Now locusts live but five months; and therefore, for the decorum of the type, these locusts are said to _hurt men five months and five months_, as if they had lived about five months at _Damascus_, and again about five months at _Bagdad_; in all ten months, or 300 prophetic days, which are years. The sixth trumpet sounded to the wars, which _Daniel_'s King of the _North_ made against the King above-mentioned, _who did according to his will_. In these wars the King of the _North_, according to _Daniel_, conquered the Empire of the _Greeks_, and also _Judea_, _Egypt_, _Lybia_, and _Ethiopia_: and by these conquests the Empire of the _Turks_ was set up, as may be known by the extent thereof. These wars commenced A.C. 1258, when the four kingdoms of the _Turks_ seated upon _Euphrates_, that of _Armenia major_ seated at _Miyapharekin_, _Megarkin_ or _Martyropolis_, that of _Mesopotamia_ seated at _Mosul_, that of all _Syria_ seated at _Aleppo_, and that of _Cappadocia_ seated at _Iconium_, were invaded by the _Tartars_ under _Hulacu_, and driven into the western parts of _Asia minor_, where they made war upon the _Greeks_, and began to erect the present Empire of the _Turks_. Upon the sounding of the sixth trumpet, [9] _John heard a voice from the four horns of the golden Altar which is before God, saying to the sixth Angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four Angels which are bound at the great river _Euphrates_. And the four Angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour and a day, and a month and a year, for to slay the third part of men_. By the four horns of the golden Altar, is signified the situation of the head cities of the said four kingdoms, _Miyapharekin_, _Mosul_, _Aleppo_, and _Iconium_, which were in a quadrangle. They slew the third part of men, when they conquered the _Greek_ Empire, and took _Constantinople_, A.C. 1453. and they began to be prepared for this purpose, when _Olub-Arslan_ began to conquer the nations upon _Euphrates_, A.C. 1063. The interval is called an hour and a day, and a month and a year, or 391 prophetic days, which are years. In the first thirty years, _Olub-Arslan_ and _Melechschah_ conquered the nations upon _Euphrates_, and reigned over the whole. _Melechschah_ died A.C. 1092, and was succeeded by a little child; and then this kingdom broke into the four kingdoms above-mentioned. * * * * * Notes to Chap. III. [1] Apoc. ii. 4, &c. [2] Apoc. ii. 9, 10. [3] Ver. 14. [4] Numb. xxv. 1, 2, 18, & xxi. 16. [5] Apoc. iii. 10, 12. [6] Apoc. iii. 16, 17. [7] Apoc. viii. 7, &c. [8] Apoc. xvi. 5, 6. [9] Apoc. ix. 13, &c. * * * * * _THE END._ * * * * * _Advertisement._ _The last pages of these Observations having been differently drawn up by the Author in another copy of his Work; they are here inserted as they follow in that copy, after the 22d line of the 261st page foregoing._