governor lays a mulct upon the Jews for 
 seven years, B.C. 366. 
 
 OCHUS. 
 
 (Lunar eclipse, December 22nd, igh. 6m., B.C. 
 
 383, Athens.) 
 (Lunar eclipse, June iSth, Sh. 54m., B.C. 382, 
 
 Athens.) 
 (Lunar eclipse, December 12th, loh. 21m., total 
 B.C. 382, Athens.) 
 Arses. Birth of Demosthenes, in July, K.c. 3S2. 
 Darius Codomannus.
 
 590 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 CTfjirtJ Empire— THE GRECIAN. 
 
 Third Beast — Leopard with four heads. Kingdom of brass 
 (Dan. ii., vii., viii. 5, xi. 3). 
 
 Duration — from Conquest of Persian Empire, B.C. 334, 
 
 to end of Seleucidce, 
 
 and capture of Jerusalem by Pompcy the Roman, e.g. 63, 
 
 2S0 LUNAR YEARS, OR FORTY WEEKS OF YEARS. 
 
 LUNAR. 
 
 425 
 
 43S 
 
 446 
 
 SOLAR. 
 412 
 
 425 
 
 432 
 
 B.C. 
 
 336 
 
 323 
 
 31G 
 
 Alexander the Great. Accession about July. 
 First horn of he goat (Dan. viii.). 
 B.C. 334, — Crosses Hellespont, marches into 
 Asia ; conquers Caria, Syria, Tyre, Egypt, 
 Babylon, Susa, Persepolis, and Persian 
 Empire ; Parthia, Media, Scythia, and in- 
 vades India. Dies at Babylon, in June, 
 B.C. 323, age 33. 
 
 (Aristotle opens the Lyceum.) 
 Four horns of he goat (Dan. vii. 6, viii. 
 8, xi. 4). 
 Philip Arid.eus. Cassander. Macedon and 
 Greece. 
 Seleucus. Babylon, Syria (Dan. 
 
 xi. 5, 6). 
 Lysimachus. Thrace and Bi- 
 
 thynia. 
 Ptole.my. Egypt ("The king of 
 the south," Ptolemy, son of 
 Lagus, Dan. xi. 5). 
 
 MACEDON. 
 C.\ssander. 
 
 (Solar eclipse, August 14th, 2oh. 5m., D.c. 310, 
 Sicily.) 
 
 Ptole.my Soter (Satrap. Egypt, 
 
 B.C. 323, Dan. xi. 5),
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 59 1 
 
 LUKAR. 
 
 45° 
 
 SOLAR. 
 436 
 
 B.C. 
 
 313 
 
 466 
 466 
 468 
 
 477 
 
 452 
 
 452 
 
 454 
 462 
 
 296 
 296 
 29i 
 286 
 
 483 
 
 468 
 
 280 
 
 485 
 486 
 502 
 518 
 
 470 
 
 471 
 487 
 502 
 
 278 
 277 
 261 
 246 
 
 525 
 535 
 538 
 541 
 
 509 
 519 
 522 
 
 525 
 
 239 
 229 
 226 
 223 
 
 545 
 
 528 
 
 220 
 
 579 
 
 561 
 
 187 
 
 587 
 
 569 
 
 179 
 
 59^ ■ 
 
 573 
 
 175 
 
 KINGS OP SYRIA. 
 
 tSELEUCus NiCATOR (Dan. xi. 5, 6). 
 Antipater. Era of Seleucida?, Oct. i, B.C. 312. 
 Alexander. 
 Demetrius. 
 
 Pyrrhus. Birth of Archimedes, about 2S7 e.g., at 
 Syracuse, 
 t Antiochus I., Soter. 
 
 Ptolemy PniLADELrHUs, B.C.2S5 
 (Dan. xi. 9). 
 
 For 16 YEARS 12 KINGS. 
 
 Antigonus I., Gonatus, 
 
 t Antiochus II., Theos (Dan. xi. i). 
 fSELEUCUS II., Callinicus (Dan. xi. 7, S). 
 Ptolemy Euergetes, b.c. 247 
 (Dan. xi. 7, 8). 
 Demetrius II. 
 Antigonus II., Doson. 
 
 fSF.LEUcus III., Ceraunus (Dan. xi. 10). 
 • + Antiochus III., the great (Dan. xi. 
 10). 
 Ptolemy Philopater, bc. 222 
 (Dan. xi. il, 12). 
 Er.\tosthenes : Astronomer. 
 
 Philip. 
 
 Perseus, 
 
 (Lunar eclipse, March 19th, i4h. 5m., total, B.C. 
 219, Mj'sia.) 
 
 Ptolemy Epiphanes, b.c 205 
 
 (Dan. xi. 14, 17). 
 
 tSELEUCUS IV., Philopater (Dan. .xi. 20). 
 
 (Solar eclipse, July 6th, 2oh. 38171., B.C. iS3. 
 Rome.) 
 
 Ptolemy Philometer, b.c iSi 
 
 (Dan. xi. 25), 
 
 t Antiochus Epiphanes (Dan. xi. 21, 
 
 II. Book of Maccabees). (Eighth from 
 
 Sclcucus Nicator, first of second seven.) 
 
 Plunders the Temple, and dedicates it
 
 592 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 LUNAR. 
 
 SOLAR. 
 
 59S 
 
 580 
 
 601 
 
 583 
 
 602 
 604 
 617 
 
 586 
 598 
 
 621 
 623 
 
 602 
 
 604 
 
 624 
 
 628 
 
 605 
 C09 
 
 631 
 
 612 
 
 637 
 638 
 
 618 
 619 
 
 168 
 
 165 
 
 164 
 162 
 150 
 
 146 
 
 144 
 
 143 
 139 
 
 136 
 
 130 
 129 
 
 to Jupiter Olympius. Captures and 
 miserably destroys Jerusalem. Jewish 
 martyrs. 
 
 Daily sacrifice ceases. 
 Judas MACCABiEUS. 
 Asmonean deliverers and princes. 
 (Eclipse of moon, June zist, 8h. 2m., total, B.C. 
 168, Macedonia.) 
 
 Cleanses the sanctuary, 2Sth of ninth 
 
 month, Cisleu, near time of winter 
 
 solstice. Hence the feast of Dedication, 
 
 John X. 22, "and it was winter." 
 
 (Feast of Dedication, A.D. 1879, on Dec. 
 
 loth.) 
 From the Maccabcan cleansing of the 
 sanctuary,- "Z-C. 165, to the First Cru- 
 sade for the deliverance of Jerusalem 
 and the holy places from Saracenic deso- 
 lation (A.D. 1096), 1260 solar years, or 
 " time, times, and an half lime." 
 t Antiochus V. 
 t Demetrius I., Soter. 
 t Alexander Balas 
 
 (Jonathan, Asmonean Prince). 
 + Demetrius II., Nicator. 
 t Antiochus VI. 
 
 (Simon, Asmonean Prince). 
 t DiODOTUS (Trypho). 
 + Antiochus VII. (First of third seven of 
 Seleucidae. Marries Cleopatra). 
 Hyrcanus I., High Priest. 
 (Gen. xlix. 10.) 
 t Demetrius II. (restored). 
 Hyrcanus conquers the Edomites, and 
 compels them all to embrace the Jewish 
 religion. From these sprang the Hero- 
 dian family.
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 593 
 
 LUNAR. 
 
 SOLAR. 
 620 
 
 B.C. 
 
 128 
 
 640 
 
 621 
 625 
 
 127 
 123 
 
 661 
 
 641 
 
 107 
 
 663 
 
 643 
 
 105 
 
 668 
 
 648 
 
 100 
 
 675 
 686 
 691 
 
 665 
 670 
 
 93 
 83 
 78 
 
 700 
 
 679 
 
 69 
 
 704 
 
 683- 
 
 65 
 
 706 
 ' 707 
 
 1 
 
 6S5 
 
 686 
 
 63 
 
 62 
 
 Hipparchus observes the vernal equinox 
 March 22nd, B.C. 12S. The star Spica 
 (first magnitude) (P behind the autumnal 
 equinox, 
 
 t Alexander Zedin.\ (impostor). 
 
 t Antiochus VIII (Grypus). 
 
 KINGS OF JUDEA. 
 Aristobulus I., 
 Son of Hyrcanus ; first of Asmoneans who 
 wore the diadem, and took the name of 
 King. Slays his brother Antigonus, and 
 is succeeded by his brother Jannxus. 
 Alexander Jann/Eus. 
 
 (Solar eclipse, July iSth, 22h. , B.C. 104, Rome.) 
 (The signs and constellations coincide about loc 
 B.C.) 
 
 Birth of Julius Oesar, July 12th. 
 
 (The Iron Subjugator.) 
 Janna;us conquers Gilead and Moab B.C. 
 94 ; crucifies Scxd of his rebel subjects, 
 B.C. 86. 
 + Philip and Demetrius. 
 t Tigranes (King of Armenia). 
 Alexandra, 
 Widow of Jannseus, conciliates the Pharisees. 
 Dies, B.C. 70. 
 
 t Antiochus IX., Asiaticus. 
 (21st and last of Seleucidx.) 
 r Hyrcanus II., son of Alexandra. Seizes 
 * crown ; forced to resign it after 3 months to 
 i his younger brother Aristobulus. 
 V Aristobulus II. 
 
 (POMPKY CONQUERS SvRIA. EnD OP SeLEUCID/TJ, B.C 65.) 
 
 C.^iiSAR sedile, B.C. 65. 
 
 Hyrcanus II. 
 POMPEY (ROMAN) h.iving conquered 
 Syria takes Jerusalem, after a siege 
 I of three munlhs, on day of a fast in 
 
 Q Q
 
 594 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 LUNAR. 
 
 SOLAR. 
 
 D.C. 
 
 715 
 
 C93 
 
 55 
 
 724 
 
 702 
 
 46 
 
 726 
 
 704 
 
 44 
 
 730 
 
 70S 
 
 40 
 
 732 
 
 710 
 
 38 
 
 733 
 
 711 
 
 37 
 
 741 
 
 ( 
 
 719 
 
 1 
 
 29 
 
 1 
 
 December, B.C. (>i. Deposes Aristo- 
 
 bulus and makes Hyrcanus king. 
 Duration of First Three Empires — 707 
 
 lunar years. 
 Birth of Augustus (Cesar) September 
 
 23rd, B.C. ()i. Julius Caesar elected 
 
 Pontifex Maximus. 
 (Lvinar eclipse, Oct. 27th, 6h. 22ni., total, B.C. 
 
 63, Rome.) 
 
 Julius CcEsar subdues the western tribes of 
 Gaul, B.C. 56. Passes the Rhine, lands 
 in Britain, B.C. 55. Second expedition 
 of Cssar into Britain, B.C. 54; returns 
 and- winters in Syria, crosses Rubicon, 
 follows Pompey to Brandusium, con- 
 quers Afranius in Spain, B.C. 49. 
 
 Ca;sar as Pontife.x Maximns reforms the 
 Calendar (inserts 67 + 23= god. in year 
 46 B.C. Introduces y////rt;/n'rtr). (The 
 month Quintilis named Julius, B.C. 44.) 
 Julius Cxsar slain March 15th, B.C. 44. 
 Age 56. 
 Antigonus. Last of Asmonean princes. 
 (Seventh from Hyrcanus T.) 
 
 Herod and Sosius besiege Jerusalem, 
 and after half a year's siege take it in 
 December, B.C. 38. 
 (Last Seventy Years of the 490 years to- 
 Messiah begin, B.C. 37). 
 
 Herod the Great (Idumean). 37. 
 
 Murders Hyrcanus ; by his instigation 
 Antigonus is put to death at Rome. 
 
 The sceptre thus departs from Judah (Gen. 
 xlix. 10) in preparation for the imme- 
 diate Advent of Shiloh. 
 
 Plerod rebuilds the Temple. 
 
 The Temple of Janus shut (cessation 
 of war) ; shut a second time, B.C. 25.
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 505 
 
 iFoiirt^ ISmpitE— THE ROMAN. 
 
 Fourth Beast — " dreadful and terrible and strong exceedingly." 
 Kingdom of iron. 
 
 LUNAR. 
 
 SOLAR. 
 
 B.C. S 
 
 743 
 
 720 
 721 
 
 27 
 
 765 
 
 742 
 
 6 
 
 A.D. 
 
 777 
 
 754 
 
 7 
 
 7S5 
 
 761 
 
 14 
 
 EMPERORS. 
 
 Augustus C/esar. 
 
 (CcEsar named Augustus, D.C. 27. The Anni 
 Augustani computed at Rome from Jan. i, 
 B.C. 27. From E. Nab. to this point, two 
 prophetic "times"— 360+ 360 = 720 years of 
 " seven times.") 
 
 COMMENCEMENT OF THIRD PROPHETIC 
 " TIME." 
 
 (Three conjunctions of Jupiter and Saturn in 
 the constellation Pisces, near the first point of 
 Aries, B.C. 7. In spring of B.C. 6, the planet 
 Mars came to same spot.) 
 
 (e.g. 6 is first year of 40th lunar cycle from 
 Nab. era. Epact in 40 cycles 2S0 months, or 
 forty weeks of months. ) 
 
 The Nativity (Luke ii.). 
 MESSIAH THE PRINCE. 
 Death of Herod a liltle before the Pass- 
 over of B.C. 4 (Matt. ii. 19). 
 (Date fixed by lunar eclipse in the night between 
 March 12th and 13th, beginning at ih. 43m., 
 and ending at 4h. 12m. Ideler. Recorded by 
 Josephus.) 
 
 Jesus goes up to Jerusalem at the feast of 
 Passover when He is twelve years of 
 age. Found "in the temple sitting in 
 the midst of the doctors, both hearing 
 them and asking them questions" (Luke 
 ii. 46). 
 TiUEraus (Luke .xx. 22-25). 
 
 Death of Augustus, Aug. 19th 
 (Tacitus, Annals, Book I., mentions an eclipse 
 of the moon soon after the death of Augustus. 
 Verified as lunar eclipse Sept. 26th, I7h. 15m., 
 total, A.D. 14.)
 
 596 
 
 I LUNAR 
 
 796 
 
 800 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 SOI,AR. A.E). 
 
 776 
 
 25 
 29 
 
 805 
 
 808 
 
 813 
 
 781 
 
 784 
 
 7S8 
 
 34 
 
 37 
 
 41 
 
 Tiberius Pontifex Maximus, March loth, 
 
 A. D. 15. 
 
 Ministry of John the Baptist (Luke 
 ill.). 
 Baptism and Ministry of Messiah from 
 Autumn of a.d. 25 (Luke iii. 23). 
 N. Era, 777 (70th year of Tiberius). 
 
 Death of Messiah, Day of Passover, 
 March iSth. "About the ninth hour," or 
 at 3 p.m. Full Moon, gh. 16 m. p.m. 
 (Johnxi.x. 28), (77th day of year), Friday. 
 Burial, Friday evening. 
 Sabbath, March 19th, in the grave. " That 
 sabbath was an high day" (Johnxix. 31). 
 Resurrection and Ascension of Messiah 
 (Matt, xxviii. ). 
 Resurrection, March 20th. First 
 Day of Week, Day of Wave Sheaf. 
 Vernal Equinox. Sun in Aries. 
 Ascension, 40 days subsequently, April 
 28-29 (Acts i. 3, 9). 
 Foundation of the Church. 
 Commencement of The Dispensation of the 
 Spirit (Acts ii.). 
 The Gospel published in Judea, Samaria, and 
 Antioch. 
 
