,Kodsho Romei קדשו רומי sum of which is equivalent to the sum of the numerals of the name of the beast: wp Kedosh Romei, THE HOLY ONE OF ROME, or Romei, HIS HOLINESS OF ROME P 100, τ 4, 16, ₪ 300, 200, 16, 40, 10, which make 666. See Alphabetical Analysis under MARK.) 2 In this year according to Prideaux's Connection, Vol. I. p. 40, Esarhaddon, king of Assyria, seized Babylon, and added it to his former empire. Thus arose the Babylonic-Assyrian Empire. Destroyed by the Heruli and Ostrogoths, but revived again under the Third-Head, or Eighth King, in a Latino-Greek Dynasty. 3 The Romano-Greek * contemporaries of the Latin Cæsars and Herulic and Ostrogothic kings, were * From Constantine the Great who removed the imperial seat to Constantinople, properly begins what we have called the Romano-Greek Empire; though for prophetical convenience the Romano-Greek Empire is made to begin B. C. 168, in the time of Antiochus IV. Epiphanes, when the Romans made their first conquests in Greece. One reason of this is, the words of Daniel; his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power, which must mean the Greek power mighty by the Romans. For in fact, though the arms of the Romans subdued the Greeks, yet the arts of the Greeks subdued the Romans in turn; and their language, manners, and philosophy, eventually pervaded the Empire. Another reason is, that the twofold subversion of first the literal, and afterwards the spiritual sanctuary, by the little imperial Horn required him to be viewed in a Greek aspect throughout; as in the latter case the prophecy strictly demanded it, and in the former, this disposal is not dissonant to a philosophical view of the mutual conquests of these two nations of each other. THE THREE-ONE ANTICHRIST. THE BEAST THAT WAS AND IS NOT, The Latino - Greek Casars or Emperors of the Romans. EARTH BEAST, IMAGE OF THE of Antichrist. קדוש רומי or SEA BEAST, The revived Western or German Empe rors or Caesars of the Romans. 4 The ten kings or kingdoms which belong to the eighth king, form a part of Antichrist also, as far as the civil magistrates in them meddle with ecclesiastical matters 5" After the fall of the Western monarchy, the majesty of the purple resided solely in the princes of Constantinople; and of these, Justinian was the first, who, after a divorce of sixty years, regained the dominion of ancient Rome, and asserted by the right of conquest, the august title of Emperor of the Romans." Gibbon, Chap. LIII. "Justinian," says the historian Agathias (1, V. p. 157.), пęwтоs Papaty αυτοκράτως ονοματι και πραγματι” (The first Emperor of the Romans in name and in deed.) "Yet the specific title of Emperor of the Romans was not used at Constantinople, till it had been claimed by the French and German Emperors of old Kome." Chap. LIII. Note 94. D |