[115] The period is uncertain.

[116] Now Tino.

[117] See the first chapter of Revelation.

[118] Transfiguration on Mount Tabor.

[119] Rev. i. 17, 18.

[120] Domitian, who had banished him, and who had so proclaimed himself, was now dead, but without its being known to St John.

[121] See the harrowing account of the siege of Jerusalem, when the prophecy in St Matthew was fulfilled to the letter.

[122] Josephus.

[123] Rev. iv. 3.

[124] Rev. iv. 3.