. Illustrations of prophecy : particularly the evening and morning visions of Daniel, and the apocalyptical visions of John . Verse 5 And when he had opened thethird seal, I heard the third beast sayCome and see. The third living creature whose face waslike a man, had his station in the south car-dinal point, and bishop Newton is curiousenough to trace the coincidences betweenthe four living creatures with the origin ofthe Roman emperors in each of the four pe-riods. The third period commenced withthe reign of Septimius Severus, who was anemperor from the south being a native THE SE
. Illustrations of prophecy : particularly the evening and morning visions of Daniel, and the apocalyptical visions of John . Verse 5 And when he had opened thethird seal, I heard the third beast sayCome and see. The third living creature whose face waslike a man, had his station in the south car-dinal point, and bishop Newton is curiousenough to trace the coincidences betweenthe four living creatures with the origin ofthe Roman emperors in each of the four pe-riods. The third period commenced withthe reign of Septimius Severus, who was anemperor from the south being a native THE SEVEN SEALS. 2^ Verse 5 and 6 And I heheld,and lo, a black horse : and hethat sat on him had a pair ofbalances in his hand. And I heard a voice in themidst of the four beasts say,A measure of wheat for a pen-ny, and three measures of bar-ley for a penny 5 and see thou hurt not the oil and thewine. This, too, was a season of calamity. Af-ter the horrid and mutual slaughter of theJews and Romans under the second seal,the great famine of the third seal commenc-ed, of which the black horse and the ridersscales is an apt emblem. In Lam. v: 10,we read, our skin is black, like the oven,because of the terrible famine.^ A meas-ure here according to the tables of ancientmeasurement, was about one quart, and aRoman penny, was about seven pence halfpenny, English, and was the common daywages of a laboring man and the slave. La-boring men, at this day, would not think aquart of meal a large allowance for one day,without reserving any thing for their familiesor other expenses. The luxuries or f
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