salonica, in Macedonia.]

[Footnote 156: Grecian Apollo.]

[Footnote 157: Nero.]

[Footnote 158: See that most interesting chapter in Irenaeus, descriptive
of the progress of the gospel to the Celts, and to the "extremities of
the earth."]

[Footnote 159: Mediterranean.]

[Footnote 160: See, in Josephus, the account of Pedanius.]

[Footnote 161: This was not an uncommon circumstance during the famine
and this most terrible siege. See Josephus.]

[Footnote 162: Jews crucified, by order of Titus, without the walls.]

[Footnote 163: Adommin, the supposed scene of the wounded traveller in
the Gospel.]

[Footnote 164: Flowers of Carmel, growing wildly.]

[Footnote 165: The highest point of the island.]

[Footnote 166: It should be remembered, that Domitian was murdered on
the 18th of October; this could not have been known at Patmos before the
beginning of November.]

[Footnote 167: Applied, generally, to the conquests of Trajan.]

[Footnote 168: Allusive, as generally conceived, to the Emperor
Severus.]

[Footnote 169: "To kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and
with the beasts of the earth" (Rev. vi. 8).]

[Footnote 170: Rev. iv.]

[Footnote 171: Rev. vii.]

[Footnote 172: I must refer to the commentators in general for an
illustration of these striking passages.]

[Footnote 173: The ensign of military command in the Roman legions.]

[Footnote 174: This seems no improbable cause.]

[Footnote 175: Rev. xvi.]

[Footnote 176: Rev. xix.]

[Footnote 177: /* [Greek: Elike ge men andres Achaioi Ein ali
tekmairontai, ina chre neas aginein] (_Aratus_). */]

[Footnote 178: Samuel.]

[Footnote 179: The dawn of knowledge and the Reformation; ignorance only
being the parent of superstition.]

[Footnote 180: The classical reader will remember the beautiful tragedy
of "Ion" in Euripides, from whom were named the Ionian islands.]

[Footnote 181: A beautiful image from Ovid.]

[Footnote 182: The Island of Roses.]

[Footnote 183: See that beautiful chapter in the Wisdom of Solomon.]

[Footnote 184: A broken column on the shore is spoken of by early
writers, supposed to have been a relic of the earliest ages.]

[Footnote 185: See the 45th chapter of Isaiah.]

[Footnote 186: The classical reader will remember the farewell of
Philoctates to his solitary cave in Lemnos.]

[Footnote 187: He published, it is true, one edict against the increase
of the Jews and Christians in the empire.]