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 mencement of that glorious reaction which ushers in the millennial triumph of the Catholic Church.

This blessed reaction is predicted in the eleventh verse: "And after three days and a half, the spirit of life from God entered into them," that is, into the two witnesses, over whose destruction the preceding verse had told us "that they that dwell upon the earth," that is, all the impious disciples of this world, and its false doctrines, were to rejoice and congratulate each other, because the two prophets, who tormented them by the painful truths of God's revelation, were now slain: "and they stood" once more "upon their feet, and great fear fell upon them that saw them."

In the thirteenth verse, a great earthquake is described; by this I understand a great war, and the result is declared to be the falling of a tenth part of the great city, by which may be meant the total destruction of one of the ten kingdoms, of those ten kingdoms, into which the great Roman empire we have already seen was to be subdivided. It is not for us to conjecture what kingdom is specially referred to; the event will show this to those who are alive at the time; but we may probably conjecture that it will be that kingdom, which more than the others shall have been conspicuous in per-