“Here is wisdom. Let him that hath the understanding compute the number of the beast; for it is a man’s number, and the number of it is, or Six Hundred and Sixty Six.”
“And (causes) that no one be able to buy or sell, save he that hath the sign, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name— (verse 17).
“And he caused all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free and the enslaved, that a sign should be given to them upon their right hand, and upon their foreheads” — Verse 16
“And it was given to it to give spirit to the Image of the Beast, that the Image of the Beast might both speak, and cause as many as would not worship the Image of the Beast, that they should be put to death” — Verse 15.
The reader will remember what has already been stated concerning the relative position of the ecclesiastical and secular powers of the Lamb-Homed Dominion, as established by Otho the First, A.D. 962. It may, however, be as well to remark again in this place, that, when Otho fixed the imperial crown in the name and nation of Germany, he established the two following maxims of public jurisprudence;
“And he deceives the dwellers upon the earth through the wonders which it was given to him to have worked in the presence of the beast; saying to the dwellers upon the earth, to have an Image made to the beast that hath the plague of the sword, and lives. 15. And it was given to him to give spirit to the Image of the beast; that the Image of the Beast should both speak, and, cause that as many as would not worship the Image of the Beast should be put to death. ”
“And he works great wonders, so that he causeth fire also to descend out of the heaven into the earth in the presence of the men” — Verse 13
“And he exerciseth all the authority of the first beast in its presence; and causeth that the earth and the dwellers therein worship the first beast, the plague of whose death was healed” — Verse 12.
The dominion ascending out of the earth and planted in Middle Europe, had that peculiarity in its constitution that would entitle it to be Apocalyptically and symbolically represented by “two horns like to a lamb. ”
“In the twenty-six years,” says Gibbon, “that elapsed between the conquest of Lombardy and his imperial coronation, Rome, which had been delivered by the sword, was subject, as his own, to the sceptre of Charlemagne. The people swore allegiance to his person and family; in his name money was coined, and justice was administered; and the election of the popes was examined and confirmed by his authority.