Ebook Horae Apocalypticae, or a Commentary on the Apocalypse, Critical and Historical

And there appeared a great Sign in heaven — a woman clothed with the sun, &c.-apoc. Xii. 1. So we enter on the Fourth and Supplemental Part of the Revelation to St. John — a Part, the peculiar charac teristic of which was the exhibition of certain individual figurative impersonations on the scene, especially of the Beast from the abyss whereby not only was an omis sion in the former Apocalyptic series of Visions supplied but a connecting link also established between them and Daniel's celebrated vision of the fourth Beast, an im personation similar or identical with the Apocalyptic.