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Introduction

Prophetic Basis op the Exposition, Rev., chap. xvii. — Scope of — Involves the career of the Three Napoleons — Connection with, of the four great Monarchies of the World, the Babylonian, Medo-Persian, Grecian, and Roman — The Roman Empire — Its duration — Proof of its Perpetuated Unity \ . . . 31-48

, CHAPTER II.

PROPHETIC HISTORY OP THE ROMAN EMPIRE, CONTINUED.

Recapitulation — Seven Forms of the Civil Government of the Roman Empire — Chronology of the Sixth Form, the Imperial — This the Gordian Knot of Expositors — Augustulus — Mr. Elliott and Dr. H. Moore on — Fallacy of — True Chronology of, demonstrated — Eight Proofs of— Result — Further Proofs of the Territorial and Political Unity of the Roman Empire — Three arguments in proof that Napoleon I. was the Seventh Symbolic Head of the Empire, 49-64

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CHAPTER in.

NAPOLEON II. DUKE OF REICHSTADT AND KING OP ITALY — NAPOLEON III.,

ETC.

Recapitulation. — Predicted Short Career of Napoleon I. — Exultation of the Crowned Heads of Europe on — Napoleon II. — His early Death — Edict of the European Powers against the Napoleonic Family — But, man proposes, God disposes — the Wound unto death of the Symbolic Seventh Head healed in the person of Napoleon III., who forms the principal subject of this Exposition — Preliminaries — The French Revolution between A. D. 1^89 and 1848, prepares the way for his Accession to the Throne of the Franco-Roman Empire — Brief Historic Sketch of — His Escape from the Prison of Ham — Exile in the United States — Miiller — Napoleon's Secrets — His darling Idea of forming a Universal Latin Dynasty, with France as the Head — His extraordinary Career between Dec. 2d, 1 848, and Dec. 2d, 1852 — Review of the preceding details — The Revival of the Seventh and Eighth Heads — Faber on — Fallacy of — I. The Character and Exploits of the revived Seventh Franco -Roman Emperorship in the person of Louis Napoleon III., as a purely Secular Power — Further Historical Remarks, . . 65-81

CHAPTER IV.

LOUIS NAPOLEON IIL CONTINUED THE FUTURE, DESTINED SOVEREIGN OF A

UNIVERSAL LATIN DYNASTY.

Hscapitulation — A Startling Announcement — Prophetico-Symbolic Characteristics of Louis Napoleon III. — His unprecedented Career to the Present Time — Rev. xiii. 3, 4 — First, of the similarity of his Accession to Power with that of his Imperial Uncle — His remarkable Declaration before the National Assembly of France in A. D. 1848 — How verified — Appears upon the Stage as the Great Pacificator of the Nations — Also as a Despot — Illustrated in Seven Particulars, . . . 82-98

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CHAPTER V.

LOUIS NAPOLEON III. CONTINUED — SYMBOLIZED BY THE SCARLET COLORED BEAST OF KEY. Xvii. 1-6, IN UNION WITH THE PAPACY.

Exposition of the aboye Prophecy — Its historical application to Louis Napoleon III. — Preliminaries — Verification of the results of the above union — Oudinot — Archbishop of Paris — His Harlot Rider, the Papacy, unconscious of his ulterior designs —This Union brings on a Crisis in his Career of Destiny — The Bourgeois, the Aristocracy, the Socialists, etc. — Results — Another Fact — The Carbonari of Italy — Republicans — Pius IX., King Charles Albert, and Louis Napoleon III., members of — The Events which grew put of — Expulsion of Pius IX. to Gaeta — Restored by Louis Napoleon III. — Is tried for his perfidy by the Carbonari — The matter is compounded — secures Independence to Italy — Napoleon III. has no real love for the Papacy — Is a Republican — His Napoleonic prestige — Receives Idolatrous Homage — His Star of Destiny in the Ascendant — Comprehensiveness of his Military and Naval Programme as the Pacificator of the Nations — The New York Tribune, etc.

99-114

CHAPTER VI.

