For the temple with its ark of the covenant, just said to have been opened in heaven, and the thundering lightning and voices, that followed thereon, are abruptly left in the sacred description, although evidently indicative of events that were to follow consecutively afterwards and a vision begins,- the first of a new and continuous series of visions,- apparently quite unconnected and detached. But there now appear in the new vision marks, not to be mistaken, of an interruption and breaking off from the subject next preceding. Hitherto the series of Apocalyptic visions had been, in respect of their development of things future, uninterruptedly continuous and progressive:- the retrospective history of Christ’s two Witnesses not forming an exception, because that was given in conversational explanatory narrative by the Angelic interlocutor. Before proceeding however to consider the vision here beginning, it will be necessary to call the Reader’s attention to the evidence of a retrogressive character in both it, and the two subsequent and intimately connected visions, of the Beast from the Sea, throned on the seven hilled Babylon, and the Lamb with his 144,000 followers on Mount Zion - evidence just hinted at, at the close of my last chapter.

John: the peculiar characteristic of which was the exhibition of certain individual figurative impersonations on the scene, especially that of the Beast from the Abyss: whereby not only was an omission in the former Apocalyptic series of visions supplied, but a connecting link also established between them and Daniel’s celebrated symbolization of the Fourth Beast a symbolization easily to be identified with the Apocalyptic. So we enter on the Fourth and Supplemental Part of the Revelation to St. With Its Chief Adjuncts: And the Contrasted Impersonation ofĪnd there appeared a great wonder in heaven a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: (Rev 12:1) Supplemental and Explanatory History of the Rise, Character, andĮstablishment of the Beast from the Abyss, Or Popedom Meticulously Transcribed, Including Greek, LatinĪnd Footnotes with Original Exhibits and updates by:Ĭover, Transcription, Revision and FormattingĬopyright © 2018 Cross The Border Publishing Including Also an Examination of the Chief Prophecies of Daniel.

A Commentary on the Apocalypse, Critical and Historical

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