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thiscnnts'r's slcoim comics. 95e, mean the governments or kings, establishedon tlhzsstgpll of the Roman empire in the west, by theHuns, Goths and Vandals ofthe north. " By sanctuary ofstrength," is meant Rome. And it is said that at thetime that ,Rome was taken, men, women, and childrenwere sacrificed to their Pagan deities. "And shalltake away the daily sacriiice. The ufel is giving usa history of what these kings would o, when Romeshould be divided into its ten toes, or when the ten hornsshould arise, which the el has heretoforeto mean ten kings, Daniel vii. 24. This is evi explained ent byhis using the plural pronoun instead of the singular, asbefore, or as he will following, when the little' horn obtainsthe power. To "take away the daily sacriice,"means to destroy Paganism out of the kin dom. Thiswas done by those ten kings Who now ruledg the Romanempire, and would for a little season, until they shouldgive their power to the' image beast. "And they shallplace the abomination that maketh desolate." They,meaning the ten kings, shall place, shall put in the roomorplace ofthe daily sacri/ke or Pagan beast which wouldnow receive its death wound by the sword, that is, by thecivil power of this fourth kingdom, under the reigningpower of these ten kings; for John tells us, Rev. xvii.]2,`l3, " And the ten horns which thou sawest are tenwhich have received no kingdomkm as yet; but| receive power askings one hour with the beast;these have one mind, (being all Pagans,) and shall givetheirpower and strength unto the beast ;" that is, to supportaganism. Now, this wasevidentl£ fulfilled; forother the fall of the Westem Empire, A. 476, and be~.£>re'A. D. 490, ten kings had risen upon the ruins, andforinedten separate kingdoms, the names of which Ihave beforegiven; they all being Pa ns, of coursethey supporte that form of worship, untifathey were convertedtothe Christian faith, which happened within thespace of twenty years, Clovis, the king of France, havingbeenconv andbaptized in the year A. D. 496. Bythe' year A. D. 508, e remainder of the kings werebrought over and embraced the Christian religion, whichcloses the history of the Pagan beast, whose number