 END OF SEVENTY WEEKS. 
 The Gospel preached to the Gentiles, 
 
 Labours of the Apostle Paul (Acts IjC. 
 to xxviii.). 
 Caligula. Assassination of Caligula, Jan. 24th, 41; 
 age 29. Nero born, 
 lierod Agrippa, king of Galilee. 
 Claudius (Acts xi. 28 ; xxviii. 2). 
 
 Birth of Titus, Dec. 30th, 41. Herod 
 Agrippa, king of all Palestine.
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 597 
 
 826 
 
 801 
 
 54 
 
 S38 
 839 
 
 813 
 
 814 
 
 66 
 67 
 
 840 
 
 815 
 
 68 
 
 841 
 
 816 
 
 69 
 
 Death of Herod Agrippa. All Palestine 
 
 A Roman province, a.d. 44. 
 Cuspius Fadus, Procurator, 44. Clau- 
 dius Felix, sole Procurator of Judea, 
 A.D. 53. 
 Nero (Acts xxv. 8, 12 ; xxvii. 24). Claudius 
 poisoned by Agrippina that her son 
 Nero may succeed, Oct. 13th, 54. 
 Festus, Procurator of Judea, a.d. 55. 
 Albinus, Procurator of Judea, a.d. 62. 
 Great fire at Rome ; Christians falsely accused 
 of having caused it, and suffer cruel perse- 
 cutions. This first persecution lasted four 
 years. 
 
 Jewish war begins, May, 66. Christians 
 flee from Jerusalem to Pella (Matt. xxiv.). 
 Vespasian conducts the Jewish war. Enter- 
 ing Galilee with his army takes Jotapata, 
 after 47 d. siege, on 1st of Panemus or 
 Thamuz, 67. Joppa and Tiberias then 
 surrender. Josephus taken prisoner at 
 Jotapata. 
 Galba. Nero kills himself, June 9th, 68; age 
 30 y. 5 m. 26 d. (840 lunar years = ^ of 
 2520 y., or "seven times" lunar). 
 Vespasian proceeds with the Jewish war ; 
 about Feb. 68 enters Gadara, and Jericho 
 about May. 
 Otho. Galba slain, Jan. 15 ; age 73. 
 Vn ELLius. Proclaimed emperor by German legions. 
 
 Disgraced by the grossest sensuality. 
 Vespasian. Assumes empire, July i, 69. Conquers 
 Vitellius, who is beheaded, Dec. 21 ; 
 
 age 55. 
 Vespasian commits conduct of Jewish 
 war to his son TiTUS. Jerusalem a 
 prey to fierce intestine f;ictions.
 
 598 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 LUNAR. 
 
 842 
 
 SOLAR. 
 817 
 
 A.D. 
 
 70 
 
 843 
 
 854 
 
 S69 
 
 871 
 
 S18 
 
 826 
 
 828 
 
 843 
 
 845 
 
 71 
 
 79 
 
 81 
 
 96 
 
 98 
 
 Titus marches from Alexandria to Jeru- 
 salem, arriving there a little before 
 the Passover. Besieges the city 
 nearly five months. Appalling suffer- 
 ings of Jews. Encloses Jenisalem on 
 every side (Luke xix. 41-44; xxi. 
 20, 24). Daily sacrifice ceased, 17th 
 Panemus, Friday, 13th July. 
 Temple burned on the loth day of 
 the 5th month (Louis or Ab), August 
 4-5. Jewish war lasted 4 y. 4 m. ; 
 1, 100,000 Jews perish in the siege of 
 Jerusalem ; 97,000 captives. 
 Triumph of Vespasian and Titus at 
 Rome (commemorated by Arch of 
 Titus at Rome). 
 (Lunar eclipse, Rome, March 4th, 8h. 3:!m., a.d. 
 71, eclipsed at setting ; and 15 days after this 
 the sun eclipsed at 9 in the morning.) 
 TiTUS. Death of Vespasian, June 23rd, age 69. 
 
 Pomoeil and Heculaneum destroyed by an erup- 
 tion of Mount Vesuvius, Aug. 23rd. 
 Rome attlicted by a calamitous fire, followed by 
 a pestilence, So. 
 
 DoMiTiAN. Death of Titus (attributed to poison), 
 September 13th; age 40. Second 
 persecution of the Christian Church. 
 Gnosticism. 
 Nerva. Domitian slain on account of his barbarities, 
 Sept. iSth, 96; age 45. Death of 
 Nerva, Jan. 25th, 98 ; age 72. 
 (Lunar eclipse March 21st, at 3 in afternoon, a.d. 
 5S. — " Chrono. Astrolabe," Lindsay.) 
 
 Tk.\JAN. P^ithynian persecutions under Pliny. 
 
 Trajan, first emperor who enacts penal 
 laws against the Christians. 
 
 Death of the Apostle John. Martyr- 
 dom of Ignatius by Trajan, 1 1 5. 
 Close of N. T. Canon.
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 599 
 
 I LUNAR. 
 
 8qi 
 
 SOLAR. 
 864 
 
 A.n. 
 
 117 
 
 909 
 
 912 
 
 936 
 
 95'J 
 
 8S2 
 
 SS5 
 
 908 
 
 927 
 
 135 
 
 138 
 
 161 
 
 180 
 
 Hadrian. Proclaimed Aug- "th, 117- Personally 
 surveys all tlie provinces of the em- 
 pire. Visits Syria, and on the ruins 
 of Jerusalem builds /Elia Capito- 
 UNA, in which he dedicates a temple 
 to Jupiter. 
 The aphelion of Mercury observed by Thcon, 
 July 5th, 131. 
 
 Jewish rebellion under Barchociie- 
 EAS, the false IMessiah, 132. Perse- 
 cutes Christians. Jewish war with 
 Romans lasts from the spring of 132 
 to August, 135 (3 years and a half); 
 9S5 towns and villages and 580,000 
 Jews destroyed. Jews forbidden to 
 approach Jerusalem ; a new city built 
 on its foundations and colonized by 
 foreigners. 
 
 SS3 A.u.c. Jewish Desolation Complete. 
 
 Ptolemy (Claudius), astronomer, geographer, and 
 chronologcr, author of the Almagest. The 
 eclipse.s he records extend through nine cen- 
 turies. Foundation of ckronolcsy. 
 
 Antoninus Pius. Death of Hadrian, July loth, 13S; 
 reigned 2oy. 10 m. 30 d. Antoninus 
 enacts that no Christian should be 
 persecuted as such, 157. Died Mar. 
 7th, 161. 
 
 Marcus Aurelius (the philosopher), author of a sys- 
 tematic persecution. Justin Martyr's 
 Apology. Martyrdom of Polycarp, 
 167. Pestilence rages several years. 
 
 COMMODUS. Death of Marcus, Mar. 17th, iSo. 
 Reigned, 19 y.; age 5Sy. lom. 21 d. 
 Commodus given to dissolute plea- 
 sures. 
 Increasing ascernlency of Hierarchical -Vristo 
 cracy in the Church. 
 > Montinism, i33.
 
 6 JO 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 LUNAR. 
 969 
 
 SOLAR. 
 940 
 
 A.n. 
 
 193 
 
 969 
 
 940 
 
 193 
 
 969 
 
 940 
 
 193 
 
 9S8 
 
 95S 
 
 211 
 
 994 
 
 964 
 
 217 
 
 995 
 
 965 
 
 218 
 
 999 
 
 969 
 
 222 
 
 1012 
 
 9S2 
 
 235 
 
 loiC 
 
 9SS 
 
 238 
 
 1016 
 
 9SS 
 
 238 
 
 ioi6 
 
 985 
 
 238 
 
 Pertinax. Murdered by Praetorians, March 28th, 
 
 193- 
 DiDius JuLiANUS. Buys the empire. Slain, June 
 
 1st, 193. 
 Septimus Severus. 
 
 Early aggression of Church of Rome. Victor 
 excommunicates the churches of Asia Minor. 
 Irensus. Tertuilian. 
 
 Edict prohibiting Christianity. Si.xth 
 
 persecution, 201. 
 
 C.VRACALLA. Oppressive taxation. Massacre at 
 Alexandria by Caracalla, 215. Cara- 
 calla assassinated near Edesa, April 
 Slh, 217 ; age 29. 
 
 Macrinus. Succeeds, April nth, 217. Beheaded, 
 218; age 54. 
 
 Elagabalus. a youth of 17, high priest of Temple 
 at Emesa. Superstitious and profli- 
 gate. Slain by PrKtorians, Jan., 222 ; 
 age 21. 
 Origen at Alexandria. 
 
 Alexander Severus. In his 14th year, prudently 
 
 guided by his mother, who is created 
 
 Augusta, wages war with the Persians. 
 
 Mvirdered, Feb., 235 ; age 28. 
 
 The Canon Paschalis of Hippolytus begins, 222. 
 
 MaxIMIN. Defeats the Germans. His ferocious 
 tyranny in Sirmium excites universal 
 horror. Partial persecution of Chris- 
 tians. Seventh persecution. 
 
 The Gordians. The Gordians proclaimedin Africa; 
 defeated and slain. 
 Toleration of the Church general. 
 
 Maximus and Balbinus. Elected by the Senate, 
 and murdered by the Prretorians. 
 
 Gordian III. Age 13, proclaimed emperor. Mur- 
 dered ; age 19, 244.
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 60 1 
 
 LUNAR. 
 1022 
 
 SOLAK. 
 
 A.D. 
 
 244 
 
 1027 
 
 996 
 
 249 
 
 1029 
 
 998 
 
 251 
 
 1032 
 
 lOOI 
 
 254 
 
 1032 
 
 lOOI 
 
 254 
 
 1038 
 
 1007 
 
 260 
 
 1047 
 
 IOI5 
 
 268 
 
 XO49 
 
 IOI7 
 
 270 
 
 Philip the Arabian. Openly shows favour to 
 
 Christians. Makes peace with Sapor, 
 
 246. 
 
 Origen, aged 60, writes cont. Cclsum. 
 Eishops now possess great and increasing in- 
 fluence. 
 
 Decius. Eighth persecution ; many apostatize. 
 Persian and Gothic invasions. 
 Origen suffers imprisonment and torture, 230. 
 Gallus. Appointed in association with Hostilianus, 
 son of Decius. Ninth persecution. 
 A pestilence begins which lasts fifteen 
 years. 
 Rise of monachism. Death of Origen, in his 
 69th year. 
 
 /Emilan'us. Slain by his soldiers at Spoletum. 
 
 Valerian. Cyprian teaches that the Bishop of 
 Rome is the successor of St. Peter, 
 and that the Church of Rome is 
 entitled to precedence from import- 
 ance of the city, but not in point of 
 jurisdiction. 
 
 Persecution. Stephen, bishop of Rome, put to 
 death. Many Christians sent to the mines. 
 
 Gallienus. Famine and testilence; diminution 
 of the human species. 
 Edict of Toleration. Christianity be- 
 comes for the first time a " religio 
 licita " — a lawful method of worship. 
 
 Claudius. Gallienus slain, March, 268, age 50. 
 
 Claudius overthrows the Goths, who, 
 
 to the number of 320,000, had occu* 
 
 pied Illyricum and Macedonia. 
 
 Hierarchical pretensions on the increase. 
 Celibacy in high esteem. 
 
 QuiNTILLUS. Erotlier of Claudius, assumes empire, 
 
 and in 17 days puts an end to hia 
 
 life.
 
 6o: 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 LU.-.AR. 
 1049 
 
 SOLAR. 
 IOI7 
 
 A.D. 
 
 270 
 
 1054 
 
 1022 
 
 275 
 
 1055 
 
 1023 
 
 276 
 
 1055 
 
 1023 
 
 278 
 
 io6i 
 
 1029 
 
 282 
 
 1061 
 
 1029 
 
 282 
 
 1061 
 
 1029 
 
 282 
 
 1063 
 
 103 I 
 
 284 
 
 1065 
 
 1033 
 
 286 
 
 1075 
 
 1043 
 
 296 
 
 1083 
 
 1005 
 
 303 
 
 AuRELlAN. Makes peace with Goths and Vandals, 
 unfriendly to Christianity ; about to 
 commence a persecution of Christians 
 •when he died, slain by the treachery 
 of his notai-y ; age 61. 
 
 Iiiterrc_q;num of six months, ending Sept. 25th, 275. 
 
 Tacitus. Elected by senate, Sept. 25th. Dies while 
 conducting an expedition against the 
 Goths. 
 
 Florianus. Brother of Tacitus. Killed by soldiers 
 at Tarsus. 
 
 Probus. Proclaimed emperor by the army, and 
 confirmed by Senate in spring of 276. 
 Killed in a mutiny of army, October, 
 2S2 ; age $0. 
 
 Carus. Subdued Sarmatians, slew 16,000 and 
 captured 20,000; gives title of Caesar 
 to each of his sons, Carinus and 
 Numerianus. Dies in November, 
 2S3; age 61. 
 
 Carinus. Encounters Diocletian, who is advancing 
 into Europe. 
 
 Numerianus. Assassinated by his father-in-law, 
 Aper. 
 Fifth Seal. Martyrs slain under. 
 Pagan Rome. 
 
 Diocletian. Proclaimed emperor, Sept. 17th, 284. 
 Era of Diocletian, or of Martyrs, 
 dates from 284. 
 
 Maximinian. Is associated by Diocletian with him- 
 self as joint emperor. Origenist con- 
 troversy. Beginning of divisions in 
 the Christian Church. 1260 lunar 
 years from laying Foundations of 
 Samaria, B.C. 926. 
 Diocletian's systematic persecution of 
 Christians commences with the publi-
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 603 
 
 LUNAR. SOLAR. A.D. 
 
 1085 
 
 roS6 
 
 1092 
 
 1093 
 
 1052 
 1053 
 
 1059 
 
 io6o 
 
 505 
 
 306 
 
 312 
 
 313 
 
 cation of his EDICT, at Nicomedia, 
 on the 24th Feb., 303. This was the 
 fiercest persecution the Church had 
 endured, the " ten days " tribulation. 
 It lasted ten years, and was the tenth 
 persecution. 
 CONSTANTIUS CliLORUS. Diocletian abdicates at 
 Nicomedia, May ist, 305 ; and en 
 same day Ma.\iminian abdicates at 
 Milan, and is succeeded by Constan- 
 tius as Augustus. 
 CONSTANTINE THE Great. Constantius, after a 
 victoiy over the Picts, died at York. 
 His son, Constantine the Great, pro- 
 claimed Augustus by the army, 25th 
 July, 306. 
 
 Conversion of Constantine. Indictions 
 begin Sept. ist, 312. 
 
 Eattle of Milvian Bridge, Oct. 2S, 312. 
 
 Licinius's Edict of Toleratio.n, 
 13th Jan., 313. Dsath of Diocletian, 
 aged 68. 
 
 FALL OF PAGAN ROMAN EMPIRE. 
 
 Constantinople Founded, 324. 
 
 Rise of Arianism, A.D. 317, occasions 
 council of Nice. Second stage in 
 division of Christendom. 1260 calen- 
 dar years after Foundation of Samaria, 
 B.C. 926. 
 
 (Analogous with twofold division oi 
 Tribes, — Samaria and Jerusalem.) 
 
 Council of Nice, 325. Attended by 318 
 bishops. (First of the 21 CEcumeni- 
 cal or General Councils.) Ded^ation 
 of Constantinople, 330. Arianism, 
 331.
 
 5o4 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 LI'NAR. 
 
 iiiS 
 
 xiiS 
 
 iiiS 
 
 1142 
 
 1144 
 
 1144 
 
 1145 
 
 SOLAR. I AD. 
 
