410 u (kvelatíónofthe:Apoeálypie. C A r.iz. TheWomasis flight then,is either the diffolving., or the depraving of theparticular affemblies, fo as God Thould not be purely worfhip- ped in any ofthem according to his will alone,the which thing when once it cometh to palfe, the Churchfheth away, being now no lon- ger tube feen in her glittering and comely hue in any publike congre- gation, not but that there aremany feverally extant among the mul- titude ; whom the Lord acknowledgeth for his true fervants. For this, fee what bath been Paidon the fixt verfe of this Chapter. The place whether the fled, is the Defert, and her own place,, that is, the place prepared by god for her, as before it was laid in the fixt verfe. Nowwe (hewed that this Defert wasithe Temple fpoken of, Chap. r i. I. But we (hould have been ignorant perhaps where, and in what part of the World this Wildernef, or Temple lhould be feared, unle(fe this molt quick-fented, and (harp-fighted Dragon had de- fcryed' the place unto us. For í1e fled thither doubtlefs, and that w v, whither the Dragon turned his fury. Now towards what Coaff he did fpit out,and fpend his furious fpight,we tall fee by thofe things that follow in the next verle. For a time and times,andhalfa time. Thefe wordr, if they be fet aloneby themfelves, cannot be underftood, feeing time here Rands for number,and there is an infinite fort of numbers, that may be divi- ded into three or more whole numbers, and into half a number. But the words are made plain by thole things that have been formerly fpoken. For the fame fpace is meant here, which was noted out be- fore, by the thousand two hundred and threefcore dayes , verfe 6. Or by the tWo andforty moneths, Chap. t r.2. Out ofwhich it is manifeft what is meant, by time, times, and halfa time. For the time ofdayes, are three hundred and threefcore dayes, times are twice fo many ; namely, /evenhundredand twenty; Half a time, is á hundredandfurfcore. So the time ofmoneths is twelve moneth.+; times;four and rWenty; half a time, fix; he alludeth. to that of`Da- nil,Chap.7.25. But it is not the fame (pace there meant. For there is fpeech had of the people of the Iews,here of the Church ofthe Gentiles; aÿ the whole drift ofthis Prophecy declareth. But perhaps John intimateth by this allufion,that a definite number is to be found elfewhere, from whence that place of Daniel might be explained. But Z may not digreffe to that matter at this time. Onely let us re- member, that this flight of the Woman, is the famewith the Sealing in the fevench Chapter , and the Ding hid in the Temple, in the eleventh. Befides
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