PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
The Pulpit Commentary — Revelation
Alfred Plummer [1841-1926] · 535,750 words · 528 reading sections
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HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHOR& Ver. 20.-Man's stubbor1l wi1l. "And the rest ••• yet repented not." The fata obstinacy of wicked men, the dreadful hardness of the human heart, sin's searing of the 8118ccptibilities of the soul,-such is the mournful fact that the te.x.t, repeated again in the next verse, as if to sumlllo…
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souls asleep in Bin. Which of us has not lived through a thoUMnd of them, and never aeen, never noticed, never given heed to, one? Death, sudden death, coming-into our 1treet, or into onr home,-which of us has not hardened his heart again, after a very brief pause, against lessons which this ought to teach, and sinned …
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Vera. 7-11.-T/u, triumph of tfVi1 through wtifa,ithfalnus. Satanic power Is encouraged by human unfaithfulness. The utmost power of evil ill let loose, and with· destructive energy works only evil, and the direst evil, amongst the children of men. The evil character of the effects of unfaithfuln8811 is represented by f…
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.II. IT IS FATHOMLBBB. "Bottomless plt." It is an abyss without a bottom. llolal evil is fathomless. 1. Who can fathom its origin I We can account for 111.n in lhw world on two principles. (1) On the pri,iciple of internal tendfflciB,, The human being, from the very commencement of its exiRtence, seems to have a dispos…
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EXPOSITION. as distingufahed from the tt:JJth 11ngel (®, O;HAPTER X. ix. 13). There is not suffloient reason Cot Ver. l.-'-And I saw. We·have here the supposing that ,Christ is meant. Wherever commencement of what many writers. call our Lord is referred to in the,Revelati011,Jt au episode, or rather two episodes, …
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rJglt foot upon the ..., aa4 hla left foot oa God, the locality from which the YOioe De .eanh. Tb.tis it ia indicated 1;bat the issue■ appears to bear reference to the-11>1111 .remation wb:ieh is to follow aff'eots the of the saint■, and their ory for ;v~nee. whole:• vorld, 11,nd ia not partial in its Here it seeme bes…
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may be mad818d: (1) Time (a lnite termin- with his blowing (oL,oh. xi. 18), .., that ii abl& ]IEriod, 111 opposed to eternity) ah&ll is properly said that the fnlfllment. oomM no longer exist, but et.el'llity shall be entered , in the days when he is about to blO'lfl! upon., (2) There shall be no more time, in The myst…
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obildren of thy people, and speak: unto nature of the contents, alludes to the bitter- iham," ete. And it sh&ll make thy belly ness tint: the writer narratea bis -experi- bitter, but it lhall be in thy mouth -aweet u ences in the historiool order. honey ; cf. the vision of Ezek. ii. 9-iii., Ver. 11.-And he l&id unto me…
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correspondence. But it by no means follows that any one apparent correapondeuce is the'tulnlmetit of the prophecy:. although it may be partially so. Besides, our text tells us that ·the great proclamation of the angel who set his feet on sea and land was that in the days of the seventh angel the mystery of God shoul…
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to tbe children of. Israel, foretold what would happen to the Jewish people iJJ, after &g!!S if they· were unfaithful to their God, The. twenty-eighth chapter of Deuteri>nomy :,is boiug fulfilled to this day. So also, in t}).e.several, proplietii, ~ere is uetohllli a~ d - plan of •"the 8Utferings of Christ and the g…
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·· · V~ra. 8-11.-The lillle book and its mission. In one of the most interesting charers iri Mi-: -Elliott's 'Borre .Apooalypticre,' the correspondence between this- vision af· the Hitle book. open" and the 'bringing forth of the open Bible at the time of the Reforma- ti~ is indicated at considerable lengt~. Acoo~ing…
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ea.nnot apealt to otbere of the virtues of heavenly food when we have not fed 'OD it ·oul'IBlvea. Nor can we tell to others the soul-thriving power it conveys when. we ourselves are spiritually starving. The assimilation by reading, thinking, faith, and prayer ·le nece883ry if God's Word is to be the support of our so…
