name.

But when considered merely as a name derived from Romiith, a Roman, or Romulus, the founder of Rome, a name common among men, it may then properly be called the number of a man; in scripture dialect, a "man of sin." of uncommon sin."

We proceed therefore in this last sense, first to apply this name to the "little horn" of Daniel vii., 8, as the

FRONTLET OF THE (PAPAL) BEAST.

It is to be observed as a singular circumstance, that the title, VICARIVS FILII DEI, (Vicar of the Son of God,) which the Popes of Rome have assumed to themselves, and caused to be inscribed over the door of the Vatican, exactly makes the number of 666 when deciphered according to the numeral signification of its constituent letters, thus,

* I cannot leave this subject without remarking, how singular it is, that Christ should have suffered under a conjunction of these three powers, viz. the Hebrews, Greeks, and Latins; and that his inscription was also written in all their three languages; farther, that Antichrist has also reigned in a conjunction of the same: a d as this mark is likewise contained in a combination of them, may it not therefore, according to the nature of correspondencies, be expected, that the visible destruction of the man of sin, and the establishment of Christ's reign, will be manifested in a conjunction of these three kindred, people, and tongues? So that by the same instruments that Christ has been abased, and Antichrist exalted, Anticht shall be abased, and Christ alone exalted."

* Answer to a querist, respecting the mark of the Beast.

SIR,

In answer to your observation and queries, permit me to say, the things I have asserted are stubborn clear facts, not mere suppositions or fancies.

The inscription in question was actually written over the door of the Vatican at Rome in express Latin words and characters, as inserted in this publication, viz. VICARIVS FILII Dei; and those Latin words and characters, contain Latin numerals to the amount of 666, exactly corresponding with the number of the beast.

With respect to the supposition you have conjured up, that the Pope might be called Vicarius Christus, or Vicarius Christus Filii Dei, (a sort of gibberish that is neither Latin, German, nor English,) it is a matter I have nothing to do with. Mr. D. may adopt these

"It may be farther observed, that not many centuries back, on the front of the POPE'S MITRE, the word

MYSTERY

used to be inscribed, and was worn by them till the Reformers discovered and pointed it out to the people, as the scripture mark of Anti-Christ, from Rev. xvii., 5, which glaring manifestation of " the man of sin" so opened the eyes of the multitude, that the custom was immediately abolished, and the word erased from the mitre." 1

"Even those who are unacquainted with the languages may, by comparing the characters and numbers, (as given in the following table,) satisfy themselves of the truth of the foregoing assertions."

But we observe,

2. That, by a most extraordinary coincidence, as

or any other fancies to amuse himself, and to screen the head of his holiness; but when he has done all, this question will still remain to be answered. Have those inscriptions ever appeared over the door of the Vatican at Rome?

As to Mr. D's attempting to obscure the number of the beast 666, contained in the numerals of the words VICARIVS FILII DEI, by objecting to a V; however the Pope or his emisaries may be obliged to him for his kind exertions on their behalf, yet I presume neither of them will condescend to appear his humble fool in Latin, for the sake of sheltering themselves under his ignorance of the Latin alphabet and of ancient inscriptions.

Let Mr. D-. but put his hand into his pocket, and examine a common halfpenny, he will then see, that a whole nation have una nimously adopted that practice which Mr. D--'s wisdom cannot discover the propriety of, viz. retaining the use of the ancient Latin V in preference to the U, as he will find by the inscription, viz. GEORGIVS not GEORGIUS.

1. Flemings key to the Apocalypse. Appendix, pp. 105-108.

NUMERAL LETTERS, AS FORMERLY USED BY THE NATIONS OF THE LATINS, GREEKS, AND HEBREWS.

some contend, this same numerical mark of 666, composes the name also of the great Mahometan imposter. His name in Greek, Maoustis, Mahomet, composes exactly the number of 666. Thus,

M

40

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1 70 40 5 300 10 200 666.* This circumstance has led some to conjecture that

* As the word Maoperis must be regarded with complacency by those who consider Mahomet to have been the Antichrist, it will be proper here to state the objectiou to it, which is principally on account of the Orthography. The Romish Bishop Walmsley adopts it as written above on the authority, as he says, of Euthymius, Zonares, and Cadrenus; and considers that it will be some future Turkish Anti-christ, who will adopt the name of Mahomet. Mr. Faber, however, has shown that the authorities of the Bishop are a

this number belonged exclusively to that remarkable man.' In our view, however, the utmost that can be claimed in these premises is, that it will apply only as merged in, and comprehended under, the greater and more obvious anti-Christian power, in its Papal form; the Mahometan anti-Christian power being thus distinguished, from the circumstance of its running a career parallel, or nearly so, with that of the former. Nor can this view fail to derive material strength from the fact, that this numerical mark, as applied to the anti-Christian character of the Popedom, harmonizes precisely with the date of its assumption of that form which the elements of its earlier existence, in the relation of cause and effect, was calculated to produce, viz. its tyranny over the consciences of men, by the adoption (to the exclusion of the primitive forms) of a mode of religious worship which, to the great mass, is in an "unknown tongue." 2

daring fabrication of his own, as they all write the word differently from each other and from him: thus,

MovxovμET,-Cedrenus.
Mwaμe0,-Zonares.

Mwaued,-Euthymius.

The latter also writes as Zonares. The following are additional instances of different modes of writing it adduced by Mr. Faber. Moaped,-Nicetas.

Mexperns,-Chalcocondylas.
MaxEμET,-Cantacuzenes.
MEXEPET,-Ducas Michael.

Maxovμerns, Joannes Cananus.

In none of the above names is it Maoμeris; and Mr. Rabbell further contends that this is not a proper Greek termination, as it should be either ros or res." Brook's Elem. of Proph. Inter., p. 315.

1. Investigator, vol. ii., pp. 400-403.