the bad will be before the first of these two advents, the good in the Millennium (see his commentary on the Apocalypse, p. 239): although that consistency cannot be maintained (if we are to retain our belief in the unity of Christ's advent), except by supposing two periods of a thousand years each, concerning which, see my Notes on Rev. xx. 4.
7. He says (p. 421), that he cannot understand what I have said on the other periods of time, compared with that of a thousand years.
He has forgotten the results of my exposition (pp. 127, 644, etc.), obtained by a correct analysis of the different periods. Those, who acknowledge the accuracy of this analysis, perceive that the examination of prophecy is especially necessary for the present age (cf. Beurtheilung, pp. 409, 410) : those who do not acknowledge the accuracy of that analysis, float about [with out chart or compass] in a long expanse of ages : for that hypo thesis, which is chiefly maintained by the Theologian of Halle, involving the notion, that the forty-two months of the Beast denote three and a half common years, defers those three and a half years, and the subsequent flourishing state of the Church, two centuries and more. — See Erkldrung Offenbarungs, pp. 503, 504. Were such an expectation well-founded, it would be more profitable as yet to meditate upon other points, and to give our attention to those prophecies, which refer to the present time.
8. The venerable theologian has condescended to quote long passages from my book concerning those chapters, in which he finds that I agree with him, and justly declares the victory of truth. — See p. 422. That it is not, however, an examination of my whole work, the heads just mentioned clearly show : for they deal with very few chapters of the Apocalypse, and leave the remainder almost untouched. He was at liberty to take his own course in the matter ; but it is the reader's interest to know that I have treated there of many other subjects, such as The Flux of things from the Invisible to the Visible, and their Reflux from the Visible to the Invisible; the difference of the Seven Angels, Churches, Seals, Trumpets, Phials; the Division of the Septenaries into Fours and Threes ; the Progress of affairs from East to West, etc. On account of the subjects so ably handled by the venerable divine in question, I should not myself have published an exposition of the