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. llOMILIES iY VARIOUS AU'THORS. Ver. 2.-.Tha littk book; or, cluwacteristics of revelation,• "He bad in his hand a little book open." Like as there was an interval between the opening of the shth'·and seventh seals, so is there between tne sounding oftpe sixth and seventh, trumpet.. ·The record of this latter ititerv…
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•m~ hdo t.o.be aaved? !' ill the. intense, tbe ..~metimee agonized ~.of~ ,..1ipm toe ~••wfnLToice of· the Word* aroused from .their si11; The wnnotio~ of as eia which .the Holy Spirit. prodUCl88 through the Won:\ is, oft,en, to men ," ,w:.h,-. a lion roareth,.. arousing them indeed. (2) The assured ~ o n . ~ giw, ~…
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Ver. 6.-:-No more time. "The angel ••• aware ••• that there ahonld be time DO longer." This word of the angel is capable of being rendered, and has been rendered, in three different ways. Take it as meaning- '!: THE TDIB IS NOT YET OOHE. It is easy to believe that the perseouted people of St. John's day, as often s…
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noonday, when the 1,ky is without a cloud, unseen and unhear11, the last binds the mass of anow and ice to the mountain-side is severed, and the avalan,che li* there shall be time no longer; the judgment of God shall fall. In a moment, iu bright ,that rushes down into the depths below. Do not the events of every day …
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IIOU'l I' 'For what am I l'1"9paring myself? Must I be doomed to die because I am not fl.11 for the bett.er life that is to be when time shall be no longer? or-and God grant it may be l!O I ~ I by virtue of my living union with the Lord Jeaus Chriat.'Who is him- self a the Life,,. destiued 'for glory, honour; and immor…
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Vere. s;..,.11.-God'w Word. "And the voioe:whlch I hl!Rrd from heaven," etc. The "little book," or roll, here might 11!3 fairly tak~n to .illo.itra.te God's r6'kmpfftlt nu., cii: the gcspe,L The following thoughts are suggest.ed. ·.. _ .:. , . . L ~ ~OSPBL IS BBOUGD,T TO MAN FROM BEAVEN, "The VQlc(l which r heard from…
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' CHAPTER XL .111en did neverthelesa not repent. · The .seventh trumpet is about t~ announce yet Ver, 1,--:-Aud ihere wa1 given me a more terrible woe for the .worldl)"; and, reed. like unto a rod. We are not tofd by previollS to this, a· brief but vivid deserip- who.m the_ t'eed is given, but in eh. ixi. tion is …
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which is separated from the inner circle of lypse, tend to cause us to interpret the true believers, and given over to the w01·ld, symbol as above. whioh is here symbolized by" the Gentiles." Ver. 3.-And I will give power unto my The Gentilea, the Mtioo,, throughout the two witne111ea. Omit " power." What ls Apocalypae…
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..:..Qie meuui ('u stated above) by which the depicted. Perhap1 he fa described as the Ohnrch chiefly bears witness of God.. (b) "Lord of the earth,'' since the witneSlles are The· iltne during which they prophesy; to prophesy qefore all the .earth (of. ver, 9 (otthe clothing fa sackcloth; (d) the ap- and Matt. xxiv.…
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oommunity to God or to the ruler (ef. Gen. fticted UJ.IOll men in consequence of theft xxvlii. 22; Lev. nviL 82; Numb. xviii. 21; sins (ob. lL 18-21). · This is insuflloient to 1 Sam. viii. . 15, 17). It seems probable lead men t.o avert the :llnal judgment ,_,,. that this was the idea intended to be con- timely rep…
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~ficefned. ·. In the revelation of the fate in · before. The preservation of the ,Olmrch :set; ~ • f ~ the Churth, aa as ;well· in that of forth in the visions bf the 8001s, ·and :the 'ttl~ doom"awlmled fu the ungodly, the punishment of the ungodly shown'under' the 'ffiions stop , il1ort of describing olrolim- trumpe…
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HOMILETICS. Vers. 1-H.-" My t'WO witnesses." Following on the reception of the li~tle bQoit from the !lllgel's hand, the seer. is direc~d to measure the temple of G,od, pie altar, 'and the worshippers. The outer court is not t.o be measured; for it, with the lioly cit,, is to be trampled underfoot forty-two months. Du…
