...third general description, contained in the thirteenth and fourteenth chapters, represents "a beast rising out of the sea, with seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, &c." signifying that secular government by which the false church has been...

...third general description, contained in the thirteenth and fourteenth chapters, represents " a beast rising out of the sea, with seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, &c." signifying that secular government by which the false church has been...

...kingdoms, which should arise out of it. (Compare verses 23, 24). In Rev. xiii. 1, St John sees the beast rising out of the sea, with seven heads and ten horns; and on comparing the head which arose after the head which was wounded to death, we have found it to be...

...church, " drunken with the blood of the saints," had all been swept away. Then, and only then, will the " woman clothed with the sun, and having the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve ttars," return from the wilderness into which she has been driven....

...to Rev. xiii. 11, where apparently the last of these four beasts, the non-descript animal, is seen rising out of the sea, with seven heads* and ten horns. And his diversity from all other animals apparently consists in a monstrous combination of the likeness...

...to Rev. xiii. 11, where apparently the last of these four beasts, the non-descript animal, is seen rising out of the sea, with seven heads* and ten horns. And his diversity from all other animals apparently consists in a monstrous combination of the likeness...

...cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornications" is to the city of man, what the " woman clothed with the sun, and having the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars," is to the city of God. I have already remarked that a woman...

...ministers or rulers of the Churches. Clustering all these symbols into one group, I hold the meaning of the woman clothed with the sun, and having the moon under her feet, and the twelve stars around her head, to denote this same woman who afterwards went into the wilderness,...

...ministers or rulers of the Churches. Clustering all these symbols into one group, I hold the meaning of the woman clothed with the sun, and having the moon under her feet, and the twelve stars around her head, to denote this same woman who afterwards went into the wilderness,...

...fought before the triumphs of the church would be complete. They saw the great red dragon persecuting the woman clothed with the sun, and having the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars ; they saw her flying into the wilderness, and there living...