With Compline and Lauds, the liturgical day reached the sacred septenary, " " septies in die laudem dixi tibi " " ( " seven times a day I have given praise to thee ) ", while for the night office there was the text : " " media nocte surgebam ad confitendum tibi " " ( " I rose at midnight to give praise to thee " ).
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Reverend Elliott took as his text, " I will show thee the things that must happen after these things . " He believed this set aside " interpretations based on the principle of the Apocalypse being a prophecy figurative only of the times yet future . " " Accordingly, the three septenaries of Seals, Trumpets and Vials will be interpreted by me as connected and consecutive series;-the seventh Seal unfolding itself in the seven Trumpet visions, the seventh Trumpet in the seven Vials : and this with no intermission or interruption . " He considered the more complex overlapping and interlocking chronology of Joseph Mede to be unnatural and wrong because truth must be simple.
