2 Kings ix. 18.

He alludes to the words in Revelation, c. iii. v. 14, 15, 16: “And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the beginning of the creation of God; I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot.—I will spue thee out of my mouth.” Laodicea was a city of Asia Minor. St. Paul established the church there which is here referred to.

St. Matthew xii. 30.

“In the garment there may be many colors, but let there be no rending of it.”

“Avoid profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science, falsely so called.”—1 Tim. vi. 20.

He alludes to the dream of Nebuchadnezzar, significant of the limited duration of his kingdom.—See Daniel ii. 33, 41.

Mahomet proselytized by giving to the nations which he conquered, the option of the Koran or the sword.

He alludes to the massacre of the Huguenots, or Protestants, in France, which took place on St. Bartholomew’s day, August 24, 1572, by the