Host, Christ, making himself Head of the Church in all the kingdoms of Christendom, as for instance in our own country, where the faith is settled by Act of Parliament ! He has not only stood up against the Prince of princes, when He tabernacled among us, in the literal fulfilment ; but he will spiritually, now that HEAVEN is OPENED upon him, stand up against the WORD OF GOD in the full glare of light, endeavouring to put down by brute force what cannot be vanquished by truth. He has always destroyed wonderfully: primarily by his sanguinary wars under his ancient Roman generals; and secondarily by his glorious heroes of latter times. In times of peace, also, he has destroyed many: primarily by his shows of gladiators, when one month cost Europe twenty or thirty thousand lives by those, and other cruel diversions; and secondarily, by his slaughter of the saints, when, that he might have a shew of religion for doing so, through his policy he has caused the craft of the Romish clergy, and their lying miracles to prosper in his hand, and he has decked out a spurious system of a Church with purple and scarlet, in order to persecute" those of understanding," who have been the fallen ones, with some colour of right. Dan. xi. 35. But as it is written, The Lord God Almighty will reward his servants, the prophets, and the saints, and them that fear his name, small and great, and will destroy them which destroy the earth, Rev. xi. 18, and shall cut them asunder and appoint them their portion with the hypocrites. Matth. xxiv. 51. The difference between the little increasing Romano-Greek Horn, and the Wilful King is the former carries down the Roman Power to the end, while the latter carries it no farther down than to the overthrow of the Eastern emperors of the Romans by the Turks, A.D. 1453, when they came to their end, and none helped them. See ALTAR 2.

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6. The Ten Horns.-The ten peoples or kingdoms into which the Roman Empire was divided in the fifth and sixth centuries of the Christian era:-1. The Huns2. The Ostrogoths-3. The Visigoths-4. The Franks5. The Vandals-6. The Sueves and Alans-7. The Burgundians-8. The Heruli and Turingi-9. The Saxons and Angles-and 10. The Langobards; which is the catalogue given by Machiavel Hist. Flor. Lib. 1. See Calendar, pp. 10. 12. Supr.; Dan. vii. 7. Rev. xii. 3; xiii. 1; xvii. 12. And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour (at the same time) with the beast. Kings, i. e. kingdoms or line of kings. See KING. The three Præfectures which composed the Roman empire properly so called, were thus distributed among them. See ANGEL. 2. The Huns settled themselves in the diocese of Dacia, in the Præfecture of Illyricum, the only diocese which belonged to the Romans beyond the Danube, and which was the conquest of Trajan. The Ostrogoths settled themselves in the Italic and Illyrian dioceses of the Præfecture of Italy. The Visigoths occupied the province of Boetica, part of Lusitania, part of Gallæcia, and Tarraconensis, in the Spanish diocese: and Aquitania Prima and Secunda, and Novem Populi, in the Gallican diocese of the Gallic Præfecture. The Franks occupied all the rest of the Gallican diocese, which did not fall to the Visigoths, excepting Lugdunensis Prima, Maxima Sequanorum, Viennensis, and Narbonensis, which fell to the Burgundians. The Suevi occupied the rest of the Spanish diocese, which did not fall to the Visigoths. The' Vandals occupied the diocese of Africa with the Baleares, Sardinia, and Corsica. The Anglo-Saxons occupied Britannia Prima, Maxima Cæsariensis, and Flavia

Cæsariensis of the Britannic diocese. The Heruli and other barbarians under Odoacer, occupied what afterwards fell to the Ostrogoths. And lastly the Langobards or Lombards possessed the provinces of Venetiæ, Æmylia, Liguria, Flaminia, and Tuscia and Umbria, after the Ostrogothic monarchy fell. SYNONYM, Rivers, Mountains. See BEAST.

7. The three little horns plucked up. The kingdoms of-1. The Heruli and Turingi; 2. The Ostrogoths; 3. The Lombards. Dan. vii. 8. See Faber's Sacr. Cal. of

Proph.

