'Sect. II. Of the Woman & two-horned Beast' (section 7.2e) Isaac Newton c. 4,822 words The Newton Project Oxford 2020 Newton Project, University of Oxford

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 Editorial notes in various hands [Yahuda Ms. 7.2f]Yahuda Ms. 7'Sect. III: Of the first & second Temples and their Candlesticks.' (section 7.2d) [Yahuda Ms. 7.2d] Yahuda Ms. 7.2e, National Library of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel IsraelJerusalemNational Library of Israel Yahuda MSS Yahuda Ms. 7.2e SL245 + ?

SL245, described in the Sotheby catalogue as c. 300,000 words on 975 pp., was bought at the Sotheby sale by Gabriel Wells for £48 and sold to Yahuda on 1 Aug. 1936 for the sale price plus 15%. On 24 May 1949, Yahuda wrote to the London dealer Heinrich Eisemann, 'As to lot 245 the new arrangement and replacement of the pages resulted in 1,530 pages instead of 975 pages as many pages had to be taken out from other lots. But for this manuscript I have a customer who wants to pay a much higher price than $3,800 suggested by you.' If this was true, the prospective buyer's desire to part with his or her cash presumably waned. There must subsequently have been further reordering of the manuscript as the present Yahuda Ms. 7 amounts to nowhere near 1,530 pp.

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1rSect. II. Of the Woman & two-horned Beast.

In this Prophesy the scene of the visions is the Temple, & the worship of the Christians is described in the Temple under the form of the Jewish worship as we shewed above. And hence the Christian Churches are represented in this Prophesy by the twelve tribes of Israel & when some are numbered out of the twelve Tribes & sealed with the seale of God, the rest of the Tribes who are not sealed become the synagogue of Satan who say they are Jews & are not, that is, who profess themselves Christians but are the synagogueChurch of Satan. For all men whose names are not written in the book of life, that is, all who are not sealed with the seale of God, wonder after the Beast & worship him & his Image & receive his mark. When the saints are numbered & sealed out of the twelve Tribes the rest of Tribes receive the mark of the Beast & become the synagogue of Satan & therefore they that have the mark of yethe Beast & worship him & his Image are Christians in outward profession.

And as the Tribes of Israel & Judah are in the old Testament represented by weomen, so the Church of Christ signified by those Tribes in here represented by the Lambs' wife & by the glorious woman in heaven. For this woman was cloathed wthwith the Sun of righteousness & had the new moon & Jewish ceremonies under her feet & upon her headhead a crown of twelve stars wchwhich are the twelve Apostles, & her seed keep the commandments of God & have the testimony of Jesus, & therefore she is the Church. In the first ages of Christianity she is the true sincere Church of Christ diffused through the whole Roman Empire represented by the Dragon: but upon the division of the Empire into two Empires represented by the Dragon ten-horned Beast, the Church also becomes divided into two Churches represented by the Woman & the two-horned Beast. For upon this division of the Empire the woman & Dragon part from one another. She flees from the Dragon into the western Empire called a wilderness for its spiritual barrenness & desolation, & leaves behind her [in the eastern Empiredominion of the Dragon] a remnant of her seed which keep the commandments of God & have the testimony of Jesus, & the Dragon goes from the Woman to make war upon that remnant. And as the ten horned Beast rises out of the Sea to succeed the Dragon in the western Empire so the two horned Beast rises out of the Earth to suceed the Woman in the eastern Empire.

Every kingdom hath its religion & every religion hath its Churchor body of Priestsagents& Ministers, & the Churches of the Dragon & ten horned Beast are the two-horned Beast & Woman in the wilderness.

For When she fled into the wilderness she fled from the Dragon & therefore ceased to be his Church. She was afterwards found in the wilderness sitting upon the ten horned Beast, that is, reigning over him & therefore became his Church. She is the great citywhich 2r which reigns over the kings of the earth represented by the ten horns of the Beast. She is Babylon the great, the western Babylon, the great city seated upon seven hills & by consequence the Church of Rome, & this Church is the Church catholick of the western kingdoms & nations into wchwhich the Latine ~ Empire is now divided.

