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'havingcs1rs'r's ucozm comms. 207wereproperly a nondoscript; and could not be describedby Daniel or John by an thing seen on earth; andtherefore they took one oi): the inhabitants of the bottomlesspit, " the todragon,"describe to us b figurethis dreadful, persecuting, and bloody power. 'lzhe reddragon is, therefore, used as afigure to denote PaganRome, and the womansittingon the scarlet-colored beastto denote the church of Rome, or Papal Rome ; and bothtogether, civil and Papal, make the anti-Christian abomination,which would drive the church of Christ into thewildemess, where she would be fed 1260 days, or time,times, and half a time. I shall,III. Give the history of the woman, as in the twelflhof Revelation.chzpter erse1, "And there appeared a at wonder inheaven,"-John saw this wonderful sigglteas transpiringunder the dey,'gospelor govemment of God, with hispeople in e the circle in which the churchmoves, here cngospel,led heaven,-"a woman clothed withthe sun," the church adorned with gos 1 asthe natural sun ives light light;to the world? so oes theospel the church,-"and the moon under her feet."þÿ ¬ ` h i sshows us that John had a view of the church whileit was in its Jewish state. For the moon represents theceremonial law, which wastypical of thegospel, likethe moonshining in a borrowed anlight, liable towhen the Shiloh should come. "Under her'changefeet,' shows that she walked or stood on the ordinancesof God's house, which, like the moon, pointed to thesun both before and alter Christ. "And upon her heada crown of twelve stars,"-first the twelve patriarchs,afterwards the twelve apostles, Eph. ii. 20. Like starsthey are smaller lights in the government of God, andteachers under the law and gospel.Verse 2, " And she, being with -child," thepromise that the seed of the woman should bruise theserpent's head,-" cried travailing in -birth," denotingprayer in faith,-" and pained to be delivered," -that is,an anxious and deep longing for the advent ofthe promisedMessiah, when she expected deliverance from bondage,sin, and all her foes, Matt. 17.