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19. _And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy._ If he shall reject the book altogether; if he shall, in transcribing it, designedly strike any part of it out. It is conceivable that, from the remarkable nature of the communications made in this book, and the fact that they seemed to be unintelligible, John supposed there might be those who would be inclined to omit some portions as improbable, or that he apprehended that when the portions which describe Antichrist were fulfilled in distant ages, those to whom those portions applied would be disposed to strike them from the sacred volume, or to corrupt them. He thought proper to guard against this by this solemn declaration of the consequence which would follow such an act. The whole book was to be received――with all its fearful truths――as a revelation from God; and however obscure it might seem, in due time it would be made plain; however faithfully it might depict a fearful apostasy, it was important, both to show the truth of divine inspiration and to save the church, that these disclosures should be in their native purity in the possession of the people of God. ¶ _God shall take away his part out of the book of life._ Perhaps there is here an intimation that this would be most likely to be done by those who professed to be Christians, and who supposed that their names were in the book of life. In fact, most of the corruptions of the sacred Scriptures have been attempted by those who have professed some form of Christianity. Infidels have but little interest in attempting such changes, and but little influence to make them received by the church. It is most convenient for them, as it is most agreeable to their feelings, to reject the Bible altogether. When it said here that “God would take away his part out of the book of life,” the meaning is not that his name _had been written_ in that book, but that he would take away the part which he _might_ have had, or which he _professed_ to have in that book. Such corruption of the divine oracles would show that they had no true religion, and would be excluded from heaven. On the phrase “book of life,” see Notes on ch. iii. 5. ¶ _And out of the holy city._ Described in ch. xxi. He would not be permitted to enter that city; he would have no part among the redeemed. ¶ _And |from| the things which are written in this book._ The promises that are made; the glories that are described.

20 He which testifieth these things saith, [700]Surely I come
quickly; Amen. Even[701] so, come, Lord Jesus.

20. _He which testifieth these things._ The Lord Jesus; for he it was that had, through the instrumentality of the angel, borne this solemn witness to the truth of these things, and this book was to be regarded as _his_ revelation to mankind. See Notes on ch. i. 1; xxii. 16. He here speaks of himself, and vouches for the truth and reality of these things by saying that he “_testifies_” of them, or bears witness to them. Comp. Jn. xviii. 37. The fact that Jesus himself vouches for the truth of what is here revealed, shows the propriety of what John had said in the previous verses about adding to it, or taking from it. ¶ _Saith, Surely I come quickly._ That is, the development of these events will soon _begin_――though their consummation may extend into far distant ages, or into eternity. See Notes on ch. i. 1, 3; xxii. 7, 10. ¶ _Amen._ A word of solemn affirmation or assent. See Notes on Mat. vi. 13. Here it is to be regarded as the expression of John, signifying his solemn and cheerful assent to what the Saviour had said, that he {464} would come quickly. It is the utterance of a strong desire that it might be so. He longed for his appearing. ¶ _Even so._ These, too, are the words of John, and are a response to what the Saviour had just said. In the original, it is a response in the same _language_ which the Saviour had used, and the beauty of the passage is marred by the translation “_Even so_.” The original is, “He which testifieth to these things saith, _Yea_――ναὶ――I come quickly. Amen. _Yea_――ναὶ――come, Lord Jesus.” It is the utterance of desire in the precise language which the Saviour had used――heart responding to heart. ¶ _Come, Lord Jesus._ That is, as here intended, “Come in the manner and for the objects referred to in this book.” The _language_, however, is expressive of the feeling of piety in a more extended sense, and may be used to denote a desire that the Lord Jesus would come in any and every manner; that he would come to impart to us the tokens of his presence; that he would come to bless his truth and to revive his work in the churches; that he would come to convert sinners, and to build up his people in holiness; that he would come to sustain us in affliction, and to defend us in temptation; that he would come to put a period to idolatry, superstition, and error, and to extend the knowledge of his truth in the world; that he would come to set up his kingdom on the earth, and to rule in the hearts of men; that he would come to receive us to his presence, and to gather his redeemed people into his everlasting kingdom. It was appropriate to the aged John, suffering exile in a lonely island, to pray that the Lord Jesus would speedily come to take him to himself; and there could have been no more suitable close of this marvellous book than the utterance of such a desire. And it is appropriate for us as we finish its contemplation, disclosing so much of the glories of the heavenly world, and the blessedness of the redeemed in their final state, when we think of the earth, with its sorrows, trials, and cares, to respond to the prayer, and to say, “Come, Lord Jesus, come quickly.” For that glorious coming of the Son of God, when he shall gather his redeemed people to himself, may all who read these Notes be finally prepared. Amen.

21 The[702] grace of our Lord Jesus Christ _be_ with you all.
Amen.

21. _The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ |be| with you all. Amen._ The usual benediction of the sacred writers. See Notes on Ro. xvi. 20.

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Footnotes.

1 – “_The Apocalypse of St. John_, or Prophecy of the Rise,
Progress, and Fall of the Church of Rome; the Inquisition;
the Revolution in France; a Universal War, and the final
triumph of Christianity: being a new interpretation, by the
Rev. George Croly, A.M., H.R.S.L.”

2 – P. 192.

3 – Moses Stuart.

4 – See Supplementary Notes on Heb. vii.

5 – Author’s Preface, p. vi.

