Faithful and True, and in righteousness ⟨he⟩ doth judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and upon his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. And the armies of heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine LINEN, white and clean. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations; and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King of Kings, and Lord of Lords."
When our railroad engines are starting their heavy trains, they are often enveloped in their exhausting and escaping steam. Under this aspect it would appear in a vision as if it were clothed in linen, and it was undoubtedly under this aspect that the prophet Daniel saw it by the river Hiddekel.
Our tenth proposition is, that this mighty angel set one foot upon the sea and the other
