Rome quitted as capital by Christian emperors, iii. 110
its revival by Antichrist foretold by Hippolytus', iii. 114
Christian, extinction of its imperial sun, i. 359-361
Papal, profligacy of, in 9th and 10th centuries, i. 447
early venality of, ii. 18, 26 identified with the AаTEιa of Apoc. xi. 8, ii. 390, 391
ring of espousal with the church worn by the Pope, ii. 52
Apocalyptic Beast, or Popes, tied to, ii. 96
mother and mistress, iv. 94-96 as woman riding on Beast, ibid. Romanists in Rome, but not of Rome, iii. 55, 56, 248
Roman Catholics, appeal to, iv. 294 Rosary, the revival of, in 1460, ii. 23, 24 Russia, its last war with Turks, iii. 400
Sabbatism, millennary, iv. 218, 255 Sacraments, early unscriptural notion of, i. 261
Paulikian doctrine, respect-
ing, 309-313. Saints, synonymous with the 144,000 or sealed ones, i. 237-241, 254–257, 272-275, 305; iii. 259; iv. 113
blasphemed and made war on by Popes, ii. 19, 27, 378; ii. 158, 159. (See Witnesses.)
relics of, hawked for gain, i. 309; Church built over, 315 Saint-worship, prevalence of in the 5th Century, i. 306-316; Gibbon's sketch of, i. 308; in 10th Century, i. 460
sanctioned by Gregory, Thaumaturgos, and Gregory 1st, i. 310, 381
Salvation, Papal decree declaring it im possible without subjection to the Ro- man Pontiff, ii. 85. Satan, meaning of, ii. 440
bound 1000 years, iv. 176; loosed to deceive the nations, 246; cast into lake of fire, 247, 248
Saracens, invasion of Christendom by, i. 414, 416-418, 424-427; aggression on, by the Christians, i. 438; decline of their power, i. 439, 441 Savanorola, his martyrdom, ii. 28 Scene, symbolic, of primary Apocalyptic vision of the things that are," i. 72
Scenery, Apocalyptic, of the visions of the future, i. 97-103
Schlegel's Philosophy of History, iv. 271 Scripture, reading and preaching in pri- mitive Christian worship, ii. 154 Scriptures, reading of, by laics, forbidden
7, opening of, i. 293–295 Σεβασμα Σεβαστος, iii. 82, 148 Secession, Scotch, iv. 287
Secular Western Empire, not the first Beast, iii. 92, 159
"Seed of the Woman," promise of, the germ of all the promises, iv. 194 Seleucia, the site of Bagdad, iii. 391 Seleucidæ, their contests with the Pto- lemies. iv. 122-139 Semler, iv. 479
Septuagint, Chronology of, iv. 259-261 Sergius, the Paulikian, account of his conversion, ii. 238–241; extracts from his writings, ii. 242, 243
Serenus, (of Marseilles) a protestor against Image worship, ii. 214.
Seven hills, the seat of the Harlot, iv. 101 Seven Seals, &c. See Seals, Trumpets, and Vials.
Sign, anμetov, meaning of, iii. 6 Signs of the times, iv. 263
Silence, the half-hour's, in heaven, i. 294-302
Societies, Missionary and Bible, iii. 434 Sodom figurative of Rome, ii. 386, 392 "Son of," the Hebraism illustrated, ii. 201; iii. 80
Son of perdition, iii. 80
Souls under the altar, i. 183, 198
of the martyrs enthroned at the Millennium, iv. 176
Song of the Lamb's opening the book, i. 95
Song of the temple-harpers, iii. 267
of Moses and the Lamb, iii. 424 Spanish Colonies, Revolution of, iii. 330 Spener, iii. 272
Spirit, being in the, what ? i. 71; iv. 101 Star, the fallen, (Apoc. ix. 1) explained,
of Balaam's prophecy, iii. 296 Stars, symbol of, explained. i. 75, 221
the twelve of the Woman's coronal (Apoc. xii.) iii. 9 Staupitz, ii. 94
Erepavos, Roman imperial badge, i. 130 -131; contrasted with diadnμa, 131 iii. 106
Steuchus, Augustus, iii. 113, 114. Structure of Apocalypse, i. 104, 105; iii. 1-5; iv. 242
Sulpicius Severus, inclined to saint wor- ship, i. 309; expectations of Anti- christ, 368
Sun, symbolic, of rulers in the Apocalyp- tic heaven, i. 102; in 6th Seal dark- ened, 219-221; in 4th Trumpet, its third part eclipsed, 359-361; in 5th Trumpet darkened by the smoke of the pit, 423; 4th Vial on the, iii. 340
of Righteousness, Christ, as re- vealed to Luther, ii. 96
Angel, standing in, iv. 113 Sun-clothed woman, iii. 8, 9. Zuvekonμot, in sense of "fellow-exiles," an appellation of the Paulikian minis- ters, ii. 313
Superstition advances towards; see Sa- crament, Saint-worship, Purgatory, &c. Symbolic character, St. John's, i. 268- 272, ii. 112-114, iii. 260, iv. 235 Symbols, Scripture, appropriateness of, i. 394-406; iii. 14; the principle ap- plied in explanation of the 5th Trum- pet, i. 406-424, &c.
