SEVENTH HEAD, OR LATIN CÆSARS.3 A.D. Valentinian I. 364 Gratian 367 Valentinian II. 375 Theodosius 392 Honorius 395 Valentinian III. 425 Petonius Maximus 455 Avitus 455 Interregnum 456 Majorian Severus III... 461 Interregnum 465 Anthemius 467 Olybrius 472 Interregnum 472 Glycerius 473 Julius Nepos 474 Romulus Augustulus 475 Destroyed by the Heruli and Ostrogoths, but revived again under the Third-Head, or Eighth King, in a Latino-Greek Dynasty. 457 3 The Romano-Greek * contemporaries of the Latin Cæsars and Herulic and Ostrogothic kings, were Valens A. D. 364 Theodosius II...... 408 Leo II. ...... 474 Theodosius the Great 379 Marcianus 450 Anastasius 491 Arcadius 395 Leo I..... 457 Justin I....... 518 Justinian 527 .... * From Constantine the Great who removed the imperial seat to Constantinople, properly begins what we have called the Romano-Greek Empire ; though for prophetical convenience the Romano-Greek Empire is made to begin B.C. 168, in the time of Antiochus IV. Epiphanes, when the Romans made their first conquests in Greece. One reason of this is, the words of Daniel ; his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power, which must mean the Greek power mighty by the Romans. For in fact, though the arms of the Romans subdued the Greeks, yet the arts of the Greeks subdued the Romans in turn ; and their language, manners, and philosophy, eventually pervaded the Empire. Another reason is, that the twofold subversion of first the literal, and afterwards the spiritual sanctuary, by the little imperial Horn required him to be viewed in a Greek aspect throughout ; as in the latter case the prophecy strictly demanded it, and in the former, this disposal is not dissonant to a philosophical view of the mutual conquests of these two nations of each other. THE THREE-ONE ANTICHRIST." THE BEAST EARTH BEAST, IMAGE OF THE THAT WAS AND The Popes the Spirit SEA BEAST, IS NOT, of Antichrist. The revived Western The Latino - Greek or German EmpeCæsars or Emperors rors or Cæsars of the of the Romans. Romans. קדוש רומי or Justin 11. 565 Benedici I..... 573 601 Boniface IV... 607 Boniface V. 617 625 638 Constans II. ., 641 John IV. .... 640 * The ten kings or kingdoms which belong to the eighth king, form a part of Antichrist also, as far as the civil magistrates in them meddle with ecclesiastical matters 5“ After the fall of the Western monarchy, the majesty of the purple resided solely in the princes of Constantinople; and of these, Justinian was the first, who, after a divorce of sixty years, regained the dominion of ancient Rome, and asserted by the right of conquest, the august title of Emperor of the Romans." Gibbon, Chap. LIII. "Justinian,” says the historian Agathias (1, V. 157.), πρωτος Ρωμαιων αυτοκρατων ονοματι και πραγματι'' (The first Emperor of the Romans in name • Yet the specific title of Emperor of the Romans was not used at Constantinople, till it had been claimed by the French and German Emperors of old Rome.” Chap. LIII. Note 94. p. and in deed.) D A.D. A.D. Leontius ...... ...... 687 .... 701 A.D. 649 Eugenius I. 654 Constantine III. 668 Vitalian ...... 658 Adeodatus .... 672 Donus 676 Agatho 679 Leo II. ...... 682 Benedict II. 684 Justinian II.. 685 John V....... 685 Conon........ 686 694 Apsimar, or Ti- Sergius berius . 697 John VI. Justinian II. John VII. 705 again. 704 Sisinnius...... 708 Constantine 708 Stephen II. 752 Stephen III. .. 768 Adrian 1772 Irene 797 Leo III....... 795 Nicephorus 802 Stephen IV. 816 Charlemagne 6..800 Michael 811 Leo V. 813 6 On the coronation of Charlemagne in the church of St. Peter by Leo the Roman Pontiff, “ the dome,” says Gibbon, Vol. IX. Chap. xlix. po 174. “ resounded with the acclamations of the people, “ Long life and victory to Charles, the most pious A.D. A.D. A.D. .... 827 Pascal I. 817 Louis le DebonMichael II. .. 821 Eugenius II. .. 824 naire 814 Leo IV....... 847 Nicholas I..... 858 Louis II. 855 Basilius ... 867 Adrian II..... 867 John VIII..... 872 Charles the Bald 875 882 and Carloman 877 Adrian III. 884 Charles the Fat 880 Leo VI. ...... 886 Stephen V..... 885 II. Guy and Lambert 891 Lambert alone 894 896 Romanus 897 Theodore II. .. 893 Augustus, crowned by God the great and pacific emperor of the Romans !'-The imperial dignity of Charlemagne was announced to the East by the alteration of his style; and instead of saluting his fathers, the Greek emperors, he presumed to adopt the more equal and familiar appellation of brother.” “A treaty of peace and alliance was concluded between the two empires, and the limits of the East and West were defined by the right of present possession. But the Greeks soon forgot this humiliating equality, or remembered it only to hate the Barbarians by whom it was extorted. During the short union of virtue and power, they respectfully saluted the august Charlemagne with the acclamations of basileus, and emperor of the Romans. As soon as these qualities were separated in the person of his pious son, the Byzantine letters were inscribed, 'to the King, or, as he styles himself, the Emperor of the Franks and Lombards.' The Greeks affected to despise the poverty and ignorance of the Franks and Saxons; and in their last decline refused to prostitute to the kings of Germany the title of Roman Emperors.” pp. 191. 193. 194. Concerning the dignity of the German Emperors, says Gibbon, Chap. xlix. p. 216. “ Nor was the supremacy of the Emperor confined to Germany alone : the hereditary monarchs of Europe confessed the preeminence of his rank and dignity: he was the first of the ristian princes, the temporal head of the great republic of the West : to his person the title of majesty was long appropriated ; and he disputed with the pope the sublime prerogative of creating kings and assembling councils.” A.D. A.D. A.D. 898 .... 910 John IX. 903 904 Alexander .. Anastasius 911 Constantine VI. 911 Landon 913 Interregnum. Troubles. 931 .... 936 Otho I. ...... 936 Sovereign of 956 Romanus 960 Leo VIII. .... 963 Nicephorus II. 963 Benedict V. .. 964 Jobn Zimisces 969 John XIII. 965 Benedict VI... 972 Donus II. 974 John XIV. 984 Otho III. 984 996 973 983 |
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