The Sign is pictured as two large fishes bound together by a _Band_, the ends of which are fastened separately to their tails. One fish is represented with its head pointing upwards towards the North Polar Star, the other is shown at right angles, swimming along the line of the ecliptic, or path of the sun. The ancient Egyptian name, as shown on the Denderah Zodiac, is _Pi‐cot Orion_, or _Pisces Hori_, which means _the fishes of Him that cometh_. The Hebrew name is _Dagim_, _the Fishes_, which is closely connected with _multitudes_, as in Gen. xlviii. 26, where Jacob blesses Joseph’s sons, and says, “Let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.” The margin says, “Let them grow _as fishes do increase_.” It refers to the fulfilment of Gen. i. 28, “Be fruitful and multiply.” The _multitude_ of Abraham’s seed is prominent in the pronouncement of the blessings, where God compared his future posterity to the stars of the sky, and the sand upon the sea shore. “A very great multitude of fish,” as in Ezek. xlvii. 9. The Syriac name is _Nuno_, _the fish_, _lengthened out (as in posterity)_. The sign, then, speaks of the multitudes who should enjoy the blessings of the Redeemer’s work. And here we must maintain that “the Church,” which is “the Body of Christ,” was a subject that was never revealed to man until it was made known to the Apostle Paul by a special revelation. The Holy Spirit declares (Rom. xvi. 25) that it “was kept secret since the world began.” In Eph. iii. 9 he declares that it “from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God”; and in Col. i. 26, that it “hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to His saints.” In each scripture which speaks of it as “now made manifest,” or “now made known,” it is distinctly stated that it was “a mystery,” _i.e._, a _secret_, and had, up to that moment, been hidden from mankind, hidden “in God.” How, then, we ask, can “the Church,” which was _a subsequent_ revelation, be read into the previous prophecies, whether written in the Old Testament Scriptures, or made known in the Heavens? If the Church was revealed in prophecy, then it could not have been said to be hidden or kept secret. If the _first_ revelation of it was made known to Paul, as he distinctly affirms it was, then it could not have been revealed before. Unless we see this very clearly, we cannot “rightly divide the word of truth” (2 Tim. ii. 15). And if we do not rightly divide the word of truth, in its subjects, and times, and dispensations, we must inevitably be landed in confusion and darkness, interpreting of the Church, scriptures which belong only to Israel.