LOUIS NAPOLEON III. CONTINUED — THE EIGHTH APOCALYPTICO-SYMBOLIO HEAD OF THE UNIVERSAL LATIN EMPIRE.

Introduction — Rev. xvii. 8, 10 — Fearfully portentous and comprehensive Words ! — Objection : Their significancy cannot be known because still future — Reply — Another Objection : The booh mentioned in Rev. v. 1-7 is not the sealed book of Daniel — Reply — Fallacy of the argument of obscurity of the prophecy, etc. — We of this day have an interest in it — Proof that Louis Napoleon III. is the Eighth Head of the Apocalyptic Beast — As such, he is designated as the future Leader of the Last Democratic Politieo-Antichiistian Confederacy of the Nations against the Abrahamic Jewish Race and the Gentile Christian Church, as the last Antichrist — St. Paul's Prophecy, 2 Thess. 1*

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ii. 3, 4, and verses 9-12 — Also Christ's Prophecy, John v. 43 — His "coming" a personal one, Humanity Deified — Startling Announcement — Hence the denial by some writers of a future personal Antichrist — Refutation of, ,115

Section I

THE PliOPHETICO-HISTORlC RISE, CAREER, AND DOOM OP THIS GREAT APOCALYPTIC ANTICHRISTIAN POWER.

I. — The Chronological Period assigned for the appearance of the last Antichrist — The Spiritual and Ecclesiastico-Political Power of the Papacy, and the Civil Power of the Roman Empire, were to run a parallel course. Compare Dan. vii. 25 with Eev. xiii. 5 — The whole period 1,335 years, Dan. vii. 12 — Period of the Rise of the Papacy in A. D. 533— Proof Of— Prophetico-Historic Verification of — The Bishop of Versailles and Napoleon III.— Final Destruction of the Papacy by the Symbolic "Ten Horns " or "Kings," Rev. xvii. 16, . 115-132

CHAPTER VI. (Continued.) section II.

LOUIS NAPOLEON III., AS THE HEAD OP THE UNIVERSAL LATIN EMPIRE.

This Event still Future — Yet nigh at hand — The Harlot-rider still seated on his back — The Secular Power of the Popedom nearly annihilated — What is to follow, at variance with the popular views — Five Considerations in proof of the position herein assumed : —

I. Tlie Steps which are to immediately precede the Introduction of Louis Napoleon III. upon the stage of action as the Eighth Apocalyptic Head — Will be preceded by Miraculous Wonders — Is warily advancing toward the acme of his ambition — Is suspected of an inkling after the Popedom — May assume it, to effect a change in the functions of the then

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reigning Pope to that of the False Prophet, who is to work Miracles before him (Rev. xix. 20), as his own passport from the Seventh to the Eighth Headship— Present Aspect of French Affairs favorable to this— Other Facts — The Result.

II.< — His Inauguration, as the Eighth Head, into his Seat of Power, at the hands of the Ten Roman "Horns" or "Kings" — Certainty of, as derived from the Prophecy, Rev. xvii. 17, " For God hath put it into their hearts," etc. — (Compare Dan, iv. 1-18 ; 23-25 ; and chap. vii. 1-8, with 2 Thess. ii. 3, 8, and verse 11) — St. PauPs Prophecy in outline filled up by St. John's respecting the appearance and work of the Three Unclean Frog Spirits, Rev. xvi. 13, 14, 18 — Exposition of — Meaning of the phrase, "The whole World"— 1. Their Origin— 2. Extent of the combined Influences of their Miraculous Agencies — 3. What we are to understand as denoted by them — 4. The Period of their Mission — (Compare Rev. xvi. 12, with verses 13-14) — 5. Will culminate in the formation of the Last Democratico-Infidel Confederacy — Objection to, on the ground of its alleged impossibility — Reply — Appeal to facts —Most of those now living may witness the things here spoken of— An Appeal, 133-149

CHAPTER VI. (Continued.)

Section III

THE POLITICO-HISTORIC MARK, NAME, OR NUMBER (666) OF THE APOCA- LYPTIC EIGHTH HEAD, QUERE. DOES IT APPLY TO LOUIS NAPOLEON III. ?