And as for the two horned Beast he rose out of the earth or nations of the eastern Empire & haththerefore is seated in that Empire. He hath two horns like the Lamb that is two Churches like the seven Churches of Asia signified by the Lamb'sseven horns of the Lamb, & therefore is an ecclesiastical body. He speaks as the Dragon & therefore is of the Dragon's religion. And as a Church in the eastern Empire of the Dragons language & religion is the Greek Church. This Beast by fals miracles deceiveth them that dwell on the earth, & for doing so is called the fals Prophet & therefore is of an ecclsiastical kind, & this fals Prophet survives the Whore of Babylon being cast alive into the lake of fire after the ten kings have eaten the flesh of the Whore & burnt her with fire, & therefore this Prophet differs from the Whore & signifies another idolatrous Church & by consequence the Greek Church or Church of the Greek Empire.

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Altho the two witneses prophesy all the time of the Trumpets yet they do not prophesy all that time in sackcloths

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We shewed above that yethe two Witnesses exec smite the earth wthwith the cursesplagues of the seven Trumpets. They & the seven Angels have enjoyed powercooperate in executing those plagues, & therefore they prophesy all the times of those plagues. But yet they do not wear sackcloth all that time. When the Abomination of the wilderness called by Daniel the abomination of desolation is set up then they put on sackcloth. The nations [who tread under foot the holy city] are not completely Gentiles till the worship of Images be set up. From that time the Gentiles tread under foot the holy city 42 months.

They that worship in that Temple & have the testimony of Jesus are mysticaly killed for not worshipping the Image of the Beast & in that respect they are martyrs & witness the 144000 are called the first fruits into God & are his martyrs or Witnesses. They sing a new song on mount Sion with harps & in that respect they are Prophets. For singing wthwith musical instruments in prophesying 1 Chron 25. 1, 2, 3. 2 King. 3.15 1 Sam 10.5. And in their mouth was found no lye & therefore they are true witnesses & true prophets.

And as they that worship God in the second Temple are called Witnesses & Prophets & worship in the inner court of the Temple while yethe outward court is given to the Gentiles so they that after ytthat sealing of 144000 out the 12 Tribes & rejection of the rest they that worship Godthey that have the names of God on their foreheads & worship in the firstin the first Temple are Gods witnesses & Prophets & worship in yethe inner Court of that Temple while those that have name or mark of yethe Beast worship the Image of the Beast in yethe outward Court of that Temple. For they have the testimony of Jesus Apoc 12.17 & are mystically killed for not worshipping the Image of the Beast ch. 13.15 & in respect of the great harvest of martyrs (ch 14.15) are called the first fruits unto God &(v.4) & therefore they are Gods martyrs or witnesses. An They sing a new song with harps & in that respect are Prophets: for singing is prophesying wthwith musical instruments is prophesying 1 Chron 25. 1, 2, 3. 2 King. 3.15. 1 Sam. 10.5. And in their mouth was fou They sing at the eastern gate of>in the Prieststhe inner court as also was described above & stand as it were on the Sea of Glass wchwhich is in that Court. And in their mouth was found no lye Apoc 14.5 & therefore they are true witnesses & true prophets. And they that have the mark or name of the Beast are the inhabitants of the Earth and Sea to whom the Dragon came down in the outward court when he was cast out of heaven the upper Court in wchwhich the throne of God is placed. And as the 144000 prophesy wthwith harps so it is to be conceived at yethe sacrifices of the seven Trumpets so it is to be conceied that yethe two witnesses also prophesy wthwith harps at yethe same sacrifices. For they have power to smite the earth with all plagues as often as they will, that is wthwith the plagues of the seven Trumpets & at thoese sacrifices to wchwhich those Trumpets sound they utter the prophesy with harps in the voices voices of the seven thunders uttered by the cloud wherewith the Son of Man is cloathed who in yethe forms of an Angel sets his right foot on yethe sea & his left foot on yethe earthEarth. For the two Witnesses are his two leggs & his mystical body including that cloud. In the form of a Lamb wthwith seven eyes & seven horns he represents the seven Churches in the first Temple: in the form of the Son of Man wthwith two eyes & two leggs he represents the two chruches in the Second Temple: & wthwith yethe seven stars in his right hand he represents all the Churches in both Temples.

