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and ; sixjtfy . The fifth , is supposed to cjenp . te the injra ^ ion aijd diminution of the Eastern Raman Enipire by the Arabian successors of Mahomed ; and the sixth , the wars of the Turks agaiast the same empire . Upon the sounding of the fifth angel , a star is said to fall from heaven unto the earth ,
and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit . This star is supposed to represent Mahomed , and the smoke of the pit , his falsehood and imposture , which obscured , at the same time that it overspread , the country of Arabia : out of this smoke proceeded the locusts , the rapid and destructive armies
of the Saracens , who supplante d in every province they conquered , the religion established by Constantine , by the propagation of that of the Koran . Mahomed is said to be the king over these locusts , and the angel of the bottomless pit . ** The sounding of the sixth trumpet / ' ( says a learned
writer , to whom I have frequently referred , ) ' * is justly interpreted as prophetic of the wars of the Turkish Mahomedans against the Eastern Roman empire . The / bur principal tribes of the Turks , " he , adds , " had settled
themselves in the countries east of the Euphrates . " This is represented in the prophecy , ( Rev . ix . 13 , and followi ng verses , ) as brought abouj \> y loosing tfye four angels which were
bound in thp gjreat river Euphrates ( probably the same as the four winds said , chap . vii . 1 , to be bound till the servants of God were sealed ) : " And
the four angels were loosed , which were prepared for an hour , and a day , and a month , and a year , for to slay the third part of men ; and the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand / ' The four angels here , then , ape the emblems of this great army of the
Saracens . But enough has b , ecn s ^ id to shew that the term angels does not necessarily mean celestial o > r infernal spirits ; but that it is v , ery generall y applied to human ageats . I now proceed to consider the athej term'
archungel , which is applies tp Michael , and to inquire who this M ^ cna ^ l is , and the reason why that appellation is applied to him ? The term archangel occurs but twice in the Scriptures ; in the passage under consideration , and in 1 Thes 8 , iv . 16 . The Greek word
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" Wfy&fifr archangel , froni ap ^ y , head ; iuid ^ ' aJysKoe , messenger , a head mess&pger , & p ?( ri ? cnithorlty , rule , dominion , power / hence & > pxoy °$ , applied to Jesus Christ , * a leader \ author ,
prince , captain . * Archangel , then , is a ruling messenger , a messenger possessing authority , dominion anapower , a sovereign messenger . Such , then , is Michael , who is as God , as the name
signifies ; one possessing supreme power in his own dominions , as God does over all : but notwithstanding his sovereignty , he is the messenger , the agent and servant of God , to execute his purposes .
The account we have of Michael is contained in five passages in the Sacred Scriptures , three in the prophecy of Daniel , one in the passage under consideration , and one in the Revelation of John . In the first of them , Dan . x . 13 , Michael is denominated one of the chief princes . In the
context , ver . 5 , we are told that Daniel had a vision , in which he saw a certain man , clothed in linen , whose loins were girded with fine gold of Uphaz , &c . That this man was not either a real , celestial or human being , but
merely a visionary being , seems pretty clear from what p&niel says , ver . 9 , that " when he heard the voice of his words , he wa £ then in a deep sleep on his face , with his face to the groundJ * This man , then , was probably nothing more than the vision itself by Which the divine communication was made
to him , personified , and his appearing in the habit of a priest clothed in linen and girt with a gold girdle , and the splendour of his appearance , denoted that the vision was from heaven . In his address to Daniel , he says , ver . 12 , * ' Fear not , Daniel : for from the first
day that thou didst set thine heart to understand , and to chasten thyself before thy God , thy words were heard , and I am coqae for thy words , " referring to Daniel's j > rayert in the preceding chapter , which he put up to the Lord nik Go < J , in consequence of
his understanding by books the number of the year whereof the \ v 6 rd of the Lord came to Jeremiah the ptofthet , that he woufd a ^ comp ^ ish Seventy years in the desolations of 3
era-Acts in . 15 , v . J 31 ; Hcb , ii * 10 , xii . 2 .
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Attempt to illustrate Jude , ver .. 9 . Letter If . 67 ^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1822, page 675, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2518/page/19/
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