Horae Apocalypticae; or, A commentary on the Apocalypse, critical and historical; including also an examination of the chief prophecies of Daniel . M THE EMPEIL0R_TALE:pr8 WITH THE ROYAL Si Eroia Coins in tlie BntislL Musexn CHAP. I.] THE FIRST SEAL. 137 man history; and one markedly noticed, as will hereafterappear, in Hie Apocalypse/ (I append illustiative )—Thus then about Diocletians time, and thence-forward, hut not till then, the diadem was the imperialbadge;—for a century or more conjointly with the laurel,^then I believe exclusively. So that whereas, with referenc
Horae Apocalypticae; or, A commentary on the Apocalypse, critical and historical; including also an examination of the chief prophecies of Daniel . M THE EMPEIL0R_TALE:pr8 WITH THE ROYAL Si Eroia Coins in tlie BntislL Musexn CHAP. I.] THE FIRST SEAL. 137 man history; and one markedly noticed, as will hereafterappear, in Hie Apocalypse/ (I append illustiative )—Thus then about Diocletians time, and thence-forward, hut not till then, the diadem was the imperialbadge;—for a century or more conjointly with the laurel,^then I believe exclusively. So that whereas, with referenceto such a i)eriod as the close of the fourth century, it wouldhave beeh an impropriety, and with reference to the sixthan anachronism, to represent the a-rs^avog, or laurel crown,^as a badge of empire, on an imperial or royal head,—justas much, and indeed still more, it would have been an ana-chronism to represent a Roman emperor of the first twoand a half centuries with a diadem. Thus the objection has only led us to see the moreclearly the exact chronological propriety, as well as the})ersonal distinctiveness, of this particular emblem in thefirst Seals hieroglyphic.—And I cann
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