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

very liable tb en. Let ue, then, follow tk~mIe while
re try to explain.
11. The berut nmnbered in the text. Ad,
lrt. Let ua iaqwe what beast it ie. I anewer, It is
tbe k t beast Slee our context, 12th verse, *And be
.exercirath d l the power of the be& .before him; *
that is, the beart wbiab John saw come ap out of the
sea, (the Roman governme*) having wren he& md
ten horns, nnd upon hie horn ten crowne, and upon his
head the name of blasphemy ; and the beast which I saw
wae like urn a leopard, and hie fen sd .e the feet
of a bear, and hi mouth aa the mouth of a lion ; snd the
dragon gave him hie power, and hie seat, and great
eutl~ority." By this beast, I widerstand Dbe oamo m
Daniel's fourth kingdom, the Roman govennawt; by
@ names of bhephemy," I lRlderstRnd a mode of wonhip
which wwld be idolatrom or blaephemous; by the
dmgon, we must understand the civil power of the eame
government giving its power to the ecdemaatical beast,
whether P a p or Papal. 3d verse, And I mw one
of hie heade, of blasphemy, Pap) as it were, wounded
~o death; a ,!I hia dead1 wound wao healed, (by the
rsaitution of the Papl & u p b bad ~ ;) and all tbe
world wondered a h the beast"
John then goes on to describe the civil pwr of thie
Roman overnment under this last head, and ahorre the
length ofjtime *rey wwld exercise this last pewer-u forty-two
montheV- which ia the enme ss Melg time,
Wmq and a Mf, or Jobn'e I260 day% mentioned Rev.
xi. 3, xii 6. His pow- to make war and wercome the
mints is foretold. In the tenth v~ee he hwa un how
this civil power should be datmyed; by captivity and
the word ; and tbir was fulfilled in 1798, when the
ram carried a captive into Fnqce, and the *ta of
were conquered by the sword of the French umy. In
the 11th verse he girer m a diecooerg of tbe anme beast
in his ecclwiastica er; Pagan Rome in the 6m
bat, and Papncy in Emage baa& ; and it will beevident
to any one wbo will examine the chapter cuefully,
that Jolrn wss not comnnnded to number the imap
beut - far Um civil power of tht beut IW bfora