...all its particulars. The angel begins with saying — • Verse 8. Tfie beast that thoitsawestwas, and is not ; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition — The beast is the Latin kingdom, consequently the beast was, that is, was in existence previously...

...and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns. The beast that thoti 8 sawest, was, and is not ; and shall ascend out of...behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is. 1 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven 9 mountains, on which the woman...

...and ten horns. 8 The heast that thou sawest, was, and is not ; and shall ascend out of the hottomless pit , and go into perdition : and they that dwell...shall wonder, (whose names were not written in the hook of life from the foundation of the world,) when they hehold the heast that was, and is not, and...

...mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads 8 and ten horns. The beast that thou sawest was, and is not ; and shall...into perdition : and they that dwell on the earth, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, shall regard with...

...not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world,' Rev. xiii, 8. ' Whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world,' Rev. xvii, 8. ' I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world,'...

...mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns. The beast that thou sawest was, and is not ; and shall...behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is." The Roman empire was the beast, or idolatrous persecuting power, when under the Pagan emperors ; it...

...mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns. The beast that thou sawest was, and is not ; and shall...behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is." The Roman empire was the beast, or idolatrous persecuting power, when under the Pagan emperors; it...

...' And of the beast that ascended out of the bottomless pit, and goeth into perdition, and they who dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were...the book of life, from the foundation of the world.' But they whose names are written in the book of life, do not wonder at the downfall of the beast, and...

...their names, &c. There is another remarkable reference in Rev. xvii, 8, where the dwellers on earth " whose ' names were not written in the book ' of life from the foundation of the ' world/' ie who are not God's elect, are described as in amazement at beholding the judgements, which, though...

...17th chapter, where, deciphering those " who shall wonder after the beast," he says, they are such whose " names were not written in the book of life, [from the foundation of the world,"] as were theirs who followed the Lamb, and whom " God had from the beginning chosen to salvation," 2...