fteel7. Omit "&nd." Again the active tioned. E11e11 /row, tAe thing• tOriU. ·,R thil Jl&l,'t.iciple iudicaiea the voluntary ua.ture of book 118ems to be the real meaning of the le.st thelOtion: though the living watur be freely clauae : ~ merely the t,-~ and- lil'1J whioh ffiven without IDOMJ and without price, it are written, etc. Just as the 4ivil11 set fl!>rth' 11 not onforced npon any. in the Apocalypse are declared in ver. 18 to . Ver. 18.-l'or I testitJ unto ffl1'J mmt be the portion of thOBe who Gdd to the book; illat heareth the worda of the propheiJY of si thoae who tab from the book are depri-t ~ 'book, Oudt " for." The pronoun "I" of those bl~ssiuga which have been conat.antly 1- em.l>batic.. Here ill the BOlemn appendix referred to in the book. qr aeal of &he 'l'efacity of the book, 110mowhat Ver. 20.--lle which teatifieih th11& thillgli uilar t.o the prefat.ory words in eh. L 1--S. aaith-viz. the Lord Jesus, as iu ver. 16- 'l'hla iB tha fulfilment of the duty laid upon. Bnrely I come ~ ; yea, I - quicki,. Sit. J.ohn in eh. i. 1. not an announcement of As the book o~s, so it closes with ·this om Lord billlll8lf (ef. the wording of oh. LS). promise. Thi ■ 18 the anchor and 11t&y of the :U U,J maa shall add 1lllto theae ihiDp, God faithful, the sound.of an alann and a warn.. ~ add IIDW .him the pl&f1l8I that are ing ory to the wicked. Allie& lmm. 10, ~ I l l .in thil )oak; of. the oommand in aome, Lord 1-. · Omit "eten so." Thna llo•t. iv. 2, " Ye aball not add unto 1he i~ oalm and_pa_tient hope the apostl~ Mll!iverli .-.8~ whioh I eoJilmand yon, neither shall his Lord.: ao·the writer wile deli1'era the JIG dwiuiBh from it" (Revised Ve:raion). meaage is the ffl'llt to>pl'OO!ahi hill belief ht ... Th• plagnilB thatarewriit,on in this book" what ill herei.b: oontained. :, , . ·' ~ those of i».e,aeaJa, the'tmmpets, tl1e viaJa,. Ver. 21.-The· ft809 of our ·Lorfl i..- thct•doum oUlabyloa, ~,; of. the o o ~ . OhriR be 'llria_J'OU all. Amfia i th,s !fraae oj of, St.. Paul to Timothy (2 Tim.: i 13)1 and t1'e Lord J•w be witk the eamu. AflMn;. So cl. IWIO' what ia aaid fa 2 Tim. ii. 16-18 · tha delivery of. the IBB8~e was commenced. coaeerning. tile hel'etiilal toaohing of Hyme- (ef. eh:. t. 4 1 ef: the form 1n 1. 'i'h88$. i .. 28}.· naiua and Philetna. · Bll&ring in Dii41d that the theme oHhe·boolt' Ver. 19.---Aa4 if uy lllllll abaJ1 take away i11 ilie oonflict be!ween good an<l evil, - from the woru of the book of this prophecy, may well conolnde our !lhdy of it by joining Gt4 lhall ia11t·awayhis part out oUhe•book' , in the pi"&J'l'l' of ~e autlior; that the help of of· life, ant caat of'tha hol7 oiiy, &Ad· iwlm th& • the Lord J ~ may be. on· ,the aMe of Im tliiDp wllioh are written in W1 ·book; from •iota to enable lbem·lo OV&EOOJDe, aiid ·theft' tu ttell of life; i.e. that mentioned in vel'~ ll . recei ff' their reward;' .'' ' •' ' and :ia ~r. U, whicn, alao Um ""r it! lll0!1• 1
HOMILE'l;'IOS. ·vers. l--lt::_(~ preciediog'honiily,)' '. v~ ·1; 7~ 18.~ hp~~ oq o,h.. L J;.f-8.) ' .
'Ver.i2...'..{&e homily on oh.~ 7.) Ver. 13.-(See bomilT on eh. i. 8.)
!,Ver. i• (Revi!«!d-V~on)~-(See homily Oll oh'. vii. U-17.) Ver~ 15.-(See homily on oh. p .. 11-l5.) Ver~ 17•._aloaing ~ , of i•fl#atioa; " O<ime~" We have oioeed our expoeitlon Cllf the plan of the 'book, so 'far aa ica Apocalyptic Wlfoldinga of scenes yet to oome are OOP.cerned, , But we should deem our work incomplete if we did not, ere we lay down our ·pen, indicate in outline four homiletic studiBB suggeated by the last six verses of this ,chapter. giving us as they do, a closing invitation, a cloeing warning, a closing' aspiration, and n final benediction. ll'irst in ot'd:et al. these four comes the invitation, So fa'!" as the first "Come " is concerned, the word might be 1!1lpposed to be the call of' the Ohurch t.o-0ur Lord, entreating him to come and rule ln righteoUBness. And so, in raot, BO~e do ~ d it: But the wording of the seoond phrase seems to us to put llllCh an Interpretation on one side. For to hiw that heareth, it is said, "Catch np the G& xi':n. 1.-.tl,] THE REVELATION OF ST. JOHN TIIE Dl:VTh"'E, NI