Sketches of the Christian life and public labors of William Miller : $b Gathered from his memoir by the late Sylvester Bliss, and from other sourcesWhite, James
Philosophy
Sketches of the Christian life and public labors of William Miller : $b Gathered from his memoir by the late Sylvester Bliss, and from other sources
White, James
Miller, William, 1782-1849
“Mr. Hinton took the same view that Mr. Miller did of this symbol.
He said: ‘If any other events of history can be set forth and made
to fill out _all the particulars_ mentioned by Daniel and John, we
should be happy to see them stated; till then, we shall believe the
little horn rising up amidst the ten horns, and having three of them
plucked up before it, to refer to the rise of the papacy in the midst
of the kingdoms into which the Roman Empire was divided in the sixth
century.”—p. 237.
“Dr. Dowling, Dr. Hamilton, and others, who admitted that the fourth
beast symbolized the Roman Empire, also applied its little horn to the
papacy.
“3. _The Little Horn of the eighth chapter of Daniel, that became
exceeding great._ This Mr. Miller believed to be a symbol of Rome. In
this view he was sustained by Sir Isaac Newton, Bishop Newton, Dr. Hales,
Martin Luther, Dr. Prideaux, Dr. Clarke, Dr. Hopkins, Wm. Cunninghame,
and others.
“Dr. Horne said of the first three above named: ‘Sir Isaac Newton, Bishop
Newton, and Dr. Hales, have clearly shown that the Roman power, and no
other, is intended; for, although some of the particulars may agree very
well with that king (Antiochus), yet others can by no means be reconciled
to him; _while all of them agree and correspond exactly with the Romans,
and with no other power_.”—_Intro._, vol. 4, p. 191.
“In addition to these, almost all the old writers who applied it to
Antiochus Epiphanes did so only as the type of Rome, where they looked
for the Antichrist. St. Cyril, Bishop of Jerusalem, in the fourth
century, said: ‘This, the predicted Antichrist, will come when the times
of the (pagan) Roman Empire shall be fulfilled, and the consummation
of the world approach. Ten kings of the Romans shall rise together, in
different places indeed, but they shall reign at the same time. Among
these, the eleventh is Antichrist, who, by magical and wicked artifices,
shall seize the Roman power.’
“Prof. Stuart, Prof. Chase, and even Dr. Dowling, with others, applied
this symbol to Antiochus Epiphanes.
“Rev. R. C. Shimeal, of New York (“Prophecy in Course of Fulfillment”),
dissented from Mr. Miller, and also from the foregoing, and understood
this horn to symbolize the Mahommedan power. Mr. Hinton took the same
view.
“Mr. Miller was sustained in his application of this point by Dr.
Hamilton and Dr. Jarvis. The latter said: ‘Sir Isaac Newton, with that
sagacity which was peculiar to him, was the first, I believe, who showed
clearly that this little horn was the Roman power.’—p. 43.
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