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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1818 Excerpt:...worship was set up in the cities of Judea, and in Jerusalem; and the temple itself was consecrated to Ju piter Olympius, and his image was erected upon the very altar. Then indeed " the transgressors were come to the full;" and then, as we see, the Romans " stood up a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences." Bp. Nenton. a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, " A king" in the prophetick style is the same as " a kingdom;" and a kingdom-is any state or government. Bp. Newton. What follows is a description of the Roman power and policy, in subduing the world by force and fraud. That peculiar characteristick of the Romans, " the fierce countenance," first noticed by Moses, Deut. xxviii. 50, is here repeated, so as to leave no doubt of its application. Dr. Hales. The classical reader will doubtless recollect numberless instances of that peculiar trait in the person of a Roman citizen, which the Prophets Moses and Daniel have conveyed by the term of " a fierce countenance." Dr. Zouch. The latter phrase is translated in the Syriack, " skilful in ruling;" and in the Arabick, " skilful of disputations." It may mean, that this would be a politick and artful, as well as a formidable, power. Bp. Newton, The policy, with which the Romans conducted their designs, is thought to be meant in this passage, in allusion to their adroitness and penetration in discovering the designs of their enemies, their knowledge of the parties and interests that prevailed in the courts and councils of different princes; in short, their consummate skill in the intricacies of political intrigue. The contrivances of artful and subtle statesmen may very justly be called...