At length the woman arrived at her place of temporal as well as spiritual dominion upon the back of the Beast, where she is nourished _a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent_; not in his kingdom, but at a distance from him. She is nourished by _the merchants of the earth_, three times or years and an half, or 42 months, or 1260 days: and in these Prophecies days are put for years. During all this time the Beast acted, and _she sat upon him_, that is, reigned over him, and over the ten Kings _who gave their power and strength_, that is, their kingdom _to the Beast_; and she was _drunken with the blood of the Saints_. By all these circumstances she is the eleventh horn of _Daniel_'s fourth Beast, who reigned with _a look more stout than his fellows_, and was of a different kind from the rest, and had eyes _and a mouth_ like the woman; _and made war with the saints, and prevailed against them_, and _wore them out_, and _thought to change times and laws_, and had them _given into his hand, until a time, and times, and half a time_. These characters of the woman, and little horn of the Beast, agree perfectly: in respect of her temporal dominion, she was a horn of the Beast; in respect of her spiritual dominion, she rode upon him in the form of a woman, and was his Church, and committed fornication with the ten Kings. The second Beast, which _rose up out of the earth_, was the Church of the _Greek_ Empire: for it _had two horns like those of the Lamb_, and therefore was a Church; and it _spake as the Dragon_, and therefore was of his religion; and it _came up out of the earth_, and by consequence in his kingdom. It is called also _the false Prophet_ who wrought miracles before the first Beast, by which he deceived them that received his mark, and worshiped his image. When the Dragon went from the woman to make war with the remnant of her seed, this Beast arising out of the earth assisted in that war, and _caused the earth and them which dwell therein to worship_ the authority of _the first Beast, whose mortal wound was healed_, and to _make an Image to him_, that is, to assemble a body of men like him in point of religion. He had also _power to give life_ and authority _to the Image_, so that it could _both speak, and_ by dictating _cause that all_ religious bodies of men, _who would not worship_ the authority of _the Image, should be_ mystically _killed. And he causeth all men to receive a mark in their right hand or in their forehead, and that no man might buy or sell save he that had the mark, or the name of the Beast, or the number of his name_; all the rest being excommunicated by the Beast with two horns. His mark is [Cross] [Cross] [Cross], and his name [Greek: LATEINOS], and the number of his name 666.