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Lzcruu94ivr.birth ofChrist. 28,"Thenshallheretumintohis landwith great riches; and his heart shall be against theholy covenant; and he shall do exploits and return tohis own land." Then Octavius retumed to Rome.And the next exploit that this fourth would dowould be against the holy kingldom covenant. hey, by theirauthority, crucified our Savior, persecuted the saints,and destroyed Jerusalem; and this fills up the acts ofthisPagpn history until towards the close of the of the agan reignbeast. 29, " At the time appointed,eshall retum, and come toward the south; but it shall notbe as the former, or as the latter." The time appointedmust mean the length of the reign of this beast, whosehistory the angel is nowgiving, which l have shown, ina former lecture, is 666 "He shall return, andyears.come towards the south, 'not as the former or latter.Not as the Romans going into Egypt, the latter; northe Syriaus going into Egypt, as the former; but Italymust now take her turn to be overrun by the northernbarbarians. Therefore the angel says, in the next verse,lee30,( " For the ships of Chittim shall come againsthim;") the meaning of which is, that the Huns, whichlived on the north othe Adriatic Sea, the place whereit wasanciently called Chittim,under their leader Attila,(surnamed the Scourge of God,) should ravagirthe RomanThis was hxliilled 447 yearsa Christ."There ore he shall begrieved and return., and have indignationagainst the ho y covenant; so shall he do; heshall return, and have intelligence with them that forsakethe holy covenant."About the time that Attila ravaged the Roman empire,Christians conceived it to be a judgment of God uponthe Romans for theiridolat;-ly and wickedness, retirsedto bear arms in favor of the oman emperors, which ledto a bloody persecution of Christians, and a renewal ofPagan rites and sacrifices, which had been'partially suspendedduring the reign of Constantine ansucceedingemperors, in the case of Julian the"And armsexpsplts stand on Aipostate.his part," that is, the orce ofthe empire would be on the side of Pagnism "Andthey shall pollute the sanctuary of suength."They, in