little horn of the Macedonian he-goat, we are told, stands up, when the apostates are come to the full or when the great demonolatrous Apostasy is completed. But the great demonolatrous Apostasy was completed in the year 604, or at the commencement of the latter three times and a half, by its acquisition of an authoritative head through the revelation of the lawless one. Therefore the little horn of the Macedonian he-goat must stand up, in point of chronology, immediately after the year 604.

Thus have we ascertained three most important characteristics, by which the Power in question may be clearly distinguished.

Its geographical characteristic is, that it SHOULD RISE IN THE EAST.

Its personal characteristic is, that it SHOULD BE A SPIRITUAL OR ECCLESIASTICAL KINGDOM SMALL AT FIRST BUT AFTERWARD BECOMING VERY GREAT.

And its chronological characteristic is, that it SHOULD STAND UP IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE COMPLETION OF THE GREAT DEMOXOLATROUS APOSTASY IN THE YEAR 604.

A Power, thus definitely pointed out, cannot be very casily mistaken. The most cursory reader of

It is obvious, that this same mode of reasoning excludes every other secular Power no less than the Roman Empire. The specific character of the first little horn being determined by its application to the Papacy, no exposition of the second little horn can be admitted, which is not avowedly built upon the principle of ascribing to it a specific character strictly analogous to that which is borne by the first little horn.

respondence. Therefore, if Mohammedism be not the Power intended, no such Power has ever made its appearance, and the prophecy of Daniel has failed of its accomplishment.

(3.) I shall now proceed to examine, article by article, the whole prophecy respecting the little horn of the he-goat; that so the perfect correspondence of the Mohammedan Imposture with the symbol now before us may be made the more fully to appear.

The kingdom, symbolised by the little horn, is to rise up in the hinder part of the Grecian Empire, or in the region behind the territories which constitute that Empire : but it is to make itself a little horn of the he-goat at the expence of one of the four conspicuous horns, by invading the peculiar territory of that horn ; an action, expressed in the hieroglyphic by the germination of a small horn from one of the four larger horns.

Such, accordingly, was the rise of Mohammedism. It sprang up in Arabia, which lies behind the Grecian Empire erected by Alexander. This circumstance could only be represented in the hieroglyphic after the manner, in which we actually find it represented. Hence a verbal explanation is given of a matter, which could not be expressed by a symbol. The interpreter informs us, that, although a certain kingdom of a fierce countenance was destined to establish itself within the Grecian Empire and so to become a horn of that Empire ;

geographical characteristic; but likewise when the apostates shall be come to the full or when the Apostasy shall be completed, which is a chronological characteristic.

By the apostates, here mentioned, the context plainly requires us to understand, though not exclusively to understand, those ecclesiastical stars with their laic followers, on account of whose apostasy from the truth the allegorical host of heaven throughout the territories of the he-goat were subjected to the tyranny of the little horn. But this Apostasy, which had long previously infected both the East and the West, was completed in the year 604, or at the commencement of the latter three. times and a half, by its acquisition of an authoritative and powerful head through the revelation of the lawless one, when the times and the laws and the saints were given into the hand of the papal little horn. The apostates, therefore, in the chronological estimation of prophecy, came to the full at that epoch. Consequently, the kingdom, symbolised by the eastern little horn, is to stand up immediately after the year 604. Accordingly, either the year 608 or the year 609, as we follow the chronology of Prideaux or of Gibbon, is the date of the rise of Mohammedism!.

The Power, symbolised by the little horn, is at first to be small: but it is afterward to be

Prideaux's Life of Mohammed, p. 11. Hist. of Decline, vol. ix. p. 282.