. Illustrations of prophecy : particularly the evening and morning visions of Daniel, and the apocalyptical visions of John . we come to Dan-iels morning vision, where this empire is de-noted by the he-goat, with first one and thenfour horns, with its appropriate little horn,while the fourth beast which is next to beconsidered, receives a similar modification,by Daniels description, and several signifi-cant alterations in the Apocalypse. Here,as will be seen by the illustration on the op-posite page, he has feet adapted to stampthe residue. While representing PaganRome he has a tail, for casti
. Illustrations of prophecy : particularly the evening and morning visions of Daniel, and the apocalyptical visions of John . we come to Dan-iels morning vision, where this empire is de-noted by the he-goat, with first one and thenfour horns, with its appropriate little horn,while the fourth beast which is next to beconsidered, receives a similar modification,by Daniels description, and several signifi-cant alterations in the Apocalypse. Here,as will be seen by the illustration on the op-posite page, he has feet adapted to stampthe residue. While representing PaganRome he has a tail, for casting down thestars, c5c. (Rev. xii: 4.)When the empire be-comes nominally christian, its character par-takes of the peculiarities of the three empireswe have just been considering. (Rev. xiii:2.) EVENING VISION. 65 7 And after this I saw in the night visions, and behold afourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceed-ingly ; and it had great irOn teeth : it devoured andbrake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet ofit: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were be-fore it j and it had ten horns. .. This fourth and most terrible beast, de-notes the Roman empire, the commence-ment of which may be dated, before Christ,about 30. This beast accords with the legs,feet, and toes, of Nebuchadnezzars image,(chap, ii: 40-43.) This empire far exceed-ed, in power, fierceness, and destructive rage,all that had gone before it, as well as in ex-tent, and long duration of its dominion, andno animal is found, so terrible, and furious 66 Illustrations ob^ prophecy. as to lend it a suitable name. This fourthempire was governed in another manner,and by other maxims, than any of the pre-ceding, and in process of time, it was di-vided int© ten kingdoms. These divisions will be enumerated, andillustrated, when we come to Johns descrip-tion of the same power, with its differentmodifications. (See Rev. xii: 3.) Agreat red dragon with seven heads and tenhorns, and seven crowns upo
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