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 Thus we see the Anti-Christian power here described, was to last a time, times, and half a time; and, according to the usual method of interpretation, a time is equal to a year, times and half a time to two years and a half, altogether three years and an half, or forty-two months, which, by adopting the Jewish mode of calculation, of thirty days to a month, gives 1260 prophetic days, or years. The duration of Mohammedanism is generally considercd as predicted in Revelations xi. 2, "The holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months." This number of months, comprising also thirty days each, according to the former process, yields the same total of 1260 prophetic days, or years.

Again, the witnesses are stated in the following verse of this chapter, to prophesy in sackcloth a thousand two hundred and three-score days. "And I will give power unto my witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand