The abomination of desolation signifies the falsification and deprivation of all truth; affliction signifies the state of the church infested by evils and falses; and the consummation of the age, concerning which those things are spoken, signifies the last time or end of the church.

My interpretation relies again upon Ku Chieh-kang, and Japanese astronomical studies (Ijima Tadao), but others, too, admit falsifications (H.H. Dubs); B. Karlgren and others regard the book as in its main body genuine.

He himself had begun the falsification, but it was Phoebe's act which had prolonged and compelled it, through twelve years.

He preserved, too, that characteristic of the child, when confronted with a difficult and disagreeable situation, of saying anything that came into his head which seemed to offer a solution; the child does not invent an elaborate falsification; it simply says whatever will untie the knot quickest, without reference to facts.

It is no record of the truth; it is not a romance or a fable, artfully constructed and elegantly told; it isto use that plain language which the occasion authorizes and demandsa barefaced, but awkward falsification of history,so awkward, that it has cost us little trouble to detect it,so barefaced, that it has been a duty, though, of course, a painful one, to expose it.

This philosophical and patriotic confidence on the part of Chancellor de l'Hospital was fated to receive some cruel falsifications.