6 – Stuart on Apocalypse, p. 170, Edinburgh, 1847.

7 – This view of the great philologist has deservedly met with
indignant censure, both in this country and in America.
“We confess,” says Dr. Beecher of Boston, “that this whole
effort to force Nero into chap. xvii. as the wounded beast,
savours too much of that German infidelity that regards
John as little better than a soothsayer himself, and
does not hesitate to affirm that he believes the rumours
concerning Nero. Professor Stuart of course abandons this
ground, and yet he avers that John spoke as if he believed
it. This theory is perfectly consistent in the hands of
one who denies the inspiration of John, but it cannot be
so grafted on the tree of true Christian interpretation as
to appear like one of its true and genuine branches” (_Bib.
Repos._, 1847, p. 296). So also Elliott with still greater
severity, vol. iv. p. 548.

8 – “The first of these two counter schemes is the
_Preterists’_, which would have the prophecy stop
altogether short of the Popedom, explaining it of the
catastrophes, one or both, of the _Jewish nation_ and
_Pagan Rome_; the second, the _Futurists’_, which would
have it all shoot over the head of the Popedom into times
yet future” (Elliott, iv. 529). The first of these schemes
originated with the Jesuit _Alcassar_ in A.D. 1614; the
other with the Jesuit _Ribera_ in A.D. 1585; and it is not
a little remarkable, that both originated in the
necessities of the Papal cause, oppressed by Protestant
interpreters.

9 – _Hierophant_, p. 242.

10 – Compare Stuart on Apocalypse, Excursus v., with Davidson’s
_Introduction_, vol. iii. pp. 513, 514. Dr. D. justly
complains in his preface of being charged by Mr. Elliott
with the sin of copying Stuart. Besides the difference
mentioned above, there is between the two a difference
in regard to the entire scheme of interpretation, Dr. D.
condemning the Preterist scheme, of which Professor
Stuart is perhaps the ablest supporter. The theory which
the latter has put forth on the witnesses meets with
unequivocal condemnation in the pages of the former.
Dr. D. himself, in the meantime, seems to have no scheme
of interpretation. After remarking on the Preterist,
Continuous, and Futurist scheme, he says very candidly,
“we feel disinclined to support any of the rival
hypotheses till they be better supported” (vol. iii.
p. 627).

11 – _Introduction to the New Testament_, by Samuel
Davidson, D.D., vol. iii. p. 513.

12 – Elliott, iv. 419.

13 – Harduin, ix. 1808; in Elliott, ii. p. 83.

14 – P. 424, _et seq._

15 – _Hierophant_, p. 245.

16 – Reply to Cunninghame.

17 – Gen. xl., xli.

18 – Davidson’s _Introduction_, vol. iii. p. 520.

19 – P. 343.

20 – _Commentary on Apocalypse_, p. 790, Edinburgh, 1848; where
also are cited the following passages expressly from the
prophetic books: Ezek. xxix. 11, 12; Jonah iii. 4; Isa.
vii. 8; xvi. 4; Jer. xxvii., xxix.

21 – Stuart’s _Apocalypse_, p. 791.

22 – Dan. x. 2, 3.

23 – _Hierophant_, p. 252.

24 – Elliott, however, refuses to except the “seven times”
specified in Nebuchadnezzar’s vision from the category of
chronological prophecies to which the Year-day principle
is to be applied. He regards the monarch as the mystical
representative of the Assyrian empire, and Babylon,
governed by him. “For my own part,” says he, “considering
the extraordinary nature of the judgment――the fact of
its being so fully recorded by Daniel――the circumstance
of Nebuchadnezzar being addressed on occasion of another
prophecy as the representative of his nation (‘thou art
that head of gold’), and that of the symbolic tree, when
cut down, being bound with a band of _brass_ and _iron_,
the metals significant of the _Greek_ and _Roman empires_,
which for ages held sway over the prostrate region of
Babylon; all these considerations, united with that of
the prediction that _Assyria_ specifically is to recover
in the latter day from its apostasy (Isa. xix. 24, 25),
induce me to believe that Nebuchadnezzar’s insanity and
degradation typified that of his empire in its apostasy
from God; and the _seven times_ 360 _days_ that passed
over him in that state, the _seven times_ 360, or 2520
_years_ that would have to be completed, ere Assyria’s
recovery to a sound mind, at the termination of the _times
of the Gentiles_.” At the same time Mr. Elliott does not
deny the application of the prediction to Nebuchadnezzar
as an individual, and remarks, that it is not an uncommon
circumstance “for an individual person to be made the
subject of a prefigurative vision, and yet himself to
prefigure in that very action or character something
future.” If, then, we admit the truth of this
representation, and set aside Dan. x. 2, 3 as not a
prediction at all, both the passages insisted on by
Professor Stuart are in this way removed from the list of
exceptions.

25 – _Elements of Prophecy_, p. 375, and _Horæ Apocalyp._,
vol. iii. p. 250.

26 – Chap. xiii. 25; xiv. 34.

27 – _Introduction_, p. 518.

28 – Ezek. iv. 4‒6.

29 – Stuart’s _Hints on the Interpretation of Prophecy_,
pp. 76, 78; _Apocalypse_, Excursus v.

30 – Davidson’s _Introduction_, vol. iii. p. 519.

31 – _Hierophant_, pp. 247, 248.

32 – Chap. xx. 2, 3.