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now a heavenly messenger were to come among us who was appointed to measure the real living temple of. God, would it not tum out that, of a very large part of our surroundings, the order would be," .Vea,nm, it not"1 Thill meaBUrement from on high is ever going on. And if the great Lord of the Church saw fit to show ue …
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pheta were the torment of the ungodly (ver. 10). Hence the world's hatred. In proportion to its hatred of the message and the messengers will be its gladness when the messengers cau trouble it no n:iore. Ill will run riot. The wickedness of &,Sodom will be renewed. The Holy Ghost has forewru-ned us what to expect. Tare…
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drt.Jggle from its fartl,;e,r mle;' er. ver. 18, "The nations were -angry"-tbe apim,ol revolt against God rose to its height (Ps. ii.)-" and thy wrath came;" i.e--it1nnani-- festation., In the kingdoms of olden time, when the cup of iniquity was full, the judgmenta of God came and swept them away. Bo it will be again. …
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HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. Vers. 1, 2.-The measuring of the temple. Whether this chapter be the history of events that -had already ta.ken place when it was written or were then happening; or wliether it consists of predictions inspired of God of events then future, though near at hand in the history of Juda.ism and…
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tt WBS still standing, though soon to fall-before his mind. And it was to him a aymbol and type of all Israel, if not of the whole Church of God (cf, St. Paul, "In whom the whole building fitly framed together groweth into a holy temple unto the Lord"). He is telling of the Church of God throughout the whole world a…
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" which was sacred to Israelites only, And so it represented all those· outer-coui:,t worshippers, those mixed multitudes which are found associated with God's true people everywhere-of them, but not truly belonging to them. The courts of the temple· were aeparated literally, No Gentile durst pass the boundaries which …
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h• and it is. written of old, " Ye are my witnesses, sai,th the -Lord." Hence in Christ and Ohurch we ma:, find theae- witnesses, and in what is here recorded of them we may see the mutual fellowship tha.t exists between them. See this- , I. 1N MINISTRY. For both tha.t of Christ and his Church was a ministry : 1. OJ …
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condlmlned, and crucified. ·And with contempt like to that of refusing burial WIii! our Lord treated. "He was despised and rejected of men." It was their " hour, and the power of darkness." And the Church, his co-witness, hu had fellowship in his sufferings, and been once and again "ma.de conformable unto his death/' T…
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life! If the Word torments, it is only that it may arouse you to listen; it is only that you may take it to you as your guide, your light, and your comforter. Trifle not with that Word which must one day judge you. May Christ give it entrance while it is still light and not fire-" a light to cheer and to enlighten, not…
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his life in the flesh-his earthly, human life. And, ere he could enter Into the holiest for 1l8t he mmt live that life, m111t pass through it as through the veiL .And this ia what he did. And now, relying on that blood of Jesua whieh atones for 111 with God, because it evermore makes our flesh, that is, makes our life,…
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_11,L THB 1'BJlroIPLEII 01' THAT OOVUNMElC'r IIHALL PERl£BATE- NATION-WI UPI!:, Ll'rD4!rUBEr-AND INSTITUTION& • «The little leaven shall leaven the wholeJump.-1!1 , IV. •UHi>BB THIS GRACIOUS BULB l!IATIONAJ. :ANIHOSITlEB BllALL BE A ~ . "The swords shall be- beaten," ete; .,. · .; V~ 0oNl'LIC'l'ING AND All'U.GONUITI…
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in thunder, and shed their blood for the right. The vision here suggest.a th,:ee ~ conilerning these defenders of the right. 1, They <lo IMir work i'A ~ - "Clothed in .sackcloth." To fight for the right has never been an easy work, and perhape never will be. They fight not in radiant robes, but in sackcloth. It is not …
