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 woman for a time, and times, and half a time," does that expression of prophecy, understood as we understand it of the temporal sovereignty of the popes, necessarily imply on this theory that this temporal sovereignty of the popes will cease at the end of the period designated as "a time, and limes, and half a time?"

Our answer to this question is emphatically that we repudiate any such inference; and, on the contrary, it is our firmest conviction that after the 1260 days, or a time, times, and half a time are ended, the papal power will assume a still greater development all over the earth. It is not the place here to state our reasons for this conviction, but it is right that we should anticipate a question that would naturally occur to the reader, while we just glance at the answer, which further on we shall give more at length.

The Prophet tells us, in the fifteenth verse, "And the serpent cast out of his mouth after the woman, water as it were a river, that he might cause her to be carried away by the river."

And in the sixteenth verse he continues: "And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed up the river, which the dragon cast out of his mouth."