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 time; after which," concludes the Prophet, " judgment shall sit, that his power may be taken away, and be broken in pieces, and perish even to the end."

Now, who is this little horn, of which such great and terrible things are here foretold? The holy fathers of the Church, with one consent, declare that it is that great opponent of God and of His Church which, in the language of the New Testament prophecies, is denominated Antichrist; and in this interpretation all later commentators, whether Catholic or Protestant, agree. The only question agitated between them is, "Who is this Antichrist?"

It is true that Mr. Faber, the rector of Long Newton, has laboured, in a work entitled "The Sacred Calendar of Prophecy," to establish a distinction between Antichrist and the Man of Sin; but, speaking generally of Protestant commentators since the first period of their separation from the Catholic Church, it is true that they agree with ourselves in regarding the Little Horn of Daniel, the Man of Sin of St. Paul, the Antichrist of St. John, and the False Prophet of the Apocalypse, as the same personage. It is with such who agree in holding this view that we are specially concerned in this treatise, although indirectly we have to do with others also, as will be seen in the sequel.