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A Co-incidence

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 7, 1878

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 52, No. 19.

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A Co-incidence.

THE number 538 seems to have a peculiar relation to the papal power. Thus, before Christ 538, literal Babylon was overthrown. After Christ 538, “Mystery, Babylon,” was set up. And when the vote of the great Ecumenical Council in Rome, in 1870, was taken upon the question of infallibility,—the “great words” of Dan. 7:11,—out of 540 members the number who voted for it was 538!