are the words of Ps. xxxi. 15) [shall be given into his hands], until A TIME ajsjd TIMES and a half-time [“the dividing of time”] : Dan. vii. 25. The other king , when he is come , must continue A short space (ver. 10). Concerning each passage we have conjectured many things in the treatise, Erkl. Offenb. p. 883. But a third pas- sage assists us. The ten horns receive power as kings one hour with the beast , ver. 12. The shoi't space is the interval EF conjointly ; for it comprises the whole continuance of the other king , in the third Portion of the time of the beast : E is the one hour : F has the residue of the former intervals, that is, 1335 days, and those ordinary days. These are immediately followed by the 1335 prophetical days of Daniel (which the Ordo Temp. p. 379 [Ed. ii. pp. 326, 327], proves to be the thousand years which are promised, Dan. xii. 12) ; so that 1335 ordinary, wretched days, of waiting , i.e. of endurance, require to be understood; and 1335 prophetical, happy days, to be attained [to be “ come to” Dan. xii. 12], are expressed. The words, who waiteth , and shall attain to , the thousand days , have great force from the accents. The time , and times , and half a time of Daniel, coincide with the interval F, if they do not complete it: and I assent to Lange, that they are 3^ years, but amounting to 1278 days, in accordance with the na- tural truth, and not to 1260 days, as he takes them, and that they are not 1333J days, which might have come into the mind. Now, by what means also are the 1278 days and the 1335 reconciled? I will not say that either number of days is 3 years, with part or half, and not four years; inasmuch as even the interval F, either apart from , or with the addition of the interval E, agrees with the ancient Tradition which represents An tichrist as about to rage 3^ years. But in Daniel the action of the beast out of the bottomless pit seems to be beheld in the land o/ Israel: in the Apocalypse the beast out of the bottomless pit has first something to occupy him out of that land also.
My Table may be considered doubtful in some particular ar- ticles : but within its owm limits it is throughout corroborated by strong exegetical and historical arguments. Those things contained in the period of the six intervals which are less clearly defined from the Apocalypse, are defined from Daniel, as the being of the beast before the 42 months, and the non-being of the same, and the short space of the other king ; and the 3^ times, which in Daniel 'were plainly expressed, the Apocalypse shuts up into that short space ; again, that which had been represented in Daniel by the enigma of 1335 days, the Apocalypse declares in the plain words of the ex-