The name of _Woes_ is given to the wars to which the three last trumpets sound, to distinguish them from the wars of the four first. The sacrifices on the first four days of the feast of Tabernacles, at which the first four trumpets sound, and the first four vials of wrath are poured out, are slaughters in four great wars; and these wars are represented by four winds from the four corners of the earth. The first was an east wind, the second a west wind, the third a south wind, and the fourth a north wind, with respect to the city of _Rome_, the metropolis of the old _Roman_ Empire. These four plagues fell upon _the third part of the Earth, Sea, Rivers, Sun, Moon and Stars_; that is, upon the Earth, Sea, Rivers, Sun, Moon and Stars of the third part of the whole scene of these Prophecies of _Daniel_ and _John_. The plague of the eastern wind [7] at the sounding of the first trumpet, was to fall upon the _Earth_, that is, upon the nations of the _Greek_ Empire. Accordingly, after the death of _Theodosius_ the great, the _Goths_, _Sarmatians_, _Hunns_, _Isaurians_, and _Austorian_ Moors invaded and miserably wasted _Greece_, _Thrace_, _Asia minor_, _Armenia_, _Syria_, _Egypt_, _Lybia_, and _Illyricum_, for ten or twelve years together. The plague of the western wind at the sounding of the second trumpet, was to fall upon the _Sea_, or _Western_ Empire, by means of _a great mountain burning with fire_ cast into it, and _turning it to blood_. Accordingly in the year 407, that Empire began to be invaded by the _Visigoths_, _Vandals_, _Alans_, _Sueves_, _Burgundians_, _Ostrogoths_, _Heruli_, _Quadi_, _Gepides_; and by these wars it was broken into ten kingdoms, and miserably wasted: and _Rome_ itself, the burning mountain, was besieged and taken by the _Ostrogoths_, in the beginning of these miseries.