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rkish empire the waters of the great river Euphrates ; because it is a symbolical pro- phroy, written in symbnlical and not a literal language, in order to cast a veil over it. and connect it with the events of Old-Testament hia- tor)-, from which the language is taken. I answer, secondly, tliat the names of the tribes had been already used as the symbol of a Cbristtan nation which was separated from the apostasy of the tcn-horned beast, and defended from the judg- ments of the vials: which nation, we have else- where shewn go(Td reason to believe, ia thiK Hriush nation^ who stand related to apostate Christendom just aft the iwelve tribes of Israel did stand relat- ed to the apostasy of the primitive reiigron. The proper name of the tribes having been thus ap- propriated as a symbol, it was necessary as well list THE XllfGI OF THE EA9T, [XMW lo^^fev«nt confiiKJon »» to preserve Ihe sjFcabo- bcftl character of ibe book, thai nnother oun« shodld be <^hcwen for the B^'mbol of tbc trtbei#f which I jud^ to be that bttbre us, *'<|]iaiil kings from the ann-mings ;" and why this should! be choftea i hare several reasons to Gdvancu And, first, with respect to that vrhence tbey pcD^ eeed the risingaofthe «uii. Zacharms prupbc^w' in^ ofChriflt upon the circumcision of the Baptist oalls him their '■day^Rprinf;. ' or *' the minff from on high/' Peter, in the first chapter of his Second Epistle, carrying the minds of the disciple* for- ^Tard to the second coming of the Lord, nlU it " the ilHwiiinij of llie dny," xud " the ariung of the day-t^tar/' And in the vitih chapter of Ihe Apocalypse the angel which sealetb. the tribes asceodetb from tbe rising of the sun; and in the text these kio^. whose way is prepared, are from the nsiDg:s of the »u[l All these have reference, aa 1 judge, to tiie same great ei of the second advent of the Lord expressed J] the last chapter of Malacbi, by " the risio^ of thi San of R]gbteou£ao£e ;" of whieh i^^lorioos risio| of the aun you have a particular description ioaUl the prophi:ts, and lApcciaily in the Iaatc:hap1 ofUaiah; from among&t which 1 choose tfaelxthji as cootaiuing Ibe. vource uf this »yniboU kings from the tilings of the iun." In tlie Terneiti* written, "The Gentiles ehall come thy light, and kmfcs to the brightness of tfa; nsingp*' This is spoken of Christ aod his Jeru-i aalem, for ihey are not to be separated. And' there is a distinciion between iheOcDtilesand tl kings, of whom tho lalttr arc said to come to tboj brifchtnesA of his rising. And i