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 chapter of the Apocalypse. In the second verse of that chapter, it is stated that the Holy City, or Jerusalem, shall be trodden down by the Gentiles for two-and-forty months; and if we reduce that period to days, we find that it amounts to a sum of 1260 days. This entirely coincides with the statement we have already seen made by Daniel, that the abomination of desolation should be set up for the same period of 1260 days. But St. John fells us, in the third verse of this same eleventh chapter: "And I will give unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth." Now, whoever be the two witnesses, it is clear that they are "to prophesy" for the same period, that is, for 1260 days, and they are to prophesy "clad in sackcloth," that is, clad in the garments of humiliation and penitence, weeping for the sorrows and sufferings of the Church of God.

It may here be objected that our Blessed Lord, in foretelling the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans, which was accomplished by Titus a very few years afterwards, expressly declared that "Jerusalem shall be trodden down by the Gentiles, till the times of the nations be fulfilled;" from which it would seem that our Lord dates the treading down of the Holy City