1. The specified character of the Antichrist, in no one particular, agrees with the historical character of the Roman Pontiffs. Therefore the line of the Roman Pontiffs cannot be the Antichrist. Hence the identification of the Antichrist, with the little
1. The figurative coming of Christ, announced in the present prophecy, cannot be the same as that other figurative coming of Christ to destroy Jerusalem by the agency of the Romans, which is foretold by our Lord in a former prophecy: because the advent, here announced, takes place at the close of the