Sword, the Roman military badge, i. 142-146
Tabernacles, Jewish feast of, i. 324
antitypical feast of, i. 324 Teλeσwσiv drav, Apoc. xi. 7, difficulties about, ii. 367; explained, 368-372 Temple, the symbolic, i. 97, 98; see Altar; opened in Heaven, ii. 438; iii. 281, 282, 403, 405; fulfilled, 433
of God, Antichrist sitting in, jii. 82 Ten horns of the Beast, iii. 115-125 (see Beast:) hate the whore, 354 Tertullian, his testimony to the Apoca- lypse, i. 27; his apology, 194; his views of the Apocalyptic prophecy, 207, 209; iv. 309 Tetzel, ii. 67-69
Theodosius, Gothic tempests hushed dur- ing his reign, i. 301; "the great eagle," iii. 44; destroys Paganism and Arian- ism, 44-47 Theodosian code, iii. 140
Theophilus, Bishop of Antioch, his tes- timony to the Apocalypse, i. 26. "Third Part," the Apocalyptic, i. 333 -341; iii. 14
"This generation shall not have passed," &c., iv. 266
Thogrul Beg, chief of the Seljukian Turks, i. 469; his invasion of Eastern Christendom, i. 494-498; ceremony of his investment at Bagdad, i. 496 Thousand, the 144. See Hundred, and Saints.
Throne of God, man-child caught up to, iii. 12
of the Beast, or Rome, yielded to Beast by Dragon, iii. 95-98; fifth Vial poured out on, 346-352 Thunders and lightnings from the throne, i. 107; before first Trumpet, 343; on seventh Trumpet's sounding, ii. 438, iii. 286; on seventh Vial, iv. 89 the seven (Apoc. x), explained, ii. 103-111
Thunderbolts, the Papal, iii. 179 Tiara, Papal. See Triregno. Time, the," shall not yet be" (Apoc. x. 5), ii. 122, 123; iv. 265
of the end, iv. 161, 163-167, 169 of trouble, iv. 169
the standard of the declaration, "Five have fallen and one is," iii. 71, 94
Times, the seven of Nebuchadnezzar, iii. 227
Daniel's 3, iv. 166, &c. (See Year- day.) Toleration, Galerius' edict of, iii. 16 Traditio instrumenti. See Ordination. Trajan, his conquests, i. 127; his rescript concerning Christians, i. 192-195 Transubstantiation, ii. 161; iii. 153, 179, 180; iv. 94
Tribulation, the great (Apoc. vii. 14), i. 277
Tripartition of Roman empire, iii. 16 of the Popedom, under 7th
Vial, 490 Triregno, the Papal super-imperial crown, ii. 51; iii. 143, 161, 174 Triumvirs, no proper head to Roman Beast, iii. 100
Trumpet-soundings, the meaning of, i. 321-324
Trumpet, the seventh, sounding of, ii. 434; importance of, 434-437; general view of, iii. 277; developed in the seven Vials, 281; noted as quickly following after the passing away of the second Woe, 283
Turks, executors of the second Woe, i. 468, 501; the Seljukians commissioned from the Euphrates, 469, 470; Seleu- cian local origin of, iii. 388; continued in the Othmans, 473-478; numbered by "myriads," 479-481; Apocalyp- tic colouring of their dress, 481, 482; their artillery answering to the fire, smoke, and sulphur, 483; the horsetail standards of their Pashas, 485-488; their Pashas' oppressive rule, 488, 489; Constantinople taken by, after the hour, day, month, and year," i. 501
no longer a Woe, made evident just before French Revolution, iii. 289; rapid wasting of, begun 1820, A.D. (at the ending of the 2300 year-days of Dan. viii), 396-401; last war with Russia, iii. 400
Contest with Pasha of Egypt, iv.
