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An exposition upon the thirteenth chapter of the Revelation by that reverend and eminent…
An exposition upon the thirteenth chapter of the Revelation by that reverend and eminent servant of the Lord, Mr. John Cotton ... ; taken from his mouth in short-writing, and some part of it corrected by himself soon after the preaching thereof ; and all of it since viewed over by a friend to him ... wherein some mistakes were amended, but nothing of the sense altered.
London: printed for Tim. Smart, 1656
Title page typeset from the transcription.
AN EXPOSITION Upon the thirteenth Chapter of the REVELATION. › Part
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And so when the twelve Spies had gone forty days, and searched out the Land, the Lord saith, They shall bear the provocation of their Fathers forty years, after the number of the days in which ye searched the Land, even forty days, each day for a year, &c. Numb. 14. 34. So that this is a Prophetical phrase in mystical Scriptures; when Ezekiel is to set out a vision for God to express his Justice, he sets it down days for years: Then it is not uncouth, but very agreeable to Scripture, to say 1260. days is so many years, and forty two months being so many days is all one, and those days being three years and an half, if you reckon every ⟨p. 86⟩day for a year, they will be just 1260. years; that therefore I take to be most agreeable to Scripture phrase, and the sense of the words.
And so when the twelve Spyes had gone forty dayes, and searched out the Land, the Lord saith, They shall beare the provocation of their Fathers forty yeares, after the number of the dayes in which yee searched the Land, even forty dayes, each day for a yeare, &c. Numb. 14. 34. So that this is a Propheticall phrase in mysticall Scriptures; when Ezekiel is to set out a vision for God to expresse his Justice, he sets it down dayes for years: Then it is not uncouth, but very agreeable to Scripture, to say 1260. dayes is so many yeares, and forty two moneths being so many dayes is all one, and those dayes being three yeares and an halfe, if you reckon every ⟨p. 86⟩day for a yeare, they will be just 1260. yeares; that therefore I take to be most agreeable to Scripture phrase, and the sense of the words.
But then here grows a second Question.