Obs. 28. Nor are the things which Daniel saw respecting the little horn at variance with this. — The little horn, which differs from the fourth beast, as a part does from the whole (for in ver. 11 it is not used for the beast himself), is the beast of the Apocalypse, either with seven heads, or the individual beast. If it is the beast with seven heads, it is well ; if the individual (so that, as Christ is the Horn of salvation, so the Adversary may be the Horn of destruction), yet that horn appears to have had a much more rapid rise in Daniel, so that three of the ten kings are cast down before that the beast with the ten kings receives the kingdom. However it is, the things which in Daniel are applied to the horn, are spoken in the Apoca- lypse respecting the beast with seven heads, as a mouth speaking
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great things and blaspheming , war with the saints , and victory over them: nor is that opposed to us. For the actions which the beast wickedly performs in the first period of his duration, he with heinous vehemence persists in carrying on during the third : on which very # account the action of the individual beast is more sparingly described in ch. xvii. and xix ; because in point of fact many things are to be repeated from ch. xiii. See Erkl. Offenb . p. 893. There is in this fact the fuller intimation that the subject, though regarded in dif- ferent points of view, has the same predicates.
Obs. 29. The times of the beast in Daniel and in the Apocalypse have a sweet mutual agreement . — The 3^ times , while the horn bears rule, Dan. vii. 25, and the 42 months of the beast raging, Apoc. xiii.
5, and the oX/yoi/, the short space of his continuing, ch. xvii. 10 (not to add the other passages which we have touched upon above, at ch. vi. 2), the Epicrisis, pp. 390, 399, with great positiveness takes for 3^ years, and those ordinary years ; and so also the Comm. Ap. f. 203. With obvious facility the month of 30 days has long ago com- mended itself to many, so that 1260 days, 42 months, and 3^ years should be equivalent to each other : but this very facility is proved to be deceitful by a comparison of the computations of natural days, months, and years, which present difficulties in their mutual propor- tions. Neither in the age of John, nor in that of Daniel, are there found single years, which contained 360 days, without intercalated days; much less are there 3^ years, which contained 1260 days, as even the years of Nabonassar prove, which are more ancient than the time of Daniel. Time has different significations in different places : see Erkl. Offenb. pp. 130, 131, 148 : and a time (xa/fog) in the Apocalypse is longer than a year, even than a prophetic year : and 3^ years , or 42 months, are longer than 1260 days, whether you regard them as prophetic or ordinary years, months, and days. See Erkl. Offenb. p. 136, etc. Whence the arguments brought for- ward by D. Lange in his Comm. Apoc., in favour of a period of 3^ years, will be done away. Seizius, with many others, rested on the year-day : the Divine of Halle is the chief maintainer of an ordinary day. After an examination of the systems of the one and the other, the true analysis of the times, leading me between the two (see 18, note), is wonderfully confirmed, which is not to be undone by any sudden or deliberate assault. I have considered the chronology of Daniel , as far as relates to the last times, in the order of the times , p. 371, etc. [Ed. ii. p. 319, etc^\. The secret of the times is laid open in the Apocalypse, and by means of it in Daniel : and most sacred