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the Ottoman power. Christian writers since

have been concerned with the role of Turkey

in future world events, and commentators on

prophecy have seen Turkish power and its

decline forecast in Scripture.

For the latter chapter, under the “hour, day,

month, year” prophecy, as part of the sixth

trumpet, Josiah Litch worked out an

application of the time prophecy, terminating

Turkish independence in August, 1840.

Litch's view can be found in full in his The

Probability of the Second Coming of Christ

about A.D. 1843 (published in June, 1838);

An Address to the Clergy (published in the

spring of 1840; a second edition, with

historical data in support of the accuracy of

former calculations of the prophetic period

extending to the fall of the Ottoman Empire,

was published in 1841); and an article in