THE NUMBER AND NAMES OF THE jazé APOCALYPTIC BEASTS: WITH AN EXPLANATION AND APPLICATION. IN TWO PARTS. PART I. THE NUMBER AND NAMES. BY DAVID THOM, PH. D., A. M., HEIDELBERG, MINISTER OF BOLD STREET CHAPEL, LIVERPOOL. LONDON: H. K. LEWIS, 15, GOWER STREET, NORTH. MDCCCXLVIII. 101. c. 165. AUGUSTISSIMO ET POTENTISSIMO, PRINCIPI AC DOMINO, DOMINO LEOPOLDO, MAGNO DUCI BADARUM, DUCI ZARINGIÆ, RECTORI, ACADEMIE HEIDELBERGANE MAGNIFICENTISSIMO; VIRO AMPLISSIMO, ILLUSTRI CAROLO HENRICO RAU, JURIS UTR. ET PHILOS. DOCTORI, HUJUSQUE PROFESSORI, PUBL. ORD. MAGNO DUCI BADAR. A CONSILIIS INTIMIS, ORDIN. LEON. ZARING. BAD. PRÆFECTO, PRORECTORI ACADEMIE MAGNIFICO; DECANO SENIORI CETERISQUE SOCIIS ERUDITISSIMIS ORDINIS PHILOSOPHORUM ; NEC NON DOCTORIBUS, PROFESSORIBUS, REGENTIBUSQUE OMNIBUS ORDINUM THEOLOGORUM, JURISCONSULTORUM ATQUE MEDICORUM, IN LITERARUM UNIVERSITATE RUPERTO-CAROLA, HANC PARTEM PRIOREM DISSERTATIONIS SUE, "DE NUMERO ET NOMINIBUS BESTIARUM APOCALYPTICARUM," OBSERVANTIÆ GRATIA, ET CUM SUMMA TESTIFICATIONE ILLORUM IN SEIPSUM OFFICIORUM, EDITOR, NUPER IN TABULAS DOCTORUM PHILOSOPHIE HEIDELBERGANORUM CONSCRIPTUS, ANIMO LUBENTE, GRATO, BENEVOLOQUE, DONO DEDIT AC DEDICAVIT. ΤΟ RICHARD ROE, Esq., A.B., T.C.D., FORMERLY OF DUBLIN, NOW OF LONDON. DEAR MR. ROE, Many years have elapsed since I first announced to you my discovery of the name of the second Apocalyptic Beast-my intention to publish on the subjectand my wish to avail myself of the opportunity which would thereby be afforded, to give expression, in the form of a dedicatory Epistle, to the esteem and attachment-the veneration, indeed—of which your high intellectual and moral qualities, your great and varied attainments in literature and science, your love of truth, your inflexible adherence to its dictates,* and above all your truly Christian deportment had in my mind been productive. To this last proposed step, I was, in addition to what I have just stated, still farther influenced by the consideration, that the Apocalypse of John had particularly engaged your own attention; and that, treading in the footsteps of Bishops Lowth and Jebb, Mr. Boys, and others, you had, on the principle of parallelism, so ably and happily illustrated in their writings, constructed an "Analytical Arrangement" of this most wondrous of all the sacred books.+ Who, then, so well qualified as yourself, * Evinced, among other ways, in your abandonment, many years ago, of the clerical character, with its rank and other advantages. + “An Analytical Arrangement of the Apocalypse, or Revelation recorded by Saint John; according to the principles developed under |