The Revelation of St John

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ERRATA. '.hne d, . . . K, Hr, t note, .tor Iuber rani Inbet. IT', '' ' Iottrth ota' ''rt 1PO Ii' rcturrtai. 31.1m t, .otn, jbr mnmar.oi r.rao?ranr. 3., tine 3, note 2, /or coct, rrarf cocto S, Imc it, r Hoa. rmrf Hag. SO, hnc 9, /or rai.tuaung. r?, ( n, nh., ung 8i, hnti, note. /wu, u, rmrfsnfc. tt3, hne...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ERRATA. '.hne d, . . . K, Hr, t note, .tor Iuber rani Inbet. IT', '' ' Iottrth ota' ''rt 1PO Ii' rcturrtai. 31.1m t, .otn, jbr mnmar.oi r.rao?ranr. 3., tine 3, note 2, /or coct, rrarf cocto S, Imc it, r Hoa. rmrf Hag. SO, hnc 9, /or rai.tuaung. r?, ( n, nh., ung 8i, hnti, note. /wu, u, rmrfsnfc. tt3, hne 11, hrttnt.rmj food 337. hne 33, /or bcfure, rmi upon. REVELATION OF SAINT JOHN, ON THE TIME OF THE COMPOSITION OF THE BOOK. The older theologians proceeded almost uniformly on the supposition, that the BookofKevelation was composed in the closing period of Domitian's reign?an opinion that finds, in Vitringa especially, an excellent though hrief defence. On the whole, however, little comparatively was done to estahlish this opinion on solid and satisfactory grounds; even Bengel did not go deeply into the matter. The feeling for the genuine historical interpretation of the Apocalypse was still not awakened, so that hut little weight could as yet be attached to this most important inquiry, and it was passed hurriedly over. The interest felt in it was less on account of the exposition, than for the defence of the authority of the old ecclesiastical tradition, which had declared in favour of the composition under Domitian. But there being no right feeling awakened for the true historical interpretation, the power failed, in connection with that interest, to give a lucid exhibition of the proof. This can only be found when one understands how to obtain from many scattered indications a living image of the existing condition of the Seer, which forms the proper starting- point for the announcement of the future. Vitringa has some excellent observations in this respect, but they are confined to the seven epistles. In regard to the remainder