33 – Davidson’s _Introduction_, vol. iii. p. 522.

34 – J. A. Alexander, _in loco_.

35 – See the _Critici Sacri_, Scott, Barnes, Alexander, &c.

36 – Dan. ix. 24‒27.

37 – Tyso, Govett, and Todd.

38 – _Hints on the Interpretation of Prophecy_, p. 79.

39 – _Hierophant_, p. 250.

40 – Davidson’s _Introduction_, vol. iii. p. 515.

41 – Mede’s _Works_, book iii. chap. ix. p. 599.

42 – Gen. xxix. 27, 28; Lev. xii. 5; Exod. xxxiv. 22; Deut.
xvi. 9, twice, and 10; Jer. v. 24; Deut. xvi. 16; 2 Chron.
viii. 13; Num. xxviii. 26.

43 – Gesenius’ _Lexicon_.

44 – See margin.

45 – Chap. ix. 5‒10.

46 – Chap. ix. 15.

47 – _Horæ Apocalyp._, vol. i. p. 489.

48 – Chap. xi. 2.

49 – Chap. xi. 3, 11.

50 – Chap. xii. 6, 14.

51 – _Elements of Prophecy_, p. 382.

52 – Chap. xiii. 5.

53 – Compare chap. xiii. with xix. 19, 20.

54 – vii. 25; xii. 7.

55 – Stuart’s _Commentary_.

56 – Stuart, in the _Bibliotheca Sacra_, pp. 353, 354.

57 – Lu. 11:28.

58 – Ja. 5:8, 9; 1 Pe. 4:7.

59 – ver. 11.

60 – ver. 8.

61 – ch. 3:1; 4:5; Zec. 4:10.

62 – Jn. 8:14.

63 – Col. 1:18.

64 – Jn. 13:1.

65 – He. 9:14.

66 – Ex. 19:6; 1 Pe. 2:5‒9.

67 – He. 13:21.

68 – Da. 7:13; Mat. 26:64.

69 – Zec. 12:10.

70 – Mat. 24:30.

71 – ch. 22:20.

72 – Is. 41:4.

73 – Is. 9:6.

74 – 2 Co. 12:2.

75 – Jn. 20:26; Ac. 20:7; 1 Co. 16:2.

76 – ch. 2:1.

77 – ch. 2:8.

78 – ch. 2:12.

79 – ch. 2:18.

80 – ch. 3:1.

81 – ch. 3:7.

82 – ch. 3:14.

83 – Ex. 25:37; Zec. 4:2.

84 – Eze. 1:26‒28; Da. 7:9, 13; 10:5, 6.

85 – ch. 2:18; 19:12.

86 – Eze. 1:7.

87 – Eze. 43:2.

88 – Is. 49:2; He. 4:12.

89 – ch. 10:1; Ac. 26:13.

90 – Ro. 6:9.

91 – ch. 20:1, 2; Ps. 68:20.

92 – ver. 16.

93 – Mat. 5:15, 16.

94 – ch. 1:16, 20.

95 – ver. 9, 13, 19; ch. 3:1, 8, 15; Ps. 1:6.

96 – 1 Jn. 4:1.

97 – 2 Co. 11:13.

98 – Ga. 6:9.

99 – Je. 2:2, 3.

100 – Mat. 21:41, 43.

101 – ver. 15.

102 – ver. 11, 17, 29; Mat. 11:15.

103 – ch. 22:2, 14; Ge. 2:9.

104 – ch. 1:8, 17.

105 – 1 Ti. 6:18.

106 – Ro. 2:28, 29.

107 – ch. 3:9.

108 – Mat. 10:22.

109 – Ja. 1:12.

110 – ch. 20:14.

111 – ch. 1:16.

112 – ver. 9.

113 – 2 Ti. 2:12.

114 – Nu. 31:16.

115 – Ac. 15:29.

116 – 1 Co. 6:13, 18.

117 – Is. 11:4.

118 – ver. 7; ch. 3:6, 13, 22.

119 – Ps. 25:14.

120 – ch. 3:12; 19:12, 13; Is. 56:4, 5; 65:15.

121 – 1 Co. 2:14.

122 – ch. 1:14, 15.

123 – ver. 2.

124 – 1 Ki. 16:31.

125 – Ex. 34:15; 1 Co. 10:20, 28.

126 – Ro. 2:4; 2 Pe. 3:9.

127 – ch. 9:20.

128 – Eze. 16:37; 23:29.

129 – ch. 6:8.

130 – Zep. 1:11.

131 – 1 Ch. 28:9; 2 Ch. 6:30; Ps. 7:9; Je. 17:10.

132 – Ps. 62:12.

133 – 2 Th. 2:9‒12.

134 – ch. 3:11.

135 – ver. 7, 11, 17; ch. 3:5, 12, 21; 21:7.

136 – Jn. 6:29; Ja. 2:20.

137 – Ps. 49:14; 149:5‒9.

138 – Ps. 2:9.

139 – ch. 22:16.

140 – ch. 5:6.

141 – ch. 2:2, &c.

142 – 1 Ti. 5:6.

143 – ch. 2:5.

144 – Da. 5:27.

145 – He. 2:1.

146 – ver. 19.

147 – ch. 16:15.

148 – ch. 7:9; 19:8.

149 – ch. 17:8.

150 – Lu. 12:8.