(1)The first & second temple are distinguished from one another in the number of their Candlesticks. In yethe first there are seven Cand.Candlesticks representing the seven Churches of Asia, in the second there are two Candlesticks representing the two WinessesWitnesses. (3)The first Temple is in the Kingdom of the Dragon the Second in yethe kingdom of the Beast. For the Beast makes war upon yethe two witnesses & kills & therir dead bodies lye in the street of yethe great city. (2) The worshippers of God in the first Temple from the time of their sealing are called 144000 those in the second two witnesses. 4 In these things the two Temples disagree in other things they agree. For as they that worship God in yethe second T.Temple.

Before yethe division of the Roman Empire the whole Empire was represented by the Dragon & the Chruch of yethe whole by the 12 tribes of Israel in the form of Woman in hte Taberna cle or first Temple whose seven Candlesticks wthwith their Lambs illuminating the Templewhole Temple represent the seven Churches of Asia as the Metropolis of yethe wh from whence the light of the Gospel goeswent forth into the whole church of the primitive beings.. But when the Empire becomes divided into the Greek & Latine Empires, that both Empires wthwith their Churches fals & true may be distinctly represented the woman a Beast wthwith her horns rises out of the sea, another Beast wthwith two horns rises out of the earth & a new Temple is built with two Candlesticks. And hence forward the Eastern Empire with itsChurches 3vChurches fals & true are represented by the Dragon the two horned Beast & the 144000 worshipping apart in the two Courts of in the first Temple & the R Latine Empire with its Churches fals & true are represented by the Beast tenhorned Beast the Woman in the Wilderness & the two witnesses worshipping apart in the two courts of in the Second Temple ✝ . & in each Temple the people of God worship in the inner Court & the Apostates in the Court without.

In the first Temple the 144000 worship in the inner Court, standing on the &c The 144000 worship in the inner Court of yethe first Temple standing with the Lamb on mount Sion with the Lamb befbefore the throne as it were upon yethe sea of glass, & singin pagan The & singing with harps atof the sacrifices wchwhich the seven Trumpets sou And The people of the Dragon & two horned Beast worship in the outward court of this Temple being the seduced inhabitants of the earth & sea to whom the Dragon came down when he was cast out of heaven that is out of the upper court the court of yethe Temple & Altar in wchwhich the thorne of God is placed. When he was cast out of that court he came down into yethe outward Court who of the common people & Christian inhabitainhabitants of yethe the ear of the layward the court of the Christian people the Christian people when the Christian people inhabiting the earth & se called the inhabitants of the earth & sea. By seducing thse inhabitants he made the woman (the twelve tribes of Israel fly into the wilderness a spirituall barren wilderness in yethe Latin Empire & the two horned Beast rise out of the [inhabitants of the] earth in the Greek Empire & the remnant of the war & then by the institution of that Beast his falsFals Prophets, he made war made war upon yethe remnant of the Womans seed in the Greek Empire upon the remnants of the twelve Tribes of Israel called in the Greek Empire called the remnants of the womans seed untill all had received the mark of yethe Beast except the 144000 who being sealed out of the twelve tribes of Israel wthwith the seale or name of God in their foreheads & being interdicted buying & selling among the inhabitants of yethe earth & sea retired from them into their inner Court, being sealed out of the 12 tribes of Israel wthwith the seale or name of yethe living God in their foreheads