Introductory Remarks — The Prophecy, Rev. xiii. 16-18 — Furnishes additional evidence that the revived Seventh Head of the Roman Beast, and the Eighth, belong to the same person — Distinction between the Power that confers and He who interprets said number — Miracles wrought by the former to that end — The Image of the Beast, What ? — The Mark, etc., imposed as a sign of Dedication, etc. — How to be deciphered, or counted — Origin of, illustrated — Zoological Origin of the Eighth Head — The number 666 applied, first, to his ancestry — Illustrated in

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three particulars — But in order to its complete fulfilment must be applied to some one man — That man, Louis Napoleon III. — Must be deciphered in the three languages, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew — Illustrations o/, with answers to objections, etc. — The great Antichristian Confederacy of which he is the Head — Editorial article from a New York journal on cl The Signs of the Times " — Closing Eemarks, . . . 150-166

CHAPTER VI. (Continued.)

Section IV

THE PROPHETICO-HISTORIC EXPLOITS OF THE APOCALYPTIC EIGHTH HEAD AND HIS ANTICHRISTIAN CONFEDERACY.

Recapitulation — Entrance upon a comparatively new field of Scriptural Exegesis — Prophecies relating to the future Restoration

of the Jews to Palestine : 167-169

I. First Act of the Eighth Head, the restoration of the Jews to their own land — Has undergone numerous changes— "Predicted ENLARGEMENT AND NEW DIVISION OF, AMONG THE

Twelve Tribes — First.. Successive Geographical Developments of — 1. Its first occupancy by the Ten Heathen Nations, prior to Abraham's call — Map of — 2. From Joshua to the time of the Judges — Map of — 3. Canaan as adapted to the period of the Kings — Three Maps; the first adapted to the Booh of Kings, the second to the Captivity, the third to the time of Christ — 4. The future enlargement of— The new division of— Map of— The Holy Oblation— Illustration of. . . 169-182

The Restoration of Israel will take place in their nationally unconverted State, and in great suffering — Louis Napoleon III. as the Eighth Head the instigator of— Makes a League with them to that end — This involves their allegiance to him — The Prophet Hosea on — The Jews incorporated with his Confederacy — The Prophet Isaiah on — Astounding effect upon the Nations — Agencies employed in their Restoration — Isaiah on, chap, xviii. 1-3 — Proof that this Prophecy points to the United States of America — Not one of the " Ten Horns " of the Roman Empire — Will form no part of the Antichristian Con-

CONTENTS. Xiii federacy of the Latin Empire — A great and glorious destiny awaits her — Will, nevertheless, be brought under the rod for her national sins — Will form an alliance with the Eighth Head — The Jews will hail him as their Messiah — Christ's Prophecy of — The Jews the wealthiest nation on earth — When restored, will wipe out the foot-prints of the destroyers of their land — Jeremiah's Prophecy of — Will rebuild their Temple — Ezekiel on — Will rapidly rise to national distinction while yet in league with their false Messiah — Ezekiel on — This not the climax of their national sin — Ezekiel on, etc. . . 182-210

II. The Second Act of the Eighth Head — His desecration of the Temple — St. Paul on — The last unparalleled tribulation of the Jews — Jeremiah, Daniel, and Christ on — Their revolt against the false Messiah — This leads to the last acts of the Eighth Head, 210-212

CHAPTER VI. (Concluded.)

Section V

CONTINUATION OP THE PROPHETICO-HISTORIC EXPLOITS OF THE APOCA- LYPTIC EIGHTH HEAD AND HIS ANTICHRISTIAN CONFEDERACY

THEIR FINAL DOOM CONCLUSION.

