“The most furious and desperate of rebels,” says Gibbon, “are the sectaries of a religion long persecuted, and at length provoked.
The Novatian remnant was numerous in most parts of the Great Roman Eagle until towards the end of the sixth century. After this their name is not found in the history of the times. This arose from the fact of other leaders appearing to direct the witnessing of the woman’s seed against traditions and superstitions more recently introduced by the Catholic Satan.
The song of victory acclaimed by the privileged adherents of the Man-Child of Sin, in which they are made to ascribe their triumph over “the Great Fiery-Red Dragon” of Pagan Rome, not to themselves, but to the self-sacrificing devotion of their brethren, and to the faithfulness of their testimony even unto death; this epinikion, as it is
“And the Serpent cast out of his mouth after the Woman water as a flood, that he might cause her to be carried away by the flood. 16. And the earth ran with help for the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the Dragon cast out of his mouth. 17.
“She hath a place which has been prepared of the Deity, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days” — verse 6.
“The woman fled into the wilderness, where she had a place that had been prepared of the Deity — verse 6: And to the woman were given the two wings of the Great Eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness into her place” — verse 14.
“And the Woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place of the Deity, that they may sustain her there a thousand two hundred and sixty days” — Verse 6
“Who was to rule all the nations with an iron sceptre” — v. 5.
“And I heard a great voice saying in the heaven. Now is come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our Deity, and the authority of His Anointed; for the prosecutor of our brethren who accused them in the presence of our Deity, day and night, has been cast down.