And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. Revelation 11:3
“When the Bible was proscribed by religious and secular authority; ---when its testimony was perverted,
---and every effort made that men and demons could invent to turn the minds of the people from it;
---when those who dared proclaim its sacred truths were hunted, betrayed, tortured, buried in dungeon cells, martyred for their faith, or compelled to flee to mountain fastnesses, and to dens and caves of the earth—then the faithful witnesses prophesied in sackcloth. Yet they continued their testimony throughout the entire period of 1260 years."
Great Controversy p.267 E.G.W.
“When the Bible was proscribed by religious and secular authority; ---when its testimony was perverted,
---and every effort made that men and demons could invent to turn the minds of the people from it;
---when those who dared proclaim its sacred truths were hunted, betrayed, tortured, buried in dungeon cells, martyred for their faith, or compelled to flee to mountain fastnesses, and to dens and caves of the earth—then the faithful witnesses prophesied in sackcloth. Yet they continued their testimony throughout the entire period of 1260 years."
Great Controversy p.267 E.G.W.