IRENEUS had long previously conjectured that the “name of the Beast” was LATEINOS—the Greek spelling of the Roman LATINUS—as that name contains the mystic number six hundred and sixty-six.
Popery was not the first form of Christianity introduced into England, but that previously there existed an Apostolic Church in these islands; and that consequently the Reformation was but the rooting out of those noxious weeds which had overrun and all but choked the plant of true Christianity.
Dissolution Of The Pagan Firmament — Constantine Establishes Christianity.
The Last Pagan Persecution Of The Church, Diocletian. A.D. 303-311.
