“After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, _each day for a year_, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years.” Num. 14:34. See Eze. 4:6. NOTES.—A time in prophecy being the same as a year (see Dan. 11:13, margin, and R. V.), three and one-half times would be three and a half years, or forty-two months, or twelve hundred and sixty days, since the calendar year of 360 days, or twelve months of thirty days each, is used in prophetic chronology. As each day represents a year, the period, the end of which was to mark the limit of the time of the supremacy of the little horn, the Papacy, over the saints, times, and the law, would therefore be twelve hundred and sixty years. The decree of the emperor Justinian, issued in A.D. 533, recognized the Pope as “head of all the holy churches.” (Justinian’s Code, book 1, title 1. Baronius’s Annals, A.D. 533.) The overwhelming defeat of the Ostrogoths in the siege of Rome, five years later, A.D. 538, was a death-blow to the independence of the Arian power then ruling Italy, and was therefore a notable date in the development of papal supremacy. With the period 533-538, then, commences the twelve hundred and sixty years of this prophecy, which would extend to the period 1793-1798. The year 1793 was the year of the Reign of Terror in the French Revolution, and the year when the Roman Catholic religion was set aside in France and the worship of reason was established in its stead. As a direct result of the revolt against papal authority in the French Revolution, the French army, under Berthier, entered Rome, and the Pope was taken prisoner Feb. 10, 1798, dying in exile at Valence, France, the following year. This period, 1793-1798, during which this death-stroke was inflicted upon the Papacy, fittingly and clearly marks the close of the long prophetic period mentioned in this prophecy. Any standard history of the time may be consulted in substantiation of the facts here stated. 9. What will finally be done with the dominion exercised by the little horn? “But the judgment shall sit, and they shall _take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end_.” Dan. 7:26. 10. To whom will the dominion finally be given? “And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given _to the people of the saints of the Most High_, whose kingdom is _an everlasting kingdom_, and _all dominions_ shall serve and obey Him.” Verse 27.