...woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven...heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth *." The Egyptians, Assyrians, and Babylonians, are particularly named by Ezekiel as the earliest inventors...

...foundation of the world, shall regard with awful respect the beast 9 that was, and is not, and yet is. And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven...heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth ; 10 and they are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come ; and when...

...mountains," ie are the seven hills upon which Rome was built, as shewn by commentators generally. 10. " And there are seven kings : Jive are fallen, and one is, (and) the other is not yet come," &c. By these, I suppose, John meant those emperors who were remarkable for the part they took in the...

...Rome, " the woman," and we may not go out of Rome to seek for them. " And there are seven kings : five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come : and when he cometh, he must continue a short space " (xvii. 10). Now it is carefully to be noted,...

...an allusion to Gog ; to him, of whom the Almighty spoke in old times. " There are seven kings : five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come ; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space. And the beast that was, and of Homer, and the...

...became Christian ; and became so again under the Roman pontiffs, and shall ' go into perdition.'* " And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven...which the woman sitteth. And there are seven kings : five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come ; and when he cometh, he must continue...

...became Christian ; and became so again under the Roman pontiffs, and shall ' go into perdition.'* " And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven...which the woman sitteth. And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come ; and when he cometh, he must continue a...

...admiration to the members of the purer churches it will be an object only of contempt and abhorrence. 9. " And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven...are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth." That the city of Rome is built on seven hills is a fact of universal notoriety. The great dragon, having...

...from " the foundation of the world, when they behold " the beast that was, and is not, and yet is. And " here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven...which the woman " sitteth. And there are seven kings, five are " fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come, " and when he cometh he must continue...

...in each are a symbol perfectly equivalent, and which is thus explained by the interpreting angel : " Here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads...which the woman sitteth. And there are seven kings." The translation here is unhappy.* By the sentence being closed at the word 'sitteth,' and the next...