Second advent library

'30 nusxrrrrwn on 'rar2. 'I'he three kingdoms were then pluckedup,-the Heruli, Vandals, and Ostrogoths,-thelist of which was the Roman kingdom,in 5 .3. Justinian, emperor of Constantinople,(called the dragon,) gave the of Rome"his power,"-meaning dpope a co e of laws, onwhich his powerwas established, and whichwere continued until the French abolishedthem, when Italy was made a republic, inl798,-"and his seat,"-the city of Rome,the capital of the Roman empire,-"andgreat authority :" he made the bishop,orpope, head over all others, bothin the Greekas well as in the Latin churches.4. The remainder of the kings acknowledgedthe supremacy of the pope, andbecame subject to his ecclesiastical domination,abput the same time. Thus was therise and establishment of that power, whichDaniel calls the "little horn," and the"abomination that maketh desolate;" Paulcalls, "the man of sin," "that wicked;"John calls the samepower, "beast," and"woman," "mystery Babylon, mother ofharlots.",This power, thus described by these inspiredprophets, as they tell us, was toexercise power over the kings of the earth,and waragainst the saints, "time, times,and ahalf," or "forty-two months," which,inegrophetic language, means twelve hundrand sixty yearax If this-time began