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 bien près de finir; l'Islamisme se meurt; l'Antéchrist va être mis à mort, alors nous aurons un beau règne pour la religion, mais après une secousse bien forte encore. Voila ce que nous pensons ici."

Other Catholic commentators, taking the Byzantine-Greek mode of spelling the name of Mahomet, in preference to the Arabic, as given by my learned friend the Abbé Vandrival, derive the number 666 from the name written thus,, which I confess I myself should be inclined to adopt, that being the way in which his name has been popularly written amongst the Greeks.

The sum in this case is as follows:—

This result is surely a remarkable fact; but