 1084 337 
 
 1084 
 
 1084 
 
 1108 
 
 mo 
 
 II 10 
 
 1111 
 
 337 
 337 
 
 361 
 
 363 
 
 363 
 
 364 
 
 CONSTANTINE II. Council of Tyre, Jerusalem, 
 Arian, A.D. 335. 1260 solar years 
 after Foundation of Samaria, B.C. 
 926. 
 Arian council of Constantinople, 336. 
 Division of Christendom. The 
 first controversial war. (The Church 
 henceforth divided against itself.) 
 
 CONSTANS. 
 
 Ensebius writes the life of Constantino. 
 
 CONSTANTIUS. Three sons of Constantine, divide 
 the empire between them. 
 The Cathedral of St. Sophia is dedicated at 
 
 Constantinople, 360. 
 
 One-half the inhabitants of the Roman 
 Empire profess Christianity, which is 
 now THE RELIGION OF THE STATE. 
 
 Julian. Openly renounces Christianity, and endea- 
 vours to re-establish Paganism. Re- 
 stores heathen sacrifices. 
 Julian attempts to re-build the Temple 
 
 at Jerusalem. 
 
 The Jews assist. Undertaking abandoned on 
 account of fire bursting forth from foundations. 
 Julian wounded in battle, June 26th ; expires 
 at midnight, in his 32nd year, a.d. 363. 
 
 Jovian. Proclaimed emperor, June 27th. Restores 
 
 privileges of the Church ; recalls 
 
 banished bishops. Dies Feb. 17th, 
 
 364- 
 Valentinian. Makes his brother Valens emperor 
 of the East, and takes the West 
 himself. 
 
 FINAL DIVISION OF EASTERN AND 
 
 WESTERN EMPIRES. 
 
 (Lunar eclipse Nov. 25th, ish. 24m., total, a.d. 
 364, Alexandria. — Theon, in Commentary on 
 the Almagest of Ptolemy.)
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 605 
 
 LUNAR. 
 1157 
 
 SOLAR. 
 
 II22 
 
 A.D. 
 
 375 
 
 1157 
 
 1177 
 1 193 
 
 1208 
 
 1239 
 
 1240 
 1241 
 
 1245 
 
 112: 
 
 114: 
 
 1157 
 
 1172 
 
 1202 
 
 1203 
 
 1204 
 
 1208 
 
 1252 11214 
 
 375 
 
 395 
 410 
 425 
 
 455 
 
 456 
 457 
 
 461 
 
 467 
 
 Gratian. Valentinian dies, Nov. 17th, 357; age 55. 
 Succeeded by his son Gratian, who is 
 the first emperor to renounce the 
 heathen title PONTIFEX Maximus (a 
 title afterwards assumed by the Popes). 
 Socrates, historian. 
 Valentinian II, Younger brother of Gratian, 
 associated with him. 
 Ambrose, bishop of Milan. 
 Earlier TRUMPETS (Rev. viii.). Over- 
 throw OF Roman Empire. 
 LIonorIUS. Removal of seat of government from 
 Rome to Ravenna. Revolt of GoTHS. 
 Alaric commenced his ravages in 
 Greece, 395 ; and in Italy, 402. 
 Sack of Rome by Alaric, Aug. 
 24th, 410. Augustine. 
 
 Innocent I., bishop of Rome requires all the 
 Western Churches to conform to the customs 
 of the Church of Rome, 416. 
 
 Valentinian III. 
 
 Enacts that all bishops of the Western Empire 
 
 obey the Bishop of Rome. 
 
 Killed by Maximus for his adultery. 
 
 Death of Attila, 453. 
 
 Maximus. Vandals under Genseric plunder Rome. 
 
 Patricius, or Succoth (St. Patrick), 
 
 454- • 
 
 Genseric carrie3 away the sacred vessels which 
 Titus had brought from Jerusalem, about 
 June 13-26, 455- 
 
 Avitus. The Visigoths establish their dommion in 
 Spain. 
 
 MajoRIANUS. Assassinated, Aug. 7th, 461, by Rici- 
 mer, who places Severus on throne, 
 but exercises imperial power him- 
 self. 
 
 Severus. Proclaimed at Ravenna, 19th Nov., 461. 
 
 AntiiemiUS. Inaugurated at Rome, 12th April, 467,
 
 6o6 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 LUNAR. 
 1257 
 
 T259 
 
 1259^ 
 
 1260 
 
 SOLAR. 
 I2I9 
 
 I22I 
 1222 
 
 AD. 
 
 472 
 
 474 
 475 
 
 1222^ 476 
 
 Olybrius. Advance of Patriarchate. Olybrius 
 reigiied 7 months. Died Oct. 23rJ, 
 472. 
 Jl'lius Nepos. Elevation, June 24th, 474. 
 Romulus Augustulus. Orestes, the patrician, 
 enters Ravenna with an army and 
 drives out Nepos, who flies to Dal- 
 matia, 28th Aug., 475. 
 Orestes proclaimed his son RoMULUS 
 emperor at Ravenna, Oct. 31st, 475. 
 Odoacer at the head of the Heruli 
 invades Italy ; overthrows Orestes, 
 who is slain at Placentia. 
 Romulus Augustulus is banished. 
 Odoacer makes himself King of 
 Italy, fi.xing his seat at Ravenna. 
 The i^\st Augustus reigned lomths.; 
 from Oct. 31st, 475, to 22nd Aug., 
 to Aug. 22. 476. (" Fasti Romani," Clinton.) 
 
 END OF WESTERN ROMAN EMPIRE. 
 
 Period from Beginning of Kingdom of Babylon, 
 to Fall of Western Rome, — 
 
 From the Era of Nabonassar, February 26th, 747 e.g., 
 
 To the Fall of Augustulus, August 22nd, 476 a.d., 
 
 there elapsed 1222 solar years and six months, 
 
 or 
 
 TWELVE HUNDRED AND SIXTY LUNAR YEARS. 
 
 " TIME, TIMES, AND AN HALF TIME." 
 
 1222 solar years 6 months = 446,503 days. 
 
 1260 lunar i'cars, or 15,120 lun.itions ■■ 446,502^ days
 
 FROM THE RISE TO THE FALL OF THE PAPAL POWER; 
 1260 YEARS, IN SOLAR, CALENDAR AND LUNAR FORMS. 
 
 Reckoned from the Edicts of Justinian and Phocas; and the accession of Gregory the Great. 
 
 I755--
 
 APPENDIX. fk>7 
 
 CaUnlrai* 
 
 OF 
 
 PART II., Comprising : 
 
 THE RISE, CULMINATION, AND DECAY OF THE 
 PAPAL AND MOHAMMEDAN POWERS. 
 
 I. The birth of Mohammed, and the accession of Gregory 
 the Great, towards the end of the sixth century, mark 
 the commencement of the second part of the Times of 
 the Gentiles. Of the second of these events, Arch- 
 bishop Trench says in his " Mediaeval Church History " 
 (p. 14) : " My conviction is that we should articulate 
 history more justly, if we affirmed that as ancient history 
 it closed, and as mediaeval history it began, with the 
 Pontificate of Gregory the Great. In him, the last of the 
 
 — 5— ~ 
 
 Edict and letters of the Emperor Justinian, constituting the 
 
 Bishop of Rome head of all the Churches of Christendom :— 
 
 " Imp. Justinian. A. Constantinopolitis. 
 
 "Cum Sal valorem et Dominum omnium Jesum Christum verum Deum 
 nostrum colamus per omnia, studemus etiara (quatenus datum est humanx 
 menti assequi) imitari ejus condescensionem seu demissionem. Etenim 
 cum quosdam invenerimus morbo atque insanii detentos impiorum 
 Nestorii et Eutychetis, Dei et sanctse catholics et apostolics ecclesix 
 hostium, nempe qui detrectabant sanctam gloriosam semper Virginem 
 Mariam Theotocon sive Deiparam appellare proprie et secundum veritatem : 
 illos festinavimus quae sit recta Christianorum fides edocere. Nam hi 
 incurabiles cum sint, celantes errorem suum passim circumeunt (sicut 
 didicimus) et simpliciomm animos exturbant et scandalizant, ea astruentes 
 qux sunt sanctLx: catliolicK ecclcsire contraria, Ncccssarium igitur esse 
 putavimus, tam hxreticorum vaniloquia et mendacia dissipare, quam 
 omnibus insinuare, quomodo aut sentiat sancta Dei et catholica ct
 
 6o3 APPENDIX. 
 
 Latin fathers, the first, in our modern sense of the word, 
 of the Popes, we bid adieu to the old Greek and Roman 
 culture and Hterature and habits of thought, as the pre- 
 dominant and ruhng forces of the world. The ancient 
 world still lives on, . . . but another order of things 
 is shaping itself afid Gregory the Great, standing at the 
 meeting place of the old and ne^u, does more than any other 
 to set the Church fonuard tipon the new lines on which 
 henceforth it must travel to co?istitute A Latin Christian- 
 
 apostollca ecclesia, aut prredicent sanctissimi ejus sacerdotes; quos et nos 
 sequuti, manifesta constituimus ea qui'e fidei nostrce sunt ; non quidem 
 innovantes fidem (quod ab.iit) sed coarguantes eorum insaniam qui eadera 
 cum impiis hcereticis sentiunt. Quod quidem et nos in nostri imperii 
 primordiis pridem satagentes cunctis fecimus manifestum." 
 
 " In the remainder of the edict, the Emperor gives a statement 
 of his own faith, and denounces anathemas against Nestorius, 
 Eutyches, and ApoUinarius, and their followers. The edict is 
 dated on the ides of March, 533. The same edict was ad- 
 dressed to twelve other cities of the empire, among which 
 were Jenisalem, Csesarea, and Ephesus." 
 
 " Upon the promulgation of this edict, Justinian addressed an 
 epistle to the Pope, as the acknowledged head of all the holy- 
 churches, which was transmitted by the hands of Demetrius 
 and Hypatius, two bishops. From this epistle I quote the 
 following extracts : — " 
 
 "Victor Justinianus, pius, felix, inclytus.triumphator, semper Augustus, 
 Joanni sanctissimo Archiepiscopo alma; Urbis Romas et Patriarclioe. 
 
 " Reddentes iionorem apostolicx sedi, et vestroe sanctitati (quod semper 
 nobis in voto et fuit et est), et ut decet patrem honorantes vestram beatitudi- 
 iiem, omnia quae ad ecclcsiarum statum pertinent festinavimus ad notitiam 
 deferre vestra; sanctitatis ; quoniam semper nobis fuit magnum studium, 
 unitatem vestra; apostolica; sedis, et statum sanctarum Dei ecclesiarum 
 custodire, qui hactenus obtinet, et incommote permanet, nulla intercedente 
 contrarietate. Ideoque omnes sacerdotes universi Orientalis tractus et sub- 
 jicere et unire sedi vestrae sanctitatis properavimus. In prossenti ergo quae 
 commota sunt (quamvis manifesta et indubitata sint et secundum apostolicae
 
 APPENDIX. 609 
 
 ITV, ivith distinctive features of its otvn, such as broadly 
 
 separate it from Greek.'" 
 
 The accession of this pontiff, and the birth of Mohammed, 
 
 the founder of the great system of false rehgion in the East, 
 
 are separated from the era of Nabonassar by 1335 calendar, 
 
 and 1335 solar years. 
 
 1335 calendar years are 13 16 solar : from the era of 
 Nabonassar, b.c. 747, to the birth of Mohammed, a.d. 570, 
 is this period. 
 
 vestras sedis doctrinam ab omnibus semper sacerdotibus firme custodita et 
 prcedicata) necessarium duximus, ut ad notitiam vestrse sanctitatis per- 
 veniant. Nee enim patimur quicquam, quod ad ecclesiaram statum per- 
 tinet, quamvis manifestum et indubitatum sit, quod movetur, ut non etiam 
 vestroe innotescat sanctitati quce caput est omnium sanctarum ecclesiarum. 
 Per omnia enim (ut dictum est) properamus honorem et auctoritatem 
 crcscere vestrjs sedis." 
 
 " The epistle next states the circumstance of certain men 
 having maintained heretical doctrines respecting the person of 
 Christ, and it then contains .a statement of the faith of the 
 Church and of the Emperor himself on this point, and it con- 
 cludes as follows : — " 
 
 " Suscipimus autem sancta quatuor concilia : id est, trecentorum decern 
 et octo sanctorum patrum, qui in Nicoena urbe congregati sunt : et centum 
 quinquaginta sanctorum patrum qui in hac regia urbe convenerunt : et sanc- 
 torum patrum qui in Epheso primo congregati sunt, et sanctorum patrum 
 qui in Chalcedone convenerunt : sicut vestra apostolica sedes docet atque 
 pr.xdicat. Omnes ergo sacerdotes sequentes doctrinam apostolicce sedis 
 vestrre ita credunt et confitentur et pra?dicant. 
 
 " Unde properavimus hoc ad notitiam deferre vestroe sanctitatis per 
 Hypafium et Demetrium, beatissimos episcopos, ut nee vestram sanctitatem 
 lateat, qua; et a quibusdam paucis monacliis male et Judaice secundum 
 Nestorii perfidiam denegata sunt. Petimus ergo vcstrum paternum affec- 
 tum ; ut vestris ad nos destinatis literis, et ad sanctlssimum episcopum 
 liujus almx urbis, et patriarcham vcstrum fratrem (quoniam et ipse per 
 cosdem scripsit ad vestram sanctitatem, festinans in omnibus sedem 
 sequi apostolicam beatitudinis vestrre), manifestum nobis faciatis, quod 
 omncs qui pnvdicta recte confitentur, suscipit vestra sanctitas, et eomm qui 
 
 R R
 
 6io APPENDIX. 
 
 From the era of Nabonassar, 1335 solar years terminate in 
 A.D. 5S9, — the year before the accession of Gregory the Great. 
 
 If the propJietic period of 1335 years should prove to begirt 
 with this point, and to be reckoned in solar years, the whole 
 extent of the Times of the Gentiles ivill be 1335 years doubled^ 
 aiid the accession of Gregory the Great will be its bisection. 
 
 2. The edicts of Justinian and Phocas, constituting the Bishop 
 of Rome head of all the Churches of Christendom, are 
 the limits of the 74-5 years interval which comprises 
 
 Judaice ausi sint rectam denegare fidem, condemnat perfidiam. Plus enim 
 ita circa vos omnium amor, et vestrce sedis crescet auctoritas ; et quoe ad 
 vos est unitas sanctarum ecclesiarum inturbata servabitur, quando per vos 
 didiccrint omnes beatissimi episcopi eorum, quce ad vos relata sunt, 
 sinccram vestrai sanctitatis doctrinam. Petimus autem vestram beatitudinem 
 orare pro nobis, et Dei nobis adquirere providentiam." 
 
 " The above epistle was dated at least as early as the 25th 
 of March, 533 5 for in his letter to the Archbishop of Con- 
 stantinople, which bears that date, the Emperor mentions his 
 having already \vritten to the Pope." 
 
 " The reply of Pope John to the above memorable epistle is 
 dated the 24th Tvlarch, 534; and the following are extracts 
 from it : " 
 
 " Gloriosi.5simo et clementissimo filio Justiniano Augusto, 
 "Johannes Episcopus Urbis Romje. 
 " Inter claras sapientioe ac mansuetudinis vestrce laudes, Clirlstianisslme 
 principum, puriore luce tanquam aliquod sydus irradiat, quod amore fidei, 
 quod charitatis studio cdocti ccclesiasticis disciplinis, Romance sedis rever- 
 entiam conscrvatis, et ei cuncta subjicitis, et ad ejus deducitis unitatcm, ad 
 cujus auctorem, hoc est apostolorum primum, Domino loquente prs- 
 ceptum est, Pasce oves mens : Quam esse omnium vere ecclesiarum caput, 
 et patrum regular ct principum statuta declarant, et pietatis vestroe rever- 
 cndiasimi tcstantur affatus." 
 