The two witnesIn like manner the two Witnessessaints worship in the inner court of the second Temple being the Churches & the people of the Be ten-horned Beast & Woman in the outward court thereof as is plainly exprest by saying, Measure the Temple & Altar & them that worship therein but yethe court wchwhich is without the Temple leave out & measure it not for it is givine to the Gentiles. Those lands that worship within are the Churches two Churches called the two witnesses & two Prophets, that is, wo bodies of Witnesses or Prophets. [And its to be conceived that they agree perfectly with the 144000 their religion & manner of worship being both of them members of Christs mystical body.] The remnant of the womans seed is the remnant of yethe 12 tribes of Israel.First the Woman & two horned Beast separate from themis remnant & the Dragon makes war upon them & causes all to receive the mark of the Beast & worship his Image except the 144000 who are sealed wthwith the name of God in their out of all the twelve tribes of Israel. &And after AfterWhen the Empire became divided & bymeans of that division the Woman separated from the remnant of her seed & fled from the Dragon the Woman fled from yethe Dragon or Greek Empire into the Empire of the Latines, wchwhich by reason of the paucity of Saints is at this time compared to a spiritually barren Wilderness, the two Churches fled with her & are not considered apart untill they separate from her communion those that being scandalized at her invocation of dead men & casualties& other superstitions &abominable practisespractises. separate from her, cameBy this separation they , they return out of Babylon, build a second Temple, & become the worshippers therein, represented by the two Churches or Witnesses but leave the outward court of this Temple unbuilt because it is given to the Gentiles wchwhich Gentiles are the people of the tenhorned Beast & Whore of Babylon. The first Temple with respect to yethe eastern Empire is continued without interruption, with respect to yethe western it ceases & a second Temple is built in its room. by those that separate from yethe woman.All that worshipped God in yethe first Temple, revolteddeserted his thers the inward court of b Templeexcept yethe 144000 who continue constantly in it & the two Churches being carried captive from from thenceto Babylon. The two Churches fled from there wthwith the Woman into wchwhichyethe return from that Temple into yethe Wilderness & out of her & are not considered apart untill they that city there separate from her communionfrom captivity & build a second Temple.

The two Temples are sufficiently distinguished from one anotherby three different number of theirCandlesticks. & worshippsworshipper different names & number of their worshippers: but the worship is alike in them both. For the Beast & his Image is worshipped & his mark received by all the world, the Fals Prophet & Dragon setting up that worship in yethe outward court of the first Temple: [And the worship of God in the inner Courts of both Temples is alike, nambely byby prophecy in singing & prophesying wthwith harps at the sacrifices. For as those that worship] And therefore the worship of in the outward Courts of both Temples is alike. And the worship in the inner Courts of both Temples is also alike, the worshippers being of one & the same religion & members of one & the same mystical body of Christ. The As those in the second Temple are called Witnesses & Prophets so those in the first Temple are also Witnesses & Prophets. For they have the 4ryethe testimony of Jesus Apoc 12.17 & are mystically killed for not worshipping the Image of yethe Beast (Ch 13. 15) & in respect of the great harvest of Martyrs (ch 14.15) are called the first fruits unto God (v.4) & therefore they are Gods Martyrs or Witnesses. And they sing a new song with harps & in that respect are Prophets. For singing with musical instruments is prophesying (1 Chron 25.1, 2, 3, 2 King. 3.15 1 Sam. 10.5) And wither mouth was found no lye (Apoc 14.5) & therefore they are true Witnesses & true Prophets. And as these Prophets pro phesy in the inner court of the first Temple with harps & singing at the sacrifices offered in that Temple. of that seven Trumpets so it is to be conceived that the two Witnesses prophesy in the inner court of the second Temple with harps & singing at the sacrifices offered in this Temple. For they have power to smite the earth with all plagues as often as they will that is with the plagues of the seven wars represented by the sacri fices at wchwhich the seven Trumpets sound.,They consuminge their enemies wthwith fire in the first war & turning the waters into blood n the second: And therefore they prophesy all the time of those sacrifices. They are the two leggs of yethe earth as was said above. They are his mystical body & the cloud with wchwhich he is cloathed, & their voice is the voice of that cloud uttering te seven Thunders, wchwhich, as was said, above, are the song of the Temple sung by the Levits with harps & other musical Instruments at the seven sacrifices while the Priests sound the seven Trumpets interchangeablyalternately & the pour out the drink offerings called the seven vials of wrath. [So then the worship in both Temples is one & the same & has one & the same signification.] And in respect of the seven stars in the right hand of the Son of Man, the 144000 may be also comprehended in his mystical body & in the Cloud wthwith wchwhich he is cloathed, comprehend all the 144000, &maynay & their voice of singing at the like sacrifices may be may comprehended in the voices of the seven thunders. comprehend their voices of singing at the like sacrifices. So then the worship in both Temples is one & the same in form & has one & the same signification. In each there are seven greatsuccessive sacrifices synchro nal to one another & representing the slaughters to be made in the wars to wchwhich the seven Trumpets sound.

