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Lacruan96 _vr.was 666; which,beggnning 158 years B. C., would endthe beast's reign A. 508, having reigned but a short.time, (one hour, says John,) with the ten kings. Wehave nowgone through with the angel Gabriel's secondpart of the history, as we promised.I shall now go on with the illustration of the thirdpart of his prophetic history, which is the history of theimage beast, the deadly wound healed, or what Danielcalls " the abomination that maketh desolate." Thisbeast would rule over the kings of the earth, and treadthe church of God under foot fort -two months, or time,times, anda halt, which is tweihe hundred and sixtyyears, in common time, or, as the l tells us in Danielxii. 11, from the taking away the gaily abomination toset up the abomination that maketh desolate, should bea thousand two hundred and ninety days, showing adifference of thirty years from the statement of theactual reign of the image beast and the other, which in~cludes all the time from taking away down through thesetting up or reign of the image beast Therefore, toreconcile these two statements, we must conclude therewere 30 years from A. D. 508, when Paganism ceased,before the image beast, or Papal Rome, would begin herreign. If this is correct, then the 1290 began 508, andwould end us in 1798. But the reign of Pa acy wouldnot be set up until A. D. 538, and would end) us in thesame year, A. D. 1798, being 1260. This, then, is thehistory the angel will giveus next. 32, "And such asdowickedly against the covenant shall be corrupted bilatterers; ut the people that do know their God shagbe strong, and do exploits." The ecclesiastical historianstell us that in thebeginning of the sixth century,about A. D. 538, a number of writers in that day undertookto prove that the Papal chair, together with corm~oils of his approval, were infallible, and their laws werebindin on the whole church. These writers werehighlyionored and flattered with promotion by the reign~ing powers; while on the other hand there were inanywho posed this power of the Pope and clergy, whowereodenounced as schismatics and Ariana, and drivenout of the kingdoms under the control of the Romislr