uest of the Ostrogoths,--the plucking up of the last of the three horns
in 538, Gen. Berthier entered Rome, compelled the Pope to flee, and
terminated the Papal government.

The temporal power was afterwards restored; but in 1848, twelve hundred
and sixty years from 588 when John assumed the title of Universal Bishop,
the Pope again fled from his throne. Two years subsequently, he was again
restored.

"Flacius, in his 'Catalogue of Witnesses,' represented the twelve hundred
and sixty days as having commenced in 606;" and Scott, and several others,
reckon them from the same epoch.

4. The image had power to speak. It thus filled the office of the "mouth,"
which was given to the ten-horned beast (v. 5), which synchronizes with
the view taken of that appendage, p. 172.

5. It should _cause_ the infliction of death on those who should refuse to
worship. The worship it would exact, is doubtless of the kind bestowed on
the wild beast, 13:4. The Papal hierarchy claimed to be infallible and
invincible, and to have power to bind and loose on earth and in heaven;
those who refused to recognize its claims, if incorrigible, were punished
with death.

The Image was not to put to death, but would _cause_ them to be killed.
The symbolization corresponds with the fulfilment in this particular. The
ecclesiastical officials punished rebellious subjects, by delivering them
over to the civil arm; which punished heretics according to the will of
the Papacy. "Lucius III. and Innocent III. by formal decrees required them
to be seized, condemned, and delivered by the civil magistrates, to be
capitally punished; and enjoined the princes and magistrates to execute on
them the sentences denounced by the canon and civil laws."--_Lord's Exp. of
Apoc._, p. 434. This is substantiated by Bellarmini and other writers.
Civil rulers, who refused to enforce the decrees of the councils, were
anathematized, excommunicated, and often deprived of their political
power. When the Papacy has been reminded of the numbers killed and
otherwise punished for alleged heresy, she has replied that the civil
power, and not the church, has done this! She, however, has caused the
kings of the earth to execute her wishes.

6. The image would cause all to receive the _mark_ of the Beast. A mark is
a token of recognition. Slaves, soldiers, and the devotees of various
gods, were thus identified on their hands or foreheads, both before and
after the time of St. John--slav