After the division of the Roman empire, the western kingdom adopted for itself the name of the Latin kingdom; and its subdivisions were called the Latin kingdoms. The church connected with those kingdoms was also emphatically called the Latin church. Says Dr. More: “They Latinize everything. Mass, prayers, hymns, litanies, canons, decretals, bulls, are conceived in Latin. The Papal councils speak in Latin. Women pray in Latin. The Scriptures are read in no other language under the Papacy than Latin. In short, all things are Latin.” The Council of Trent declared the Latin Vulgate to be the only authentic version of the Scriptures; and their doctors have preferred it to the Hebrew and Greek text, written by prophets and apostles. This Latin kingdom is the only one that ever corresponded to the characteristics of the beast. And its name—_Latinos_ in the Greek, and _Romiith_ in the Hebrew—is equivalent to the required number. “The Greek and Hebrew letters composing the words רומיית, _Romiith_—רמענוש, _Romanus_—λατεινος, _Latinos_, each of them making in numerals exactly 666, plainly point out not only his name, and the number of his name, but also the _mark_ of his _name_; as for example: in ר ו מ י י ת _Romiith_; so likewise 400 10 10 40 6 200 = 666 ר מ ע נ ו ש _Romanus_; and also 300 6 50 70 40 200 = 666 the Greek λ α τ ε ι ν ο ς _Latinos_, 30 1 300 5 10 50 70 200 = 666. in each of which the exact mark is contained. “It therefore evidently appears, that each name is both a mark and a number; a mark, when viewed as made up of so many letters, therefore called the mark of his name; a number, when viewed as made up of so many numerals, then called the number of his name. But when considered merely as a name, derived from _Romiith_, a Roman, or _Romulus_, the founder of Rome, a name common among men, it may then be properly called the _mark, or number of a man_.”—_Fleming’s Rise and Fall of Papacy._ To receive the mark of the beast, would be an acknowledgment of subjection to it. The connection of the beast and its image was so intimate, that submission to the one, was virtual submission to the other. To submit to the rites of the church modelled after the wild beast, to profess its faith, and to honor its authority, would be a reception of its mark. And all persons were compelled to do this, and give evidence of submission to its authority on the peril of their lives.