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3J ^Eons. 2 Chroni.
The age of the world, contains An AEon, .
A Chronus,
A Time,
A Saeculum,
A Month,
A Week,
A Year, .
5 %cupo) or times.
2 ancient ssecula.
7 prophetical months. 2 weeks of Daniel, ordinary years.
365?9d7d- days.
The same age of the world comprises 7777-| natural years, which are 490 prophetical months.
Therefore a perfect septenary is displayed, I will not here say in the natural days, and that indeed a square, but in the prophetical months, and that indeed a square ; in the natural years, it is seen through all the expressed articles of the whole sum, from the thousandth to the unit, and below. This tesselated conforma- tion of times, natural and prophetical, of those of Daniel and those of the Apocalypse, ought to convince of their truth every one who has any capacity for receiving this kind of truth.
5. *H *tc pu>rrif the first ) Many, even of the ancients, have admitted this first resurrection. Within an age of a thousand years is concluded the resurrection of the saints , who rise again at an earlier or a later period , according to their merits. — Tertull. 1. iii. c. Marcion, c. 24. Ambrose , on Luke xvii. 4, speaks to the same purport, but not so in lib. i. de Interpellatione, c. 7, wherefore I do not quote his words. The remarks of Augustine de Civ. Dei, 1. xx. c. 7, do not at all touch upon the first resurrection of bodies itself, but on the errors with which some had contaminated it. In later times great numbers have again defended this resurrection, and especially P. Crugotius , in his Notes on the Apoc., ch. xx., also in his Apology for the Con- fession of the Remonstrants , p. 209.
6. Muxapiog, blessed) The word /xaxdpioc is with great propriety applied to him over whom the second death has no power : for it is derived from ^ xr\p , so that it denotes one who is immortal. — sv rfj dvaerdsu rjj rrpwrri, in the first resu?'rection) The ^Ethiopian Version, according to John de la Haye, has, on that day which precedes His coming.
7. Ta, those) Those thousand years only, during which Satan was bound ; for now again Satan is treated of. The article so refers to the noun {thousand years) applied to two preceding subjects [the two distinct periods of a thousand years each], that it has reference to the