![]() ![]() An end was put to the imperial name, A.D. The sixth is the power of the Cesars or emperors, which was subsisting at the time of the vision. The five fallen are kings, and consuls, and dictators, and decemvirs, and military tribunes with consular authority as they are enumerated and distinguished by the two greatest Roman historians, Livy and Tacitus. Five are fallen - Five of these forms of government are already past and one is - The sixth is now subsisting. And they are seven kings - Or kingdoms, or forms of government, as the word imports, and hath been shown to import in former instances. It is evident, therefore, that the city seated on seven mountains must be Rome and a plainer description could not be given of it without expressing the name, which there might be several wise reasons for concealing.Īs the seven heads signify seven mountains, so they also signify seven kings reigning over them. It is observed too, that new Rome, or Constantinople, is situated on seven mountains: but these are very rarely mentioned, and mentioned only by obscure authors in comparison of the others and besides the seven mountains, other particulars also must coincide, which cannot be found in Constantinople. The seven heads have a double signification: they are, primarily, seven mountains on which the woman sitteth - On which the capital city is seated which all know to be the situation of Rome. ![]() Here is the mind which hath wisdom, Revelation 17:9 - As it was said upon a former occasion, Revelation 13:8, Here is wisdom: let him that hath understanding count, &c. #When does v rising come out trial#It is the same idolatrous power revived again but only in another form and all the corrupt part of mankind, whose names were not enrolled as good citizens in the registers of heaven, are pleased at the revival of it but in this last form it shall go into perdition - It shall not, as it did before, cease for a time and revive again, but shall be destroyed for ever.Īfter this general account of the beast, follows an explanation of the particular emblems, with a short preface, intimating that they are deserving of the deepest attention, and are a proper exercise and trial of the understanding. He was, and is not - Καιπερ εστιν, and yet is, or, according to other copies, και παρεσται, and shall come, shall ascend out of the bottomless pit - A beast in the prophetic style, as we before observed, is a tyrannical idolatrous empire and the Roman empire was idolatrous under the heathen emperors, and then ceased to be so for some time under the Christian emperors, and then became idolatrous again under the Roman pontiffs, and so hath continued ever since. ![]() The mystery of the beast is first explained, and the beast is considered first in general, ( Revelation 17:8,) under a threefold state or succession, as existing, and then ceasing to be, and then reviving again, so as to become another and the same. ![]()
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