prophetic days, is visible in the 120 years of grace before that awful catastrophe. The sacred period of _seven_ days also assumed a prophetic character. In Pharaoh’s dream, the _seven_ years of plenty, and the _seven_ years of famine, were vividly depicted. After _seven_ days previous warning, the Diluvian rain descended in torrents for _forty_ days. After Jericho was encompassed _seven_ days, the last day _seven_ times, by _seven_ priests with _seven_ trumpets, the walls were levelled with the ground. The number _forty_ is prophetic; the Israelites wandered _forty_ prophetic days, that is, _forty_ years, in the wilderness; Moses was in the mount _forty_ days; and, Christ was tempted _forty_ days. In _forty_ days, Nineveh was to be destroyed; Christ was seen of his disciples _forty_ days after his resurrection; and, in _forty_ years, after his baptism, was Jerusalem destroyed. The number of _seven_ days and _seven_ years, with their multiples and higher powers, perpetually recur in the Mosaic institutes; and the period of _seven_ times _seven_, or _forty-nine_ days and _forty-nine_ years, is particularly signalized in the feasts of the Jews. Balaam, who knew the sacredness of the number _seven_, in the divine institutions, at _three_ different times and places, built _seven_ altars, and slew _seven_ oxen and _seven_ rams, in order to propitiate the favour of God. In the land of Canaan, _seven_ nations were destroyed in _seven_ years. Solomon’s temple was _seven_ years in building, and in 430 years after the celebration of the first passover within its walls, it was destroyed. The latter number, as we have seen, is highly prophetic, corresponding to the 430 prophetic days of Ezekiel, and having a mysterious reference to the 430 years of promise to Abraham, the 430 years of Gentile persecution, and the _three_ times 430 days, or 1,290 years of Daniel. But time would fail us to speak of the _seven_ spirits of God, the _seven_ eyes, the _seven_ lamps, the _seven_ stars, the _seven_ golden lamp-stands, the _seven_ churches, the _seven_ angels, the _seven_ seals, the _seven_ vials, the _seven_ plagues, the _seven_ heads, the _seven_ crowns, the _seven_ mountains, and the _seven_ kings; the _seven_ times, yea and the _seventy_ times _seven_—the perfect numbers of omnipotence, glory and wisdom; and, of mystery, vengeance and forgiveness!