 * * # * • 
 
 " Proinde serenitatis vestrce apices, per Hypatium atque Dcmetrium, 
 sanctissimos viros, fratres et coepiscopos meos, revcrentia consueta suscepi- 
 mus : quonim ctiam relatione compcrimus, quod fidelibus populis propo-
 
 "SEVEN TIMES" WITH THE ADDED 75 YEARS; 
 
 Recl'Oned 
 I, from Nabonassar -, 2,fronn Nebuchadnezzar 
 
 Nabonasbar tra. B C 747 
 
 Capt Israel 
 
 — ^ rn 
 
 Nebuchadnezzar. BC.5S 
 Capt Judah. 
 
 9 3 
 
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 3 t" 
 
 END West. Rom. Emp. 
 
 Aug. 22,476 .-l260Lunar_ 
 
 "1260 Solar 
 
 Gregory the Great. 589-590. 1335 Sol.-* 
 
 V.tal.an.Lateinoa. 663. . 1260 Sol Nebr 
 
 Louis XVI. FRevol. 
 Napoleon. 
 
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 -2520 Solar Y 
 
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 APPENDIX, 6ii 
 
 nearly the whole of the reign of Justinian, togetlier with 
 the period and pontificate of Gregory the Great, and those 
 of Boniface IIL, — the era of tJie establishment of the Papacy. 
 
 3. The commencing point in the Mohammedan calendar is 
 
 the so-called flight of Mohammed, or his reception at 
 Medina as Prophet and Prince, a.d, 622. 
 This date, called the era of the Hegira, is the new moon of 
 July 16, A.D. 622. 
 
 4, Reckoning from the 74-5 years interval of the estahlisJanent 
 
 suistis edictum amore fidei pro submovenda hcereticorum intentione, secun- 
 dum apostolicam doctrinam, fratrum et coepiscoporum nostrorum inter- 
 veniente consensu. Quod, quia apostolicze doctrina; convenit, nostra 
 aucLoritate confirmamus." 
 
 " Upon the same occasion Justinian also addressed a letter 
 to the Patriarch of Constantinople, of which I shall give the 
 first paragraph." 
 
 •* Idem imperat. Epiphanio sanctissimo et beatissimo Archicpiscopo 
 Regioe hujus Urbis et CEcumenico Patriarchce. 
 
 " Cognoscere volentes tuam sanctitatem ea omnia quce ad ecclesiasticum 
 spcctant statum : necessarium duximus, hisce ad earn uti divinis compendiis, 
 ac per ea manifesta eidem facere, quce jam moveri ca-pta sunt, quanquam 
 ct ilia eandem cognoscere sumus persuasi. Cum itaque comperisscmus 
 quosdam alienos a sancta, catholica, et apostolica ecclesia, impiorum 
 Nestorii et Eutychetis sequutos deceptionem, divinum antehac promul- 
 gavimus edictum (quod et tua novit sanctitas) per quod hrereticorum furores 
 reprehendimus, ita ut nullo quovis omnino raodo immutaverimus, immute- 
 mus aut prcetergressi simus eum, qui nunc usque, coadjuvante Deo, ser- 
 vatus est, ecclesiasticum statum (quemadmodum et tua novit sanctitas) sed 
 in omnibus servato statu unitatis sanctissimarum ecclesiarum cum ipso S. S. 
 Papa veteris Romoe, ad quem similia hisce pcrscripsinius. Nee enim 
 patimur ut quicquam eorum, quae ad ecclesiasticum spectant statum, non 
 ctiam ad ejusdem referatur beatitudinem : quum ea sit caput omnium 
 sanctissimorum Dei sp.cerdotum ; vel eo maxime quod, quoties in eis locis 
 haeretici puUularunt, et sententia et recto judicio illius venerabilis sedis 
 coerciti sunt." 
 
 " The above documents are to be found at full length in the 
 volume of the civil law (Codicis lib. I. tit. i.), and by being
 
 6i2 APPENDIX. 
 
 of Papal power, 1260 years from its commencement and 
 close, in lunar, calendar, and solar forms, extend to the 
 overthrow of Papal power in the French Revolution, and 
 the bursting of its after waves, the Revolutions of 1830, 
 1848-9, and 186S-70 ; including the double overthrow of 
 the temporal power in the Pontificate of Pius IX. 
 From the accession of Gregory the Great, and from the sub- 
 sequent decree of Phocas, 1260 War and 1260 calendar yQ.:xxs 
 meet in the crisis of 1848-9, — the revolution era of the rise of 
 t/ie Second French Republic ; thence to 1870, is the period of the 
 
 published in that collection, they obtained the stamp of public 
 and legislative authority as the laws of the empire. In these 
 documents we find the Emperor publishing a rule of faith to 
 his subjects of the Eastern Empire, and addressing the Pope 
 of Rome on the occasion, as the acknowledged head of all the 
 churches (not the Western churches only), and requesting the 
 approbation of what he had done. We see the Pope, in reply, 
 giving the sanction of his authority as the acknowledged head of 
 the Church, to the religious edict of Justinian." — Cuninghame 
 on the Seals and Trumpets of the Apocalypse and the prophetical 
 period of \2^o years, p. 222-227. 
 
 The Decree of Phocas is thus referred to by Diaconus — 
 " Ilic (Phocas) rogante Papa Bonefacio, statuit sedem Romance ecclesice, 
 ut caput esset omnium ecclesiarum ; quia ecclesia Constantinopolitana 
 primam se omnium ecclesiarum scribebat " (Paulus Diaconus, " De Gestis 
 Romanorum ad Eutropii Historiam Additus," lib. xvii.). 
 
 (Diaconus refers to it in the same terms in his woric " De Gestis Longo- 
 bardorum.") 
 
 The following is from Anastasius, "Ilistoria Ecclesiastica et dc Vitis 
 Pontificum," P. ii. p. 44, c. 3 : — 
 
 " Bonefacius III., Anno Christi, 606 ; Phocrc Imp., 4. 
 
 " Bonefacius, natione Romanus, ex patre Joanne Cabaudioce, sedet men* 
 ses octo, dies viginti octo. Ilic obtinuit apud Phocam Principem, ut sedes 
 apostolica beati Petri apostoli caput esset omnium ecclesiarum, id est, 
 ecclesia Romana, quia ecclesia Constantinopolitana primam se omnium 
 ecclesiarum scribebat,"
 
 APPENDIX. 613 
 
 third Napoleon, linked in his rise and fall with the restoration 
 and destruction of the Papal temporal power. 
 
 5. From the Hegira era, 1260 Mohammedan or lunar years 
 extend to 1844-5, a year signalised by the Mohammedan 
 decree granting religious toleration. 
 
 The accession of Pope Boniface III. is stated in the Calendar as Feb. 
 18, 607, from Clinton's "Fasti Romani"; also the statement that he 
 presided 8 m. 24 d., and died lOth Nov., 607. The see remained vacant 
 after the death of Boniface III. from Nov. 11, 607, to 24th Aug., 608, or 
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 I. The character, magnitude, and multiplicity of the events 
 constituting the rise, course, decline, and fall of the four great 
 Pagan empires of antiquity, render the fact that their joint dura- 
 tion was, as shown in the calendar, limited to the exact bisection 
 of ''seven times,'' or the period of *'time, times, and a half 
 TIME," one of the profoundest interest and importance. 
 
 The chronological fact thus discovered is marvellous in itself 
 and in that which it implies. 
 
 The hand of God in history, and the inspiration of pro- 
 phecy, are clearly attested by this marvellous relation between 
 celestial revolutions and chronological periods, which presents 
 also irresistible confirmation of the year-day interpretation of 
 the 1260 "days" of prophecy,— the assigned duration of the 
 second and more important portion of the "Times of the 
 Gentiles." 
 
 II. Measuring thus the duration of the four empires by lunar 
 years, we reach some important facts respecting the separate 
 duration of each of these empires, and the Joint duration of the 
 second and third. 
 
 1. The Babylonian. The overthrow of Babylon by Cyrus, 
 B.C. 538, took place in the 210th solar year from the era 
 of Nabonassar ; the duration of that empire was therefore 
 seven prophetic months of solar j-^ar^— one- twelfth of 
 " seven times." 
 
 2. The Persian. Reckoning the four empires as successive, 
 the Persian dates from the capture of Babylon by Cyrus, 
 B.C. 538, and terminates with the conquest of Persia by
 
 670 APPENDIX. 
 
 Alexander, B.C. 334, a duration of 204 solar or 210 lunar 
 years, sa'en prophetic months of years in lunar form. 
 
 3. The Grecian. From the Grecian conquest of the Per- 
 sian empire, B.C. 334, to the Roman conquest of Syria and 
 overthrow of Antiochus IX., the last of the Selaicida, B.C. 
 65, followed and completed by the capture of Jerusalem, 
 D.c. 6t^, the year Augustus Ccesar was born, there elapsed 
 271 solar or 2S0 lunar years ; that is,, forty weeks of lunar 
 years. 
 
 (210 years is the twelfth, and ?&o years the ninth, of 
 ■2520 years, or "seven times.") Connecting the last two 
 measures we observe that the thirty weeks of lunar years of 
 the Persian, together with the forty rceeks of lunar years of 
 the Grecian, make together seventy weeks of lunar 
 
 YEARS. 
 
 Thus from the capture of Babylon by Cyrus to the capture 
 of Jerusalem by Pompey, the interval was " seventy weeks " ; 
 in other words, from the Cyrus or Persian era of Jewish 
 restoration, to the Augustus or Roman er;i of " Messiah the 
 Prince," was " seventy weeks " of lunar years ; and it should 
 be remembered that the entire duration of the four empires is 
 measured by lunar years. 
 
 Here again we recognise the hand of God in history. It 
 was revealed to Daniel that " seventy weeks " or 490 years 
 should extend from a Persian edict of Jewish restoration to 
 Messiah the Prince, and such a period did extend from the 
 edict of Artaxerxes to the accomplishment of our Lord's 
 atoning work, followed, as foretold, by the Roman destruction 
 of the city and temple of Jerusalem ; and here, in harmony 
 with this foretold and accomplished fact, we find that the 
 mterval which reached from the begiiming of the Persian empire, 
 an empire marked in its very outset by Jewish restoration, to 
 the beginning of the Roman empire, as reckoned from the sub- 
 version of the Grecian Seleucidce, and the Roman conc^uest of
 
 APPEXDIX. 671 
 
 Syria and capture of Jerusalem, — that this interval, embracing 
 the entire duration of the second and third of the four great 
 empires, viewed as such, was also 490 years, or " seventy 
 weeks " of lunar years. 
 
 4. The Roman. As the Persian and Grecian kingdoms 
 occupied 490 of the 1260 years duration of the four em- 
 pires, the joint duration of the first and last, the Babylon- 
 ian and Roman was limited to 770 lunar years. Had the 
 Babylonian just equalled the Persian, 210 lunar years, the 
 Roman would have exactly doubled the Grecian, 280 lunar 
 years (for 280 x 2 = 560 + 210 = 770), As the Babylonian 
 was 210 solar or 217 lunar, 553 lunar remain for the 
 Roman empire, or 79 instead of 80 weeks of lunar years. 
 
 Thus then, viewed as successive the Babylonian and Persian 
 empires endured respectively for seven months of solar, and 
 seven months of lunar years ; the Grecian for forty weeks of 
 lunar years, and the Roman for double that period, less one 
 such week. 
 
 III. As to the period now reached in the Calendar, the 
 year a.d. 1S79. We knoio that the latter half of the Times of 
 the Gentiles is in Dan. xii. lengthened by two additions of 30 
 and 45 years, making the 126c into 1335 years. We assume 
 that the former half may have been similarly lengthened, and 
 as a matter of history we see that while 1260 lunar years 
 comprised exactly the duration of the four great Pagan 
 empires, 1335 solar led to the accession of Gregory the Great, 
 the commencement of Latin Christianity. This point seems 
 to be the bisection of the entire " Times of the Gentiles " as 
 measured from its extreme termini, and comprising two periods 
 of 1335 years. From this point 1260 years terminated in the 
 revolution era 184S-9 (which was also 2520 //^//a/- years from 
 Nebuchadnezzar's overthrow of Judah), but 1335 years do not 
 terminate until the -.yet future year, 1923. That is, not only
 
 672 APPENDIX. 
 
 the main period but the added 30 years have already elapsed, 
 and we are now entering on the final 45. The year Feb. 
 1S7S-9 was the 2625th from the era of Nabonassar (i.e. 
 1335 + 1260 + 30). It witnessed the death of the last Pope 
 wielding temporal sovereignty, Pius IX. ; the overthrow of 
 Turkish power by Russia, and the establishment of a British 
 protectorate over Turkey in Asia. We have long passed the 
 termination of the 2520 years as reckoned from Nabonassar, 
 and we are within 45 years of their termination as reckoned 
 from Nebuchadnezzar, their latest commencing point. If the 
 added 75 years are included (as seems probable, and from the 
 nature of the case almost certain) in this latest form of the 
 period, then w^e have already entered on the brief final fraction 
 of the prophetic times ; they viay, of course, be supplementary 
 to it, when the end of the age would be by so much the more 
 distant. Time only can declare. 
 
 " Therefore be ve also ready, for in such an ieour 
 AS ve think not the Son of man cometh."
 
 APPENDIX B. 
 
 AUTHORS CONSULTED IX THE PREPARATION 
 OF THIS WORK. 
 
 WORKS ON ROMANISM. 
 
 About, E. — The Roman Queation. Translated from the French. Lon- 
 don : W. Jeffs. 
 
 Alexander, Wm. Lindsay. — Anglo-Catholicism not Apostolical : an 
 Enquiry into the Scriptural Authority of the leading Doctrines advo- 
 cated in the "Tracts for the Times." Longmans. 
 
 Apostasy. — The Great Apostasy ; or, the Church of Rome proved to be 
 not the Church of Christ. London : Hamilton, Adams & Co. 
 
 Arthur, Wm., M.A.— The To^De, the Kings, and the Teople. 2 vols. 
 London : Nisbet. 
 
 Barlee, Ellen. — The Bible in Rome, with a record of Protestant Mii- 
 sions established since 1873. London : Hatchards. 
 
 Barrow, Isaac, D.D.— A Treatise of the Pope's Supremacy. 
 
 Baxter, Richard.— A Key for Catholics, to open the Juggling of the 
 Jesuits, and to satisfy all who are truly willing to understand whether 
 the cause of the Roman or Reformed Churches be of -God. Lwndon • 
 Hamilton, Adams & Co. 
 
 Bertram.— The Book of Bertram the Priest, concerning the Body and 
 Blood of Christ in the Sacrament. Written by the command of the 
 Emperor Charles the Bald, in the 9th century. I'ranslated into English 
 in 1549. 
 
 Buckley, Theodore Alois.— The Catechism of the Council of Trent. 
 Translated into English. London : Routledge. 
 
 Burnet, Gilbert, D.D.— Letter from the Assembly General of the Clergy 
 of France to the Protestants, inviting them to return to their Com- 
 munion. Translated and examined by Gilbert Burnet, D.D. 1683. 
 
