CAP .2. touchingAntichrift. e29 but reft in the interpretationof certain men, who haveapplied it to Antichrit, but you will have theft dayes to be taken properly, and therefore that he is a fingular perfon, whofe kingdom isbounded if/ fo fmall a time. I anfwer,that this number doth not at all belong to that Kingdomof Antichrift , of three yeers and a halfes lalfing, that is to be before the fecond comming of Chrift , which you dreameof. For Daniel asketh when the end (hall be of thefe marvellous things ? Will you have this anfwer to be made, that the end of them Shall be, after that a thoufand twohundred and ninety dayes, or at the mot}, three hundred thirty five fhall be expired imm.ediatly be- fore theend of the world ? What could be learnt out of' Inch an anfwer? If a man that dwels in a far country, should askwhich way he fhould go toRome , and another fhould anfwer him , when thou cornett , to the tenth acme from the City , turn this or that way to the left hand or the right, might he not think that he were mocked, and that worthily ? Or if, one fhould ask as touching fame climat of the heavens, how long the day is in the Countries that be under it, and he fhould have this anfwer fhaped him that it is abont halfean hour long, after the fun is fet, would he count himfeif fatistied ? Such a kinde of anfwer do you make the Angel to give, whenyou hold that thefe dayes art common ones, and that they do go before the confummationof all things. Godforbid that we fhould think that the molt Holy Angel would fhut up that moti divine vifion and efpecially the whole prophecy with fuch a j e(i. Therefore wefinde not Antichrift fo properly cal- led in anyof thefe places,much leffe his fingular perfon. So much for the fourth Scripture out of Daniel, the fift and lati is Revelat. a fi and a 7. whichplaces you fay , are asnderftood of Anti- chrift,becassfe Ireneus teachethfo Book 5.and it isplaine,by the likenes of the words in Daniel and Iohn,who do both ofthem make mention of ten Kings,Which fhalbe in the earth, when Antichrift fhall come, and they doboth of themforetell that Antichrifts Kingdomfball Taft three yeersand half. eA'' Daniel therefore fpeaketh of one certain King,fò doth John in the Revelation. I answer that Ireneus doth judge aright, that Antichrift is fpokenof in thofe forefaid placesoftheRevelati- on,but you deal untowardly, who willhave fuch an Antichrift tobe undertiood in Daniel. Ihave Chewed that thefe twodiffer inmany refpects,fo that the one cannot be the other, Thofe ten Horner in L111 Damidd
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