151 – Ac. 3:14.

152 – 1 Jn. 5:20.

153 – Is. 22:22.

154 – Job 12:14.

155 – 1 Co. 16:9.

156 – ch. 2:9.

157 – Is. 60:14.

158 – 2 Pe. 2:9.

159 – Zep. 1:14.

160 – ver. 3.

161 – ch. 21:2, 10.

162 – or, _in Laodicea_.

163 – Is. 65:16.

164 – 1 Ki. 18:21.

165 – Ho. 12:8.

166 – Is. 55:1.

167 – ch. 16:15.

168 – He. 12:5, 6.

169 – Ca. 5:2; Lu. 12:36.

170 – Jn. 14:23.

171 – ch. 12:11; 1 Jn. 5:4, 5.

172 – Lu. 22:30.

173 – Jn. 16:33.

174 – ch. 2:7.

175 – ch. 1:10.

176 – ch. 11:12.

177 – ch. 17:3; 21:10; Eze. 3:12‒14.

178 – Is. 6:1; Je. 17:12; Eze. 1:26, 28.

179 – Da. 7:9; He. 8:1.

180 – ch. 11:16.

181 – ch. 3:4, 5.

182 – ver. 10.

183 – ch. 8:5; 16:18.

184 – Ge. 15:17; Ex. 37:23; Zec. 4:2.

185 – ch. 1:4.

186 – ch. 15:2.

187 – Eze. 1:5, &c.; 10:14.

188 – Is. 6:2, &c.

189 – _have no rest._

190 – ch. 5:14.

191 – ver. 4.

192 – ch. 5:12.

193 – Col. 1:16.

194 – Eze. 2:9, 10.

195 – Is. 29:11.

196 – Ge. 49:9, 10; Nu. 24:9; He. 7:14.

197 – ch. 22:16; Is. 11:1, 10.

198 – Is. 53:7; Jn. 1:29, 36.

199 – Zec. 4:10.

200 – ch. 4:4, 8, 10.

201 – ch. 15:2.

202 – or, _incense_.

203 – Ps. 141:2.

204 – ch. 14:3.

205 – Ac. 20:28; Ep. 1:7; He. 9:12; 1 Pe. 1:18, 19.

206 – ch. 7:9.

207 – ch. 1:6.

208 – ch. 22:5.

209 – Da. 7:10; He. 12:22.

210 – ch. 4:11.

211 – Phi. 2:10.

212 – 1 Ch. 29:11; 1 Ti. 6:16; 1 Pe. 4:11.

213 – ch. 19:4.

214 – ch. 5:5.

215 – Zec. 6:3, &c.

216 – Ps. 45:3‒5.

217 – The word _chœnix_ signifieth a measure containing one wine
quart, and the twelfth part of a quart.

218 – ch. 9:4.

219 – or, _to him_.

220 – Eze. 14:21.

221 – ch. 8:3.

222 – ch. 20:4.

223 – ch. 1:9; 12:17.

224 – Zec. 1:12.

225 – ch. 11:18; De. 32:41‒43.

226 – ch. 7:9, 14.

227 – ch. 14:13.

228 – He. 11:40.

229 – ch. 16:18.

230 – Joel 2:10, 31; 3:15.

231 – ch. 8:10.

232 – or, _green_.

233 – Ps. 102:26; Is. 34:4.

234 – ch. 16:20; Je. 4:23, 24; Hab. 3:6, 10.

235 – Is. 2:19.

236 – ch. 9:6; Ho. 10:8; Lu. 23:30.

237 – ch. 16:14; Is. 13:6, &c.; Zep. 1:14, &c.

238 – Ps. 76:7.

239 – Da. 7:2.

240 – 2 Ti. 2:19.

241 – ch. 6:6.

242 – Eze. 9:4.

243 – ch. 22:4.

244 – ch. 14:1.

245 – ch. 5:9; Ro. 11:25.

246 – ch. 6:11.

247 – Le. 23:40.

248 – Zec. 4:7.

249 – ch. 19:1; Is. 43:11.

250 – ch. 5:13, 14; Jude 25.

251 – ch. 6:9; Jn. 16:33.

252 – 1 Co. 6:11; He. 9:14.

253 – ch. 1:5; 1 Jn. 1:7.

254 – ch. 21:3, 4.

255 – Is. 49:10.

256 – Ps. 121:6; Is. 4:6.

257 – Ps. 23:1, 2, 5; 36:8; Is. 40:11.

258 – Is. 25:8.

259 – ch. 5:1.

260 – Lu. 1:19.

261 – 2 Ch. 29:25‒28.

262 – or, _add |it| to_.

263 – ch. 5:8.

264 – ch. 6:9.

265 – Ex. 30:1.

266 – or, _upon_.

267 – ch. 16:18.

268 – 2 Sa. 22:8.

269 – Eze. 38:22.

270 – Is. 2:13.

271 – Ingentem meminit parvo qui germine quercum
Æquævumque videt consenuisse nemus.
A neighbouring wood born with himself he sees
And loves his old contemporary trees.――COWLEY.

272 – Je. 51:25.

273 – Am. 7:4.

274 – ch. 16:3, &c.; Ex. 7:19‒21.

275 – ch. 9:1; Is. 14:12.

276 – De. 29:18; Am. 5:7; He. 12:15.

277 – Ex. 15:23; Jer. 9:15; 23:15.

