author by name, and I had written there these words — " Whoso ever seeks the truth, should most diligently examine this" And yet, he is entirely silent on the whole of that my examination, nor does he even touch upon pp. 107, 108, 123, 124, 214, 215, 285, 295, and by far the greater part of those, which I had col lected in the seventh section of my Preface. He says, that he has read the book through : otherwise, I should have thought it clear, that he had only gleaned some portions of it in a cursory manner. I indeed desire, that those passages, referred to above, should be considered as entirely and formally reasserted on the present occasion : for they presuppose that I had carefully ex amined the commentaries of this distinguished author, and dili gently avoided the errors which he refutes in Vitringa. Besides which, I have temperately stated in my annotations on the Apocalypse, contained in the present work, what is the nature of that distinguished man's interpretation on the Seals, the Trumpets, and the other parts, where it possesses any sinew. — See the Notes on iv. 1, etc.
3. He thinks (p. 406), that I have placed the commencement of the three woes, especially of the third woe, too early.
I have answered this objection in the Notes on Rev. viii. 13.
4. He agrees with me, on the Two Witnesses, the Great City, and the Kingdom. — See pp. 406, seqq.
5. He approves of my exposition of ch. xii., as far as regards the future : as far as regards the past he does not (p. 408) ap prove of it.
Concerning the past, see my Notes on xii. 5.
6. He cordially adopts (pp. 409-421) my views on the Con version of the Nations, the Future Millennium (though he only admits one) and the First Resurrection. And in this part espe cially, he has freed the prophecy from the Equuleus Hermeneu- ticus,1 which he so frequently speaks of. Pie seeks, however, to vindicate the consistency of the language, used in Scripture con cerning the last times (which are described both as bad and good), by asserting a twofold advent of Christ ; conceiving, that
' Equuleus Hermeneuticus — A quaint expression signifying literally " An instrument of torture applied to the interpretation of prophecy." The Equuleus was so called from its being shaped like a horse. — (I. B.) The interpreter's rack. — ED.