Note 202 — SERMON XI. PROPHETIC CHARACTERS OF ANTICHRIST. Luke xii. 56.
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See Grotius, on the place: who applies this prophecy to Caius Cæsar, and thinks it was fulfilled when that Emperor commanded his statue to be placed in the temple of Jerusalem. A strange conjecture! which many writers, and very lately an excellent prelate, has well confuted. Bishop Newton’s Diss. on the Prophecies, Vol. ii. p. 375.