III. The Third Act. — Antichrist's Invasion of the Holy Land and its Capital, Jerusalem — Gog and Magog Army of Ezekiel— - Proof that it is not identical with that of the Apocalypse, chap. xx. 8, 9 — Faber on — Reply— This invasion described by Zechariah, chap. xiv. 1, 2 212-216

IV. The Fourth Act. — Eventuates in "the Battle of the Great Day of God Almighty" Rev. xvi. 14 — Locality of the Battle-field, Armageddon — Predicted certain destruction of the Invaders by the Visible Personal Appearance of Christ —Scripture Proofs— * 216-223

V. The final doom of the Last Antichrist and his Magogean Confederacy — The result of the Battle — Are destroyed by the Personal Agency of the Lord Jesus Christ — Magnitude of this Confederacy — Number of their Weapons — An Explanation

— Conclusion, 223

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Appendix

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II. Prophetical Aspect of the late Firman of the Sultan of Turkey

in reference to the Holy City, Jerusalem, . . . 229-258

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INTKODTJOTIOE".

It forms no part of the design of this volume, to give an exposition of what appertains to the social, civil, judicial, and ecclesiastical systems of the commonwealth of Israel as enacted by the inspired lawgiver, Moses, between the Exode and the time of Samuel. That system of government was adapted to a union of the Church with the State, and is a matter of history, as constituting the original theocracy of Israel.

What we propose in these pages, is, to present a view of u -Napoleontsm Unveiled," as foreshadowed in those systems of earthly gentile governments that were to bear rule hi the world, subsequently to, and in consequence of, the abrogation of the original theocracy by the Israelites under 8amuel, onward to the restoration of that theocracy by their king, Messiah. It will be found that, during this prolonged interval, those " holy men of God who spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost," prophetically portrayed the various systems of government of human device to which the Church and people of God, Jewish and Christian, were to be subjected, either as the punishment of their sins, or the trial of their faith, under and during the dominancy of Gentilism over them.

First. In regard to the Hebrew, Israelitish, or Jewish nation, Moses, as a prophet, Deut. xxviii. 1-14, gives a summary of the many and great blessings that should accrue to Israel as that people whom " God would set on high above all the nations of the earth," if obedient to His commands. On the other hand, \f disobedient, he predicts, in verses 15-68 inclusive, a long cat-

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alogue of the most terrific curses that could possibly befall any nation. These curses should overtake them while in their own land, not only, but, and especially when, being delivered into the hands of their enemies, " the Lord would scatter them among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other ; and that there they should serve other gods, which neither they nor their fathers had known, even wood and stone." Among these curses, allusion is made, verse 36, to what would follow the choice of " the Icing that they should set over them," viz., that the Lord would bring a nation against them from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle nieth ; a nation whose tongue they should not understand, a nation of fierce countenance, "which should not regard the person of the old, nor show favor to the young : and that he should eat the fruit of their cattle, and the fruit of their land, until they should be destroyed." . . Also that he " should besiege them in all their gates, until their high and fenced walls come down, wherein they trusted, throughout all their land, which the Lord their God had given them." And finally, that " they should be left few in number, whereas they were as the stars of heaven for multitude : because they would not obey the voice of the Lord their God."

The whole closes with the solemn appeal : — Thus saith the Most High, " See ... I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing : therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live." (Deut. xxx. 19.)

But, alas ! Israel chose death, with all its attendant curses. These curses, consequent of their rebellions against God under Moses, commenced with their nomadic wanderings for forty years through the wilderness, and were continued for like causes, during their occupancy of the land of Canaan under the Judges, until the time of the prophet Samuel. But this pious priest, prophet, and judge, had waxen old. Unable longer to bear the weight and responsibilities of his official functions, the reins of government were committed to the hands of his two sons, Joel and Abiah.

It is at this point in the history of Israel, when was verified

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the prophecy of Moses respecting their choice of a " Icing." "We read of the two sons of Samuel, that they " walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment." Whereupon " the elders of Israel came to Samuel unto Kamah, and said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways : now make us a king, to judge us, like all the nations." 1 In vain alike were the protestations, expostulations, and predictions of the venerable prophet as to the character of the king of their choice, whose despotic rule and oppression and extortion would make them " cry out in that day, because of the king whom they shaH have chosen." They still persisted in their demand : — " Nay, but we will have a king over us, that we also may be like all the nations (heathen), and that our king may judge us, and go out and fight our battles." 2

Now, this conduct of the nation of Israel constituted the highest act of treason and rebellion against the covenant God of their fathers. It involved the adjuration of the original theocracy, and the substitution in its place of a system of government analogous to the heathen nations !

