2. Forty and two months. Twelve hundred and sixty prophetic days. Rev. xi. 2; xiii. 5.-See DAY, 1, 5. 3. Five months. One hundred and fifty prophetic days. Rev. ix. 5, 10.-See DAY, 8.

MOON. A church or religious body.

1. The Christian church. Rev. xii. 1. Awoman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars. That great city Rome, xvii. 18, the Roman Empire, (of which every inhabitant was a citizen of Rome according to the edict of Caracalla) incorporated into the Christian covenant, built upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner-stone, in whom all the building, fitly framed together, groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord.

2. The Pagan hierarchy. Rev. vi. 12. And the moon became as blood.

3. The Roman church. Rev. viii. 12.

4. The third part of the moon. The third part of the Roman church which extended over the three Præfectures of Italy, Gaul and Illyricum. Rev. viii. 12. The third part of the moon was smitten; i.e, the Roman church in the Præfecture of Gaul was lost to Euric the Visigoth, and Arianism, A. D. 476-485. Gibb. VI. xxxviii. n. n. 5.-Note. The Roman church must be distinguished from the Papacy.

MOUNTAIN. 1. Kingdom, nation. Rev. vi. 14; xvi. 20.-SYNONYM, Horn, River.

2. The burning mountain or volcano. The desolating nation of the Huns. Rev. viii. 8.

3. The universal kingdom of Christ. Dan. ii. 35.

MOUTH.-The entrance of the bore of cannons. ix. 17, 18, 19.

Rev.

NAKED.-Destitute of the image of God, not clothed with the garment of holiness and purity. Rev. iii. 17. And knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked, Rev. xvi. 15. Behold I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth and keepeth his garments lest he walk naked and they see his shame. 2 Cor. v. 2, 3. For this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven : if so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.

NAME.-See MARK,

NAMES.-Persons. Acts, i. 15. The number of the names together were about an hundred and twenty. Rev. iii. 4. Thou hast a few names in Sardis. Rev. xi. 13. And in the earthquake were slain names of men seven thousand.

NIGHT.-1. Corrupt doctrines and practice. Rev. xxi. 25. There shall be no night there.

2. The moon and stars or idolatrous Christian church. Rev. viii. 12. And the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.

NORTH.-See KING.

NUMBER.-See MARK.

OLIVE.-The two olive trees. The two divisions of the Church of Christ, the olive being an emblem of peace. See CANDLESTICKS, 2. 1 Cor. xiv. 33. God is not the

author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints, Rom. viii. 6. To be spiritually minded is life and peace. Rom. xiv. 17. The kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. John, xiv. 27. Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Rom. x. 15. How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace and bring glad tidings of good things. Eph. ii. 14. He is our peace.

PALMS.-Symbols of joy after a victory attended with antecedent sufferings Rev. vii. 9. I beheld, and lo, a great multitude,—clothed with white robes and palms in their hands.

PARADISE.-1. The intermediate state of the good after death. Luke, xxiii. 43. To day shall thou be with me in Paradise. SYNONYM, Hades, Mount Sion, Underneath the Altar, &c.

2. The Paradise of God. The state of man upon his resurrection, then endowed with eternal life both as to body as well as soul. Rev. ii. 7. To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God. "The Jews used the word Paradise to denote two different places: 1st, the upper Paradise, or Paradise of God, the celestial Paradise, Heaven. So 2 Cor. xii. 4. 2dly, the "Ans (Hades), or place appointed for the souls of the pious after death, who they maintained would there remain until the resurrection." Bloomfield's Critical Digest on Luke, xxiii. 43.

PILLAR.-An ornament as well as a support. Rev. iii. 12. Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple

of my God; and he shall go no more out. Gal. ii. 9. James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars. 1 Tim. iii. 15. These things I write unto thee-that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the Church of the living God, as a pillar and stay of the truth.

PRINCE. The Prince of the kings of the earth. Jesus Christ. Rev. i. 5. Dan. x. 13. Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me. Dan. x. 21. Michael your prince. Dan. xii. 1. Michael the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people, Dan. viii. 11. Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host. Rev. xii. 7. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon. Acts, iii. 15. Ye killed the Prince of life whom God hath raised from the dead. Acts, v. 31. Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.

PROPHECY.-Preaching. Rev, xi, 6.

PROPHESY. To teach or preach, Rev. x.11, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings, i. e. the church whom St. John represented, had to preach the gospel all over again at the Reformation. Rev. xi. 3. My two witnesses shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.

PROPHET.-False Prophet. A false teacher. The Pope. Rev. xvi. 13; xix. 20; xx. 10.

xi. 6. These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy.

RAINBOW. A pledge of the fulfilment of the divine covenant, or symbol of Divinity. Rev. iv. 3; x. 1.

RESURRECTION.-]. The first resurrection. surrection of the just. Luke, xiv. 14. For thou shall be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.