 Catholic Registry.— Battersby's Registi7 for the Catholic World, with 
 the complete Ordo. The Registry contains lists of the bishops, 
 priests, and parishes of the three kingdoms, and Continental, Asiatic, 
 African, American, Occanican, and Colonial Registries. London : 
 Richard-on. 
 
 X X
 
 674 APPENDIX. 
 
 Cayetano, El Padre. Explicacion de la doctrina Christiana segun el 
 metodo con que la enseiian los padres de las escuelas pias. Valla- 
 dolid. 1S02. 
 
 CiHLLiNGWORTH. — Religion of Protestants, a safe Way to Salvation, witli 
 his ten Tracts against Popery. London : Thomas Tegg. 
 
 Clark, The Rev. Jno. A.— Rome, its Wonders and its Worship. Lon- 
 don : Samuel Bagster «Sl Sons. 
 
 Cleme.nt XIV. — Letters of Pope Clement XIV. (Ganganelli), to which 
 are prefixed Anecdotes of his Life. Translated from the French, 
 
 1777. 
 
 Court of Rome. — The History of Monastical Conventions and Military 
 Institutions, with a Survey of the Court of Rome ; or, a Description of 
 the Court of Rome, in all the great Offices, and Oftkers ecclesiastical 
 and civil dependant thereon ; also the Ceremonies of the Consis- 
 tories, Conclave, and those that have been used in the creation of Car- 
 dinals, the election of the High Bishop or Pope, etc. 16S6. 
 
 Coverdale, Miles. — The Letters of the Martyrs: collected and published 
 in 1564 : with Introductory Remarks by the Rev. Edward Bickersteth. 
 London : Shaw. 
 
 CtNiNGHAME, W.M. — The Apostasy of the Church of Rome and the 
 Identity of the Papal Power with the Man of Sin and Son of Per- 
 dition. London : Hatchard. 
 
 UfFF, Alexander, D.D.— The Jesuits : their Origin and Order, Morality 
 and Practices, Suppression and Restoration. Edinburgh : Johnstone 
 & Hunter. 
 
 Durix, L. E. — The History of the Church. In 4 vols. Translated from 
 the French. 
 
 Elliott, Rev. Charles, D. D. — Delineation of Roman Catholicism, 
 drawn from the authentic and acknowledged Standards of the Church 
 of Rome ; namely, her Creeds, Decisions of Councils, Papal Bulls, 
 Roman Catholic Writers, the Records of History, etc. London: 
 Mason. 
 
 Faults, Henry, B.D., Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. — Tlie 
 History of Romish Treasons and Usurpations, together with a par- 
 ticular Account of many gross Corruptions and Impostures in the 
 Church of Rome. 1671. 
 
 Fleming, Robert. — The Rise and Fall of Rome Papal. Reprinted from 
 the first edition in 1701. London : Houlston & Stoneman. 
 
 FoYE, Rev. M. W., M.A. Oxon. — Romish Rites, Offices, and Legends; 
 or, Authorized Superstitions and Idolatries of the Church of Rome ; 
 containing the greater portion of the Roman Pontifical, the Ordinary 
 of the Mass ; the principal Festivals and Offices of the Blessed Virgin 
 Mary, copious Selections from the Services, Plymns and Legends of
 
 APPENDIX. 675 
 
 the Roman Breviary, and the Canonization of the Saints, etc., with 
 the Latin text and translations. Published by the British Society for 
 Promoting the Religious Principles of the Reformation. 
 
 Free Thoughts.— Free Thoughts on the Toleration of Popery, deduced 
 from a Review of its Principles and History, with respect to Liberty 
 and the Interests of Princes and Nations. Edinburgh : Donaldson. 
 
 Gavazzi, Alessandro.— My Recollections of the last four Popes, and of 
 Rome in their times. An answer to Dr. Wiseman. London : Par- 
 tridge & Co. 
 
 GiBBiNGS, Richard, A.B.— An exact Reprint of the Roman Expurga- 
 torius : the only Vatican Index of this kind ever published. London : 
 Rivington. 
 
 Hall, Joseph, D.D., Bishop of Exeter and Norwich.— The Peace 
 of Rome : whereto is prefixed a serious Dissuasive from Popery. 
 Oxford : D. A. Talboys. 
 
 Hall, Newman, B. A.— The Land of the Fonim and the Vatican. Lon- 
 don : Nisbet. 
 
 Henry VIII. , King of England, France, and Ireland.— Assertio 
 Septem Sacramentorum : or, a Defence of the Seven Sacraments, 
 against Martin Luther. To which are adjoined, His Epistle to the 
 Pope. The Oration of Mr. John Clark (Orator to His Majesty) on 
 the delivery of this book to his Holiness, and the Pope's Answer to the 
 Oration, as also, the Pope's Bull, by which his Holiness was pleased 
 to bestow upon that King (for composing that book) that most illus- 
 trious, splendid, and most Christian-like title of Defender of the P~aith. 
 Faithfully translated into English from the original Latin ELBtion. 
 By T. W. Gent. 1766. 
 
 Homilies. — Homily appointed to be read in Churches in the time of 
 Queen Elizabeth against the peril of Idolatry. 
 
 Hughes. — The "Man of Sin;" or, a Discourse of Popery, wherein the 
 numerous and monstrous Abominations, in Doctrines and Practices, of 
 the Romish Church are by their own hands exposed so to open light 
 that the very blind may see them, and Antichrist in capital letters 
 engraven on them. By no Roman but a Reformed Catholic. 1677. 
 
 Inquisition. — Artes de la Inquisizion EspaSola ; primer traduczion Cas- 
 tellana de la obra Escrita en Latin. Por el Espaiiol Raimundo (Gon- 
 zalez de Montes. Printed by A. B. B. Wiffen. Woburn. 
 
 Inquisition. — Authentic Memoirs concerning the Portuguese Inquisition, 
 never before published. London: Murray. 1769. 
 
 Janus. — The Pope and the Council. Translated from the German. Riv- 
 ingtons. 
 
 Luther, Martin. — The Pope Confounded and his Kingdom Exposed. 
 Translated by the Rev. Henry Cole. London : J. Nisbet & Co.
 
 675 APPENDIX. 
 
 McGhee, Rev. Robert J., A.B.— The Complete Notes of the Doway 
 Bible and Rhemish Testament. Extracted from the quarto editions of 
 l8i6 and iSiS, published under the patronage of the Roman Catholic 
 Bishops and Priests of Ireland, as the Authorized Interpretation of 
 the Church, and the Infallible Guide to Everlasting Life. London: 
 Hatchard. 
 
 MacWalter, J. G.— The Irish Reformation Movement, a History of the 
 Irish Church. London : Seeleys. 
 
 Maistre, Count Joseph de. — Letters to a Russian Gentleman, on the 
 Spanish Inquisition. Translated by the Rev. /Eneas M'D. Dawson. 
 London : C. Dolman. 
 
 Manual, The Ursui.ine.— Richard Coyne, Dublin. 
 
 Manual de Piete. — A I'usage des eleves du Sacre Coeur. LecoftVe fils 
 et Cie., Paris. 
 
 Meagher, A. — (Originally a priest in the Church of Rome.) — Paganism 
 and Romanism Compared. London : Seeleys. 
 
 Mede. — Apostasy of the Latter Times, with an Introduction by Rev. T. R. 
 Birks. London: W. H. Dalton. 
 
 Mendham, Rev. Joseph, M.A., M.E.H.S. — An Index of Books Pro- 
 hibited by command of Pope Gregory XVL London: Duncan. 
 
 MtCHELSON, Dr. Edwd. LI. — Modern Jesuitism ; or, the Movements and 
 Vicissitudes of the Jesuits in the Nineteenth Century, in Russia, Eng- 
 land, Belgium, France, and Switzerland, etc. London : Darton. 
 
 MiDDLETON, Dr. — Popery Unmasked, being the substance of Dr. Middle- 
 ton's celebrated Letter from Rome : demonstrating an exact Con- 
 formity between Popery and Paganism. 1 744. 
 
 More, H., D.D. — Inquiiy into the Mystery of Iniquity. 1664. 
 
 O'SULLIVAN, Rev. MoPvTIMER. — The Apostasy Predicted by St. Paul. 
 London : Longman, Brown & Co. 
 
 O'SlLLiVAN, Rev. Mortimer. — Romanism as it Rules in Ireland. By- 
 Rev. M. O'Sulllvan and Rev. Robert J. McGhee, A.B. 2 vols. 
 London : Hatchard & Co. 
 
 Papal Power ; tr, an Historical Easay on the Temporal Power of the 
 Popes, the Abuse of their Spiritual Authority, and the Wars they have 
 Declared against Sovereigns ; containing very Extraordinary Docu- 
 ments of the Roman Court, never before published. Translated from 
 the French., 2 vols. London : Hatchard. 
 
 Papist, A, Misrepresented and Represented ; or, a Twofold Character of 
 Popery. Containing a sum of the Superstitions, Idolatries, Cruelties, 
 Treacheries, etc., of Popery. Published 1685. 
 
 Percy, Hon. J. W. — Romanism as it exists at Rome, exhibited in various 
 Inscriptions and other Documents in the Churches and other Ecclesi- 
 astical places in that city. Seeley, Burnside & Sceley. 1847.
 
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 Phii.pot, Js. M.A. — The Advance of Popery in this country, viewed under 
 both its Religious and Pohtical Aspect. London : J. Gadsby. 
 
 Pius V. — The Life and Pontificate of St. Pius V., by Rev. Joseph Mend- 
 ham, ]\LA. London : Duncan. 
 
 Poole, Matthew. — Dialogue between a Popish Priest and an English 
 Pr®testant. London : Baisler. 
 
 POULTER, J. J. — A Course of Lectures on the Rise, Progress, Present 
 Aspect) Papal Development, and Tendencies of Puseyism. London : 
 Ward & Co. 
 
 PoYNDER, Jno. — Popery in alliance with Heathenism. London : Hatchard. 
 
 Protestant, The. — A Series of Essays on the Principal Points of Con- 
 troversy between the Church of Rome and the Reformed. Four vols. 
 Glasgow : Blackie. 
 
 Ranke, Leopold. — Histoiy of the Popes, their Church and State, and 
 especially of their Conflicts with Protestantism in the sixteenth and 
 seventeenth centuries. Translated by E. Foster. London : Bohn. 
 
 Rogers, John. — Anti-Popeiy ; or Popery Unreasonable, Unscriptural, 
 and Novel, with a Chronological Map, showing the post-apostolic 
 and modern origin of Popery, London : Simpkin & Marshall. 
 
 Rome, Church of. — A Report on "the Books and Documents on the 
 Papacy," deposited in the University Library, Cambridge, the Bodleian 
 Library, Oxford, and the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, entitled 
 The Church of Rome ; her present Moral Theology, Scriptural In- 
 struction, and Canon law. London : Partridge. 
 
 Rule, W. H., D.D. — History of the Inquisition, in every country where 
 its Tribunals have been Established, from the twelfth century to the 
 present time. 1868. London : Wesleyan Conference Office. 
 
 Rycaut, Paul.— Lives of the Popes, to the reign of Sextus IV. 16S5. 
 
 Seymour, Rev. M. H., M.A. — Mornings among the Jesuits at Rome. 
 London : Seeleys. 
 
 Shobkrl, F. — Persecutions of Popery : historical Narratives of the most 
 remarkable Persecutions occasioned by the Intolerance of the CIiuicli 
 of Rome. London : Bentley. 2 vols. 
 
 St.^nford, C. S. — A Handbook to the Romish Controversy : being a Re- 
 futation in detail of the Creed of Pope Pius IV. London: Seeleys. 
 
 Steele, Sir Richard. — An Account of the State of the Roman Catholic 
 Religion throughout the World. Written for the use of Pope Inno- 
 cent XL, by Monsignor Cerri, Secretary of the Congregation de Pro- 
 paganda Fide. 1715- Translated into English from the Italian. 
 
 Stillingfleet, Edward, D.D. — A Discourse concerning the Idolatry 
 practised in the Church of Rome. London. 1671. 
 
 Trent, Council of. — The Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent, 
 by Theodore Alois Bv.cldey, B..\. London : Routledge.
 
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 UiiWiCK, William. — The Triple Crown; or, the Power, Course, and 
 Doom of the Papacy. London : Simpkin & Marshall. 
 
 Whituy, Daniel, D.D. — A Discourse concerning the Idolatry of the 
 Church of Rome. London. 1674. 
 
 WiLLET, Andrew, D.D. — Synopsis Papismi ; or, a general View of the 
 Papacy. Published by the British Society for Promoting the Religious 
 Principles of the Reformation. Ten vols. 
 
 Wordsworth, Chr. (Canon of Westminster). — Letters to ^L Gondin, on 
 the destructive Character of the Church of Rome, both in Religion and 
 Polity. London: Rivington. 1848. 
 
 Wylie, Rev. J. A., LL.D.— The Road to Rome via Oxford ; or, Ritual- 
 ism identical with Romanism. London : Partridge and Co. 
 
 WVLIE, Rev. J. A., LL.D. — The Papacy; its History, Dogmas, Genius, 
 and Prospects : being the Evangelical Alliance prize Essay on Popery. 
 London : Hamilton, Adams & Co. 
 
 WORKS ON PROPHECY. 
 
 ABDtEL. — Essays on the Advent and Kingdom of Christ and the Events 
 
 connected therewith. Ey the Rev. J. W. Brooks, ALA. London : 
 
 Simpkin & >LirshalI. 
 Addis, Alfred, B.A. — The Theory of Prophecy : as it respects more 
 
 particularly Civil Establishments of Christianity, the Nicene Heresy of 
 
 Antichrist, and the Doctrine of the Millennium. London : Hurst. 
 Barnes, Rev. A. — Notes explanatory and practical, on the Book of 
 
 Daniel. London : Routledge. 
 Baxter, Robert. — Prophecy the Key of Providence. London : Seeley, 
 
 J. &H. 
 Ben Ezra, Juan Josafat.— The Coming of Messiah in Glory and 
 
 Majesty. London : Simpkin & Marshall. 
 lilCHENO, J., j\LA. — The Fulfilment of Prophecy farther illustrated by the 
 
 Signs of the Times. London: Ogles, Duncan & Co. 1817. 
 BiCKERSTETH, Rev. Edward.— A Practical Guide to the Prophecies. 
 
 London : Seeleys. 
 BiCKERSTETH, Rev. E.— The Restoration of the Jews to their own Land 
 
 in connection with their future Conversion and the final Blessedness of 
 
 our earth. London : Seeley & Co. 
 BiCKERSTETH, Rev. E. — The Divine Warning to the Church, at this time, 
 
 of our Enemies, Dangers, and Duties, and as to our Future Prospects. 
 
 London : Seeley & Co. 
 BiRKs, Rev. T. R.— The Mystery of Providence ; or, the Prophetic History 
 
 of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. An Historical Exposi- 
 tion of Rev. viii., ix. London: NisbeL
 
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 BiRKS, Rev. T. R. — First Elements of Sacred Prophecy : including an ]■ 
 Examination of several recent Expositions, and of the Year-day theory. , . 
 London : Painter. 
 
 BiRKS, Rev. T. R. — Commentary on the Book of Isaiah, critical, histori- 
 cal, and prophetical ; including a revised English Translation. Lon- 
 don : Rivington. 
 
 BiRKS, Rev, T. R. — The four prophetic Empires and the Kingdom of 
 Messiah ; being an Exposition of the first two Visions of Daniel. 
 London : Seeley. 
 
 BiRKS, Rev. T. R. — The two later Visions of Daniel : historically ex- 
 plained. London : Seeley. 
 
