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which is the mother of us all. Rev. xxi. 10. The holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God. Bride.

JEWS.-Christians who worship in spirit and in truth, as opposed to Gentiles, those nominal Christians, who do not. Rev. xi. 2. Rev. ii. 9. I know thy works and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the Synagogue of Satan. iii. 9. Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee. We think that there is no doctrine more pernicious or more contrary to the gospel, than that which teaches, that the Jews after the flesh are to be restored to the Holy Land; we think that it is undoing all what the holy apostle Paul laboured to inculcate in his epistles. He is not a Jew which is one outwardlyHe is a Jew which is one inwardly. Rom. ii. 28, 29. There is no difference between the Jew and the Greek, i. e. Gentile: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. Rom. x. 12; Gal. iii. 28; Col. iii. 11. See JERUSALEM, 2. It follows then that the Jews inwardly, or true Christians, are the heirs of all the promises made in the Old Testament; and the restoration of the Jews is the restoration of mankind to eternal life and the heavenly Canaan, which they forfeited by the disobedience of Adam,"till one greater man restore us and regain the blissful seat." Another thing is the conversion of the Jews after the flesh. Rom. xi. 25, 26. Then they are engrafted again upon their old stock, upon which we the Gentiles after the flesh have flourished in their place, being the seed of Abraham by promise. In thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed. Gen. xxii. 18.

And so the standing up of Michael for the children of Daniel's people, at Dan. xii. 1, is his standing up for the Christian church at the Reformation. "Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham," and consequently Daniel's people. Gal. iii. 7. By which it is plain, that they who are not of faith, are not Daniel's people, which are the Jews after the flesh.

JEZEBEL..—Probably a portion of the Heathens, who adopted Christianity, while they retained their own idolatrous practices and enticed others who were real Christians to do the same. Rev. ii. 20.

KEYS.-Power, Authority. Rev. i. 18. I have the keys of Hades and of Death; that is, power and authority over the souls of the good and wicked, to appoint each class its particular state, after departure from this life. Rev. iii. 7.

KILL.-]. Literally. Rev. vi. 4, 8, 11; xiii. 10, 15.

2. To eradicate. Rev. ii. 23. I will kill her children with death. I will put an end to proselytism to the false church by removing her disciples by death.

3. To subdue or conquer. Rev. ix. 5, 18, 20; xi. 7. See TORMENT.

4. To convince or convert by preaching. Rev. xi. 5. And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.

KING.-1. A succession or line of kings over the same kingdom, put also for the kingdom itself. Dan. vii. 17. These great beasts which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth. 23. The fourth beast shall be

the fourth kingdom upon earth, i. e. the fourth king is the fourth kingdom. Dan. vii. 24. Rev. xvii. 10. The seven heads are also seven kings, i. e. seven lines of kings over seven kingdoms, 12. The ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, i. e. ten lines or series of kings over ten kingdoms, or ten kingdoms themselves. HORNS, 6.

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2. The Wilful Kiny. The Eastern Latino-Greek Emperors of the Romans from A.D. 553, to 1453, put also for the Latins or Franks of whom they take the lead. Dan. xi. 36-45. And that King shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done. Neither shall he regard the god of his fathers, nor the Desire-of-Women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all. But for a god shall he honour Guardians instead; and for a god whom his fathers knew not, shall he honor with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things. Thus shall he do: to the supporters of the Guardians, the people who shall strenuously uphold the god, he shall multiply honour; and cause them to rule over many, and divide the land for their reward. But at last the KING OF THE SOUTH shall push at Him. And the KING OF THE

NORTH shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships, and shall enter into the countries, and overflow and pass over, and enter into the glorious land; (and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon); and shall stretch forth his hand upon the countries; and the land of Egypt shall not escape; for

he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt; and the Libyans and the Cushites shall be at his steps. Moreover

TIDINGS OUT OF THE EAST AND OUT OF THE NORTH,

shall trouble Him (the Wilful King): therefore He shall go forth with great fury to destroy and utterly to make away many, and shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain, but shall come to his end, and none shall help Him.

By this king's being mentioned specifically, it is plain, that he must be some particular king mentioned before; and none can answer so well to the description as the king mighty, but not by his own power, the Romano or Latino-Greek horn of the he-goat, under whom the papal, as well as the regal powers of the West are included according to the comprehensive scale of prophecy. The Latino-Greek Emperors or Empire neither regarded the true God, nor, what then might be expected that they would, did they regard the false gods of their ancestors, but introduced a new, unheard-of sort of worship, the worship of tutelary saints and angels. See MAHUZZIM, ANTICHRIST, DENY. The Emperors at the head of the Popes and Kings patronised this sort of craft; and the strenuous supporters of it, the clergy, were munificently rewarded for their idolatry, with grants of lands and all sorts of endowments, in the Latino-Greek Empire. But at last the Saracens from the south or Arabia attacked it; the Ottoman Turks from the north or Asia Minor, invaded it, and took it, as well as the Holy Land, Syria and Egypt, though not able to subdue Edom and Moab and the chief of the children of Ammon, the Arabians. In vain had the Latins undertaken the seven memorable crusades, and gone forth with great fury to destroy the preceding invaders, the Seljukians, Atabeks,

and Kharismians, who came from the North, Tartary, and from the East, Persia, and caused exceeding alarm to the whole Latino-Greek Empire-in vain did they plant the tabernacles of their palace, in the glorious holy mountain of Jerusalem, and raised it into a kingdom under Godfrey de Bouillon: the Greek Emperors at last came to their end under the Ottoman Turks through the greatest negligence of the other powers of Christendom, and henceforth the Latino-Greek Empire was and is not, and yet is in a French dynasty. See ALTAR, 2. CANON OF ANTICHRIST, p. 39, note 8. BEAST, 6. p. 71.

3. King of the North. The ascendant king, kingdom, (or people north of Jerusalem, as the case may be), Syria and Asia Minor, under the Seleucidæ or the Ottomans, the term North being used, it seems, to give sufficient latitude to the interpretation. Dan. xi.

4. King of the South. The ascendant king, kingdom, or people south of Jerusalem, (as the case may be) the Egyptians or Saracens of Arabia, the term South being used, it seems, to give sufficient latitude to the interpretation. Dan. xi.

5. The Eastern Kings. The Eastern kingdoms, more particularly those which once composed the Babylonic Assyrian Empire: Babylonia, Mesopotamia, Cilicia, Syria, Phoenicia, Judea, Persia, Arabia, and Egypt, unto the borders of Ethiopia or Abyssinia. Judith, i. 6—10. See Dr. Hales' Analysis of Chron, vol. iii. p. 64. Rev. xvi. 12. That the way to the Eastern kings might be prepared. That the way to the Eastern kingdoms might be prepared for the introduction of the gospel there. Dan. iv. 16. Let a beast's heart be given unto him; and let seven times pass over him. Dan. vii. 4. I beheld, till it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it, till the