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And if we add the date that is in fucceffion, with the correfponding vial, to the pouring forth of the first vial, the result will agree with the year found by the first pofition.

And if we fubtract the years before Chrift that the Daily Sacrifice was taken away from 2,300, this will give us the year when the wonders are to finish.

We have confidered the fubject we have been treating of, as applicable to the fecond vial, and that it commenced

agreeably to the first propofition, add

A. D. 611

1260

A. D. 1871

We have taken the 6th vial as correfponding with the fecond, not only as the words of the verse refer to the kingdom, but because it is the laft, and for this reafon we take the laft date of Daniel.

Rife of the firft vial-which we fhall endeavour

to prove was

The last date of Daniel

A. D. 536

1335

1871

If

If we are permitted to fuppofe the Daily Sacrifice to have been taken away, B. C. 429, as per Oxon. Chronol. "A Fœdere cum multis ufque ad defectionem Hoftiæ et Sacrificii," nearly five hundred years before the commencement of the Christian Era. The date given Deduct

2300

429

1871

THE SECOND AND SIXTH VIALS END HERE.

We

WE come now to treat of the prophecies on the Roman empire in Europe, to which, we have already remarked, the future prophecies are confined. Since we have no prediction in Daniel which can enable us to ascertain how the beast,that he has mentioned, and that rose out of the earth, is to be destroyed, and fince Divine Providence has hitherto foretold the Powers which would be made use of on Earth to fulfil his will; and as Daniel, chap. II. has given us the state of the Powers that were to arife at a given period, we shall conclude, that chap. VI. in the Revelation, defcribes thefe Powers which are to destroy the beast, and which are to exift during the pleasure of the Almighty.

RUSSIA.

RUSSI A.

Verfe "

2.

REVELATION, CHAP. VI.

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ND I faw, and behold, a white horse; and he that fat on him had a bow, and a crown was given unto him, and he went forth conquering, and to conquer."

Ruffia, in its original state, was divided into two Dominions: the one diftinguished by the flaves of Novogorod, and the other by the Ruffians of Kiof*.

It is faid, that it was not till A. D. 862, that Novogorod became an Empire under Rourickt.

In the mythology of this Empire we find a Temple at Akron, long after the above date, in which

* Le Clerc, Vol. I. p. 82. Hift de Ruffie.

† P. 87,

the

the God Suétovid*, or the God of the fun and war is placed.

He is reprefented with a bow in his left hand, and a white horse standing by him, and a faddle and bridle hanging up by the fanctuary†.

On

* Mallet, Hift. de Dannemark, Copenh. 1758, p. 149 151.

Hift. de Ruffie Par M. le Clerc. Vol. I. Page 209.

:

Suétovide ou Suiatovide.

Dieu du Soleil & de la Guerre.

Cette Idole, d'une grandeur démefurée, étoit faite du bois le plus dur elle avoit quatre vifages, & chaque face marquoit une faifon, ou l'un des points cardinaux, le Dieu, fans barbe, avoit les cheveux frisés à la maniere des Slaves de l'Ifle Rugen; fon habit étoit court, il tenoit un arc de la main gauche, il avoit dans la droite une corne de métal, & portoit au côté un grand fabre dont le fourreau étoit d'argent. On lui avoit élevé un Temple dans la ville d'Akron. Placé au milieu de ce Temple, comme dans un Sanctuaire, Suétovide étoit entouré de rideaux d'une étoffe riche. A peu de diftance de l'Idole, on avoit fufpendu une felle & une bride d'une grandeur extraordinaire, elles etoient destinées au che val blanc qui lui étoit confacré. Il étoit défendu, fous les peines les plus graves, de lui arracher même un crin. Le Prêtre avoit feul le privilége de le panfer & de le monter. Il faifoit accroire au Slaves, que Suétovide les accompagnoit invifiblement lorfqu'ils alloient combattre l'ennemi; que fouvent l'animal confacré faifoit de longues courses pendant la nuit, & quoiqu'il l'eût laiffé la veille bien net & attaché à

fon

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