not of Protestantism, that I am relating."--Preface
to Volume IV.

Protestantism, then, is to be distinguished from the Reformation.
Considering its prominence in the ecclesiastical world, we should
naturally expect to find it represented in the symbols of the
Revelation. Strangely enough, few commentators ever make the least
effort to identify Protestantism with any of the symbols of this book.
Mohammedanism is there; Paganism is there; _the true church_ is
there, and, it is universally admitted, _the false church_ is there.
Therefore, whether Protestantism be true or false, _it_ must be there,
but where?

The application of the first beast of Revelation 13 to the papacy has
been so clearly established that the point is well-nigh indisputable.
The period of its universal supremacy is clearly limited to the
1,260 years. And everyone knows that it was the sixteenth century
reformation that ended that period of tyranny. We have shown that
that period ends with A.D. 1530. The prophecy immediately following
describes Protestantism in these words:

[Sidenote: The two-horned beast]

"And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two
horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. And he exerciseth all the
power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them
which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was
healed. And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down
from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, and deceiveth them that
dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power
to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the
earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the
wound by a sword, and did live. And he had power to give life unto the
image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and
cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should
be killed. And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor,
free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their
foreheads: and that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the
mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is
wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the
beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred
threescore and six" (Rev. 13: 11-18).

Protestant commentators generally apply both the ten-horned beast and
the two-horned beast