firmed by so high an oath, by Him that liveth forever and ever, before whom a thousand years are but a day, who created the heavens, the earth, the sea and the things that are therein, and consequently has the sovereign power over all: therefore all his enemies, though they rage a while in heaven, on the sea, and on the earth, yet must give place to him. That there should be no more a time, but in the days of the seventh angel the mystery of God shall be fulfilled; that is, a time, a chronos, shall not expire before the mystery is fulfilled. A chronos (1111 years) will nearly pass before then, but not quite." The period, then, which we may term a non-chronos, not a whole time, must be a little shorter than this. The non chronos here mentioned seems to begin in the year 800 (when Charles the Great instituted in the west a new line or emperors or of many kings), to end in the year 1836; and to contain, among other things, the short time of the third woe, and the three times and a half of the woman in the wilderness, and the duration of the beast. Now is it not re-
