Second advent library

118 Lscrnas vm.things, and trees, Ps. lxxii. 16, Hosea xiv. 8,1 understandthe true church, or people of God. By those menhaving not the seal og God, &c., I understand the anti-Christian church, or apal Rome. Then this would bethe sense: And it was commanded them that theyshould not hurt the true church, or people of God, butonly the anti-Christian beast, or powers subject to her.5th "verse, And to them it was 'ven that they shouldnot kill them, but that they shoiiil be tormented tivemonths; and their torment was as the torment of a.scorpion, when he striketh a man." To kill is to destroy.Five months is inprophecay( 150 years. To tormentas a &,c., is to m e sudden incursionsand irruptions into the country, &.c. Then this is thesentiment to meconveyed in the text: And the Turkisharmies would not have power to destroy the Papal powersfor 150 years, but would make sudden and quickincursions into their territories, and harass and perplext.he nations under the Papal control.6th "verse, And in those days shall men seek death,and shall not tind it; and shall desire to die, and deathshall Hee from them." About this time the Greekchurch, in Constantinople, was so harassed by the Papalauthority, that it gave rise to a saying among them,that they "had rather see the Turkish turban on thethrone of the ,Eastern Empire, than the Pope's tiara."Andang one who has read the of the 14th century,hisboxiy wi see that this text was litera y accomplished.7th "verse, And the shapes of the locusts were likeunto horses prepared unto battle; and on their headswere, as it were, crowns like gold, and their faces wereas the faces of men." In this verse we have adescriptionof the Turkish armies. I.n the iirst place they arerepresented as being all horsemen. This was true withthe 'Turks, and no other kingdom since Christ's time,that we have any knowledge oi, whose armies were allhorsemen. They wore on their heads yellow turbans,whichdcan only apply to the Turks, lookingof olike crownsgth "verse, And they had hair as the hair of women,and their teeth were as the teeth of lions." They wore