,, [] in the Name Aarvos which may be seen, not only in the Greek Lexicons and Latin Dictionaries, but likewise in Greek Authors, corroborated by the classical Authorities (both Greek and Latin), which have now been produced in favour of the ancient use of the DIPHTHONG e ord, for circumflexed, it must be allowed (if ANTIQUITY be any Sanction) that there is a DECIDED BALANCE in favour of the retention of the ancient Orthography of Irenæus, notwithstanding the contrary Opinions of all his Opponents. And here I must repeat that a CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT is generally, if not always, EQUIVALENT to a DIPHTHONG, as, d, or, to wit Aatêivos, Λατινος, Λατίνος. On these legitimate grounds, therefore, I have ventured to differ from Mr. Faber, Dr. Clarke, Bellarmine, Grotius, and others, on the subject of the Number xs', or 666; not indeed for the sake of singularity, or the vanity of Author'ship, but because I wish to see a better conclusion drawn from the genuine Premises laid down by St. John; for to make an assertion is one thing, and to prove a matter is another. Having therefore shown that the ANCIENT ORTHOGRAPHY of IRENEUS in his use of the DIPHTHONG was perfectly legitimate in both the Names Τειταν and Λατεινος, I shall proceed by other arguments to prove that the latter NAME is the ONLY appropriate solution of the Apostolical enigma. CHAPTER XVI. OF THE AUTHENTICITY AND PROPRIETY OF THE NAME AаTêlvos, AS APPLIED TO THE MAN, WHOSE NUMBER IS Xs', "666." ΛΑΤΕΙΝΟΣ. As the orthography of Irenæus, in his twofold use of the Diphthong EI, or e has been proved to be Classically and Grammatically correct, according to its ancient use, both among the Greeks and Romans, so likewise the Name Aarêvos, though only CONJECTURED by him in the SECOND CENTURY, is, in the NINETEENTH, demonstrated by the concurrent Testimony of History's every page, to be the true Appellative of the Numbered Beast; for the Apostle John has not only furnished us with the precise NUMBER of the Beast's NAME, which is declared to be "Six Hundred Threescore and Six:' but also with the NUMBER and LOCALITY of his KINGDOM in these 1 Rev. xiii. 18. words:"Here is the Mind which hath Wisdom. The Seven Heads are SEVEN MOUNTAINS, on which the woman SITTETH.' Now the locality of of the SEVEN MOUNTAINS' is answerable to ROME, because that renowned City was very anciently denominated in the page of History,2 The City of the Seven Hills,' or Mountains, which environed it, which description cannot be said to apply signally to the LOCALITY of ANY OTHER CITY of Renown in the World, and certainly Papal Rome is a most marvellous Antitype of Ancient Babylon, which is certainly referred to in this xviith Chapter of the Revelations, under the Title of "MYSTERY, BABYLON the GREAT." This we conclude from the description given of this meretricious Beast by St. John, and from the declaration of the Apostle in the same Chapter concerning that "GREAT CITY," which can be none other than Rome, Mystical, because the literal" BABYLON THE GREAT" was destroyed many Ages before St. 1 Rev. xvii. 9. 2' Hanc Remus et Frater; sic fortis Etruria crevit ; Scilicet et rerum facta est pulcherrima Roma, Virgilii Georg. Lib. II. v. 6, 7, 8, à fine. 'Sed, quæ de septem totum circumspicit orbem Ovid. Trist. Lib. I. El. V. v. 69, 70. Dumque suis victrix septem de Montibus orbem Ibid. Lib. III. El. VII. v. 51, 52. 'Septem Urbs alta jugis, toti quæ præsidet orbi, Fæminias timuit territa Marte minas.' Propertius, Lib. III. El. XI. v. 57, 58. 1 John wrote his Revelation, and because ancient Babylon was neither seated on, nor surrounded by, nor celebrated for its SEVEN HILLS,' or Mountains, but on a plain. And as long as Imperial Rome continued to be the Mistress of the world, the Papacy could have no political nor spiritual Power to "Come up out of the EARTH," that is, the ROMAN OF LATIN EARTH, nor to establish a Temporal Kingdom there; but when the SEAT of the Imperial Dignity was removed from ROME to CONSTANTINOPLE, the ancient Seat of the Empire became Vacant. Thus with the Change of Cities, and subsequent overthrow of the Roman or Latin Kingdom by Barbarians, the 2 ATσTaría spoken of by St. Paul, took place soon after by the increasing secular Power of the Bishop of Rome; and then the Second, or Ecclesiastical Roman Beast (concerning whom it was predicted that he would ἐν τῷ ἑαυτοῦ καιρῷ, "in his time," "exercise ALL the POWER of the FIRST BEAST,") began to "Rise up from among the "SEVEN MOUNTAINS" or HILLS, in the vacant Seat of old Rome, in the reign of Justinian, a. D. 533. There has the Papal Ecclesiastical' PONTIFEX MAXIMUS,' or Latin Man, "the Man of Sin," "the Son of Perdition," been SEATED ever since in the professed "Temple of God," dedicated to St. Peter, at Rome. Thus the remarkable Prophecies, both of St. Paul and St. John, have had their clearest and most literal fulfilment in those unexampled coin 1 Rev. xiii. 11. 3 2 Thess. ii. 6 compared with Rev. xiii. 12. 22 Thess. ii. 3. 4 2 Thess. ii. 4. or cidences of successive EVENTS, which are the surest Interpreters of Prophecy, and comprise ALL that is requisite to demonstrate the Truth of that which was predicted concerning the Numbered Beast. Of this there can be no possible doubt existing in the Present Age, that is, with respect to his Mark, Name, Number, Identity, Locality, Babylonish Attire, with all other characteristics of his Mysterious Rise, Progress, Establishment, and final Destruction, as set forth by St. John and St. Paul; add to this, that St. John has given us the exact period of the Reign of the Second Beast, or Antichrist, viz. 1" A Thousand two hundred and Threescore Days, "A Time, and Times, and Half a Time." So that the NAME, SEAT of temporal and spiritual GOVERNMENT, and REIGN of the LATIN or ROMAN or ECCLESIASTICAL BEAST are ALL NUMBERED that is to say, the NUMBER X5 or 666, for his enigmatical, proper, and Appellative NAME, which is LATEINOS. The "SEVEN MOUNTAINS," for the SEAT of his KINGDOM, which is ROME, the Antitype of Ancient Babylon, that 2" GREAT CITY which (NOW) REIGNETH over the KINGS of the EARTH." And the 1260 DAYS" of YEARS, for the allotted Period of his REIGN, which have been hitherto fulfilled by the long duration of the Papal or Latin Hierarchy of Rome, according to Prediction. If LAMY the Papist, in his Apparatus Biblicus,' "In had cause to say in the seventeenth Century, 1 Rev. xii. 6, 14. 2 Rev. xvii 18. |