1 The first Advent was, according to the best-settled chronological
data, about four thousand one hundred and twenty years from
creation.
2 See margin of Whiting’s Testament. Lord has it, “when he can be
ready to sound.”
3 The constitutional language was, “By the authority of the senate,
and consent of the soldiers.”—_Gibbon_, vol. I., p. 44.
4 This is given on the authority of the London Quarterly Journal of
Prophecy, for 1852, p. 330, which states that the edict will be
found in the “Theodosian Code, XVII. to XX.”
5 “Ubi cogniti fuerint illius hæresis sectatores, ne receptaculum iis
quisquam in terra sua præbere præsumat: sed nec in venditione aut
emptione aliqua cum iis omnino commercium habeatur.”—_Hard._, vi.
ii. 1597.
6 The following philological law or canon of criticism is universally
admitted, and all dictionaries, grammars, and translations, are
formed in accordance with it:
“Every word not specially explained or defined in a particular
sense, by any standard writer of any particular age and country, is
to be taken and applied in the current or commonly received
signification of that country and age in which the writer lived and
wrote.”—_Campbell._
7 This possession by demons is similar to the mode by which pretended
spirits claim that they communicate through mediums. One of them,
purporting to be the spirit of a departed son of Adin Ballou, in
answer to the question, by his father, “Can you describe how you are
able to write through a medium?” says, “I feel as though I enter
into her for the time being, or as if my spirit entered into her. I
am disencumbered of my spiritual form, and take hers. More than one
spirit can enter the medium at once. The mediums all go into the
trance by means of several spirits entering the body at one
time.”—_Spiritual Telegraph, May 8, 1852._