The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus ChristTranslated from the Latin Vulgate: and diligently compared with the original Greek . cutors of the people of God, (Vom the be^innin? to the end of the world. Theseven heads are seven kines, that is, seven principal kingdoms or empires ; which have exercised, or shall ex-ercise, tyrannical power over the people of God; of these, five were then fallen; viz. the Esyjitian, Assyrian,Chaldean, Persian, and Grecian monarchies ; one was present viz. the empire of Rome ; and the seventh andthe chiefest was to come, viz. the great Antichrist and his
The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus ChristTranslated from the Latin Vulgate: and diligently compared with the original Greek . cutors of the people of God, (Vom the be^innin? to the end of the world. Theseven heads are seven kines, that is, seven principal kingdoms or empires ; which have exercised, or shall ex-ercise, tyrannical power over the people of God; of these, five were then fallen; viz. the Esyjitian, Assyrian,Chaldean, Persian, and Grecian monarchies ; one was present viz. the empire of Rome ; and the seventh andthe chiefest was to come, viz. the great Antichrist and his empire. The ten horns may be understood of lenlesser persecutors. t Ver. 3. One of his heads, &c. Some understand this of the mortal wound wliich the idolatry of the Romanempire (signified by the sixth head) received from Constantine ; which was, as it were, healed again by Julianthe apostate J Ver. G. His tabernacle, <fcc ; that is, his church, and his saints. § Ver 8. Stain from the beginning In the forektiowledgeof God ; and in as much as all mercy and grace,from the beginning, waa given in view of his death and 378 THE APOCALYPSE
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