three years and a half he acts in open defiance of God, and in persecution of his saints:—the whole Roman earth is so connected with his deeds as to share in the judgment which comes from the hand of God upon him, and this occurs at the very time when the kingdom is given into the hand of the Son of Man, and when the saints take it with Him. But many may object, Is not the horn here spoken of the Papacy? Does not history warrant us in charging these blasphemies and persecutions upon that power? To
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