 BoNAR, Rev. A. A. — Redemption Drawing Nigh. A Defence of the 
 Premillennial Advent. London : Nisbet. 
 
 BONAR, Rev. Horatius. — Prophetical Landmarks. Containing data for 
 helping to determine the question of Christ's Pre-millennial Advent. 
 London : Nisbet. 
 
 BoNAR, Rev. Horatius. — The Coming and Kingdom of the Lord Jesus 
 Christ, being an examination of the work of the Rev. D. Brown, on 
 the Second Coming of the Lord. London : Nisbet. 
 
 Bosanquet, J. W. — Messiah the Prince ; or, the Inspiration of the 
 Prophecies of Daniel. Containing remarks on the views of Dr. 
 Pusey, Mr. Desprez, and Dr. Williams, concerning the Book of Daniel ; 
 a rectified system of Scripture dates, throwing light on the Prophecy 
 of the seventy weeks ; a treatise on the Sabbatical Years and Jubilees ; 
 and a compendium of sacred and secular chronology. London : 
 Longmans, Green «S: Co. 
 
 Brightman, Thomas. — A Revelation of the Revelation ; that is, the 
 Revelation of St. John opened clearly with a logicall Resolution and 
 Exposition. Wherein the sense is cleared, out of the Scripture ; the 
 event also of thinges foretold is discussed out of the Church Plistoryes. 
 1615. 
 
 Brooks, Rev. J. W. — Elements of Prophetical Interpretation. London : 
 Seeley. 
 
 Brown, Rev. David.— Christ's Second Coming, will it be Pre-millennial ? 
 London : Hamilton & Adams. 
 
 Burder, Henry F., D.D.— Notes on the Prophecies of the Apocalypse. 
 London : Ward «S: Co. 
 
 ChauNCEY, W. S. — Dissertations on Unaccomplished Prophecy. Lon- 
 don : Nisbet. 
 
 Cl.'^rke, J. Algernon.— A Compendium of Scripture Prediction, with 
 special reference to the Duration and Doom of the Papal Antichrist, 
 the Judgments of the Great Day of God Almighty, and the Dawn of 
 Millennial Glory. London : Nisbet.
 
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 Clarke, J. E- — Dissertation on the Dragon, Eeast, and False Prophet of 
 
 the Apocalypse. 1814. 
 Clogiier, Lord Bishop of. — A Dissertation on Prophecy, wherein the 
 
 Coherence and Connexion of the Prophecies in both the Old and New 
 
 Testament are fully considered. 1749. 
 Gumming, Rev. J., D.D. — The Fall of Babylon Foreshadowed in her 
 
 Teaching, in History, and in Prophecy. London : Bentley. 
 CUMMING, Rev. J., D.D. — The Last Warning Cry. London : Nisbet. 
 CUMMING, Rev. J., D.D. — Lectures for the Times ; or, Illustrations and 
 
 Refutations of the Errors of Romanism and Tractarianism. London : 
 
 Hall & Co. 
 Cl'MMING, Rev. J., D.D. — Apocalyptic Sketches ; or, Lectures on the 
 
 Seven Churches of Asia Minor. London : Arthur Hall. 
 Cu.MMiNG, Rev. J., D.D. — The Millennial Rest ; or, the World as it will 
 
 be. London : Bentley. 
 CUMMiNG, Rev. J., D.D.— Apocalyptic Sketches ; or, Lectures on the 
 
 Book of Revelation. First and second series. London : Hall. 
 CuMMiNG, Rev. J., D.D. —Lectures on the Book of Daniel. London: 
 
 Hall. 
 CUNiNGH.\ME, Wm. — On the Jubilean Chronology, with a brief account 
 
 of the discoveries of M. L. de Chcseaux as to the Great Astronomical 
 
 Cycles. 1 834. 
 Cuni.nghame, W.M. — The Season of the End. London: 1841. 
 /;UNINGHAME, Wm. — The Fulness of the Times. London : 1S37. 
 CUNINGHAME, Wm. —The Certain Truth, the Science, and the Authority 
 
 of the Scriptural Chronology. London : Seeleys. 
 CUMNGHAME, Wm. — A Dissertation on the Seals and Trumpets of the 
 
 Apocalypse, and the Prophetical Period of 1260 years. Hatchard. 1813. 
 Davisuz, Charles, M.A.— A Perpetual Commentary on the Revelation 
 
 of St. John. 1720. 
 D.^liuuz, Charles, ALA. — A Symbolical Dictionary, in which, agreeably 
 
 to the Nature and Principles of the -Symbolical Character and Language 
 
 of the Eastern Nations in the first ages of the World, the general Signi- 
 fication of the Prophetic Symbols, especially those of the Apocalypse, 
 
 is laid down and proved from the most Ancient Authorities, sacred 
 
 and profane. London : Nisbet. 
 Denny, Sir E. — Companion to a Prophetical Cliart, entitled " Ihe 
 
 Feasts of the Lord." London : Broom. 
 Duffield, Geo. — Millenarianism Defended ; a reply to Prof. Stur.rt. 
 
 New York : Newman. 
 Duffield, Geo. — Dissertations on the Prophecies relative to the Second 
 
 Coming of Jesus Christ. New York : Newman. 
 Elliott, Rev. E. B., A.M. — Horas ApocalyplicE ; or, a Commentary on
 
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 the Apocalypse, Critical and Historical ; including also an Examination 
 of the chief Prophecies of Daniel. Illustrated by an Apocalyptic 
 Chart, and engiavings from Medals and other extant Monuments o! 
 antiquity. 4 vols. London : Seeley. 
 
 Elliott, Rev. E. B., M.A. — The Destinies and Perils of the Church, as 
 Predicted in Scripture. London : Seeley. 
 
 Faber, G. S., B.D. — The Sacred Calendar of Prophecy ; or, a Disserta- 
 tion on the Prophecies which treat of the grand period of " Seven 
 Times," and especially of its second moiety, or the latter Three Times 
 and a Half. 3 vols. London : Painter. 
 
 Faeer, G. S., B.D. — A Dissertation on the Prophecies that have been 
 fulfilled, are now fulfilling, or will hereafter be fulfilled, relative to the 
 great period of 1260 years ; the Papal and Mohammedan Apostasies. 
 1808. 
 
 Faeer, G. S., B.D. — A General and connected View of the Prophecies 
 relative to the Conversion, Restoration, Union, and Future Glory of 
 . the Houses of Judah and Israel. London : Rivington. 2 vols. 
 
 Frere, J. H. — A Combined View of the Prophecies. Hatchard. 
 
 GossE, Philip Henry, F.R. S. — The Prophetic Times. 
 
 Habershon, Matthew. — An Historical Exposition of the Prophecies of 
 the Revelation of .St. John ; showing their connection with and con- 
 firmation of those of Daniel, and of the Old Testament in general ; 
 particularly in the most important aspect on the present times. 2 
 vols. London : Nisbet. 
 
 Habershon, Matthew. — An Historical Dissertation on the Prophetic 
 Scriptures of the Old Testament, chiefly those of a Chronological 
 character ; showing their aspect on the Present Times, and on the 
 Destinies of the Jewish nation. London : Nisbet. 
 
 Hoare, Rev. E. — Rome, Turkey, and Jerusalem. London : Hatchard. 
 
 Hollingsworth,Rev. a. G. II., M.A. — The Holy Land Restored ; or, 
 an Examination of the Prophetic Evidence for the Restitution ot 
 Palestine to the Jews. London : Seeley. 
 
 Holmes, Rev. J. D., A.M. — The Fulfilment of the Revelation of St. 
 Johii Displayed. 1819. 
 
 Kurd, Richard, D.D. — An Introduction to the Study of the Prophecies 
 concerning the Christian Church ; and in particular concerning the 
 Church of Papal Rome. London : Rickerby. 
 
 Investigator. — Investigator and Expositor of Prophecy. By Rev. J. \V. 
 Brooks. 5 vols. London : Simpkin, Marshall & Co. 
 
 Irving, Rev. Edward, A.M. — Babylon and Infidelity Foredoomed of 
 God. A Discourse on the prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse 
 which relate to these Latter Times, and until the Second Advent. 
 London : Hamilton, Adams & Co.
 
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 Israel, God's Dealings with. Being Lectures delivered during Lent, 
 1S50, at St. George's, Bloomsbury. London : Nisbet. 
 
 Keith, Alex., D.D. — The Signs of the Times, as denoted by the Fulfil- 
 ment of Historical Predictions, traced down from the Babylonish 
 Captivity to the present time. London : Longman & Co. 
 
 Keit!I, Alex., D.D. — Tlie Harmony of Prophecy ; or. Scriptural Illus- 
 trations of the Apocalypse. Longman & Co. 
 
 Keith, Alex., D.D. —The History and Destiny of the World and of 
 the Church, according to Scripture. London : Nelson & Co. 
 
 Keith, Alex., D.D. — The Land of Israel, according to the Covenant 
 with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. London, Longman & Co. 
 
 KiMCHi, R.\BI3I D.'\'\^D. — Commentary upon the Prophecies of Zechariah. 
 Translated from the Hebrew. London: Jas. Duncan. 
 
 -Manxhester, Duke of. — The Finished Mystery. To which is added an 
 examination of Mr. Brown on the Second Advent. London: Hatchard. 
 
 Manchester, Duke OF. — The Times of Daniel, Chronological and Pro- 
 phetical, examined with relation to the Point of Contact between 
 Sacred and Profane Chronology. London : Darling. 
 
 Mede, Joseph, B. D. — The Works of Joseph Mede, in five books. 164S. 
 
 Mede, Joseph, B.D. — Clavis Apocalyptica ex innatis et insitis Visionum 
 Characteribus Eruta et Demonstrata. 
 
 Millennial Kingdom, The. — Lectures delivered during Lent, 1S52, at 
 St. George's, Bloomsbury, by Twelve Clergymen of the Church of 
 England. London : Shaw. 
 
 Newton, Sir Isaac. — Observations upon tlie Prophecies of Daniel and 
 the Apocalypse of S. John. 1733. 
 
 Newton, Thomas, D.D. — Dissertations on the Propliecies. London : 
 Blake. 1830. 
 
 PncAiRN, Rev. D.wid.— Zion's King : the Second Psalm expounded in 
 the light of History and Prophecy. London : Jackson. 
 
 Seiss, J. A., A.M. — The Last Times. An earnest Discussion of momen- 
 tous themes. Baltimore: Kurtz, 1856. 
 
 Sherlock, Dr. Thomas. — The Use and Intent of Prophecy in the 
 Several Ages of the World. London : Simpkin, Marshall & Co. 
 
 Slmpson, Rev. D.wid, M.A. — A Key to the Prophecies ; or, a Concise 
 View of the Predictions contained in the Old and New Testaments, 
 which have been fulfilled, are now fulfilling, or are yet to be fulfilled 
 in the latter ages of tlie world. London : Baynes, 1809. 
 
 Stuart, Moses. — A Commentary on the Apocalypse. London : Tegg. 
 
 Tregelles, S. p., LL.D.— The Hope of Christ's Second Coming: How 
 is it taught in Scripture? and Why? London : Houlston ^: Co. 
 
 Urwick, Willia.m, D.D.— The Second Advent of Christ, the blessed 
 Hope of the Church. London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co.
 
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 Vials, The Last.— A series of Essays upon the subject of the Second 
 
 Advent, London : Seeleys. 
 Vktringa, Campegio. — Anakrisis Apocalypsios Joannis Apostoli qua in 
 
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 Literpretatio facta, certis Historiarum Monumentis conhrmatur atque 
 
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 Wordsworth, Chr., D.D.— The Apocalypse, or Book of Revelation : 
 
 the original Greek text, with MSS. collations ; an English Translation 
 
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 Wylie, Rev. J. A., LL.D.— The Seventh Vial ; or, the Past and Present 
 
 of Papal Europe, as shown in the Apocalypse. London : Hamilton, 
 
 Adams & Co. 
 
 FUTURIST. 
 
 Bonar, Andrew, Esq., of Leamington.— The Development of Anti- 
 christ. London : Partridge & Co. 
 
 Burgh, Rev. William, A.B.— An Exposition of the Book of Revelation. 
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 Darby, Jno. Nelson.— Notes on the Book of Revelation. London : 
 Groombridge. 
 
 HuCHEDfi, P., pr^tre.— Histoire de L'Antechrist, ou expose des evene- 
 ments certains et probable qui concernent sa personne, son regne, sa 
 fin, et son temps, d'apres I'ecriture et la tradition. Par P. Huchede, 
 pretre, professeur de Theologie au grand seminaire de Laval. Pans : 
 F. Bouquerel. 
 
 Kelly, W. — Six Lectures. London : Broom. 
 
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 Molyneux, Rev. Capel, B. A.— Israel's Future. Lectures delivered ia 
 the Lock Chapel, in Lent, 1S52.
 
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 Newton, Benjamin Wills. — Thoughts on the Apocalypse. London: 
 Iloulston iS: Son. 
 
 Newton, Benjamin Wills. — Aids to Prophetic Enquiry. First, second, 
 and third series. London : Iloulston. 
 
 Todd, James Henthorn, B.D., M.R.I.A. — Discourses on the Pro- 
 phecies relating to Antichrist in the writings of Daniel and St. John. 
 London : Rivington. 
 
 Tregelles, S.P., LL. D. — Remarks on the Prophetic Visions in the Book 
 of Daniel. London : Bagster. 
 
 Trotter, W. — Plain Papers on Prophetic and other subjects. London : 
 Morrish. 
 
 HISTORICAL WORKS. 
 
 Alison, Sir Archibald, Bart. — History of Europe from the commence- 
 ment of the French Revolution in 1789, to the Restoration of the 
 Bourbons in 1S15. London: Blackwood. 
 
 Allnutt, H. — Historical Diary of the War between France and Germany, 
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 Beattie, W., M.D. — The Waldenses ; or, Protestant Valleys of Piedmont 
 and Dauphiny. London : Geo. Virtue. 
 
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 1S71. 
 
 BlaQuiere, Edw. — An Historical Review of the Spanish Revolution. 
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 Brooks, Rev. J. W. — The History of the Hebrew Nation, London : 
 Seeley. 
 
 Browne, IL, M.A. — Ordo S.eclorum. A Treatise on the Chronology of 
 the Ploly Scriptures. London : Parker. 
 
 BuNGENER, J. F. — Plistoiy of the Council of Trent. London: Hamihon, 
 Adams & Co. 
 
 Burnet, Gilbert, D.D. — The History of the Reformation of the Church 
 of England. 4 vols. London : Scott & Co. 
 
 Cheseaux, Loys de. — Abrege Chronologique. 1786-9. 
 
 Clinton, H. F., Esq., M.A. — An Epitome of the Civil and Literaiy 
 Chronology of Rome and Constantinople, from the Death of Augustus 
 to the death of lleraclius. Oxford : University Press. 
 
 Clinton, H. F., M.A. — Fasti Hellenici. The Civil and Literary Chrono- 
 logy of Greece. Oxford : University Press. 
 
 Cotton, H., D.C.L. — The Five Books of Maccabees. Oxford : University 
 Press. 
 
 Creasy, Sir Edward S., M.A. —History of the Ottoman Turks : from 
 the beginning of their Empire to the present time. London : Bentley.
 
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 CuxiNGHAME, WiLLiAM. — The Cliionology of Israel and the Jews from 
 the Exodus to the Destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans. Lon- 
 don : Nisbet. 
 
 Da Costa, Dr. Isaac. — Israel and the Gentiles. Contributions to the 
 Hiitoiy of the Jews from the earliest times to the present day. Lon- 
 don : Nisbet. 
 
 D'AUBlGNfi, J. H. Merle.— History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth 
 Century. London : Hamilton, Adams & Co. 
 
 Craig, Rev. J. — History of the Protestant Church in Hungaiy, from the 
 beginning of the Reformation to 1850. London: Nisbet. 
 
 EusEBius. — The Greek Ecclesiastical Historians of the first Six Centuries 
 of the Christian era. 6 vols. London : Bagster. 
 
 Eustace, J. Chetvvode. — A Classical Tour through Italy. 181S. 
 
 FoXE, John. — The Acts and Monuments of the Chribtian Martyrs. By 
 John Foxe. London : Seeley. 
 
 Finn, James. — Sephardim ; or, the Ilistoiy of the Jews in Spain and 
 Portugal. London : Rivington. 
 
 Gardner, Rev. James, M.D. and A.M.— The Faiths of the World. 
 London : Fullarton. 
 
 Gervinus, B. G. G. — An Introduction to the History of the Nineteentl; 
 Century. London : Ward, Lock & Co. 
 
 Gibbon, Edw., Esq. — History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman 
 Empire. London : Westley. 
 
 Gibbon, Edw. — History of the Crusades. London: Wame. 
 
 Gladstone, Rt. Hon. W. E., M.P. — Bulgarian Horrors and the Question 
 of the East. London : John iMurray. 
 
 Hales, Rev. W., D.D. — Analysis of Chronology. London: Rivingtons. 
 
 Hallam, Henry, LL.D. — View of the State of Europe during the 
 Middle Ages. London : Alexander Murray. 
 
 Hugonots. — The Protestant Reformation in France; or, History of the 
 Hugonots. 2 vols. London : Bentley. 
 
 Jesuits. — Regular Societatis Jesu. Auctoritate Septimaj Congregationis 
 Generalis auctse. Romce, in Collegio Romano eiusdem Societatis. 
 Anno Domini M.D.C. xvi. Superiorum permissu. 
 
 JoiNViLLE, Lord Jno. de. — Chronicles of the Crusaders ; being Contem- 
 porary Narratives of the Crusade of Richard Coeur de Lion, by Richard 
 of Devizes and Geoffrey de Uinsauf ; and of the Crusade of Saint Louis. 
 
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 KiNGLAKE, A. W. — The Invasion of the Crimea : its Origin, and an 
 account of its Progress down to the death of Lord Raglan. London : 
 Blackwood. 
 
 Krasinski, Count V. — Historical Sketch of the Rise, Progress, and 
 Decline of tlie Reformation of Poland. 2 vols. London: Hatcliard.
 
 636 APPENDIX. 
 
 Lardner, Rev. D., LL.D. etc.— The Cabinet Cyclopedia : Outlines of 
 History. London : Longman. 
 
 Laveleye, Emile de. — De D'Avenir des Peuples Catholiques. Paris: 
 Germer, Bailliere. 
 
 Layard, Austen H., M.P. — Discoveries in the Ruins of Xineveh and 
 Babylon. London : Jno. Murray. 
 
 Maclear, Rev. G. F., B. D. — Apostles of Mediaeval Europe. London : 
 Macmillan. 
 
 Maclear, Rev. G. F., B.D. — A History of Christian Missions during the 
 Middle Ages. London : Macmillan. 
 
 AIaunder, Samuel. — The Treasury of History. London : Longmans. 
 
 McCrie, Rev. T. — Sketches of Scottish Church History : embracing the 
 period from the Reformation to the Revolution. London : Johnstone. 
 
 McCrie, Thos., D.D. — History of the Progress and Suppression of the 
 Reformation in Spain in the Sixteenth Century. London : Cadell. 
 
 Mignet, F. a. — History of the French Revolution. London : Davie 
 Bogue. 
 
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 MiLMAN, PL H., D.D., Dean of St. Paul's. — History of Latin Christianity. 
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 tory, and the People. London : Religious Tract Society. 
 
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 the Apostles to the close of the eighteenth century. London : Chad- 
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 Monastier, Antoin'e. — A History of the Vaudois Church from its 
 origin, and of the Vaudois of Piedmont to the present day. London : 
 Religious Tract Society. 
 
 Mosheim, Jno, Lawrence, D.D.— An Ecclesiastical History, from the 
 birth of Christ to the beginning of the eighteenth century. 2 vols. 
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 Neander, Dr. A. — General History of the Christian Religion and Church. 
 London : Bohn. 
 
 OcKLEY, Simon, B.D. — The History of the Sanicens : comprising the 
 lives of Mohammed and his successors, to the death of Abdalmelik, 
 the eleventh Caliph, with an account of their most remarkable Battles, 
 Sieges, Revolts, etc., collected from authentic sources, especially Arabic 
 ^LSS. London : Bohn. 
 
 OSBURN, \Vm. (Junr.).— Egypt : her Testimony to the Truth. London : 
 Bagster. 
 
 Prideaux, Humphrey, D.D. —The Old and Xcw Testament Connected 
 in the Histoiy of the Jews and Neighbouring Xations, from the declen- 
 sion of the Kingdoms of Isra el and Judah to the time of Christ. Lon- 
 don : Baynes.
 
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 Read, Hollis, A.M. — The Hand of God in History. London : Nelson. 
 
 Records. — Records of the Past : being an English translation of the As- 
 syrian and Egy]:)tian Monuments. London : Bagster. 
 
 REFORM.vnoN. — The Reformation and Anti-Reformation in Bohemia. 
 (From the German.) 2 vols. London : Houlston. 
 
 Reid, D.\niel. — The Law of History, being a supplement to, and com- 
 plement of, " The Divine Footsteps in Human History." London: 
 Blackwood. 
 
 Riddle, J. E., jNLA. — Ecclesiastical Chronology ; or, Annals of the Chris- 
 tian Church from its foundation to the present time. London : Long- 
 man. 
 
 Robertson, \Vm., D.D. — The History of the Reign of the Emperor 
 Charles V., with a view of the Progress of Society in Europe, from 
 the subversion of the Roman Empire to the beginning of the sixteenth 
 century. London : Rivingtons. 
 
 HOLLiN, ]NL — The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, As- 
 syrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Grecians, and Macedonians. 
 London : Tegg. 
 
 ROSSE, WiLLOUGHBY. — An Index of Dates. London: Bohn. 
 
 ROSSE, WiLLOUGHBY.— Blair's Chronological Tables, revised and en- 
 larged. London : Bohn. 
 
 Sale, George. — The Koran. London : Wm. Tegg. 
 
 Scott, Jno., M.A. — Calvin and the Swiss Reformation. London: Seeley. 
 
 SiSMONDi, J. C. L. de. — Fall of the Roman Empire. 2 vols. London : 
 Longman, Rees & Co. 
 
 SiSMONDl, J. C. L. DE. — A History of the Italian Republics, being a 
 view of the origin, progress, and fall of Italian Freedom. London : 
 Longman, Rees & Co. 
 
 SiSMONDl, J. C. L. DE. — History of the Crasades against the Albigenses, 
 in the Thirteenth Century. London : Wightman & Cramp. 
 
 Smedley, Rev. Edward, ]\LA. — History of the Reformed Religion in 
 France. 3 vols. London : Rivingtons. 
 
 Spanheim, Fredk., D.D. — Ecclesiastical Annals. London : Rivington. 
 
 Stanley, Arthur Penrhy.x, D.D. —Lectures on the History of the 
 Eastern Church. London : John Murray. 
 
 Temple, Sir John, Knt. — The Irish Rebellion ; or, an History of the 
 attempts of the Irish Papists to extirpate the Protestants in the king- 
 dom of Ireland, together with the barbarous Cruelties and bloody 
 Massacres which ensued thereupon. Written from his own obser- 
 vations, and authentic depositions of other eye-witnesses, by Sir John 
 Temple, Knt., r^Iaster of the Rolls, and one of his Majesty's most 
 honourable Privy Council, at that time in Ireland. White, Cochrane 
 & Co. London. lSl2.
 
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 a quarter of a century. Printed at The Times Office. 
 "The Times " Register of Events, for 1877, and 187S. Printed at The 
 
 Times Office. 
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 Church History. London: ^L'^cmiIlan, 1877. 
 Trevor, Rev. George, >LA., Canon of York. — Rome : From the P^all 
 
 of the Western Empire. London : Religious Tract Society, 1868. 
 Trollope, T. Adolphus. — The Papal Conclaves, as they v.erc and as 
 
 they are. London : Chapman & Hall, 1876. 
 Urwick, W. — Ecumenical Councils. London : Simpkin & Co. 
 Usher, James, D.D. — The Annals of the Old and New Testament, with 
 
 the Synchronismus of heathen story to the Destruction of Hierusalem 
 
 by the Romanes. 
 Valdenses. — Authentic Details of the Valdenses, in Piedmont, and other 
 
 countries; with abridged translations of " L'historie des Vaudois," 
 
 par Bresse, and " La Rentree Glorieuse," d'Henri Arnaud, with the 
 
 ancient Valdensian Catechism. London ■ Hatchard. 
 
 ASTRONOMICAL WORKS. 
 
 AlREY, Sir G. B. — Ipswich Lectures. London. 1849. 
 
 Annales de l'observatoire de Paris. — Publiees par U. J. Le 
 Verrier, Directeur de I'Observatoire. Paris : Gauthier-Villars, Quai 
 des Grands-Augustins, 55. 
 
 Ar.vgo, M. — Popular Lectures on Astronomy. London ; Routledge. 
 
 B.ARLOW, Peter. — New Mechanical Tables, containing the Factors, 
 Squares, Cubes, Square Roots, Reciprocals, and Hyperbolic Lo- 
 garithms of all numbers from I to 10,000. London : Robinson. 
 
 Barlow, Peter. — The Theory of Numbers. London: Johnson. 1811. 
 
 Ba.NNYCASTLE, JoiLV. — An Introduction to Astronomy, by John Bonny- 
 castle, of the Royal Military Academy, Woohvich. London : John- 
 son, 181 1. 
 
 Brinkley, John, D.D. — Elements of Plane Astronomy. Dublin : 
 Hodges & Smith. 
 
 CllAMSERS, George F., F.R.A.S. — A Handbook of Descriptive Astro- 
 nomy. Third edition. O.xford : Clarendon Press. 
 
 De Cheseaux, Loys. — Memoires Posthumes. Correspondant de I'Aca- 
 demie Royale des Sciences de Paris, Associe etranger de cellede Got- 
 tingue ; sur divers sujets d'Astronomie et de mathematiques, avec 
 de nouvelles tables exactes des moyens mouvements du soleil ct de 
 la lune. A Lausanne : Antoinc? Clxapuis, Imprimeur. 1754-
 
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 Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and F.R. A.S., London. London: 
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 Ferguson, James, F.R. S.— Astronomy Explained upon Sir Isaac New- 
 ton's Principles, with Notes, etc. By David Brewster, LL.D. London : 
 Whittaker. 
 GiLBRAiTH, William, M. A. —Mathematical and Astronomical Tables. 
 
 London : Simpkin & Marshall. 
 Grant, Robert, F. R. A. S.— History of Physical Astronomy from the 
 Earliest Ages to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century. London : 
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 GuiLLEMiN, A.— The Heavens. Translated by J.N. Lockyer. London : 
 
 1865. 
 Herschel, Sir Jno. F. W., Bart.— Popular Lectures on Scientific Sub- 
 
 iects. London : Strahan. 
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 Longmans, Green & Co. 
 Hind, J. Russell. — The Solar System. London : Orr & Co. 
 Hind, J. Russell. — An Introduction to Astronomy. London : Bohn. 
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 by N. Bowditch. 4 vols. Boston, U.S. 1S29-39. 
 Laplace, P. S. de.— Elementary Illustrations of the Celestial Mechanics 
 
 of Laplace. London : Murray. 
 Laplace.— The System of the World. 2 vols. Translated by J. Pond. 
 
 London. 1809. 
 Lardner, Dionysius, D.C.L.— Handbook of Astronomy. 2 vols. 
 
 London : Walton & Maberley. 
 Lardner, Dionysius, D.C.L.— Natural Philosophy, with a Preliminarj 
 Discourse by J. F. W. Herschel, Esq., M.A. London : Longmans. 
 Le Verrier.— Memoires des Variations Seculaires des Elements des 
 
 Orbites. Paris. 1845. 
 Lindsay, James Bowman.— The Chrono-Astrolabe ; contaming a full set 
 of Astronomic Tables, with rules and examples for the Calculation of 
 Eclipses and other Celestial Phenomena ; comprising also Plane and 
 Spherical Trigonometry, and the most copious list of ancient Eclipses 
 ever published ; connected with these, the dates of ancient events are 
 exactly determined, and the authenticity of Hebrew, Greek, Roman, 
 and Chinese writings is demonstrated. London : Bohn. 
 Lloyd, H., D.D., D.C.L.— A Treatise on Magnetism, General and 
 Terrestrial. London : Longmans. 
 
 Y Y
 
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 Loom IS, E. — Practical Astronomy. New York. 1S55. 
 
 Mitchell, O. M., A. M.— The Orbs of Heaven; or, the Planetary and 
 
 Stellar Worlds. London : Routledge. 
 Moon, The. — The Moon, considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite. 
 
 By James Nasmyth and J. Carpenter, F.R.A.S. London : Murray. 
 Nautical Almanac. — Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeria. 
 NiCHOL, J. P. — The Architecture of the Heavens. London : Parker. 
 Olmsted, D. — Mechanism of the Heavens. Edinburgh. 
 Powell, Rev. Baden, M.A., F.R.A.S. — Historical View of the Progress 
 
 of the Physical and Mathematical Sciences, from the earliest ages to 
 
 the present times. London : Longman, Rees & Co. 
 Prior, W. H. — Lectures on Astronomy. London : Longman, Rees & Co. 
 Proctor, Richard A. — A Star Atlas, drawn by Richard A. Proctor, 
 
 B.A., F.R.A.S. London : Longman, Rees & Co. 
 Proctor, Richard A. — Other Worlds than Ours: the Plurality of 
 
 Worlds studied under the light of recent Scientific Researches. 
 
 London : Longmans. 
 Proctor, Richard A. — The Sun : Ruler, Fire, Light, and Life of the 
 
 Planetary System. London : Longmans. 
 Proctor, Richard A. — The Universe and the Coming Transits, pre- 
 senting Researches into and new views respecting the Constitution of 
 
 the Heavens ; together with an investigation of the coming Transits 0/ 
 
 Venus. London : Longmans, Green & Co. 
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 Rosser, W. IL — The Stars, how to Know them and how to Use them. 
 
 London : Imray. 
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 J. W. Parker, West Strand. 
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 Whewell, William, M. A.— Astronomy and General Physics, considered 
 
 with reference to Natural Theology. London : Pickering. 
 
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 Carpenter, William B., M.D. — Principles of Human Physiology. 
 London : Churchill. 
 
 Cheseaux, Loys de. — Discours Philosophique. 1762. 
 
 Harris, Sir W. Snow. — Rudimentary Magnetism; being a concise Exposi-
 
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 Hay, D. R. — The Natural Principles and Analogy of the Harmony of 
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 1845. 
 
