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 Apostacies: the Tyrannical Reign of Antichrist, Or the Infidel Power; and the Restoration of the Jews. To which is Added, an Appendix, Volume 2Andrews and Cummings, Greenough and Stebbins, printers, 1808 - Bible |
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Page 136
... beginning of the 1260 days . The general outline of his whole explanation , so far as it regards the three grand symbols of the little book , is as follows . He conjectures , that the dragon is the Greek or Con- stantinopolitan Empire ...
... beginning of the 1260 days . The general outline of his whole explanation , so far as it regards the three grand symbols of the little book , is as follows . He conjectures , that the dragon is the Greek or Con- stantinopolitan Empire ...
Page 141
... beginning of it is laid , in heaven , or the Church general . The dragon , the per- sécutor , was a sign in heaven , no less than the woman , the persecuted . Whence it will follow , that the seven - headed and ten - horned dragon ...
... beginning of it is laid , in heaven , or the Church general . The dragon , the per- sécutor , was a sign in heaven , no less than the woman , the persecuted . Whence it will follow , that the seven - headed and ten - horned dragon ...
Page 149
... beginning of this work ( vol . i . p . 14 , 15 , 16. ) . I conceive it to be of great use in explaining the present prophecy , because it accounts for the representation of the dragon being in heaven , and of an apostasy taking place ...
... beginning of this work ( vol . i . p . 14 , 15 , 16. ) . I conceive it to be of great use in explaining the present prophecy , because it accounts for the representation of the dragon being in heaven , and of an apostasy taking place ...
Page 150
... beginning thus to use it , must be synchronical : and therefore his first direct attack upon the man- child , and the flight of the woman into the wilder- ness , must synchronize with the commencement of the authorized Apostasy , that ...
... beginning thus to use it , must be synchronical : and therefore his first direct attack upon the man- child , and the flight of the woman into the wilder- ness , must synchronize with the commencement of the authorized Apostasy , that ...
Page 153
... beginning to be born , Paganism still maintained a divided sway with Christianity , and shortly after the death of Constantine was re - established by Julian . But in the age of Theodosius , at the close of the fourth century , the ...
... beginning to be born , Paganism still maintained a divided sway with Christianity , and shortly after the death of Constantine was re - established by Julian . But in the age of Theodosius , at the close of the fourth century , the ...
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