being struck in the most forcible gnity and sublimity of its compoy other writing whatever; so as to ring the age in which it appeared, y inspired could have written it. f genuine piety that occur through preclude the idea of imposition, in human nature. It is, likewise, so e prophecies of Daniel, that someting in the New Testament dispend had been done in it. For it has the divine proceedings to give a esting future events as the time of ached.

the obscurity of many parts of this y clear, and the correspondence of ats so striking, as of itself to prove rophecies are also written in such a at the events announced to us were ribed in such a manner as no person wledge could have done. This relearness and obscurity as have never forgers of prophecy whatever. Forfter the events, have always been too criptures, and especially in the book Revelation, that we find this happy obscurity on the account of future

ne, added to St. John's name, is not only in the Greek copies; it seems to Formity to the Greek fathers, who METE by way of eminence, THE DIS1; the Platonists, who gave that title as

tion to the seven hares of a signes ndlesticks: the coming of Chess 1 jesty.

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servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

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2 Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.

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3f Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.

4 JOHN to the b seven churches which are

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in Asia Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the 'seven Spirits which are before his throne;

have heard of him. do. xii. 49: For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.

b Ver. 3, 19. REV. iv. 1: Come up hither, and I will show thee things which must be hereafter.

REV. xxii. 16: I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches.

d Ver. 9. See on 1 COR. i. 6.

See on 2 PET. i. 16.

f LUKE, Xi. 28: But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it. REV. xxii. 7: Blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.

See on 1 COR. vii. 29.

ǹ Ver. 11.

i Ver. 8. ExOD. iii. 14: God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM. REV. iv. 8: They rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come. do. xi. 17: We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come. do. xvi. 5: I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be.

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JOHN, i. 1: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

1ZEC. iii. 9: Upon one stone shall be seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day. do. iv. 10: They shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand

5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the "first begotten' of the dead, and the ° prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that Ploved us, and washed us from our sins a in his own blood,

6 And hath made us kings and Priests unto

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of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth. Toв. xii. 15: I am Raphael, one of the seven angels, which present the prayers of the saints, and which go in and out before the glory of the Holy One. REV. iii. 1: These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars. do. iv. 5: There were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God. do. v. 6: I beheld, and,

lo, in the midst of the throne-stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent forth into all the earth. do. viii. 2: I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets.

ISA. lv. 4: Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people. JOHN, viii. 14: Though I bear record of myself, yet my record is true. 1 TIM. vi. 13: I give thee charge in the sight of God, who quickeneth all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession. 1 JOHN, v. 20: We know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. REV. iii. 14: These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness. do. xix. 11: I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. do. xxii. 6: These sayings

are faithful and true.

" See on ROM. viii. 29.

See on AcTs, x. 36.

P JOHN, xiii. 1, 34: Having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end. A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. do. xv. 9: As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. GAL. ii. 20: Who loved me, and gave himself for me. See on JOHN, xv. 13.

See on Acтs, xx. 28.
See on 1 PET. il. 5, 9.

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God and his Father;2 to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

7 Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which "pierced him and all kindreds 3 of the earth shall wail because of him.4 ▾ Even so, Amen.

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8 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord,5 * which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.

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9 I John, who also am your brother, and ' companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.

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2 his God and Father. Ham. 3 tribes. Ham. Dod. Pu. 4 over him. Ham. at him. Pu. 5 the Lord God. Wi. Wh.

$ See on Roм. xvi. 27.

t See on ACTS, i. 11.

" See on JOHN, xix. 37.

V REV. xxii. 20: He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly; Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.

w Ver. 11, 17. ISA. xli. 4: I the LORD, the first, and with the last I am he. do. xliv. 6: Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God. do. xlviii. 12: Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last. REV. ii. 8: do. xxi. 6: I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. do. xxii. 13: I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

* See on ver. 4.

y See on PHI. i. 7.

2 See on ACTs, xiv. 22.

a Ver. 2. See on 1 COR. i. 6.

b MAT. xxii. 43: How then doth David in spirit call him Lord? ACTs, x. 10: While they made ready, he fell into a trance. do. xxii. 17: When I was come again to Jerusalem, even while I prayed in the temple, I was in a trance. 2 Cor. xii. 2: I knew a man in Christ about fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I