Footnotes
[1.]The first Advent was, according to the best-settled chronological data, about four thousand one hundred and twenty years from creation.[2.]See margin of Whiting's Testament. Lord has it, “when he can be ready to sound.”[3.]The constitutional language was, “By the authority of the senate, and consent of the soldiers.”—Gibbon, vol. I., p. 44.[4.]This is given on the authority of the London Quarterly Journal of Prophecy, for 1852, p. 330, which states that the edict will be found in the “Theodosian Code, XVII. to XX.”[5.]“Ubi cogniti fuerint illius hæresis sectatores, ne receptaculum iis quisquam in terra sua præbere præsumat: sed nec in venditione aut emptione aliqua cum iis omnino commercium habeatur.”—Hard., vi. ii. 1597.[6.]
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