NOTES

ON THE

BOOK OF REVELATIONS;

TO ASSIST INQUIRERS IN SEARCHING

INTO THAT BOOK.

BY

JOHN NELSON DARBY.

LONDON:

CENTRAL TRACT DEPOT, 1, WARWICK SQUARE.

1839.

132.

ERRATA.

Page 24, line 3, for there seen, read there, seen

26, 5, for Father, God), read Father), God,

40, second line of note, for close, they, read close. They 43, fifth line of note, for excitive read active

90, line 17, for this read thus

98, last line but one, for imperious read injurious

99, last line but two of note, for specially for read specially in

105, fifth line of note, for pure read pure;

INTRODUCTION.

THE following pages pretend to be nothing more whatsoever than what is presented in the title. There is no attempt at a general exposition of this most instructive and important book: and those who seek for an exciting application to surrounding and past events will not find it here. The writer has noted down in reading, what struck him in the text (often, he believes, overlooked in the framing of some general theory), and he has published what has struck his own mind for the purpose of drawing attention to the book itself. He has added some notes containing more the expression of the light thus elicited from the text; and in these and in the commencement, as he was writing really for the use of Christian brethren, he has not been afraid to communicate freely what thus struck him, desiring it to be as freely weighed, by this and other Scriptures, before the Lord. In teaching, he would feel it wrong to teach any thing which (however still