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CHAPTER XII. m. 19, et uq.). (8) The fate of the twl)- homed bea8t (eh. xiv. 9; xix. 19, st seq.). This chapter commences another series of 8. The victory of the faithful. (Ch. xiv. .18; revelations. Again St. John returns to the xix. 1-10; xxi.: xxii.) beginning, and tmees the spuitua.l history of the Church and t…
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of.-~~ • have been baplized into Ohcist. t~. old aerpent, ~-,e .devil, Satan. th~,. _de- J,iave p11tm1 Christ." . And the nioon uuder ce1.ver." Red; no. doubt to enhance· hia .11.e, feet,. T~ is interpreted as showing tAmb~e appearance; suggeliti ve of his mur- tb~ · ~nent natiµ-e of the Church: she derous, destructi…
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woman by Sa.tan. It is 001111ed, apparently, angeu of the dragon al'8 the stars of YeJ', 4, by a desire t.o aooount in 80Dle degree for which he drew with him to the earth, and the relentless hostility of the devil towards possibly the reference to this event in Ter. God and bis ChUl'Ch. Two explanations of 4 gives ris…
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of bit Chrllt; the ,alimtiM and the poto61', ver. 10. By the blood of the Lamb; h,om,, and the kingdom of our God, and Ike autho- of ~ blood, et.a. (Revised Version). That rity of hi, Ohrist (Revised Version). 'rhe is, "the blood of the Lamb " is the ground Reviled Version marginal reading may also or reason of their v…
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v,~ HOMILETICS. l,-'.17.-'.l'M foes of (}~ and of hi, Ohurch. "That old se,p,mt.":, preljoUB c!i,apters of .this book th,.ere have beeu hints of sundry evil forces which Jl'P.Uld a.t <ilv.efll t~~llll Jiarass the Church of God. Who they would. be, or what, or how they 'Jn .wouhi' work, hu. uot, yet been shown to us…
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L Otm ll'OE 18 A PER!O!UL om:. (Ver. 9.) It would be of little avail to say that the personality of the evil one cannot be decided from such a chapter as this; for the e.llUBions to Satan elsewhere are so numerous and so varied that they shut us up to the conviction of his per10nality; i.e. that he is a distinct being,…
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Vll, HB 18 A WATOBFUL AND CRAFTY ONE (vers. 4-, 13, 15), varying hia methods according t.o the ease in hand. "We &re not ignorant of his devices" (2 Cor. ii. 11). We have t.o contend against "the wiles of the devil" {Eph. vi. 11). He is aotive, 'too, in executing his plans. The whole of this chapter i1 one lengthened…
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HOMI~U:S BY VARIOUS .AUTHORS. ' .; Ver. 8.-fie <Jhurch m tha _taildemeu. This var. 6 is reJ)tlated ln. Tar. H, ll,8- if calliJig sp,cial attention to. the facts .which it declares., But u; cannot be UDderstood, nor.its,le8soos learnt, until sundry questions are asked and. ..u.s,weted. L Who.u lM 'womaa ~Wiq/P She i…
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with'· the religious life, that the latter should partake more of the former· than tlie former of the: latter. This is no imaginary peril, but one actual and visible, and yielded to in cases not a few. And another is thB fa,iltwn,j faith. Ah, what trouble canie to Israel of old from thi!! one fatal fountain I Their mis…
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111geli," or the " heaven " when no longer "place" wu " found any more" for Uiem ; nor attem,P,tiog to explain exactly what ia meant by the dragon being "cast out into '1ie ·e<h,' or how he "accused" the "brethren. • • before our God day and night"- what all this meana none know; but we may take the text as telling o…
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"founded great empires; but upon what did the creations of our genius depend? Upon fonie. Jesua alone founded his empire upon love, and to this very day millions would die for him."·· Thus does the blood of the Lamb become to 111 a power indeed, iD mtue of which we overcome. 2. TM word of tkeir teatimony. This is joine…
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Ver. 12.-Satim's ffl{JB ,o great becauSfl his time ,o shorl. "The devil is come down unto you, having great wrath," etc. The text- L .Asso':MEB THE EXISTF:NCE OIi' SATAN. Many question the reality of any BUch being, but: 1. We may ask- Why should it not be 1 (1) We ascribe all effects to given caJJSes. Instinctively w…
