A Half-time contains of ordinary years,
mi
A Time (xa/pog),
222f
The Number of the beast,
666$
Time 1, 2, and
mi
A Short Time, ....
888f
A Millennium, ....
999§
A Chronus (period).
mi*
An Age, ....
2222f,
The connection of the prophecy and the series of events confirm this as approximating to the length of periods thus increasing : but this exact length is recommended first of all by the analogy of the number 666 and of 1000 years ; and in the next place it is con- firmed by the system of septenaries resulting from it. For if, with astronomical strictness, you should resolve all the steps of this pro- gression into days, the second step will give pure weeks of days, whilst the first will give as many half weeks (and this is the peculiar reason why the first is called tj/mo-j zaipou, half a time , and not until the second is there said to be xaip'oc , a time) : then, as is the ratio either of the first or of the second step, so is that of the others, which are multiplied out of the first or even out of the second. Thus the System of sevens , which Moses and the Prophets so frequently employ in times, and the Apocalypse in actions, unexpectedly displays itself also from the times of the Apocalypse affording thus a remarkable test of true analysis. But the proper place for this demonstration is in the Order of Times , c. 11 and 12.
§ 10. This analysis of times , though intermediate , ought not to be thought foreign to the subject. — The prophetic day of about six months, for instance, ought not to be thought to be inconsistent with the sense of a day of the heavens, or an ordinary day. The Apocalypse itself suggests half times : ch. viii. 1, xi. 9, xii. 14; and other inter- preters, proceeding from different ways, have long ago arrived at half forms of times. Seb. Meyer calls the 42 months, the 1260 days; and the 1, 2, and times, the half of a week of years ; but without any further explanation. John Napeir endeavours to resolve the seven periods of time which he lays down from the destruction of Jerusalem to the end of the world, from the fact, that there are seven great Jubilees ; not entire, of 490 years : therefore the halves con- sist of 245 years. See Expl. Apoc. Part i. Prop. 5. Molinceus thinks, that the 1260 years of the beast in the exercise of his power are a week ; so that the half week of the two slain witnesses denotes a persecution of 630 years, which are the half of 1260 years. See