278 – Is. 13:10; Je. 4:23; Eze. 32:7, 8; Joel 2:10; Am. 8:9.

279 – “If we were called on to fix a period most calamitous,
it would be that from the death of Theodosius to the
establishment of the Lombards” (_Charles V_ pp. 11, 12).

280 – ch. 14:6.

281 – ch. 8:10; Lu. 10:18.

282 – ch. 17:8; 20:1.

283 – Joel 2:2.

284 – Ex. 10:4, &c.

285 – ver. 10.

286 – ch. 6:6.

287 – ch. 7:3; Ex. 12:23; Job 2:6; Eze. 9:4.

288 – Job 3:21; Je. 8:3.

289 – Joel 2:4.

290 – Na. 3:17.

291 – Da. 7:4, 8.

292 – Ps. 57:4; Joel 1:6.

293 – Na. 2:4.

294 – ver. 5.

295 – Ep. 2:2.

296 – That is, _a destroyer_.

297 – Fœmineas incisas facies præferentes, virorum et bene
barbatorum fugientia terga confodiunt.

298 – ch. 8:13.

299 – ch. 16:12; Ge. 2:14; Je. 51:63.

300 – or, _at_.

301 – ch. 8:7‒9.

302 – Eze. 38:4; Da. 11:40.

303 – Ps. 68:17.

304 – ch. 7:4.

305 – 1 Ch. 12:8; Is. 5:28, 29.

306 – Is. 9:15; Ep. 4:14.

307 – Je. 5:3; 8:6.

308 – Le. 17:7; 1 Co. 10:20.

309 – Ps. 135:15; Is. 40:19, 20.

310 – ch. 22:15.

311 – “As the Julian year equalled 365 days 6 hours, the
Apocalyptic period would, on the year-day principle,
be in amount as follows:――
A year = 365-1/4 days = 365 years + 1/4 of a year.
A month = 30 days = 30 years.
A day = = 1 year.
-----
396 years.
1/4 of a prophetic day or year (left out above)
= 91-1/4 days.
An hour = 1/24 of a prophetic day or year = 15-1/6 days.
Total = years 396 + 106 days.”
Elliott, i. p. 496.

312 – Mandat Chalifa tuæ curæ omne id terrarum quod Deus ejus
curæ et imperio commisit; tibique civium piorum, fidelium,
Deum colentium, tutclam sublocatorio nomine demandat.

313 – In the Hereford Discussion, between the Rev. J. Venn and
Rev. James Waterworth, it was admitted by the latter, an
able and learned Romish priest, that Bonaventura’s Psalter
to the Virgin Mary, turning the addresses to God into
addresses to the Virgin, was _blasphemy_ (Elliott, ii. 25).

314 – Romanus Pontifex viros claros, et qui sanctimoniâ
floruerunt, et eorum exigentibus clarissimis meritis
aliorum sanctorum numero aggregari mereritur――inter
sanctos prædictos debet collocare, et ut sanctos ab
omnibus Christi fidelibus _coli_, _venerari_, et ADORARI
mandare.

315 – “If you wish to see the horrors of these ages” (the Middle
Ages), says Chateaubriand, _Dict. Hist._ tom. iii. 420,
“read the _Councils_.”

316 – His character is told in the well-known epigram――
Octo _nocens_ pueros genuit, totidemque puellas:
Hunc merito potuit dicere Roma _patrem_.

317 – Eze. 1:28.

318 – ch. 1:15, 16; Mat. 17:2.

319 – For the proof of this, see Elliott, ii. 92.

320 – ch. 8:5; 14:2.

321 – Da. 8:26; 12:4, 9.

322 – Ex. 6:8; De. 32:40.

323 – ch. 14:7; Ne. 9:6.

324 – Da. 12:6, 7.

325 – ch. 11:15.

326 – Ro. 11:25; Ep. 3:5‒9.

327 – ver. 4.

328 – Eze. 3:1‒3, 14.

329 – ch. 21:15; Zec. 2:1.

330 – Eze. xl.‒xlviii.

331 – Eze. 40:17‒20.

332 – _cast out._

333 – Lu. 21:24.

334 – Da. 7:25.

335 – or, _give unto my two witnesses that they may prophesy_.

336 – Mat. 18:16.

337 – ch. 20:4.

338 – Is. 22:12.

339 – Je. 11:16; Zec. 4:3, 11, 14.

340 – ch. 1:20.

341 – Ps. 18:8.

342 – Nu. 16:35; Ho. 6:5.

343 – 1 Ki. 17:1.

344 – Ex. 7:19.

345 – ch. 17:8.

346 – Da. 7:21; Zec. 14:2, &c.

347 – He. 13:12.

348 – Is. 1:10.

349 – Ex. 20:2.

350 – Ps. 79:3.

351 – Eze. 37:5‒14.

352 – 1 Th. 4:17.

353 – Mal. 3:18.

354 – ch. 16:19.

355 – _names of men._

356 – ch. 14:7; Is. 26:15, 16.

357 – ch. 8:13.

358 – “An old Welsh Chronicle preserved at Cambridge says,
‘After that by means of Austin the Saxons became
Christians, in such sort as Austin had taught them, the
Britons would not either eat or drink with or salute them;
because they corrupted with _superstition_, _images_, and
_idolatry_, the true religion of Christ.’” Cited in
Hearn’_Man of Sin_, p. 21.――Elliott.