God gave them up to their choice. In answer to the prayer of Samuel, " the Lord said unto him, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee : for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not be king over them? 3

Their error, however, consisted in their choice of Saul, the son of Cis, a Benjamite, as their first king. Whereas the prophecy of Jacob had designated the tribe of Judah as the source and centre of the regal power. 4 Hence the anointing of Saul out of a vial, 5 denotive of the instability of his short-lived reign. And, although David, of the tribe of Judah, as his successor^ was anointed out of a horn, 6 the emblem of permanency; yet a limit was set to the period of the Davidic monarchy in the line of the kings of Judah. A monarchy is not a theocracy. Hence,

3 Ibid., verses 6, 7. 4 Gen., xlix. 10.

5 1 Sam. x. 1. e iUd. y xvi. 13.

however the line of kings from David reigned jus JDivinum (by Divine right), it was to terminate at the coming of the " Shiloh." * That covenant made with David which guaranteed the perpetuity of his throne, therefore, reached beyond the royal monarchical line. Accordingly, the Apostle Peter, when addressing his brethren on the day of Pentecost, and "freely speaking to them of the patriarch David," said :— " Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne ; He, seeing this before, spake of the resurrection of Christ, that His soul was not left in hell (ac^?), neither did his flesh see corruption." 2

It is, therefore, by and through Christ, as " David's son and Lord," 3 in resurrection power and glory, and by Him alone, that the original theocracy can be restored.

Hence, this event did not transpire at the first appearing of the " Shiloh " to Israel. True, the monarchical " sceptre then departed from Judah." Still, the nation, after the example of Israel in the time of Samuel, by their rejection and crucifixion of Him who was " born King of the Jews," furnished the occasion for the deferment of the restoration of the previously abjured theocracy. And so, their Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ, — in analogy to the parabolic nobleman, of whom the " citizens " declared, " we will not have this man to reign over us," and who was driven " into a far country, till he should receive a kingdom and return," — is now, so to speak, a king in exile in the far-off heavens, whither, as ■' the great High Priest over the house of God," He has gone to intercede for us, henceforth expecting, till His enemies be made His footstool ; when, being invested of the Father with His kingly prerogatives, or, in other words, having " received His kingdom," he will return the second time to " build up the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down."

Of this the prophet Daniel speaks, chap. vii. 13, 14: — "I saw in the night visions, and behold, one like the Son of Man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the ancient of days, and they brought Him near before Him. And there was given Sim dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, and nations, and languages, should serve Him : His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and His kingdom that which shall not be destroyed." And with this accords the declaration of St. Peter in his address to the Jews, Acts iii. 20, 21. " And he shall send Jesus Christ, which oefore was preached unto you : whom the heavens must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began." And so, in regard,

Second. To the Christian Church. We now speak of the visible church catholic on earth in her mixed state, as constituted of tares and wheat, or the apostate and the true. As it respects the former, the Apostle Paul predicted, Acts xx. 29, 30, that a after his departure should grievous wolves enter in among them, not sparing the flock. Also of their own selves should men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them." This prophecy formed the dasis of that of 2 Thess. ii. 3, in which he foretells of that "falling away first" — (7 aiToo-rao-la, the apostasy), which was finally to culminate in that " revelation of the man of sin and son of perdition," or the last Antichkist ; " even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish ; oecause they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie," etc. The voice of prophecy also points out, that this apostasy of the nominal church throughout Christendom in its culminated form, is to constitute, out of its subjects, that last great antichristian confederacy of the nations, whose appearance upon the prophetical platform is to immediately precede the second coming (napovo-ias, personal presence) of the Lord Jesus Christ.

