much later times. All these things are in agreement with the city Rome. And the first head of the beast is the Cselian Mount, and on it the Lateran, with Gregory VII. and his successors : the second, the Vatican Mount, with the temple of St Peter, built by Boniface VIII. : the third, the Quirinal Mount, with the temple of St Mark, and with the Quirinal Palace, built by Paul II. : the fourth, the Esquiline Mount, with the temple of St Maria Maggiore, built by Paul V. Thus far the dwelling and the action of the Pontiffs perambulate these mountains ; and that in such a manner, that to the first head there is added a second, but not so that the first immediately falls to decay ; to these two a third ; to the three a fourth ; and afterwards to the four a fifth, until the five kings, and all things that have been established by them on the five moun- tains, fall. Turn over the Bullarium in order : you will observe four times from Gregory VII., in the first of which almost all the Bulls, given in the city, are dated from the Lateran ; in the second, at St Peters ; in the third, at St Marti s and from the Quirinal ; in the fourth, at St Maria Maggiore. No fifth, and undoubtedly no sixth or seventh mount, is seen to have been thus honoured by the Popes : and this very fact tends to prove the truth of this interpre- tation. The seven mountains will be distinctly seen, when the seventh is honoured. — oVou — ccvruv) for If uv. Hebr. nrvbv new.
10. Oi Kevrsj 6 eh, 6 ciXXcg) The Article has a force relative to those seven, who are distributed into five, and one, and the other. — oXlyov, a short space) This extends as far as the hour, in which not the other by himself, but the ten kings reign with the beast, ver. 12. The German Exegesis of the Apocalypse, and the Order of the times, contain a particular consideration of the times, but I wished to omit it in the Gnomon : and yet that theory so recurs that it even becomes wearisome. But if mathematicians, musicians, painters, and all artists, bestow pains upon the smallest subjects, and seek elegance in the smallest matters in particular, why should we not comply with prophecy showing itself most admirable in the smallest calcu- lations ? With respect to this also the works of the Lord are exquisite [“ sought out,” Engl. Vers.] D'BW, Ps. cxi. 2. But no fjjr/.poXoyia and curiosity of man can exceed or come up to their minute nicety. In Erkl. Ojfenb. p. 1072, we made a kind of experiment in attempting to arrange the times of the woman with wings and of the beast ; and those times are now much more plainly consolidated, reference being repeatedly made to Daniel. Wherefore to those things which I have said in reply to D. Lange, on ch. xiii.