OR,

A COMMENTARY ON THE APOCALYPSE,

CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL;

INCLUDING ALSO AN EXAMINATION OF

THE CHIEF PROPHECIES OF DANIEL.

ILLUSTRATED BY AN APOCALYPTIC CHART, AND ENGRAVINGS

FROM MEDALS AND OTHER EXTANT MONUMENTS

OF ANTIQUITY.

BY THE REV. E. B. ELLIOTT, A. M.
LATE VICAR OF TUXFORD, AND FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.

THIRD EDITION,

REVISED, CORRECTED, AND IMPROVED;

WITH AN APPENDIX,

CONTAINING, BESIDES OTHER MATTER,

A SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF APOCALYPTIC INTERPRETATION,

AND INDICES.

VOL. II.

SEELEY, BURNSIDE, AND SEELEY;

FLEET STREET, LONDON.

MDCCCXLVII.

"Blessed is he that readeth and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep
those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand."

"The word of prophecy; whereunto ye do
shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn."

Apoc. i. 3.

Leonard Seeley,

Thames Ditton, Surrey.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

TO VOL. II.

CHAP.

PART III.

I. RETROSPECTIVE VIEW OF WESTERN CHRISTENDOM,

FROM THE FALL OF CONSTANTINOPLE, UNDER THE

SECOND OR TURKISH WOE, TO THE REFORMATION

II. COVENANT ANGEL'S DESCENT FULFILLED IN THE RE-

FORMATION

PAGE

39

III. EPOCH OF ANTICHRIST'S TRIUMPH JUST BEFORE THE

REFORMATION

47

IV. § 1. REFORMATION BEGUN IN THE DISCOVERY OF

CHRIST THE SAVIOUR

90

§ 2. REFORMATION ADVANCED IN THE DISCOVERY OF

ANTICHRIST THE USURPER

103

§ 1. THE WITNESSES AS DESCRIBED IN THE APOCALYP-

TIC PROPHECY

198

§ 2. EARLIER WESTERN WITNESSES TRACED in His-

TORY

206

§ 3. EARLIER EASTERN OR PAULIKIAN WITNESSES.

§ 4. JOINT MIDDLE-AGE WITNESSES

233

247

§ 5. THE PAULIKIANS TRUE CHRISTIAN WITNESSES.

§ 6. THE WALDENSIAN EPOCH AND ORIGIN

275

315

§ 7. THE WALDENSES TRUE CHRISTIAN WITNESSES

VIII. PAPAL ANTI-WITNESS WAR, AND THE WITNESSES'

347

DEATH AND RESURRECTION

365

I. ON THE WORD ▲αμovov, DÆMON, APOC. IX. 20.

439

II. ON THE CHARGE OF MANICHEISM AGAINST THE PAULI-

XIV. POPE LEO AS THE LION OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH
XV. LUTHER AS THE MONK AND THE PREACHER

XVI. THE WALDENSIAN CANDLESTICK

XVII. HUSS' MARTYRDOM AND PROPHECY

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57

170

362

404

PART III.

APOC. IX. 20-XI. 14.

THE REFORMATION,

AS OCCURRING

UNDER THE LATTER HALF OF THE SIXTH TRUMPET :

INCLUDING

THE ANTECEDENT HISTORY, AND THE

DEATH, RESURRECTION, AND ASCENSION

OF CHRIST'S TWO

WITNESSES.

A. D. 1453-1774.

CHAPTER I.

RETROSPECTIVE VIEW FROM AFTER THE FALL OF CON-

STANTINOPLE OF THE PREVIOUS FOUR HUNDRED

YEARS' HISTORY OF WESTERN CHRISTENDOM; AND

SKETCH OF ITS RELIGIOUS STATE IN THE ÆRA BE-

TWEEN THAT EVENT AND THE REFORMATION.

"AND the rest of the men, which were not killed by

these plagues, yet repented not of the work of their

hands, that they should not worship dæmons, and

idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and

wood, which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk. Nei-
ther repented they of their murders, nor of their sor-