But tho the two Witnesses prophesy during all the seven sacrifices; yet it is not to be conceived that they prophesy all this time in sackcloth. When the idolatry of the Wilderness called by Daniel the Abomination of desolation is completely set up, then the two Witnesses put on sackcloth. When the worshipping of Images of gold & silver & brass & wood & stone wchwhich can neither hear nor see nor warlk is completely set up then the Gentiles wchwhich worship in to whom the outward court is given begin to be gentiles properly so called, & from that time the Gentiles tread under foot the holy City 42 months, from that time the Witnesses prophesy in sackcloth 1260 days, from that time the woman is fed & nourished by the merchants of the Earth in her placeof honour in the Wilderness & fares delicious lily a time & times & half a time & 1260 days, from that time the ten kings agree & have one mind & agree & give their kingdom to yethe Beast Woman Beast & the Beast acts 42 months wthwith the Woman upon his back wchwhich dominion & dignity is her place her dignity in the Wo where she is fed, [when the little horn of Daniells fourth Beast, has rooted up three of the ten kings which hindered his rise & the other seventhence all the rest have submitted to him then] from that time the little horn of Daniels fourth Beast having rooted up three of the ten honrs wchwhich hindered his rise, & brought all the rest to submission, has times & laws given into his hands untill a time time s& half a time. BaldBut At first the ten kings are of different religions both from the woman & from one another whereby the two Witnesses have liberty of conscience for a time: these kings must all agree in religion & be of one mind & submit to the Womans Dominion & she must begin to trade with the kings & great men of the earth by helping one another to for Empires & kingdoms & Principalities & Abbies & Bishopricks & priviliges & bands & rents & bars & pardsons & dispensations & indulsgencies & Masses Vigils & titles of honour by helping one another by helping one another to all these things& reliques of orasmas of serone for supporting this profitable nourished & by means of this trade she must begin to be fed by Peters Patrimony & tyths &c. & then the two Witnesses begin to prophesy in sackcloth. When Remiqius Bishop of Rhemes procuredthe Bishopric of France to yethe Pope, the Pope made the Bishop of Rhemes his deputy. Afterwards in the wars of the Ostrogoths & Lombards in Italy Tyre was forgotten 70 years, but at yethe end of those years returned to her hive. The Emperor Mauritius was for setting the Bishop of Constantinople above the Pope, wchwhich made the Pope & the people of Rome rejoyce when at yethe slaughter of Maruitius & send to congratulate the Tyrant Phocas who slew him: & Phocas mutually granted the title of Primacy & the Pantheon to yethe Pope. When the Pope wanted the assistance of the Franks he deposed Chaldene a cloathful Prince & gave the kingdom to Pipin & Pipin & his son Charles yethe great gave Peters patrimony &other rich presents to the Pope & Charles conquering much in Italy gave also to yethe Church of Rome the tyths throughout his Kingdom & comprehended his people the Roman liturgy & being called into Italy to hear a complaint dAgtagainst yethe Pope, declared that the Pope 4vPope was above all humane judicature & made the people in Peters patrimony swear allegiance to him as ruler & the Pope mutually made Charles Emperor of the west. In

The remainder of this page appears upside down.That he that sits upon the throne is the God of the Jews. For the Jews worshipped him sitting upon the throne in the Temple.