"Unam Sanctam," the famous bull of Boniface VIII., adopted by Pope Leo X., ii. 85; iii. 158
United Brethren, Papal persecution of, ii. 28, 394
Universal preaching of the Gospel, a sign of the times, iv. 267 Union among Christians, to be sought, iv. 292
Unity of the Church, early unscriptural view of, iii. 137; Papal, ii. 84; scrip- tural, iv. 216
Val Louise, extirpation of its Christian inhabitants, ii. 29
Valentinian's decree in favour of Pope, iii. 135
Vandals, conquests of the, under Gense- ric, i. 349-358
a horn of the Beast, iii. 119, 122; plucked up, 142
Van Mildert, Bishop, his opinion, that Popery is the great predicted Apos- tacy, iii. 160
Venn, Rev. H. iii. 272
Vial, a frequent Scripture emblem, iii. 302
Vials, the seven, development of the 7th Trumpet, iii. 281; signification of, 301; remarks on, 302
Vial 1, iii. 301-326, 306; ulcer of (a not unfrequent emblem) 324; spreads over European kingdoms, 325
2, iii. 327-332; fulfilled, 334
3, iii. 332 340; fulfilled, 334 4, iii. 340-346
undue exaltation of, resisted by the Paulikians, ii. 305–309. winking images, iii. 368, 369 undue veneration of, affected by the Oxford Tractarians, iv. 49 Voice from heaven, "Blessed are the dead," &c. iv. 73
Voice from the throne, iv. 111. See Altar.
Voices of many waters, iii. 266
in heaven proclaim the kingdom of Christ, iii. 283
Volcanic eruptions, before French Revo- lution, iii. 294
eruption predicted to break up the earth's crust, like that of Sodom, iv. 228
fire, symbol of the Vandal, i. 354-356
-eruption of, in Auvergne (A.D. 458), i. 354
Voltaire and the infidel philosophers, iii. 293
White robes, of martyrs, i. 208-210, iii. 25, of neophytes, i. 229, 254; of Christ's saints, 249 256
horse, i. 126, 129; iv. 112 Whitby's theory of Millennium refuted, iv. 184-216
Wickliff, ii. 21; his probable connexion with the Waldenses, ii. 381 Wilberforce, iii. 430-440 Wilfrid, or Boniface, iii. 171, 172 Wine-press trodden without the city, iv. 84, 116
Winds, four Angels of the, i. 232
silence of the, i. 298
Wings, two, of great eagle, iii. 40-42 Witnesses, the two, (Apoc. xi.) retro- spective view of, ii. 193-406
described in prophecy, ii. 198-206, their personality, 198; cha- racter, 199; emblems, 200; number, (why only two) 202; condition, 203; avenging power, ib.; commencement of their testimony, 205; its comple- tion, 367-375
earlier Western, ii. 206-233 earlier Eastern, (or Pauli-
-joint middle age, ii. 247-275 the Paulikians true, ii. 275
the Waldenses true, ii. 347 Papal war against, ii. 365—
death of, ii. 379 397; and Papal exultation thereupon, ii. 397– 401
Woe, the first (or Saracenic) origin of, i. 406-424; progress of, 424-429
chronology of, and limits to, 429-439; total termination of, 444 the second (or Turco-Moslem), oc- casion of, i. 454–460; origin of, 468; chronology of, 488-501
cessation of, ii. 431-
433; iii. 286 Woman, the faithful Church, travailing, iii. 7, 10-12; brings forth manchild, 18; persecuted by Dragon, 30; flight to, and sojourn in, wilderness, 33, 53 -57
Woman, the harlot Church, holding out cup of her apostacy, iv. 93-95 Worship, object of, or σeßaoua, iii. 82 "Write" and "write not," (Apoc. x) meaning of, ii. 106, 107, 117
Writing within and without, i. 104; iii. 4, 281
Wormwood, the star, iii. 333
general à priori evidence for, miniature time of miniature symbol answering to longer time of thing sym- bolized; exemplified, 224; specific year-day scale, otherwise probable from Scripture analogy, actually laid down by God, 227, 228; veil of the time of the end, arising from the year- day prophetic periods, consistent with Christ's declaration, "Not yours to know times and seasons," and intended to keep the Church watching, 233
objections to, answered, iii. 232-250; year-days symbolic, as the rest of symbol, 233; chain of authori- ties recognizing it, Cyprian, Prosper, Tichonius, Primasius, Ambrose, Ans- bert, Berengaud, Bruno, Joachim, Al- bertus Magnus, 233 238; also Jew- ish Rabbins, ancient, and of middle ages, 240; discrepancies of year-day expositors equalled by those of the
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