359 – ch. 10:7.

360 – ch. 12:10.

361 – Da. 2:44; 7:14, 18:27.

362 – ch. 4:4.

363 – ch. 16:5.

364 – ch. 19:6

365 – ver. 9.

366 – He. 9:27.

367 – ch. 22:12.

368 – ch. 19:5.

369 – or, _corrupt_.

370 – ch. 15:5, 8.

371 – ch. 8:5.

372 – ch. 16:18, 21.

373 – or, _sign_.

374 – Is. 54:6.

375 – Ps. 84:11; Mal. 4:2.

376 – or, _sign_.

377 – ver. 9.

378 – Is. 9:15.

379 – Is. 7:14.

380 – Ps. 2:9.

381 – ch. 11:3.

382 – Ge. 3:1, 4.

383 – Jn. 8:44.

384 – Zec. 3:1.

385 – ch. 11:15.

386 – Ro. 8:33, 37.

387 – Lu. 14:26.

388 – Ps. 96:11; Is. 49:13.

389 – ch. 8:13.

390 – ch. 10:6.

391 – Is. 40:31.

392 – An affecting instance of this kind――perhaps one of many
cases that existed――is mentioned by D’Aubigné (book i. p.
79, Eng. trans.), which came to light on the pulling down,
in the year 1776, of an old building that had formed a
part of the Carthusian convent at Basle. A poor Carthusian
brother, by the name of Martin, had written the following
confession, which he had placed in a wooden box, and
inclosed in a hole which he had made in the wall of his
cell, where it was found:――“O most merciful God, I know
that I can only be saved, and satisfy thy righteousness,
by the merit, the innocent suffering, and death of thy
well-beloved Son. Holy Jesus! my salvation is in thy hands.
Thou canst not withdraw the hands of thy love from me; for
they have created and redeemed me. Thou hast inscribed my
name with a pen of iron in rich mercy, and so as nothing
can efface it, on thy side, thy hands, and thy feet,” &c.

393 – Is. 59:19.

394 – Ge. 3:15.

395 – Da. 7:2, &c.

396 – ch. 12:3; 17:3, 9, 12.

397 – or, _names_.

398 – Da. 7:4‒7.

399 – ch. 12:9.

400 – ch. 16:10.

401 – _slain._

402 – ch. 17:8.

403 – ch. 17:14.

404 – Da. 7:8, 11, 25; 11:36.

405 – _make war._

406 – ch. 11:2, 3; 12:6.

407 – Col. 2:9; He. 9:11, 24.

408 – He. 12:22, 23.

409 – ch. 11:7; 12:17; Da. 7:21.

410 – Lu. 4:6.

411 – ch. 21:27; Da. 12:1.

412 – ch. 17:8.

413 – Is. 33:1.

414 – Ge. 9:6.

415 – He. 6:12.

416 – ch. 11:7.

417 – ver. 3.

418 – Mat. 24:24; 2 Th. 2:9, 10.

419 – ver. 3, 12.

420 – _breath._

421 – ch. 16:2

422 – _give them._

423 – Among the Romans, slaves were stigmatized with the
master’s name or mark on their foreheads. So Valerius
Maximus speaks of the custom for slaves, “literarum
notis inuri;” and Plautus calls the slave “literatus.”
Ambrose (_De Obit. Valentin._) says, Charactere Domini
inscribuntur servuli. Petronius mentions the forehead as
the place of the mark; Servitia ecce in frontibus cernitis.
In many cases, soldiers bore the emperor’s name or mark
imprinted on the hand. Actius says, Stigmata vocant
quæ in facie, vel in aliâ parte corporis, inscribuntur;
qualia sunt militum in manibus. So Ambrose says, Nomine
imperatoris signantur milites. Comp. Notes on Gal. vi. 17.

424 – ch. 15:2.

425 – ch. 5:12.

426 – ch. 7:4.

427 – ch. 3:12.

428 – ch. 19:6.

429 – ch. 5:8, 9.

430 – ch. 15:3.

431 – ver. 1.

432 – Ca. 1:3; 6:8; 2 Co. 11:2.

433 – Jn. 10:27.

434 – bought, 1 Co. 6:20.

435 – Ja. 1:18.

436 – Ps. 32:2.

437 – Ep. 5:27; Jude 24.

438 – 2 Sa. 23:5; Is. 40:8.

439 – Ep. 3:9.

440 – ch. 15:4.

441 – ch. 18:2, 3; Is. 21:9; Je. 51:7, 8.

442 – ch. 13:14‒16.

443 – Ps. 75:8.

444 – ch. 19:20.

445 – Is. 34:10.

446 – Is. 57:20, 21.

447 – 1 Th. 4:14, 16.

448 – or, _from henceforth saith the Spirit, Yea_.

449 – Eze. 1:26; Da. 7:13.

450 – Joel 3:13.

451 – Je. 51:33; Mat. 13:39.

452 – or, _dried_.

453 – ver. 15.

454 – ch. 19:15.

455 – Is. 63:3.

456 – He. 13:11, 12.

457 – Is. 34:7.

458 – ch. 19:14.

459 – ch. 14:10.

460 – ch. 4:6.

461 – Is. 4:4, 5.

462 – ch. 13:15‒17.

463 – ch. 14:2.

