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 people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues." In some way or other God will interpose in behalf of His Catholic Church, when the dreadful hour comes. She will suffer a terrible persecution, we doubt not, but it will be a persecution to purify and prepare her for such an epoch of glory, for such a destiny of sublime magnificence, as passes the mind of man to conceive, but which, great and glorious as it will be, will not exceed the glowing predictions of the prophets, Babylon will fall; Nabuchodonozor's metallic statue will be broken in pieces; but these events usher in the empire of the Church, the triumph of Catholicism; a period wherein mankind, under the benign influence of St. Peter's successor, will develop all the hidden resources of a holy and a Christian civilization.

It appears, that amongst the Byzantine Greek authors, there are many different modes of writing the name of the false Prophet, Mahomet. St. John Damascene, in his work,, "On Heresies," writes his name thus, (p. 111); while in another work, , i. e., "Conference between a Christian and a Saracen," he thus writes it, , (St. John Damascen. p. 470, tom. i.), while Ephremius writes it .—(Ephremius de Manuele Comnene, Corpus Byz. Hist. p. 199, ed. Bonn.) And Constantinus Por-