When the sixth angel poured out his Vial, it is recorded in Rev. xvi. 12-16 as follows:

"And the sixth angel poured out his Vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the East might be prepared. And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet: for they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon."

At the close of the fifth Vial, which expended its effects upon the Western branch of the Roman empire, it is recorded that they "blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds." Now this implies a cessation of those preliminary judgments with which they were visited, and also a space granted to them for repentance. Accordingly, we infer that, during the operation of this sixth Vial upon the Eastern branch of the Roman empire, the Western branch would be exempt from the visita

tion of God's judgments. It is reasonable to expect that such a marked era in the prophetic history would be pointed out by a distinct and appropriate notification; and we think this is referred to with sufficient clearness in the termination of Daniel's second period of one thousand two hundred and ninety days, or years, expiring in the year 1822, when the revolt of Ali Pasha, succeeded by the insurrection of the Greek provinces, ultimately ending in the separation of Greece from the Ottoman power, was the first indication of the drying up of the river Euphrates. Thus the expiration of the one thousand two hundred and ninety years of the prophet Daniel marks the commencement of the judgments upon the Eastern branch of the Roman empire, as the expiration of the one thousand two hundred and sixty does that upon the Western, when the Vials of wrath began to be poured out upon the Papal earth, at the commencement of the French Revolution, A.D. 1792.

Under the operation of this sixth Vial these events were to occur, viz:

First, the great river Euphrates, by which is understood the Ottoman power, was to be dried up, that the way of the kings of the East might be prepared:

Secondly, three unclean spirits, like frogs, were to come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the

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When the sixth angel poured out his Vial, it is recorded in Rev. xvi. 12-15 as follows:

And the sixth angel poured out his Vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the East might be prepared. And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and cut of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet: for they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon."

At the close of the fifth Vial, which expended its effects upon the Western branch of the Roman empire, it is recorded that they " blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds." Now this implies a cessation of those preliminary judgments with which they were visited, granted to them for repen

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mouth of the false prophet, to prepare the kings of the earth, and the whole world, for the battle of that great day of God Almighty: and,

Thirdly, during that period a warning voice was to go forth, the character of which was to be, "Behold, I come as a thief."

Now, before proceeding to the second division of our subject, which involves an interpretation of the sixth Vial, and without meaning to insist too strongly upon the generally received interpretation of these symbols, we cannot refrain from impressing upon our readers this important consideration, viz., that however the ingenuity of an interpreter of symbolical prophecy may find a resemblance between any one historical event and the symbolical prophecy by which he supposes it to have been expressed, although such prophecy may have had no real relation thereto, yet it is beyond the bounds of human invention on the one hand, and of credibility on the other, that a consistent correspondence should be made to appear between an entire connected series of historical transactions and events, and an unbroken chain of symbolical prophecies, where the one were not, in reality and fact, the very transactions and events which were intended by Him who sees the end from the beginning to be foreshown and predicted by the other. The interpretation must break down in some