That he is the God who created heaven & earth

That we are to give him glory & honour for creating all things.

That he has all knowledge of future things originally in his own breast.

That he gave this prophesy to Jesus Christ

That none was in heaven or earth or under the Earth was worthy to receive this prophesy immediately from God except Jesus Christ.

That Jesus Christ obtained this worthiness by his death

That we are to give glory & honour to Jesus Christ because he was slain & hath redeemed us with his blood

That Jesus Christ sent his messenger with this Prophesy to John.

That the testimony of Jesus is the spirit ofphresy. Or that [the spirit speaks not of himself but receives from Jesus Christ, the faithful & true witness the word of God & & that] there is no prophesy but by the testimony of Jesus the faithfull & true witnesses the word of God. The spirit speaks not of himself but receives of Christ & shews it unto the Prophets.

That Christ offers up the prayers of the saints to God. This is his office & therefore weavewear to direct all orourprayers to God in the name of Christ. In that day ye shall ask me noth nothing, whatever ye shall ask my father in my name I will do it.

That Jesus Christ hath washed away our sins & redeemed us with his blood

That we are to give him glory & honour because he was slain for us & hath redeemed us wthwith his blood.

That we by yethe resurrection from yethe dead is called living again between again & therefore between death & the resurrection men do not live.

That men are not rewarded before the day of judgmtjudgment at Christs coming not before.

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1 That he that made heaven & earth & he alone is in this prophesy represented sitting upon the throne in the Temple to be worshipped as God by whole assembly consisting of yethe 24 Edlers 4 Animals, all yethe Angles & all things in heaven & earth & under the earth

2. That Jesus Christ is in this Assembly represented Apart by death by a Lamb slain & offered in sacrifice to this God & that in the Eucharist wchwhich is a commemoration of this sacrifice (the bread & wine representing the Lamb slain_ we are to consider him as such, & not to place the bread & wine in the throne

3. That Jesus Christ is in this Assembly represented also by the High Priest serving & wor shipping him that sits upon the throne, whether it be by dressing the Lamps, or by offering up incense to him wthwith the prayers of the saints at the Golden altar (rosh in his Office of inter cessioned) or by singing with yethe 144000 to his glory praise & glory.

4. That all foreknowledge of things is originally in the breast of him that sitteth upon the throne, & that his people Christthe Lamb received this prohesy from him that sitteth upon & was the only being in heaven earth or under the earth who was worthy to receive it from him & by his deah obteined this worthiness & washed away orour sins in his blood by his blood by his blood by his blood redeemed us with his blood & made us kings & Priests under him, & therefore is also worshipped honoured & worshipped as our Lord &kingin his humane nature by the whole Assembly, not as sitting upon the throne between the cherubims, but as Lord & King next under him that sitteth upon it, the Mediator between God & Man.

65. The credit of this Prophesy stands upon the several testimonies of Jesus Christ the prophetic Angel & the Prophet John. It is called the Revelation of Jesus Christ wchwhich God gave unto him & he sent his Angel & signified it to his servant John who borebare witness of record of yethe word of God & of the testimony of Jesus Christ. And hence Christ is called the faithful & true Witness, the Word of God, he whose testimony i the spirit of prophesy, the lord of God & them who testifieth these thingsor by whose testimony the spirit speaks to the Prophets. And the Angel is said to be sent by Jesus to testify these things unto us these things in the Churches, & to be of the Prophets, & of the brethren who have the testimony of Jesus. And Here's a continual subordination of witnesses. God gave it to Christ as the most worthy to receive it & the fittest Witness to attest it. Christ gave to his Angel no doubt the most worthy to receive it from him & the fittest witness to attest it to men. The Angel went with it to John, inspired him with it caused him to be in the Spirt, & inspired him with it as the most worthy & fit witness amongst men. Is not this the Angel who was sent with prophesies to Daniel, Zecharrias & the Virgin Mary? For that Angel is said to stand in the presence of God Luke, & an unknown Angel would be a less fit witness.