 Humboldt, Alexander von.— Aspects of Nature in different Lands and 
 different Climates, with Scientific Elucidations. 2 vols. London : 
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 Insects.— The Transformations of Insects. By R. Martin Duncan, F.R.S. 
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 KfRBY, William, M.A., F.R. & L.S. — An Introduction to Entomology. 
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 LiNDLEY, John, Ph. D., F.R.S. — An introduction to Botany. 2 vols. 
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 McCosH, Rev. James. — Typical Forms and Special Ends in Creation. 
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 Milner, Rev. Thomas. — A Universal Geography. In four parts : His- 
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 PoucHET, F.A., M.D. — The Universe. London : Blackie. 
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 APPENDIX C 
 
 (^ast ITonban; |nstttute, 
 
 FOR HOME AND FOREIGN MISSIONS. 
 
 HARLEY HOUSE, BOW, E., 
 AND 
 HULME CLIFF COLLEGE, CURBAR, DERBYSHIRE. 
 
 J^on. iBirector: H. GRATTAN GUINNESS. 
 Assisted by Tutors and Lecturers. 
 
 Crtasurcr: STEVENSON A. BLACKWOOD, Esq. 
 
 33anhers : London ^^^'d South ^VESTERN Bank, Bow Branch. 
 
 This Institute was founded under a deep and pressing sense of the 
 claims of the heathen, and of the need of a practical Training Home, where 
 Christian young men, of any evangelical denomination, gifted for God's 
 service, and sincerely desirous to devote themselves to it, might be received 
 and tested, instructed in the truth, and exercised in various branches of 
 evangelistic labour, and when sufficiently prepared, helped to go forth as 
 missionaries to any country or sphere to which God might providentially 
 open their way. 
 
 The need for, and the benefit of, such an Institute may be judged from 
 the facts, that during the six years which have elapsed since its commence- 
 ment, about one thousand Christian young men have applied to be 
 admitted, that about two hundred of these have been received, and that 
 of these more than one hundred are already labouring successfully in the 
 gospel, either in the Home or the Foreign field. 
 
 The students have been oi various nationalities ; not only English,
 
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 Scotch, and Irish, but French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Danish, 
 Russian, Bulgarian, Syrian, Egyptian, Caffre, Negro, Hindoo, Parsee, 
 JCoordish, Jewish, etc., and they have been of various evangelica- denomin- 
 ations ; while those of them who have gone forth as missionaries are now 
 connected with equally various societies, as a glance at the accompanying 
 list will show. 
 
 The training given is not only intellectual but practical ; several 
 Mission Halls, and a Mission Cutter for work among seamen, are attached 
 to the Institute, and the Derbyshire branch has a small farm. There are 
 about a thousand children taught in the Sunday-schools of the Institute. 
 
 The Biblical instruction is designed to give a clear grasp of the funda- 
 mental truths and evidences of Christianity. In addition to the ordinary 
 branches of an English education, the students are instructed in the Greek 
 of the New Testament, in history and science. Those of them who are 
 preparing to become medical missionaries, attend the school of medicine at 
 the London Hospital. 
 
 With hardly an exception, the students received into the Institute are not 
 in a position to contribute towards the expenses of their own support and 
 training, so that this work involves to the Director a very heavy financial 
 responsibility. It is carried on in humble dependence on God, whose 
 kingdom it seeks to extend on earth, and it has, so far, been sustained, in 
 answer to prayer, by his Almighty power through the liberality of his 
 people. 
 
 It involves considerable outlay, though the services of Director and 
 Secretary are entirely gratuitous, the ordinary expenses being at the rate of 
 about ;C50 ^ ye^r for each of the seventy students in training, and a con- 
 siderable sum besides being expended directly in missions. Annual reports, 
 with regularly audited accounts are published, and may be obtained on 
 application to the Hon. Secretary, Mrs. H. Grattan Guinness, IIar- 
 LEY House, Bow, E., together with the periodical of the Institute, 
 entitled "The Regions Beyond." 
 
 The author earnestly hopes that every reader of the foregoing volume— 
 who believes with him, that the time is short, and that the last command 
 of our quickly coming Saviour, " Go ye into all the world, and preach the 
 gospel to every creature," ought to be obeyed far more widely and fully 
 than it is,— wii.L endeavour to the utmost of his or her power 
 
 TO HELP FORWARD MISSIONARY WORK. LeT THOSE WHO CAN GO,
 
 694 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 GO, AND LET THOSE WHO CAN GIVE, GIVE, THAT THE UTTERMOST 
 PARTS OF THE EARTH MAY, WHILE YET THERE IS TIME, LEARN THg 
 SALVATION OF GOD ! 
 
 Communications from earnest Christian young men wishing to become 
 missionaries, and free-will offerings towards the funds of the Institute, from 
 those who wish to aid missions to the heathen, may be addressed to 
 
 H. Grattan Guinness, 
 
 Harley House, Bow, London, E. 
 
 %\t foKobing are some of i\t Stations ottupieb bg Missionaries 
 tobo babe been Stuhnts in i\z Institute. 
 
 In lEurope. 
 
 
 
 
 ENGLAND. 
 
 
 I. 
 
 W. B. . 
 
 Bible Carriage. 
 
 Itinerant 
 
 N. of England 
 
 1. 
 
 E. M. . 
 
 Evangelist 
 
 . 
 
 England. 
 
 3- 
 
 W. B. . 
 
 Missionary to Germans . Whitechapel . 
 
 London. 
 
 4- 
 
 F. B. . 
 
 Bible Carriage . 
 
 . . Itinerant . 
 
 N. of England. 
 
 5- 
 
 C. B. . 
 
 Home Mission . 
 
 Sheffield 
 
 Yorkshire. 
 
 6. 
 
 D.C. . 
 
 Gaelic Mission . 
 
 Hebrides 
 
 Scotland. 
 
 •J, 
 
 W. C. . 
 
 Episcopal Minister 
 
 
 Isle of Man. 
 
 8. 
 
 F. E. C. 
 
 Evangelist 
 
 Devizes 
 
 Wiltshire. 
 
 9- 
 
 H. D. . 
 
 Town Missionary 
 
 . . Hertford 
 
 Herts. 
 
 lO. 
 
 W. D. . 
 
 City Missionary 
 
 . . Stepney . 
 
 London. 
 
 II. 
 
 W. F. . 
 
 Village Pastor . 
 
 Milford. 
 
 Surrey. 
 
 12. 
 
 T. H. . 
 
 Army Scripture Reader . Plymouth 
 
 Devonshire. 
 
 '3- 
 
 J. K. . 
 
 Village Pastor . 
 
 Watlington . , 
 
 O.vfordshire. 
 
 I4- 
 
 IP. . 
 
 Master of Children 
 
 s Home Hackney . . 
 
 London. 
 
 '5- 
 
 T. E. R. 
 
 Home Missionary 
 
 Sheffield 
 
 Yorkshire. 
 
 |6. 
 
 R. H. S. 
 
 Colportage 
 
 ... . . 
 
 Yorkshire. 
 
 '7- 
 
 W. S. . 
 
 Assistant Pastor 
 
 Bury . 
 
 Lancashire. 
 
 i8. 
 
 G. T. . 
 
 P.-istor 
 
 Stratford 
 
 London. 
 
 '9- 
 
 J.V/. . 
 
 Village Pastor . 
 
 Urchfont 
 FRANCE. 
 
 Wiltshire. 
 
 20. 
 
 L. D. . 
 
 Missionary 
 
 Mentone 
 
 S. of France. 
 
 21. 
 
 A.M. . 
 
 Ecole preparatoire 
 
 Batignolles . 
 
 Paris. 
 
 »2. 
 
 E. S. . 
 
 Mr. McCall's Mission .... 
 
 Paris. 
 
 23- 
 
 R.S. . 
 
 Gospel Mission. 
 
 Several Halls 
 SPAIN. 
 
 Marseilles. 
 
 24- 
 
 E. L. . 
 
 Missionary 
 
 Figueras 
 
 N.E. of Spain. 
 
 es- 
 
 S. M. . 
 
 >i 
 
 Leon 
 
 N. of Spain. 
 
 se. 
 
 F. P. . 
 
 " 
 
 Figueras 
 PORTUGAL. 
 
 N.E. of Spain. 
 
 «7- 
 
 M. M. . 
 
 Missionary 
 
 ITALY. 
 
 Lisbon. 
 
 28. 
 
 G. M. . 
 
 Missionary 
 
 Turin . 
 BULGARIA. 
 
 N oflt.ily. 
 
 •«} 
 
 D. V, . 
 
 Missionary . 
 
 . 
 
 Bulgaria.
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 695 
 
 In ^0ia. 
 
 CHINA. 
 
 China Tnland Mission 
 Scottish Bible Society 
 
 China Inland Missioa 
 
 Wu-changCpreviously in Bhamo.Eurmah). 
 Hankow (itinerations in province of 
 
 Hunan). 
 Kiu-chau (itinerations in province of 
 Gan-hwui). 
 J, ,, . has traversed China from Shanghai to 
 
 Burmah, now in S.W. China. 
 J, „ , Chung-king . Province of Szchuen. 
 
 ji ,, . I-chang . Province of Hupeh. 
 
 ,. . Ta-tung . Province of Gan-hwui. 
 
 [,' ,, . Kiu-chau . Province of Chekiang. 
 
 United Methodist Free Church Tientsin . Province of Chili. 
 China Inland Mission . Yang-chaw . _ Province of Kiangsu. 
 British and Foreign Bible See. Foochow (extensive itinerations in various 
 provinces). 
 Chung-king (itmerations in province of 
 
 Szchuen). 
 (Itinerations in the provinces of Shensi 
 
 and Kansuh). 
 Chung-king . Province of Szchuen. 
 Hangchau . Province of Cheh- 
 
 kiang. 
 Kiu-chau (extensive itinerations in the 
 
 province of Honan). 
 Tai-chau . Province pf Kiangsu. 
 Nankin . . Province of Kiangsu. 
 
 30. J. A. . 
 
 31. J. A. . 
 
 3a. F. B. . 
 33- J- C . 
 
 34. S. C. . 
 
 35. A. C. . 
 
 36. A. C. D. 
 
 37. A. W. D. 
 
 38. J. F. . 
 
 39. J. H. . 
 
 40. J. M. . 
 
 41. J. M. . 
 
 42. G. N. . China Inland Mission 
 43- G. P 
 
 44. J. H. R. 
 
 45. S. S. . 
 
 46. H. T. . 
 
 47. A. W. 
 
 48. Miss E. B. 
 
 INDIA. 
 
 49. J. C. 
 
 50. M. M. 
 
 51. J. N. 
 
 52. H. P. 
 
 S3. JJ-T. 
 
 54. F. W. C. 
 
 55. P- W. . 
 it. G. Z. . 
 
 S7. Dr. K. 
 38. A. H. 
 
 Baptist Missionary Society 
 Mission to Parsees, etc. . 
 Mission to English in India 
 Mission to Santhals . 
 
 Madras. 
 Bombay. 
 Saharampore. 
 Bengal. 
 
 Jamtara 
 SIBERIA. 
 Bible Colportage, across southern Siberia, from Perm to Irkutsk. 
 SYRIA. 
 
 Mission to Arabs 
 
 Missionary 
 
 Mission to the Druzes 
 
 Damascus (itinerations in the Hauran). 
 
 Port Said. 
 I tat . . Mountains of Lebanon. 
 
 w- 
 
 D. C. . 
 
 60. 
 
 H.C. . 
 
 61. 
 
 C.J. . 
 
 62. 
 
 C A. M- 
 
 63- 
 
 J. N. . 
 
 64. 
 
 G. P. . 
 
 65. 
 
 H. R. . 
 
 66. 
 
 — T. (dec 
 
 67. 
 
 G. V. . 
 
 68. 
 
 S. Z. . 
 
 ARMENIA. 
 Medical Missionary. . Tokat . . 
 EGYPT. 
 
 WEST COAST. 
 
 Wesleyan Missionary Society . _ . _ . 
 Livingstone Inland Mission Cardiff Station 
 
 Turkey in Asia. 
 
 Ashantec 
 Congo. 
 
 K. Wesleyan Missionary Society Bathurst . . Gambia. 
 Native Agent . . . Cameroon Mountains Guinea. 
 Livingstone Inland Mission near Falls of Yellala Congo. 
 
 Mr.D.-Mackcnzie'b Expedition Cape Juby 
 
 Western Sahara
 
 696 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 SOUTH AFRICA. 
 
 S. A. 
 
 W. K. 
 R. L. 
 
 J.N. 
 M. S. 
 
 u. s. 
 
 E. C. H. 
 A. R. . 
 W. S. . 
 
 B.Y.M.F.M. Society 
 Missionary 
 
 Evangelist 
 -Missionary 
 Evangelist 
 Native Agent . 
 
 Ikwesi Lamaci 
 
 Dysseldorp . 
 Ixopo . 
 
 Oudshoorn . 
 Cape Town . 
 Lovedale . 
 
 EAST AFRICA. 
 
 London Missionary Society. 
 Free Church Mission. 
 
 Ujiji . . 
 Livingstooia. 
 Ribe . 
 
 MANITOBA. 
 
 So. 
 
 W. H. . 
 
 Evangelist 
 
 Itinerant. 
 
 8i. 
 
 W. S. . 
 
 " 
 
 CAPE BRETON. 
 
 82. 
 
 D. M'D. 
 
 Gaelic Missionary. 
 
 
 
 
 UNITED STATES. 
 
 83. 
 
 J. B. . 
 
 Evangelist 
 
 Itinerant. 
 
 84- 
 
 D. H. . 
 
 ij 
 
 * • < 
 
 85. 
 
 K. N. . 
 
 jj 
 
 Te.xas. 
 
 86. 
 
 W. N. . . 
 
 " 
 
 Itinerant 
 JAMAICA. 
 
 87. 
 
 G. C. . 
 
 Missionary 
 
 Stacey Ville. 
 
 83. 
 
 J.J. . 
 
 „ 
 
 Bethany. 
 
 89. 
 
 W. H. . 
 
 J, 
 
 Bamboo. 
 
 90. 
 
 G. H. . 
 
 ,, 
 
 
 91. 
 
 A. J. K. 
 
 Pastor 
 
 
 92. 
 
 J. W. M. 
 
 U. M. F. C. 
 
 Mission . Kingston. 
 
 93- 
 
 H. T.(dcc. 
 
 Evangelist 
 
 Itinerant. 
 
 94- 
 
 F. T. . 
 
 jj 
 
 
 <}5- 
 
 G. W. . 
 
 •■ 
 
 BRAZIL. 
 
 96. 
 
 \V. B. (dec. 
 
 Missionary 
 
 . _ . . Pernambuco 
 
 97- 
 
 J. F. . 
 
 Scottish Bibl 
 
 e Society . „ 
 
 96. 
 
 L. Da S. 
 
 » >• 
 
 X >> 
 
 ARGENTINE REPUBLIC 
 
 99. F. F. 
 
 En SluQtrali'a. 
 
 100. 
 
 lOI. 
 
 102, 
 
 103. 
 
 104. 
 
 105. 
 
 F. M. 
 A. N. 
 A. R. 
 J. S. 
 
 Evangelist 
 Episcopal Minister. 
 Methodist Evangelist 
 Evangelist 
 
 Itinerant 
 
 En Neto Sealanti. 
 
 D. M'L. Presbyterian Pastor 
 \V. S. . Baptist Paster , 
 
 Greendale 
 
 Kaffraria. 
 C.ipe Colony. 
 Kaffraria. 
 Cape Colony. 
 
 Lake Tanganyka. 
 Lake Nyassa. 
 Zanzibar & GalLu. 
 
 BraziL 
 
 S. America. 
 
 Queensland. 
 S. Australia. 
 
 Auckland 
 Island). 
 
 Canterbury 
 Island). 
 
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 (S. 
 
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