with the Kingdom of God, the fourth, are all the dominions in the book (Prop. 4th). 2d. Ten horns are symbols applied by Daniel to certain divisions of the Roman power (Dan. ch. vii. 24). Two of the dominions in the Revelations have this characteristic attached to them (Ch. xii. 3, xiii. 1), on which account they are to be held to be Roman, and a third is in combination with one of them (Ch. xiii., xvii), so that three are Roman. 4th. Seven heads are interpreted to be seven mountains, an unmistakable sign of Rome, which no sophistry can evade; and this sign is applied to two of the dominions by the interpreting angel, so that two are necessarily Roman (Ch. xvii. 9); but the same sign is attached to a third dominion represented by the dragon (Ch. xii. 3), so that three are Roman, which, with the Kingdom of God, are all the dominions in the book (Prop. 4th).

8th PROP.-The plan of the prophecy is to deliver itself in the form of pictures in a seven-sealed book (Comp. ch. i. 1: v. 1, 7; vi.-viii. 1), in a double version, the first being separated from the second by a silence in heaven about the space of half an hour (Ch. viii. 1).

9th PROP.-The plot developed by the pictures of the seven-sealed book is the WAR waged by the KINGDOM OF GOD against the ROMAN DOMINION in its three forms, viz: IMPERIAL, PAPAL, AND ECCLESIASTICAL. This plot is developed in an indicial and synoptical manner by the representations as follows in the