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pression, a thousand years. Are all these things by chance ? We do not affirm all things with equal confidence : but still we put for- ward all things, that posterity may have something to notice , and, in accordance with the result, may partly correct, and partly ap- prove of them.
11. Ka /' ai ir'og oydoog fan, xai lx roov errrd fan, is both himself eighth, and is of the seven) Ka/', xai, is equivalent, to both, and. " Oydoog is a part of the predicate, therefore it is put without the article : the pronoun, avrbg, cohering with it, is also a part of the predicate, adding emphasis to the eighth, in so far as he himself is contradis- tinguished from the seven. The eighth, and the seven, are mascu- lines, so that the noun king or kings is to be understood.
There is here an intimation of that long celebrated and great Ad- versary, whom all antiquity and the whole Church of Rome regard as one individual and extraordinary man. Bernard, who is called the last of the Fathers, has hit the matter closely enough. For in his late age, in his sixth discourse on the psalm, Qui habitat [Psalm xci.], after bitter lamentations concerning the corrupt state of the Church and its ministers, he says, u It remains that the Man of Sin be revealed, the Son of Perdition, the demon, not only of the day, but even of the mid-day, which is not only transformed into an angel of light, but is also exalted above everything which is called God, or which is worshipped.” Of the Reformers, who in other re- spects had their attention especially fixed upon their own times, and not without reason, Francis Lambert acknowledged, that one remarkable adversary, the Son of Perdition, was hereafter to come ; and he mournfully described that calamity. — Exeg. Apoc. pp. 183, 193, 215, 265. Among the Propositions of Hier. Zanch was this : Although the kingdom of Antichrist has long ago been revealed ; and he who holds the primacy in it, and reigns, is the true Antichrist ; yet it is not in opposition to the Sacred Writings, to say, that just before the end of the world there shall come one of remarkable character, and outstripping all men in iniquity, the true and perfect Antichrist, who may even work miracles. For in a pre- lection at Argentina on the end of the world, he had discoursed to this purpose, and was blamed on that account by others. The Divines of Heidelberg, a. 1561, approved of this Proposition, and those of Zurich even confirmed it, in these words besides others : u Since wickedness becomes greater from day to day, and is in- creased without measure, there is no reason why there should not at last arise some one xar [by pre-eminence], who may very far
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