S. The two horns of the earth-beast. The two Præfectures of Italy and Gaul, over which the Pope's spiritual jurisdiction extended, i. e. over two-thirds of The Men, the other third belonging to the Greek Emperors, and afterwards to the Turks. Rev. xiii. 11. See MEN. ANGEL. 2.

9. The seven horns of the Lamb. Perfection of power. Omnipotency. Rev. v. 6. Matth. xxviii. 18. And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me, in heaven and in earth.

10. Four horns of the altar. All quarters of the church. See ALTAR 2. Rev. ix. 13. A (Gr. one) voice from the four horns of the golden altar, which is before God, from all quarters of the church.

HORSE-The symbol of war and conquest. Zech. x. 3. For the LORD of Hosts hath visited his flock, the house of Judah, and hath made them as his goodly horse in the battle.

1. White horse.

xix. 11, 14.

Spiritual conquest. Rev. vi. 2;

2. Red horse. The breaking out of bloody wars. Rev. vi. 4.

3. Black horse. Scarcity attended with frugality. Rev. vi. 5.

4. Pale horse. Pestilence, famine, the sword, and wild beasts. Rev. vi. 8.

5. Horses. The cavalry of the Turks poetically confounded with and put for their artillery. Rev. ix. 17, 19. And thus I saw the horses in the vision—the heads (the fore part or muzzle) of the horses (the cannons) were as the heads of lions (sending forth a devouring, ravenous fire): and out of their mouths (the entrance of the bore) issued fire and smoke, and brimstone. For their power is in their mouth (the entrance of the bore), and in their tails (the rest of the cannon behind the muzzle): for their tails were like unto serpent's (very long as the first cannon were), having heads (the vent-field, where the vent or touch-hole is, where the principle of life and the poison is situated, as the case is with serpents), and with them they do hurt; since in the vent-field the charge is set fire to, or the piece is primed for the discharge. "All the ancient cannon were unnecessarily long and clumsy. They were of immense calibre, and as the means of boring iron masses of such magnitude were then wanted, they were necessarily formed of iron bars, fitted together lengthwise, and confined by strong hoops of iron; sometimes the bars were soldered together, but still the hoops could not be dispensed with." Encycl. Metrop. ARTILSee HEAD 5.

LERY.

HOST.-See HEAVEN, 5. STARS.

HURT.-See TORMENT.

IMAGE-Of gold, silver, brass and iron. The four great monarchies of the world. Dan. ii. 31-45. 2. Image of the Beast. See BEAST, 9.

INCENSE.-Prayer, or the devotion of the heart in offering up prayer to God. Ps. cxli. 2. Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense. Rev. v. 8. Rev. v. 8. Golden vials full of incense, which are the prayers of saints. Rev. viii. 3, 4.

ISLAND.-A capital city or small state. Rev. vi. 14; xvi. 20. When an island is moved out of its place, it means the political relations of a state are changed; when an island flies away, it may mean, that a state has entirely lost its political existence. SYNONYM, Fountain.

ISLES.-This plural denomination, when connected with Gentiles, embraces, besides the Isles of the Mediterranean sea, Europe, Asia Minor, (which is between the Euxine and Caspian sea), Media, and the land of Magog, or the Scythia of the ancient Greeks (Russia). See Rosenmüller Schol. on Gen. x. 5. In Dan. xi. 18, the isles signify the countries west of Judea, the Romans in particular. See CHITTIM.

JERUSALEM.-1. The Jewish polity. Dan. ix. 25.

2. The Christian Church, Dan. ix. 25, in the secondary fulfilment. St. Paul, by teaching us that the Gentiles were made fellow-heirs of the same body with the Jews in Christ, Eph. iii. 6, thus directs us to interpret many of the highly figurative prophecies in the old Testament of the Christian church. For by one spirit are we all baptised into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free: and have been all made to drink into one spirit. 1 Cor. xii. 13. Thus the holy city at Rev. xi. 2, can be interpreted of nothing else but the Christian Church.

3. New Jerusalem. The assemblage of just men made perfect. Gal. iv. 26. Jerusalem which is above is free,