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Memoirs of William Miller - Sylvester Bliss

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Antiochus Ephiphanes.<br />

Rev. R. C. Shimeal, <strong>of</strong> New York (“Prophecy<br />

in Course <strong>of</strong> Fulfilment”), dissented from Mr.<br />

<strong>Miller</strong>, and also from the foregoing, and<br />

understood this horn to symbolize the<br />

Mahommedan power. Mr. Hinton took the same<br />

view.<br />

Mr. <strong>Miller</strong> was sustained in his application <strong>of</strong><br />

this point by Dr. Hamilton and Dr. Jarvis. The<br />

latter said:<br />

“Sir Isaac Newton, with that sagacity which<br />

was peculiar to him, was the first, I believe, who<br />

showed clearly that this little horn was the Roman<br />

power.”[13]<br />

4. The Length <strong>of</strong> the Prophetic Numbers. --<br />

In explaining these, Mr. <strong>Miller</strong> adopted the<br />

Protestant view, that they represent years. There is<br />

probably no point respecting which Protestant<br />

commentators have been more agreed than this.<br />

Faber, Prideaux, Mede, Clarke, Scott, the two<br />

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