The whole chapter (Isa. lx.) should be read if we wish to understand the great teaching of this Sign, which tells of Messiah’s secured possessions, the safe folding of His blood‐bought flock, the blessed return of His pilgrims, and their abundant entrance into everlasting rest. “There is a blessed home Beyond this land of woe, Where trials never come, Nor tears of sorrow flow; Where faith is lost in sight, And patient love is crowned, And everlasting light Its glory throws around. O joy, all joys beyond, To see the Lamb who died, And count each sacred wound In hands, and feet, and side; To give to Him the praise Of every triumph won, And sing through endless days The great things He hath done. Look up, ye saints of God, Nor fear to tread below The path your Saviour trod Of daily toil and woe; Wait but a little while In uncomplaining love, His own most gracious smile Shall welcome you above.” Chapter IV. The Sign LEO (The Lion). _Messiah’s Consummated Triumph._ Here we come to the end of the circle. We began with Virgo, and we end with Leo. No one who has followed our interpretation can doubt that we have here the solving of the Riddle of the Sphinx. For its _Head_ is Virgo and its _Tail_ is Leo! In Leo we reach the end of the Revelation as inspired in the Word of God; and it is the end as written in the heavens. BAILLY (_Astronomy_) says, “the Zodiac must have been first divided when the sun at the summer solstice was in 1° Virgo, where the woman’s head joins the Lion’s tail.” As to its antiquity there can be no doubt. JAMIESON says, “the Lion does not seem to have been placed among the Zodiacal symbols, because Hercules was fabled to have slain the Nemean Lion. It would seem, on the contrary, that Hercules, who represented the Sun, was said to have slain the Nemean Lion, because _Leo_ was already a Zodiacal sign. Hercules flourished 3,000 years ago, and consequently posterior to the period when the summer solstice accorded with _Leo_.” (_Celestial Atlas_, p. 40). There is no confusion about _this_ sign. In the ancient Zodiacs of Egypt (Denderah, Esneh) and India we find the Lion. The same occurs on the Mithraic monuments, where Leo is _passant_, as he is in Moor’s Hindu, and Sir William Jones’s Oriental Zodiacs. In Kircher’s Zodiacs he is _courrant_; in the Egyptian Zodiacs he is _couchant_. In the Denderah Zodiac he is treading upon a serpent, as shown in Mr. Edward Cooper’s _Egyptian Scenery_. [Illustration] Plate 39: LEO (the Lion) Its Egyptian name is _Pi Mentekeon_, which means _the pouring out_. This is no pouring out or inundation of the Nile, but it is the pouring out of the cup of Divine wrath on that Old Serpent. This is the one great truth of the closing chapter of this last Book. It is