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

the beast; for it is the number of a man; and his nmp
ber is six hundred threescore and six." This brings rpr
to our next propition.
IIL To show what we may undeRtand by the nmn
bering of the beast And,
1st What may we understand numbering my
thing of this kind in scrip+me or b scrim must
be our guide, as we have before said.
I anewer, It ia to count, to finish, or to deetroy, when
used in a 6gurntive sense, or in prophetic Scripture, as io
Isa. xxii 10, 66 And ye have numbered the houeee of Jerusalem,
and the houses have ye broken down to forLifjr
the wall." They were accused by the prophet of destroying
houses, by numbering them or counting them
for destruction. Also see Isa lxv. 12, L6Themf~re will
I nurubet ou to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to
the s~au~gter.~ Here again it is uaed in the m e urn:
I will reckon or count ou to the eword. Again, Dan.
s. 2526, u ~ n this d is de hand-writing that ma witten:
MENE, aEne, TEXEL, UPEARSIN. is the inte
tion or the thing : .Em, God bath n d thy%:
dom and hath hhed it."
As, therefore, the idolatrous and blaephemow k'
dom of Babylon was numbered and finished by G%
whose decree waa conveyed by the hand-writ* on the
wall to the knowledge of Daniel and others, im aae
John commanded, b the inspiration of the Holy Spiit,
to write in thia last look of prophecy, the Hem, mu&
of this last idolatrous P beast "Here is wied~m.~
Let a wise Daniel, or% that hath the wisdom of
God like a Daniel, or let him that hath undenrtandingn
in the word of God, or him that will compare scnp
ture with scripture, "count the number of the beast.,"
or the number of his name.
Let us inquire what is the name of this teaet Hie
because he causes all, both
tTriEh"a%; bond and free, to wonhi g:
Mnq idols of fld, and silver, and wood, &at can neither
see, hcar, nor talk. See the 1st verse of our context,
" and upon his head the name of b++my," which
~erurrwlutthenuneof thie beast y andohorn P.