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 |
From inside the book
Results 6-10 of 56
Page 135
... Paganism ; and that the fall of the dragon from heaven is the final over- throw of idolatry . In a similar manner , the wrath of the dragon after he is cast down to the earth is the attempt to restore paganism in the reign of Julian ...
... Paganism ; and that the fall of the dragon from heaven is the final over- throw of idolatry . In a similar manner , the wrath of the dragon after he is cast down to the earth is the attempt to restore paganism in the reign of Julian ...
Page 138
... pagan Rome , can scarcely be reconciled with the unequivocal declaration of St. John , that he is the devil . I have never been able to learn , upon what grounds his Lordship and Mr. Mede so peremptorily pronounce the dragon to be the pagan ...
... pagan Rome , can scarcely be reconciled with the unequivocal declaration of St. John , that he is the devil . I have never been able to learn , upon what grounds his Lordship and Mr. Mede so peremptorily pronounce the dragon to be the pagan ...
Page 139
... pagan Roman empire ? The circumstance indeed of his being represented with ten horns shews , that the agent , through whose visible instrumentality he persecutes the woman , is the Roman empire : but it is absolutely impossible , that ...
... pagan Roman empire ? The circumstance indeed of his being represented with ten horns shews , that the agent , through whose visible instrumentality he persecutes the woman , is the Roman empire : but it is absolutely impossible , that ...
Page 141
... pagan , but of a nominally Christian , power . Heaven indeed is the symbol either of temporal or spiritual polity ... Paganism , im- * See the preceding chapter upon symbolical language . perial Rome alone occupied the temporal heaven ...
... pagan , but of a nominally Christian , power . Heaven indeed is the symbol either of temporal or spiritual polity ... Paganism , im- * See the preceding chapter upon symbolical language . perial Rome alone occupied the temporal heaven ...
Page 142
... pagan Rome , what- ever the previous labour - pains of the woman may have for the empire , as pagan , never was in the spiritual heaven ; and consequently cannot be the dragon , which the prophet declares to have been in the selfsame ...
... pagan Rome , what- ever the previous labour - pains of the woman may have for the empire , as pagan , never was in the spiritual heaven ; and consequently cannot be the dragon , which the prophet declares to have been in the selfsame ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
afterwards angel Antichrist apocalyptic Apostasy Apostle atheism Babylon beheld Bicheno Bishop bottomless pit Carlovingian chapter Charlemagne Christ Christianity church of Rome commencement Constantine Daniel death declared dragon earth earthquake ecclesiastical eighth head Emperor Exarchate Exarchate of Ravenna false prophet France French revolution Germany Gothic heaven Hence Hist holy idolatrous imperial Infidelity interpretation Italy Jews John king kingdom last head Latin empire likewise little book little horn locusts Lord man-child means Mede Mohammedism nations Newton observed Odoacer Ostrogoths pagan Papacy papal period persecution Pope Popery prediction prince prophecy protestants reign religion represented revived Roman beast Roman empire saints Saracens scheme seal second beast second woe secular beast seven heads seventh trumpet shew sixth head slain sound sovereign spiritual star supposes symbolical temporal ten-horned beast third woe tion trumpet tyranny unto Western empire whole witnesses woe-trumpet woman worship