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Ce livre historique peut contenir de nombreuses coquilles et du texte manquant. Les acheteurs peuvent generalement telecharger une copie gratuite scannee du livre original (sans les coquilles) aupres de l'editeur. Non reference. Non illustre. 1847 edition. Extrait: ... its last, most largely described, and most remarkable form,2--the simple fact of the miniature proportion of time attaching to Ezekiel's symbol, in the example of miniature symbolization just referred to, might reasonably have induced the suspicion even a priori, (I mean previous to the time of the fourth Empire passing into the form to which the chronological period of the 1260 days had reference, ) that these 1260 days, a term in its literal sense not inappropriate to be predicated of a symbolic Beast's time of prospering, was intended probably to figure out some much longer time as that of the Empire symbolized. 1 The same chronological proportion of scale (if I may so say) between the personifying symbol and nation symbolized, is observable in Isa. liv. 4, 6, Jer. ii. 2, xlviii. 11, Ezek. xxiii. 3, Hosea ii. 15, &c. Even where the personifying symbol is not a person or animal, it may yet have its own scale of time, appropriate to the mutations figuratively described of it in the picture or poem: and, if so, this is observed and applied. So, for example, in personifications under the figure of a flower, or long-lived tree, in their state of growth and decline. Indeed even in symbolizations by wholly inanimate objects, the same observance of the fit scale of time may be often seen. So in Horace's symbolization of the Roman nation, and its civil wars, under the figure of a storm-tossed ship returning into port, --" O navis referent, &c;" where the briefer storm represents the longer civil commotions. 2 Dan. vii. 17, 23; "These great Beasts arc four kings which shall arise out of the earth." "The fourth Beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth." We may observe here the interchange of..."
