1841 William Miller Evidence from Scripture & History - A2Z.org

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ame time Job bas given fos the image beast to have
power to conhwe forty md
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two rnontha.' Thirty days
toaroonth hr l260 days, Eeq. xiii 5. 1t.k slsqthe
same length of time that rre even the Ge& to tread
the holy city under fa& See Rev. xi. 2 Aleo for the
rimesea to prophesy, clotbed in &loth. Ber. xi. 3.
And there can hardly be a shadow of a doubt but that
all these times hs$ their beginning and ending at one
and the same time. if ao, then the ugmoenta used heretoh
may have their proper in thLe plnce.
But let ua consider a few things in addition to our
fonner reasona 1st What my we udemhd by the
woman fleeing into the ~iklerneas,~ and from the face
of the serpentn We must comider it in a state of obscurity
; thie was tme in tbe time we have stated, A. D.
533. Historians tell us but little abaut any re
cbxch but the R- church, and this bu neverei
ill on obscure state; of course the Roman is not the
clturcl~ in the wilderness. But they do tell os that, in
the :l;1y3 of Justinian, emperor of Constantbple, them
werd many schismatics, aa they were called, wbo oppoeed
the power of the bishop or pope of Borne, and doings of
councils in the east and west, and a large share of the latter
part of Justinian's Me waa spent In religious broib
and expelling from his kingdom these schiematica ; I&
the code of laws which be published about A. D. 5;a,
forbade any Christians any rights or privileges w citizens
in his empire who would not acknowledge the bishop of
Rome as head. And in these laws he gave tbe biAhop
wer to bold courts and try all matters of faith within
r. la k~ngdoa These, and other thmgs of like import,
drove all true followera of the word of God to seek a
rest out of the jurisdiction of the city of natiow; and,
of couree, became outlaas to the Roman vernment
Then, if we 6x the beginning of the exile orthe church
at the m e time of setting up anti-Christ, A. D. St!,
then the church ms in ita exiled state until A. D. lkl,
which would be tbe W yeaa It m here worthy of