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 eighty-fifth verse, he will find Mahomet witnessing to this fact; and an awful fact it was.

We thus see not only that Mahomet was the Man of Sin, the Sen of Perdition, the Great Antichrist, but likewise that he was the founder of a great false religious system; and hence, in the Apocalypse of St. John he is termed, on this latter account, "the False Prophet." Under this name he is mentioned expressly in the sixteenth chapter of the Apocalypse, and the thirteenth verse. Could any name be more appropriate for Mahomet? He affirmed of himself that he was pre-eminently above all others the Prophet of God. Now, unless he really was what he pretended to be, he was of course pre-eminently what the Apocalypse terms him, "the ." And this appellation well accords with what we have already seen in Daniel concerning the little horn, that it had "a mouth speaking great things," and "eyes like unto a man." Now what description could better portray the great pretender to the title of God's greatest Prophet? The mouth speaking great things aptly symbolizes the false and blasphemous doctrines uttered by the mouth of Mahomet; while "the eyes as it were of a man," are the most appropriate designation of the pretended Seer or