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_iI1010. He that leadeth into captivity shall go intocaptivity; he that killeth with the sword, mu! bekilled with the sword. Here is the patience andfaith of the saints.The Papal supreme power, which had ledthe world into idolatry and the saints intocaptivity, will, at the end of i'orty~two months,or 1260 years, ver. 5, itself have to yieldto the supreme power of an Emperor greaterthan the Papal, and the Papal head beled into captivityin eturnt And -as Papacyhad killed millions in war, so, inturn, it wonld be killed by the ,next sapremepower, in a war for the power ithad before exercised over the 'kings of theearth. All this was literally fulfilled in theFrench Revolution.---Then let the saintshave patience, and wait for this time, whentheir faith in the promised .deliverance willbe increased, and their hope brightened fora future and final deliverance.ll. And I beheld another beast coming up outof the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb, andhe spake as a dragon.What other kingdom is this ?, I answer:It must be an image ofthe onejust described.It must be an ecclesiastical kingdom,for it has, or pretends to=have,;two, powersofChrist, the Lamb of God. It also speaks

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