Apocalypse, had I not felt sure that somewhat had trickled from the inexhaustible fountain of Apocalyptical Wisdom into my channel, which it became my duty to communicate to the world at large.
9. With singular kindness he declares his opinion (p. 428), that I may be able to produce something towards interpreting the prophecies of the Old Testament. He adds, however, and I acknowledge it, that my system requires to be more carefully finished off. By the assistance of the Apocalypse, which is not sealed, Daniel who was sealed, and the other prophets, who described the mystery of GOD, will be laid open. But those particulars, which he thinks I ought to retract, will never prevent the true comparison of that book with the prophecies of the Old Testament.
10. I am the more firmly convinced of this by my Ordo Tem- jjorum, which he so warmly welcomed. That compendium has an intimate connection with both my expositions of the Apoca lypse, having been published between the two, exhibiting, as it does, one chain of historic and prophetic periods, perpetually intertwined with each other.
I have evoked all my ivKt'ftua and docility, that I might be ready even now to abandon with a good grace any error which the aged interpreter should prove me to have adopted. I find myself unable, however, without flattery, which I know him to abhor, to change my opinion : and, if such be the will of God, I will hereafter submit for his consideration some observations, in the German language, which we have both of us made use of, together with the Latin. For there is a just, and shortly to be satisfied expectation, of certain tilings, by which the application of prophecy to our age will be rendered more distinct, and a facility be afforded of combining many useful tilings in one composition. We both search sincerely for truth : his affection for me, and my reverence for him, are augmented instead of being diminished, by the candour of the one, and the forbearance of the other. Nor is our very disagreement on the interpretation of certain chapters without its advantage : for in proportion as our adher ence to our several opinions, where they differ, is the more un bending, so much the more ought our agreement on other points to induce the spectators of this most friendly contest to examine