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1, Proposition 10, Observ. 29, I wish the following remarks to be added, without infringing that modesty and sobriety which I have often premised, until the event itself shall explain things which are still future.
Table :
A. Anno
Gr.
The Termini.
1058. d. 2 Sept. fer. 4, The Woman obtains wings.
1077. d. 1 Sept. fer. 6, The Beast out of the sea.
1143. d. 25 Sept. fer. 7, Commencement of the xlii. months.
1810. d. 21 Mai. (new style 1 Jun.) fer. 7, End of the xlii. months.
1832. d. 14 Oct. fer. 2, Beast out of the bottomless pit ; one hour.
1832. d. 22 Oct. fer. 3, Beast increased with the kingdom of the ten horns.
1836. d. 18 Jun. fer. 1, Beast vanquished.
Intervals .
The terminus, from which the particulars begin, being included ;
and that which
is subsequent being excluded :
Days
and hours ; or wTeeks and days :
6938,
12.
991
1*.
24130,
°777*
3447
1 full.
243495,
precisely.
34785
0.
8170,
002 1.8 ZZ7-77.
1167
2.
7,
22ff°.
1
1 nearly.
1335.
190
5.
There are, altogether, 284, 077 \ days: there are 40,582^ weeks : there are 5797^ square weeks : there are 777 J years : there are precisely 686 monads of Daniel (of which we shall speak presently).
First we will explain the Intervals, in the abstract ; and afterwards the Termini, in the concrete.
Explanation of the Intervals .
The Interval A comprises 19 years, wanting 1 day.
B 66g6g% years, precisely.
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The Interval C comprises 666§ §f years, precisely.
D 223§S years? fully-
E of a year, as nearly as possible.
F 3f J§ years, fully.
ADEF conjointly 45 years, precisely.
ABDEF 111-J precisely.
ABCDEF 777 j precisely.
The seventy weeks of Daniel contain 490 monads, which con- jointly are 555§ years, as we have shown in the Order of the Times , ch. 10. The same Intervals are in a remarkable manner transfused into monads and weeks of the same kind.
The Interval C contains precisely 588 monads of the same kind, which are 12 square xceeks.
B and D, conjointly, contain 78 monads, without the excess of a day.
BCD are 666 monads (or 275,795^ days, which do not run out 17 hours beyond the appendices of the days of the interval BCD), by a wonderful harmony. For the number of the beast is said to be 666, in that mode of expression, by which that number is taken not in one way only. See Erkl. Offenb. p. 742. Thus the number 666 comprises the first and the second Portion of the duration of the beast.
AEF, conjointly, are 20 monads, without the defect of a day.
ABDEF are 98 monads, which are two square weeks.
ABCDEF, conjointly, are precisely 686 monads, or two cube WEEKS.
The numbers , and periods, which are equal under the enigma of different numbers, in Daniel and in the Apocalypse, are wonderfully ductile and versatile , so that they are interchanged with one another in the most connected and easy manner, which is a strong argument of the truth.
Explanation of the Termini.
A. The woman becomes possessed of wings : the beginning of the 3^ times. See Erkl. Offenb. p. 646.
B. Of the ascent of the beast out of the sea, and of the very day, Sept. 1, we have treated at ch. xiii. 1, especially in Proposition 9. From that day is the previous flowing of the 666| years (see Erkl. Offenb. p. 1069), and that now hastening to its close. Before the completion of 5684 years from the creation of the world (see Ord.