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

irth of Christ. 28, UThen shall he return into his b d
with great riches; and his heart shdl be the
holy covenant ; and he shall do exploits and return to
his own land." Then Octavius returned to Rome.
And the next exploit that this fourth k' dm would do
would be againat the holy cove-t.%ey, by si
authority, crucified our Savior, persecuted the aainta,
and destroyed Jerusalem ; and thla fib up tbe acts of
history until towarda the cloee of the re'
PZYw seaat 4 uht the time appointed,%
rhall return, and come toward the south ; but it nhll not
be aa the fonner, or 88 the latter." Tbe time appointed
must mean the length of the reign of this beset, whom
Iliatory tho angel ia now giving, which 1 have shown, in
a fornlor lecture, is 666 ears. He shall return, and
come towards the eonth, r not aa the former or latter.
Not BH tho Romw going into Egypt, the latter; nor
tho Syriana going into Egypt, ae the fbrmer; but Italy
must now toko her turn to be overrun by the oQtbern
barbarians. Therefore the angel cap, in the next veme,
roe :HI,( For the ship of Chittim shall come against
him;") tho meani of which is, that the Hum, which
lived on the north3 the Adriatic Sea, the pbx where
it m a anciently called Chittim, under their leader Attila,
(mrnnmed the Scourge of God, should ra the Rcb
man empiro. This waa PIfiUe '!I 447 y-% Cluia~
*Thomiore he shall be ieved and return, and ha6 indignation
againat the her mvenmt ; a shd be do ; he
shall return, and have intelligence with them t&mt fordio
tile holy covenant"
About the time that Attila ravaged the Roman empire,
Christians conceived it to be a judgment of God upon
the Romm for their idola and wickodneuo, refwed
to benr urn in favor of theomm wpmn, w W led
to a bloody pereocl~tion of Christians, and a renewal of
Pagan ritee and sacrifices, which had been y"
pended during tho reign of Conatantine an d m g
,emperom, except in the cane of Julian the A
and a m shall atand on his p+,n th.t is, tb C2
the empire would be on the a~de of Paganinn
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they rhall pdlute the rmctnup of rbsngtbn m