A.D. 312 — Controversy between Donatists and Church, and commencement of persecution. Witnessing in sackcloth (mourning) commences.
1260— Forty-two months of Witnessing in persecution.
1572— Massacre of St. Bartholomew—commencement of the war of v.7.
The massacre with which they were overwhelmed at the outbreak of the war against them in 1572, and which was then supposed to have entirely ruined them, when known in Rome was a cause of great joy to their enemies in that city. When the letters of the Pope’s legate residing at the Court of Charles IX., were read in the assembly of the cardinals, by which he assured the Pope that all was transacted by the express will and command of the French king, it was immediately decreed that the pope should march with his cardinals to the church of St.
In the sixth verse of the chapter are the words, en hemerais auton tes propheteias, about which “the recent editors” are at variance with their predecessors.
“And 1 will give to my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and sixty days, having been clothed in sackcloths.”
From A.D. 312 to A.D. 1794, a period of 1482 years.
THIRD SECTION OF THE SEVENTH SEAL
ACT III - THE SEVENTH TRUMPET
OR
THIRD WOE:
JUDICIALLY AFFECTING BOTH EAST AND WEST
The declining health and last illness of S. Severus, inflamed the wild ambition, and black and blackening passions of Caracalla. He attempted, more than once, to shorten Severus’ life, and with as little success, to excite a mutiny among the troops. Severus deliberated, and threatened, but was too fondly parental to punish his son and colleague in the throne; and this last, and only instance of mercy he was ever guilty of, was more fatal to the empire than a long series of cruelty. At length he expired at York in Britain, A.D.
The voice made proclamation of a denarius the choinix of the wheat. There are various opinions concerning the choinix. The English version uses the word in its widest sense for measure of capacity, without defining the capacity. In Ezek.
John says, that when he saw this vision of the third seal, he heard "a voice in the midst of the Four Living Ones." Voice is sometimes used in scripture in the sense of the signification, or the thing signified
The rider of the black horse may be known by his badge. John saw one sitting upon him "holding in his hand a balance.” The other riders of the first and second seals were identified by their badges — the bow and the great dagger; and so must this of the third by the balance, which is his.
While it is true, that black is used in scripture in connection with scarcity and famine; I am satisfied that in this third seal famine is not indicated by the color of the horse. The reader will therefore be so good as to run his pen through the word "famine” in line 16 of our “Chronological Tableau of the Apostasy,” on page 428, Vol. 1.