VI. Bishop Caulfeild-Papal 1260 Years from 533 to 1792

CHARLES CAULFEIID, or Caulfield (1804-1862), Irish vicar of Kilcock and rector of Downings, was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, with a B.A. in 1826 and an M.A., B.D., and D.D. in 1858. Caulfeild was ordained a deacon in 1827, and an Anglican priest the year following. He was made perpetual curate of Clamantagh in 1832, was rector of Kilcock 1832-43, and rector of Creagh 1843-58. He became archdeacon of the Bahamas in 1858 and bishop of Nassau 1861-62. ^{78Alumni Dublinenses 1593-1860, p. 143; Frederic Boase. Modern English Biography, vol. 1, col. 572.}PFF3 652.3

1. BABYLON Is ROME; SEVENTY WEEKS BEGIN 458 B.C

In the field of prophetic interpretation Caulfeild wrote The Fall of Babylon, as Exhibited in Prophecy (1839). Establishing Rome as the seven-hilled city of the Apocalypse, he applies the prophecy of Revelation 17 specifically to papal Rome, ^{79Charles Caulfeild, The Fall of Babylon as Exhibited in Prophecy, pp. 50-52.} after the breakup of the empire and the establishment of Christianity. ^{80Ibid., p. 53.} The 1260 years, in the several presentations, are always the period of this power, ^{81Ibid., pp. 54, 55.} and the seventy weeks begin in 458 B.C., on the year-day principle. ^{82Ibid., pp. 56, 57.}PFF3 652.4

2. 1260 YEARS DATED 533-1792

The ten horns of Daniel 7 and Revelation 13 are plainly the ten divisions of Rome. ^{83Ibid., pp. 68, 69, 208, 209.} And the blood of the saints was shed by the terrible Inquisition. ^{84Ibid., p. 127.} The timing of the 1260 years Caulfeild places from 533 to 1792 -from Justinian to the French Revolution, the great “earth quake” that fixes one of the great eras in the history of earth. ^{85Ibid., pp. 189, 190.} Bishop Caulfeild simply held the standard positions.PFF3 653.1