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evidence of the predictions of Jesus and the Apostles in the other books of the New Testament, and especially the evidence of the letter of the Apocalypse itself, and its own peculiar character, at- tempered with prophetic tropes. We will explain this particular point somewhat more fully.
1) The Lord Jesus has comprised in the Apocalypse the Re- mainder [Supplement] of the old prophecy , which belongs to the times subsequent to His Ascension and the coming of the Comforter, and the end of the Jewish system. And thus the book reaches from the old Jerusalem to the new Jerusalem, all things being reduced to one sum and to harmonious order ; and it has great similarity to the ancient prophets. The beginning and the conclusion agree with Daniel ; the description of the male child, and the promises given to Sion, agree with Isaiah ; the judgment of Babylon, with Jeremiah ; the fixing of the times, again, with Daniel , who followed Jeremiah ; the architecture of the holy city, with Ezekiel , who followed Isaiah ; the emblems of horses, of candlesticks, etc., with Zechariah. From these prophets many things more fully described by them are now repeated in a summary manner, and often in the same words. There- fore reference must be had to them. Nevertheless the Apocalypse has a kind of abrupKuav (self -completeness), and is of itself sufficient for its own interpretation, although you may not yet understand the old prophets, where they speak of the same things : in fact, this often supplies a clue for the understanding of those. Often also, under the agreement which there is between the Apocalypse and the old prophets, there lies concealed a certain difference; and the Apocalypse derives its stock from some ancient prophet, on which it inserts a new scion. Thus, for instance, Zechariah mentions two olive trees ; John also has the same, but in a different meaning. Daniel has a beast with ten horns ; John also has the same, but not altogether in the same sense. Here the difference in the words, the emblems, the circumstances, the times, ought, studiously to be observed. But the plan of the Tabernacle erected and described by Moses is also of great value. For those heavenly things, unto the example and shadow of which the Levitical priests served, are accurately exhibited in the Apocalypse : Heb. viii. 5.
2) The Lord foretold many things before His passion; for instance, Matt. xiii. xxii., and those which follow ; John xiv. xv. ; but He did not foretell all things : for it was not yet the befitting time. Many things predicted by the Spirit of Christ are contained, in a scattered form, in the Epistles of John and the other apostles ; namely, accord-