464 – Ex. 15:1‒19; De. 32:1‒43.

465 – ch. 14:3.

466 – Ho. 14:9.

467 – or, _nations_, or _ages_, ch. 17:14.

468 – Je. 10:7.

469 – 1 Sa. 2:2.

470 – Is. 45:23.

471 – ch. 11:19.

472 – Is. 6:4.

473 – Ps. 29:9.

474 – ch. 15:1, 7.

475 – ch. 8:7.

476 – Ex. 9:8‒11.

477 – ch. 13:15‒17.

478 – ch. 8:8.

479 – Ex. 7:17‒20.

480 – ch. 8:10.

481 – ver. 7.

482 – De. 32:42, 43; Is. 49:26.

483 – ch. 15:3; 19:2.

484 – ch. 8:12.

485 – ch. 9:17.

486 – or, _burned_.

487 – ver. 11, 21.

488 – ch. 9:20; Da. 5:22, 23.

489 – ch. 13:2‒4.

490 – ch. 9:2.

491 – ver. 2.

492 – In this connection, I may insert here the remarkable
calculation of Robert Fleming, in his work, entitled,
_Apocalyptical Key_, or _The Pouring Out of the Vials_,
first published in 1701. It is in the following words:
――“The fifth vial (ver. 10, 11), which is to be poured out
_on the seat of the beast, or the dominions which more
immediately belong to, and depend on, the Roman see; that,
I say, this judgment will probably begin about the year
1794, and expire about A.D. 1848; or that the duration of
it upon this supposition will be the space of fifty-four
years_. For I do suppose that, seeing the pope received
the title of Supreme Bishop no sooner than A.D. 606, he
cannot be supposed to have any vial poured upon his seat
immediately (so as to ruin his authority so signally as
this judgment must be supposed to do) _until the year 1848,
which is the date of the twelve hundred and sixty years in
prophetical account, when they are reckoned from A.D. 606_.
But yet we are not to imagine that this will totally
destroy the Papacy (though it will exceedingly weaken it),
for we find that still in being and alive when the next
vial is poured out” [pp. 124, 125, Cobbin’s edition].
It is a circumstance remarkably in accordance with this
calculation, that in the year 1848 the pope was actually
driven away to Gaeta, and that at the present time (1851)
he is restored, though evidently with diminished power.

493 – ch. 9:14.

494 – Is. 42:15; Je. 50:38; 51:36.

495 – ch. 12:3, 9.

496 – ch. 13:2.

497 – ch. 19:20.

498 – 1 Ti. 4:1.

499 – 2 Th. 2:9.

500 – 1 Jn. 5:19.

501 – ch. 19:19.

502 – 2 Pe. 3:10.

503 – ch. 3:4, 18.

504 – ch. 21:6.

505 – ch. 11:13.

506 – Da. 12:1.

507 – ch. 14:8.

508 – Is. 51:17, 23; Je. 25:15, 16.

509 – ch. 6:14.

510 – ch. 11:19.

511 – ch. 19:2; Na. 3:4.

512 – Je. 51:13.

513 – ch. 18:3.

514 – ch. 12:3.

515 – ch. 13:1.

516 – _gilded._

517 – Je. 51:7.

518 – 2 Th. 2:7.

519 – or, _fornications_.

520 – ch. 16:6.

521 – ver. 1.

522 – ver. 3.

523 – ch. 11:7.

524 – ver. 11.

525 – ch. 13:3, 8.

526 – ch. 13:1.

527 – Da. 7:20; Zec. 1:18‒21.

528 – ch. 19:19.

529 – Je. 50:44.

530 – ch. 19:16; De. 10:17; 1 Ti. 6:15.

531 – Mi. 5:8, 9.

532 – Ro. 8:30, 37.

533 – Jn. 15:16.

534 – ch. 2:10.

535 – ver. 1; Is. 8:7.

536 – ch. 13:7.

537 – Je. 50:41, 42.

538 – Eze. 16:37‒44.

539 – ch. 18:8, 18.

540 – Ac. 4:27, 28.

541 – ch. 10:7.

542 – ch. 16:19.

543 – Eze. 43:2.

544 – ch. 14:8; Is. 13:19; 21:9; Je. 51:8.

545 – ch. 17:2; Is. 34:11, 14; Je. 50:39; 51:37.

546 – Is. 47:15.

547 – ver. 11, 15.

548 – or, _power_.

549 – Is. 48:20; 52:11; Je. 50:8; 51:6, 45; 2 Co. 6:17.

550 – Je. 51:9.

551 – ch. 16:19.

552 – Ps. 137:8; Je. 50:15, 29.

553 – Is. 47:7‒11; Zep. 2:15.

554 – ch. 17:16.

555 – Ps. 62:11; Je. 50:34.

556 – Eze. 26:16, 17.

557 – ver. 17, 19.

558 – Eze. 27:27‒36.

559 – ch. 17:4.

560 – or, _sweet_.

561 – or, _bodies_.

562 – Eze. 27:13.

563 – Lu. 16:19, &c.

564 – Is. 23:14.

565 – Je. 51:37.

566 – Jos. 7:6; Job 2:12; Eze. 27:30.

567 – Je. 51:48.

568 – ch. 19:2; De. 32:43; Lu. 18:7, 8.

569 – Je. 51:64.

570 – Je. 25:10.

571 – Je. 7:34; 16:9; 33:11.

