While this Ecclesiastical Dominion was rising up, the northern barbarous nations invaded the _Western Empire_, and founded several kingdoms therein, of different religions from the Church of _Rome_. But these kingdoms by degrees embraced the _Roman_ faith, and at the same time submitted to the Pope's authority. The _Franks_ in _Gaul_ submitted in the end of the fifth Century, the _Goths_ in _Spain_ in the end of the sixth; and the _Lombards_ in _Italy_ were conquered by _Charles_ the great A.C. 774. Between the years 775 and 794, the same _Charles_ extended the Pope's authority over all _Germany_ and _Hungary_ as far as the river _Theysse_ and the _Baltic_ sea; he then set him above all human judicature, and at the same time assisted him in subduing the City and Duchy of _Rome_. By the conversion of the ten kingdoms to the _Roman_ religion, the Pope only enlarged his spiritual dominion, but did not yet rise up as a horn of the Beast. It was his temporal dominion which made him one of the horns: and this dominion he acquired in the latter half of the eighth century, by subduing three of the former horns as above. And now being arrived at a temporal dominion, and a power above all human judicature, he reigned [17] _with a look more stout than his fellows_, and [18] _times and laws were_ henceforward _given into his hands, for a time times and half a time_, or three times and an half; that is, for 1260 solar years, reckoning a time for a Calendar year of 360 days, and a day for a solar year. After which [19] _the judgment is to sit, and they shall take away his dominion_, not at once, but by degrees, _to consume, and to destroy it unto the end. [20] And the kingdom and dominion, and greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven shall_, by degrees, _be given unto the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him_. Notes to Chap. VIII. [1] _See the Annals of _Baronius__, Anno 381. Sect. 6. [2] Populos Galliciae. [3] Hormisd. Epist. 24. 26. [4] _The words, _sine auctoritate_, seem wanting._ [5] Vide Caroli a S. Paulo Geographiam sacram, p. 72, 73. [6] Greg. M. lib. 1. Indic. 9. Epist. 16. [7] Apud Gratianum de Mediolanensi & Aquileiensi Episcopis. [8] Greg. M. lib. 3. Epist. 26. & lib. 4. Epist. 1. [9] Greg. lib. 5. Epist. 4. [10] Greg. lib. 9. Epist. 10 & 67. [11] Greg. lib. 11. Epist. 3, 4. [12] Ambros l. 3. de sacramentis, c. 1. [13] Sigonius de Regno Italiae, lib. 5. [14] _See _Baronius__, Anno 433. Sect. 24. [15] Greg. M. lib. 3. Epist. 56, 57. & lib. 5. Epist. 25, 26, 56. [16] Epist. 25. apud Holstenium. [17] Dan. vii. 20. [18] Ver. 25. [19] Ver. 26. [20] Ver. 27. * * * * * CHAP. IX. _Of the kingdoms represented in _Daniel_ by the Ram and He-Goat_.