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 already shown, taking a day for a year, 1260 years. But St. John goes on: "And he opened his mouth unto blasphemies against God, to blaspheme His Name, and His Tabernacle, and them that dwell in Heaven." This description exactly agrees with what we have already seen in a former chapter was foretold by Daniel of the little horn: and it perfectly agrees with the religious character of Mahometanism. If Christianity be the religion of God, and God be what Christianity reveals Him to be, One God in Three Persons, then does Mahometanism emphatically "open its mouth in blasphemies against Gad, to blaspheme His Name," viz., that of the adorable Trinity. And if the sacred humanity of Jesus be, what Christianity reveals it to us, the very Tabernacle of the Godhead, then did Mahomet blaspheme "the Tabernacle of God:" and if the Christian Church be indeed, what the Gospel declares it to be, the Kingdom of Heaven, then did Mahomet blaspheme also them that dwelt in heaven, for assuredly he blasphemed against the Church, and against the Church's children, that is against them "that dwell" in the mystic "heaven."

Verse 7. "And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them. And power was given him over every