Identifier: horaeapocalypt01elli (find matches)
Title: Horae Apocalypticae; or, A commentary on the Apocalypse, critical and historical; including also an examination of the chief prophecies of Daniel
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Elliott, Edward Bishop, 1793-1875
Subjects: Bible Bible Bible Bible
Publisher: London : Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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, who says of these secular games,SviTfXct Si trpoq XoifKov icai ^Oopwv kui voffojv UKtaeic;. He then gives a long ac-count of their origin, and the ancient mysteriously discovered altar A8ov Kai Utp-atcpovriQ, on which the chief sacrifices were offered : tells how, on the raging of warsand diseases, the Sibylline books inculcated these games and sacrifices a6jj icai Yltp-(TC(j)ovy; (as well as to other gods also, specially Apollo and Diana;) and how, ac-cording to the oiacle, the Roman empire was to be secured in its greatness andpower by the celebration of the games; toutwv airavriav Kara Otcrixov tTrireXovfitvcjvt(pvXarTETo fitv t) tcov Fiofiaiinv rtp%?j. * Exod. xxiii. 29. * So Clinton fixes the date, about A.D. 296. Trecenti sunt anni ferme, says Ar-nobius, c. 13, ex quo cocpimus esse Christiani: and in another passage ; Annosducit urbs Roma quinquaginta et mille, aut non multum ab his minus. Now U. C.1050 corresponds with A.D. 297. 5 Adv. Gentes, Lib. 1. p. 5. (Lugd. Bat. 1651.)
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CHAP. IV.) THE FCURTH SEAL. 195 and of which Christians (as if such evils had never hap-pened before) were upbraided as the guilty cause. . But this, as I said, was written in 296, twenty or thirtyyears after the date of Gallienus death. And the questionsuggests itself. What was the state of things during the in-tervening period ; and can it too be classed vmder the pre-figuration of the 4th iVpocalyptic Seal? A question this(juite necessary to attend to, as I date my 5tli Seal not tillthe year 303 : and the rather, as it has been asserted thatthe whole interval was one so markedly of restoration, notdestruction, as to be in direct contrariety to, not accord-ance with, the symbolization of the Seal before us.^—Theanswer to this question involves of course an historic reviewof the period intervening; more especially up to the nota-ble epoch of Diocletians quadripartition of the empire A.D.292, which I regard as the included terminus of the 4thSeal. It shall be given as briefly as pos

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