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terval of an hour give their power also, so recently acquired, to the beast.
Obs. 21. The whole strength of the Roman monarchy , which is divided into ten kingdoms , shall be bestowed upon the beast. — This is stated, ch. xvii. 13, 16, 17. There shall be not only ten kingdoms, but ten kings ; and those kings altogether devoted to the beast with a wonderful agreement.
Obs. 22. The ten horns , and the beast , shall make the whore desolate. — This is said, ch. xvii. 16. The most important particle, xai. and , which is commonly omitted, is defended at the proper place.
Obs. 23. At last the beast , with the ten horns , and the other kings of the earth , shall rush into that great destruction. — This is written, Apoc. xix. 19 ; and that the ten horns are there contained under the kings of the earth , is plain from ch. xvii. 14, 17, at the end.
Obs. 24. The prophecy of Daniel , in whatever way you explain it , presents no obstacle to this consideration. — The things which we have hitherto learned from the Apocalypse, lead us to the very close of the beast and of the ten horns, and are plain of themselves : nor are they weakened by Daniel, whether Lange’s interpretation of it or any other be true. Grant that the fourth beast in Daniel is the Grceco-Syriac kingdom ; or that the little horn is Mahomet (which opinion the Epicrisis certainly refutes by a rather inadequate method, pp. 404, 405) ; or that the ten horns have one meaning in Daniel and another in John (for in the former, after the ten horns there rises a horn, ch. vii. 24, in the Chaldee ; whereas, in the latter, the ten horns receive the kingdom, together with the beast : ch. xvii. 12) : none of these things is opposed to my interpretation. For in- asmuch as the beast of the Apocalypse has a kind of resemblance also to the third, the second, and the first of Daniel, as we saw in Proposition 5, Obs. 2, and yet is not the same with any of them : so the resemblance which the beast of the Apocalypse bears to the fourth beast of Daniel, does not prove that it is the same beast. I wish to say this for the sake of those who interpret Daniel in a dif- ferent manner from our interpretation of the Apocalypse, or who at any rate are in doubt respecting the interpretation of Daniel. But let us proceed.
Obs. 25. The fourth beast of Daniel is the Roman monarchy. — The Graeco-Syriac kingdom is contained under the four wings or heads of the third beast ; nor by itself does it attain to the vastness of the wdiole beast, much less of the fourth, which is so widely dis- tinct from the former. The successive series of the ten horns can
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