OR,

A COMMENTARY ON THE APOCALYPSE,

CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL;

INCLUDING ALSO AN EXAMINATION OF

THE CHIEF PROPHECIES OF DANIEL.

ILLUSTRATED BY AN APOCALYPTIC CHART, AND ENGRAVINGS

FROM MEDALS AND OTHER EXTANT MONUMENTS

OF ANTIQUITY.

BY THE REV. E. B. ELLIOTT, A. M.
LATE VICAR OF TUXFORD, AND FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.

THIRD EDITION,

REVISED, CORRECTED, AND IMPROVED;

WITH AN APPENDIX,

CONTAINING, BESIDES OTHER MATTER,

A SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF APOCALYPTIC INTERPRETATION,

AND INDICES.

VOL. III.

SEELEY, BURNSIDE, AND SEELEY;

FLEET STREET, LONDON.

MDCCCXLVII.

"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." Apoc. i. 3.

"The word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that
shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn." 2 Peter i. 19.

I. THE SUN-CLOTHED WOMAN TRAVAILING, AND SEVEN-

HEADED DRAGON CAST DOWN

6

II. THE WOMAN'S RETIREMENT FROM THE DRAGON'S

PERSECUTION INTO THE WILDERNESS

28

III. § 1. IDENTITY OF THE WILD BEASTS FROM THE SEA

AND THE ABYSS

58

§ 2. IDENTITY OF THE LAST RULING HEAD OF THE

BEAST FROM THE ABYSS AND SEA, with DANIEL'S

LITTLE HORN (Dan. vii.), ST. PAUL'S MAN OF

SIN, AND ST. JOHN'S ANTICHRIST

73

IV. THE SEVEN-HEADED TEN-HORNED WILD BEAST

92

§ 2. THE FULL-GROWN ANTICHRISTIAN BEAST'S PRIDE

AND BLASPHEMIES

144

VIII. THE BEAST'S MARK, NAME, AND NUMBER

IX. § 1. THE YEAR-DAY PRINCIPLE

183

201

221

§ 2. THE BEAST'S PREDICTED 1260 YEAR-DAYS

X. THE LAMB'S BEAST-OPPOSED POLITY OF THE 144,000

251

258

PART V.

CHAP.

INTRODUCTION: ON THE SYNCHRONISMS AND DEVE-

LOPMENT OF THE SEVENTH TRUMPET

PAGE

277

I. GENERAL VIEW OF THE Seventh TRUMPET.

II. EPOCH OF THE SEVENTH TRUMPET'S SOUNDING, OR OF

283

VI. VIALS INEffective to PRODUCE REPENTANCE

VII. § 1. PREDICTED TIME OF THE SIXTH VIAL

§ 2. OUTPOURing of the Sixth Vial.

VIII. § 1. THE TRIPLE PREFIGURATIONS

347

361

373

396

RESPECTING

CHRIST'S TRUE CHURCH DURING THE VIALS

§ 2. EVANGELICAL PROTESTANT MISSIONS, AS PRE-

FIGURED UNDER THE SEVENTH TRUMPET.

410

427

APPENDIX.

ON THE EPOCH OF THE FIRST ASSUMPTION OF THE

DIADEM BY THE ROMAN EMPERORS

443

XX. PAPAL INDULGENCE OF THE XVIITH CENTURY
XXI. PAPAL MEDAL ON THE ST. BARTHOLOMEW MASSACRE
XXII. THE PERSIAN RAM, AND MACEDONIAN GOAT

151

159

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PART IV.

APOC. XII, XIII, XIV.

SUPPLEMENTAL AND EXPLANATORY HISTORY OF THE

RISE, CHARACTER, AND ESTABLISHMENT OF THE

BEAST FROM THE ABYSS,

OR

POPEDOM;

WITH ITS ADJUNCTS,

AND THE CONTRASTED IMPERSONATION OF THE

CHURCH OF CHRIST.

INTRODUCTION.

RETROGRESSION OF THE VISIONS.

"AND there appeared a great sign in heaven ;-a woman

clothed with the sun," &c.-Apoc. xii. 1.

So we enter on the Fourth and Supplemental Part of

the Revelation to St. John :-a Part, the peculiar charac-
teristic of which was the exhibition of certain individual
figurative impersonations on the scene, especially of the
Beast from the abyss: whereby not only was an omis-
sion in the former Apocalyptic series of visions supplied;
but a connecting link also established between them and
Daniel's celebrated vision of the fourth Beast, an im-
personation similar or identical with the Apocalyptic.

Before proceeding however to consider the vision here
beginning, it will be necessary to call the Reader's atten-