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The revelation of Christ to His servants of things that are, and things that shall be : brief notes in interpretation
HE book of Revelation is the one only book of New-Testament prophecy. As the completion of the whole prophetic Scriptures, it leathers up the threads of all the former books, and weaves them into one chain of many links which binds all history to the throne of God. As NewTestament prophecy, it adds the heavenly to the earthly sphere, passes the bounds of time, and explores with familiar feet eternity itself. Who would not, through these doors set open to us, press in to learn the things yet unseen, so soon to be for us the only realities? Who would not imagine that such a book, written with the pen of the living God Himself, would attract irresistibly the hearts of Christians, and that no exhortation would be needed for a moment to win them to its patient and earnest study ?
It should be so, assuredly. How little it is so, the book in its first words is witness to us: for no book is so full of just such exhortation. And especially the first part, with which we are to be for the present cciipied, abounds with solemn warn-
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