comfort your hearts and establish you in every good work and word.
9. Bishop Newton has examined the whole prophecy with his usual skill and judgment. The sum of what he says, as abridged by Dr. Dodd, I think it right to subjoin. The principal part of modern commentators follow his steps. He applies the whole to the Romish Church: the apostasy, its defection from the pure doctrines of Christianity; and the man of sin, c. the general succession of the popes of Rome. But we must hear him for himself, as he takes up the subject in the order of the verses.