sacrificed in the morning, and the other in the evening; and on every Sabbath they killed four lambs; and at the beginning of every month seven more were added; and the year, according to Moses, (says Calmet) was just 12 months, and contained 52 Sabbaths; and, as two lambs. made but one sacrifice, there were 52 and 42, or 94, more sacrifices than there were days in a year.

It would be an endless task to review all the fanciful expositions given to these days. Those who fix upon 606 as the epoch from whence the 1260 days are to begin, are brought down to 1866; and they subtract this from 2400 days, the reading of the seventy, and are thus carried back to the third year of Cyrus, when, instead of destruction to Israel and the temple, we find them just rising from ruin. Deserting this period, therefore, they seek to prove that 2300 days is an improper rendering of the passage, and follow the reading of Jerome, or 2200 days, and this brings them to A. C. 334. But this, though the epoch of Alexander, is not an epoch of the destruction of Jerusalem and the casting down of the sanctuary, and, therefore, it is utterly impossible to date. these days at 334, A. C. It is very remarkable, that expositors should not here have seen, and given up their error, after such plain disagreement between their epochs and that so plainly stated by scripture. If they subtract 1866 from 2300, they are as deep in trouble as ever; for that lands them at 434, A. C., at which time the sanctuary and the host still stood in glorious majesty. Yet all affirmed that the 2300 and the 1260 days ended together, in the freedom of Israel, and in this they are plainly sustained by the text. There is not the least agreement between these expositions and the prophecy: the epochs they choose for beginning the days, is one directly at variance with the prophecy, and the facts which fulfilled it. Nothing can be plainer to mankind, since the fall of

Jerusalem, than that the prophecy and the 2300 days are pinned down to that epoch as strongly as language can convey meaning, without mentioning names and times right out, in full and minute detail. No fall of Jerusalem and a long captivity ever occurred after the prophecy, but the one in A. D. 68; and the fall and captivity were to continue from that period, says the angel, for 2300 mornings and evenings. To begin the days then, before the captivity and casting down of the sanctuary, is flatly to contradict the angel, who says they begin there. Another mode of interpreting the prophecy, is that adopted by the book of Maccabees, which refers the days to the profanation of the temple by Epiphanes. But while some men agree with it, it is so obvious that this profanation does not coincide with any two features of the prophecy, that the exposition must be considered an extravagance; for, when a prophecy is fulfilled, it coincides with history in all points, with exactitude; which was not the case, in that simple pollution of the altar and temple.

It being agreed on all sides, that the three and a half times and 2300 days must end together, and the scriptures equally as clearly placing their beginnings together, it follows, inexorably, that they are of equal lengths when reduced to solar time, and if three and a half times and 1290 days equal 1708 years, and refer to the restoration of a free church and Christian or Hebrew commonwealth, the 2300 morning evenings must equal 1708 years also.

Having seen that the daily sacrifice, from its nature and associations, was a measure of Hebrew time, and that it is so used by the angel, and that 2300 morning evenings are equal to 1290 and 1260 days, and that

there were 188 more lambs, or 94 more daily sacrifices than there were days in the year, we must subtract this difference from the 2300 days, and the result will be in solar time (taking a day as a year, as hitherto,) be equal to that of the three and a half times, &c.

The reduction 2300 x 94-186,796,800,000 tenth seconds, and divided by a solar year, or 315,569,277 tenth seconds, equals 591 years, 343 days, 8 minutes, 49 ΤΟ seconds. Subtracting this sum from 2300, and considering these 2300 as years of 343 days, and we have 1708 years remainder; or, considering them as solar years, and we have 1708 years and 22 days. Dating one of these at the 189th day of 68 A. D., or at the cessation of the daily sacrifice, and we have 1776, July 4th; and subtracting the other from July 4th, or 1776 and 189th day, we are carried back to 68, A. D., 167th day, or to the month Sivan, when the great mount was built around the city, which wrought its destruction. These days have another interpretation, which ends between this and 1878, or about 1861-5.

SECTION VII.

FALL AND RISE OF THE WESTERN EMPIRE-ONE THIRD OF A DAY AND ONE THIRD OF A NIGHT.

These are predicted in the eighth chapter Revelation, and under the fourth trumpet. The fall of the Westerr empire, was to continue for one third of a day and on third of a night, or for two thirds of a symbolic day According to the analogy of symbols, this may represen a year, and that year may again represent a year of years. Now, as a year of years is equal to 488 years two thirds of this will equal 325 years. Now, the fas of the Western empire, under Augustus, took place some time between 470 and 476. Mr. Gibbon says the

date is uncertain. We, however, know that it was restored, and that Charlemagne was crowned at Rome, on Christmas day, 799. Subtract, therefore, 3253 from this, and we are carried back to 474, and to the latter part of the year.

SECTION VIII.

FIVE MONTHS-DURATION OF THE SARACENIC INVASIONS.

"Their power was to hurt men five months." The attacks of the Saracens upon the Roman empire, are to be dated after the death of Mahomet, in 532 or 3. Now, as 42 months equal three and a half times, or 1708 years, then 5 months equal 203 years. Dating this at 632}, and we are brought down to 835 or 6. Again, as 42 months equal 1810 years, 5 months equal 215% years, and this lands us in 849. At this epoch, the Saracens were defeated in their invasion of Italy; and this was the last of their disturbance of the Roman territories. The great difficulty of obtaining correct dates in Saracenic history, prevents great accuracy in fulfillment being seen. The five months may have three other lengths: one of about 183 years, another of 172, and another of 148 years.

SECTION IX.
DAY-HOUR-MONTH-YEAR.

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Duration of Turkey.-"An hour and a day, and a month and a year, to slay the third part of men.' This sum makes 3914 days. And, as 360-488, 391-530 years and 29 days. Mr. Gibbon dates the true epoch of the Turkish empire in 1299 and 1326. He says, "It was on the 27th of July, in the year 1299, A. D., that Othman first invaded the territory of Nicomedia; and the singular accuracy of the date seems to disclose some

foresight of the rapid and destructive growth of the mon ster." The conquest of Brusa, which became the capital in 1326, is, possibly, an epoch at which to date the day, month, and year. The first attack of the power on the east, would seem the most proper epoch at which to begin. If we date on the 27th July, 1299, we are carried down to September, 1829. It was in this month, on the 14th day, that the treaty of Adrianople was made, which resulted in the loss of a great portion of the empire. Greece was fully separated from it, and much, also, was ceded to Russia, and the destruction of Turkey fully began. If we date the 530 years at the establishment of the capital at Brusa, about 1324, 5, or 6, we are brought to A. D. 1855, 6, or 7; otherwise, to 1861. But another length of the day, month, and year, is also found. Thus, if 42 months equal 1810 years, 391 years will equal 551 years and 271 days. Dating these in 1297, July 27th, and we are carried forward to 1861. Much discrepancy exists among historians, as to the time when Brusa became the capital of Turkey, some placing it as late as 1328, and others as early as 1298. The fall of Turkey is certain, but the time is uncertain, though it can hardly be placed beyond 1861.

SECTION X.

SYNOPSIS OF DAYS, MONTHS, AND TIMES.

1. The 1260 days, 42 months, and spiritual 3 times, are equal to 1451 years and 17 days, and, also, to 1243 years and 277 days. They measure the duration of church and state union, from June 19th; 325, and from 532, October 1st, and ended the 4th of July, 1776, when church and state union began to cease, on a most extensive scale. The end of this union is not complete, nor