Psalms 89:39
void.34-36; 77:10; 116:11; Joh 13:7profaned.44; 74:7; 143:3; Isa 25:12; 43:28; La 5:16Daniel 7:20-25
the ten horns.The ten kingdoms into which the western Roman empire was divided; which were primarily, according to Machiavel and Bp. Lloyd, 1. The Huns in Hungary, A.D. 356. 2. The Ostrogoths in Moesia, 377. 3. The Visigoths in Pannonia, 378. 4. The Sueves and Alans in Gascoigne and Spain, 407. 5. The Vandals in Africa, 407. 6. The Franks in France, 407. 7. The Burgundians in Burgundy, 407. 8. The Heruli and Turingi in Italy, 476. 9. The Saxons and Angles in Britain, 476. 10. The Lombards, first upon the Danube, 526, and afterwards in Italy. Though the ten kingdoms differed from these in later periods, and were sometimes more or less, yet they were still known by that name. 8,11,23; 8:9-11whose look.11:36,37 8:12,24; 11:31; 12:7; Re 11:7-9; 12:3,4; 13:5-7,8-18; 17:6,14; 19:19 the Ancient.9-11; 2Th 2:8; Re 11:11-18; 14:8-20; 19:11-21; 20:9-15judgment18; Isa 63:4; Mt 19:28; Lu 22:29,30; 1Co 6:2,3; Re 1:6; 3:21; 5:10Re 20:4 the fourth.7; 2:40; Lu 2:1 the ten.20; Re 12:3; 13:1; 17:3,12,13,16-18another.This evidently points out the papal supremacy, in every respect diverse from the former, which from small beginnings thrust itself up among the ten kingdoms, till at length it successively eradicated three of them, the kingdom of Heruli, of the Ostrogoths, and of the Lombards. 8,20; 8:9-12; 11:36; 2Th 2:3-10; 1Ti 4:1-3 he shall speak.In assuming infallibility, professing to forgive sins, and to open and shut heaven, thundering out bulls and anathemas, excommunicating princes, absolving subjects from their allegiance, and exacting obedience to his decrees in open violation of reason and Scripture. 8,20; 8:24,25; 11:28,30,31,36,37; Isa 37:23; 2Th 2:4; Re 13:5,6,11shall wear out.By wars, crusades, massacres, etc. Re 6:9,10; 11:7-10; 13:7-10; 14:12; 16:6; 17:6; 18:24and think.Appointing feasts and fasts, canonizing saints, etc. 2:21; 11:31,36-38; 12:11; 2Th 2:4; 1Ti 4:1-3; Re 13:15-17a time.That is, three years and a half, or, reckoning thirty days to a month, 1,260 days, equal to the same number of years in prophetic language; which, dated from the decree of Phocas constituting him the supreme head of the church, A.D. 606, terminated in 1866. 4:25,32; 12:7,11,12; Re 11:2,3; 12:6,14; 13:5,7
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