On the other hand, running parallel with the developments of this apostasy, the same voice of prophecy foretells the sufferings of " the faithful in Christ Jesus, called to be saints," as the trial of their Christian integrity. Thus Daniel, in reference to the "little horn" of chap. vii. 8, predicts, verse 21, 25, "I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them ; " and that he " should wear out the saints of the Most High," etc., and to this state of suffering the Apostle Peter alludes, 1 Pet. i. 6, 7, — " Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations ; that the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold which perisheth, though it be tried by fire, might be found unto praise and honor and glory, at the appearing of Jesus Christ." These prophecies are in harmony with that of our Lord to his disciples, John xvi. 33, " in the world ye shall have tribulation ; " and also with that of St. Paul to the believers in Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch, Acts xiv. 22, "that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God."

The purpose of these pages, therefore, is, to show that " all the prophets, from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken," 1 have prophetically mapped out the rise, career, and final destiny of all those earthly systems of political economy that were to sway their respective sceptres in and over the nations of the world, as rivals to that original theocracy established over the commonwealth of Israel ; together with the contemporaneous vicissitudes and sufferings of the Church and people of God, Jewish and Christian, by and through them, as rods in God's hand, either for the punishment of the apostate or the trial of the faithful ; and of the final vengeance which is to overtake them, one and. all, as the persecutors of the Lord's chosen people of both classes, in their total subversion, by the reestaolishment of that theocratic government abjured by Israel in the time of Samuel.

The learned Bossuet and Bishop Porteus have well and truly said of the four prophetic monarchies of Gentilism that were to bear rule in the earth between the abjuration and the restoration of the theocracy of Israel — the Babylonian, Medo-Persian, Grecian, and Roman — that they " form, as it were, one vast map of Providential administration, delineated on so large a scale, and

1 Acts, iii. 24.

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marked with such legible characters, that it cannot possibly escape our observation ; " and that " this map has been held up before the eyes of all nations for the space of nearly three thousand years, to confront the feeble cavils of atheism, and to confirm the scriptural doctrine of a national Providence"

And yet how many, in these " last times," have entirely overlooked the fact, that in' the Bible is to be found the most extensive and complete system of political economy of which the world can boast !

Of the prophecy of Moses, in the xxviiith chapter of Deuteronomy, respecting the numerous curses that should overtake Israel in the event of their disobedience of the Lord's commands, history, both sacred and profane, attests that they have all been literally verified, in accordance with the natural language in which they are recorded. The same holds true of the prophecy of Samuel in reference to the character, etc., of their first king, Saul, in 1 Sam. viii. 10-18. But it is otherwise with those subsequent prophecies, which portray the political economy of gentilism, as adumbrated by the former prophets. In these, natural language, at least for the most part, is exchanged for the mystical ; so that the various anti-theocratic systems of government that have obtained in the world, and the anti- Christian ecclesiastical systems that have prevailed in the nominal church, are revealed by the Holy Spirit under symbolical forms. This holds true, more especially, of the things set forth in the books of Daniel and of the Apocalypse, the latter being synchronical with, and expository of, the former.

It will, however, be shown in the sequel of these pages, that the symbols introduced in these prophecies, being selected from some real objects in nature, either inanimate, — as the gold, silver, brass, iron, etc., of the colossal image of Nebuchadnezzar (Dan. chap, ii.), — or animate, — as the four rampant beasts of Daniel, — the winged Hod, the bear, the four-headed and fourwinged leopard, and the nondescript beast, etc., — are all representative of some corresponding literal object, person, event, or thing, which forms the subject of the prophecy. Also, that in these symbols, being in numerous instances interpreted by the Holy Spirit who revealed them, we are furnished with a Jcey by

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which to unlock the otherwise hidden meaning ot the whole. They hence form, so to speak, a prophetico-hiekophantic alphabet, not in the sense of the mere letters of a foreign tongue, but in the more expansive signification of the 6bjects or events, etc., to which they refer. Or, these prophecies, taken as a whole, may be compared to a dissected map, which, commencing with the larger sections, all the other parts are of comparatively easy adjustment. And, as to the subjects treated of in this volume, we say without hesitation, that every intelligent reader, from his own knowledge of events past and present, — on the admitted principle that history is prophecy verified — will be enabled to decide for himself, as to the correctness of the prophetico -historical expositions of the matters signified by them.