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- ~ bor,n of.that Church.which /Dr so long bef'on his coming endured the pmgii of w11il. Fl'Olll Uie.»Qsom of the. J>eople.of God, Obrist according to the flesh came. ~~,is he of whom.it isrleclared, "'.l')lou art my Son; this day have I begot.tell thee. Al!k ,<1f me • • • toou ahalt 'role them with a. rod of iron.'' .…
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Veni,.7......12;-War aftd triumph. The. heavenly things ("in heaven") are again represented by a battle-a war. There is ever contention on the earth between those forees. t.Jiiu;. are evil and those that are Divine. . The history of the human race is the history, of an undying stru~- struj!gle between the heavenly and …
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the woman, and between thy seed and her seed.". 1t explain1, moreover, all domestic conflicts, all political battlings, and national wars. Evil and good are at war on thi& eanh. This ia the grand campaign, inspiring and explaining all other feuda.-D. T. Were. 7-11.-.The gnat tampaign. "And there was war in heaven," et…
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are enabled t.o look upon it In the llghL of that cross, the whole sonl risea In determined opposition to it. ,· · . · IL IT 18 THROUGH BIS BLOOD (oB LJJ'll:) TBA'I WB GET OUB W'IIAPOJIII MJPPLli!D, What are the weapons with which evil is to be reatored? 1. ..4 clear knooiledve of the right It is by right alone that w…
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- IV. THAT TBB TBmdlHUIWH, EVEN nr DYING omC'Ol[STANOES, ts mmBB'TIDI 81'llllll4L PJIOTBCn'IOlr orJDAVBII, , ''A?1dto the woman were giv.eD. two willp of &<.great -,pe, tlaab Bbe might fly into. the wilchlrnesa, Jnto her place, where aha ia MUriabedier• t.lae, an4l fames, and half a time,,from the face of the serpent" …
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1 ,,,II ~\¼tt~~ V~1~ fQ~ws the !eadiijg . ,ll.fl, v~ 1, '!'he,re wi; '¥~Y tind the 11:eY ~ tht1 il£171r• .t,11tood, w'.lucli 11. foui:id 1n B, P, , 1ntEj[_P~~pon.. "Fir~t, tlitt heQ,df, 11~1 dipii~'kndreBS. Al-ethas. Fortunately, the · dom101on~ , .The ,head iii ·naturaUy). lqo)j:f)d point is not iwrortant.1 Whether S…
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c111t.th and 1e11111u:t1111 Df am.. n a1mo1t llbll to eoatln111 fortJ and two moatil; Gfi eeemed ai dnC • thc!agh the power of the fo uori /rwft isftt1, CWo.''IIICftlM. ., ~n nollli w4irld llllld ·nocumb to the iDBuenee of the the power is 'given to him; thet ia, he holda life ~d death of our Lord, all.d for a time it …
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9'11ffoll. _·At,,4,,• "people.., 18 inserted fn eTeJT spoken of u having taken plaoe. This. manUIOript u.oept a.few elll'llivea. The four- latter &eJIBe' must be the meaning if we fold . ealOllention, applied to the earth, adopt the alternative reading.• . . · denote. .the uni'fen&l character, of the Ver. 9.-If any man…
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I). The two witnesses ~ the pbwer b e ~ equally guilty wiUi l;boae who of -111nding forth file (eee oh. xi. 5), In openly proelaim themaelvee folloW8nl of -the tbia ~ therefor&--in ihe very nature of world. (On the last part of the 'r8i8e, the llia Bign&-the beui still - . - io counter• nature of the sword-atroke, Mia …
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(et eh. jij., 12, "I Will write upon him my aymbolizing aeJf-deeeit. St. Johu evidently w,w "8,Qle,." oh. uii, 4~ "His name shall intenda that the meaning of the number be in their foreheads ; " oh. vii. S : ix. 4 ; ahould be know.n: "Let him that bath xiv. 1). . The idea is taken from the Mosaic undent.andi~ count the…
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291, Id ,eq, A commonly received interpre- terpret this number in the same way u we tation makes the name of the beast to be hue ,dealt wiili Ill •ilier numbers in the Nero Cresar, written in the Hebrew cham.o- Apocalypse, 'l'iz. by regarding them u ters ,c,p J\-U; and B8 the name may be symbolical of ql!alities, we a…
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is assumed which belongs to God alone. "The beast wu like unto a leopard," etc. (ver. 2). All three figures denote the terribly savage and uevuuring e,,ergy put forth by the powera of evil. "The dragon gave him," etc. (ver. 2). The ungodly power of earth ii backed up by the evil one. "One of his beads ••• wounded," etc…
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