born, which attempt he made through the agency of Herod, when Herod "sent forth and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men." Now this butchery of Herod's brings Roman paganism in as an agency of the great red dragon. The dragon being foiled in his attempt to devour the child as soon as it was born, marshals his legions and makes his final assault upon heaven, and without even assailing the throne up to which the child had been caught. He is finally and forever driven out of heaven, with all his angels, by Michael and his angels, creatures whom he always supposed to be inferior to himself.
"And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceived the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his
