them." xi. 11. "And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things, and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months." xiii. 5. "And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy 1260 days, clothed in sackcloth." xi. 3. "And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there 1260 days." xii. 6. It is also said, she shall be nourished there for a time, times, and half a time. xii. 14.

Such are the predictions which define the time when their fulfilment shall take place. These are thus explained in the Lectures we are reviewing.

1. The 1260 days which the two witnesses prophesy in sackcloth, are 1260 years, in which the Old and New Testaments are not allowed, by the Pope, to be read.

2. The 1260 days which the woman is in the wilderness, are 1260 years, or time, times, and a half, which the church is in the wilderness.

3. The 42 months which the beast had power to speak great things and blasphemies, was 1260 years which Papal Rome reigned.

4. The 42 months, which the holy city was to be trodden under foot, were 1260 years which Papal Rome trampled upon the Christian power.

By such calculations as these our author seeks to show, that the book of Revelation relates to the reign of the Papal beast, and that its predictions agree with Daniel's, which he has labored to prove, refer to the same thing. In carrying out his plan, he has divided the church into seven periods; and applied what is said to the seven churches of Asia to these periods, thus regarding

the seven churches as figurative, and not literal churches.

The seven seals which are opened by the Lion of the tribe of Judah, represent events to the end of time.

The seven last plagues denote seven judgments, all of which have been inflicted but one, which is to come A. D. 1843.

Here, then, you have a synopsis of what is said. on the book of Revelation. In examining it we

will inquire,

I. If our author gives any new proof for calling a day a year, and reckoning 42 months as 1260 years? In considering his calculations upon Daniel, we proved, that he entirely assumed the ground on which his whole argument rested. He assumed, that a day was to be reckoned as a year. It is true he referred to the seventy weeks of Daniel to justify his assumption; but this was no justification; for when Daniel used the term seventy weeks, he meant weeks of years; he spoke in language perfectly understood by the Jews, who were instructed to reckon a week as seven years. But because a day in weeks of years signifies a year, it is no proof, that a day means a year wherever it occurs in prophecy. There is no relation between the terms, and one is no criterion by which to fix the meaning of the other. Of this we have the most abundant proof. In Jonah we have an account of a prediction against the city of Nineveh. "Yet 40 days," says the prophet, "and Nineveh shall be overthrown." Jonah iii. 4. Now, no one pretends, that a day is here to be reckoned as a year; and that the 40 days mean 40 years. The immediate proclamation for

a fast issued by the king, and observed by all the people, shows how a day was understood. The threatened judgment was looked upon as at their doors; and they felt that there was not an hour to be lost. A day, therefore, in this prediction, does not mean a year.

Again. Joshua said to the children of Israel, "After three days ye shall pass over this Jordan." Joshua i. 11. Now, Joshua did not mean, that in three years they should pass over; he used days as we use the term.

"For yet seven days,

In Gen. vii. 4, we read, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth 40 days and 40 nights. This is prophetic language, and if in prophetic language a day is to be reckoned a year, the rain continued 40 years. But Moses, in giving the history of the flood, says, it continued 40 days, so that day is used simply for a day.

That we are right here is certain, because, in Ezekiel iv. 6, we find a day used for a year, and the prophet is directed so to reckon it, which would not have been the case, if it were always so used in prophetic language. Thus we read, "And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah 40 days: I have appointed thee each day for a year." Now, in this case a day is reckoned a year, but then the prophet is instructed so to reckon it. But no such direction is given to Daniel; and in no place are we told, that a day must be uniformly reckoned as a year, in prophecy. By what authority, then, are we told, that Daniel's 2300 days are so many years? that his 1290 days are 1290 years? that his

1335 days are 1335 years? and that John's 1260 days are 1260 years? We have no authority, since we have no rule directing us always to reckon a day as a year.

Besides, in the very connexion where Daniel speaks of 2300 days, of 1290 days, and of 1335 days, he says, "The prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood him 21 days," and these we know to be so many days simply, because this was the time he spent in fasting. Thus he says, "In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks. I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled. And in the four and twentieth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel, &c." Dan. x. 2-4. Hence the author of the Lectures has not the shadow of a reason for saying, the 1260 days mentioned in Revelation, are 1260 years. They are, therefore, to be reckoned as days, and not as years.

Let us inquire,

2dly. If there is any evidence, that 42 months may be used to signify 1260 years? You will be surprised, perhaps, when I inform you, that our author does not attempt to prove this? Because there are 1260 days in 42 months, he concludes, that each day in the month stands for a year; and, therefore, that 42 months are 1260 years. This is quite too loose reasoning for a man who professes to tell to a year when the world shall end. By turning to Luke iv. 25, we shall find how to reckon months. "But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six

months." Now the drought to which reference is here made, continued three years and a half, so that six months are to be reckoned as 180 days, and not 180 years. Our author says, allusion is made to this, in the phrase time, times, and a half; and if so, we have a key explaining it; and showing, that it means, not 1260 years, but three years and a half. "And

In Revelation ix. 3-5, we read, there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth; and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. And it was

commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads. And to them it was given, that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man." Now a locust has power to hurt for five months. Hence, as the figure is borrowed from the locust, it shows, that a month is used for a month, and not for thirty years.

Again. In Ezekiel xxxix. 11-14. "And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea; and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude; and they shall call it the valley of Hamon-gog. And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land. Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them: and it shall be to them a renown, the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord God. And they shall