572 – Is. 23:8.

573 – 2 Ki. 9:22; Na. 3:4.

574 – Je. 51:49.

575 – ch. 11:15.

576 – ver. 3, 4, 6.

577 – ch. 7:10, 12.

578 – ch. 16:7.

579 – ch. 18:20.

580 – ch. 18:9, 18; Is. 34:10.

581 – Ps. 135:1.

582 – Ps. 97:1, 12.

583 – Mat. 25:10.

584 – Is. 52:1.

585 – ch. 3:4; Is. 61:10.

586 – or, _bright_.

587 – Ps. 132:9.

588 – Lu. 14:15.

589 – ch. 3:20.

590 – ch. 22:6.

591 – ch. 22:8, 9.

592 – Ac. 10:43; 1 Pe. 1:10, 11.

593 – ch. 6:2.

594 – ch. 3:14.

595 – Ps. 45:3, 4; Is. 11:4.

596 – ch. 1:14; 2:18.

597 – ch. 6:2; Ca. 3:11; Is. 62:3; Zec. 9:16; He. 2:9.

598 – ch. 3:12.

599 – Jn. 1:1.

600 – Mat. 28:3.

601 – ch. 1:16.

602 – Ps. 2:9.

603 – Is. 63:3.

604 – ch. 17:14.

605 – Eze. 39:17‒20.

606 – ch. 16:14, 16.

607 – ch. 16:13, 14.

608 – ch. 20:10; Da. 7:11.

609 – ver. 15; ch. 1:16.

610 – ver. 17, 18.

611 – ch. 1:18; 9:1.

612 – ch. 12:9.

613 – 2 Pe. 2:4; Jude 6.

614 – Da. 6:17.

615 – Da. 7:9, 22, 27; Lu. 22:30.

616 – 1 Co. 6:2, 3.

617 – ch. 6:9.

618 – ch. 5:10.

619 – ch. 2:11; 21:8.

620 – ch. 1:6; Is. 61:6.

621 – I have slightly abridged this passage, but have retained
the sense.

622 – Eze. 38:2; 39:1.

623 – ch. 16:14.

624 – Is. 8:8; Eze. 38:9, 16.

625 – ch. 19:20.

626 – 2 Pe. 3:10, 12.

627 – Da. 7:10.

628 – ch. 21:27; Da. 12:1.

629 – Je. 32:19; Mat. 16:27.

630 – _the grave._

631 – Ho. 13:14; 1 Co. 15:26, 54.

632 – Mat. 25:41.

633 – Is. 65:17‒19; 66:22; 2 Pe. 3:13.

634 – Is. 52:1; He. 11:10; 12:22.

635 – Is. 54:5.

636 – Ps. 45:9‒14.

637 – 2 Co. 6:16.

638 – Zec. 8:8.

639 – ch. 7:17; Is. 25:8.

640 – 1 Co. 15:26, 54.

641 – Is. 35:10.

642 – ch. 16:17.

643 – ch. 1:8; 22:1.

644 – ch. 22:17; Is. 55:1; Jn. 4:10, 14; 7:37.

645 – or, _these_.

646 – Lu. 12:4‒9.

647 – 1 Jn. 5:4, 10.

648 – 1 Co. 6:9, 10.

649 – 1 Jn. 3:15.

650 – He. 13:4.

651 – Mal. 3:5.

652 – 1 Co. 10:20, 21.

653 – ch. 22:15; Pr. 19:5, 9.

654 – ch. 15:1, 6, 7.

655 – ch. 19:7.

656 – Eze. xl.‒xlviii.

657 – Is. 60:1, 2.

658 – Eze. 48:31‒34.

659 – Ep. 2:20.

660 – ch. 11:1; Eze. 40:3; Zec. 2:1.

661 – Is. 54:11.

662 – ch. 22:5; Is. 60:19, 20.

663 – Jn. 1:4.

664 – Is. 60:3‒11; 66:10‒12.

665 – Ps. 72:11.

666 – Zec. 14:7.

667 – Is. 35:8; 52:1; 60:21; Joel 3:17; Mat. 13:41; 1 Co. 6:9, 10;
Ga. 5:19‒21; Ep. 5:5; He. 12:14.

668 – ch. 13:8.

669 – Eze. 47:1, 12.

670 – ch. 21:21.

671 – ch. 2:7.

672 – Zec. 14:11.

673 – Eze. 48:35.

674 – ch. 7:15.

675 – Mat. 5:8; Jn. 12:26; 17. 24; 1 Co. 13:12; 1 Jn. 3:2.

676 – ch. 3:12.

677 – ch. 21:23, 25.

678 – Ps. 36:9.

679 – Ro. 5:17.

680 – Devil, in MS., but it must have been pronounced _Scoticè_,
“deil.”

681 – Musing, in MS.

682 – ch. 1:1.

683 – ver. 10, 12, 20.

684 – Da. 8:26.

685 – Pr. 1:24‒33; Ec. 11:3; Mat. 25:10; 2 Ti. 3:13.

686 – Pr. 4:18; Mat. 5:6.

687 – Zep. 1:14.

688 – ch. 20:12.

689 – Is. 44:6.

690 – Lu. 12:37, 38.

691 – ch. 21:8, 27.

692 – Phi. 3:2.

693 – ch. 5:5.

694 – ch. 21:2, 9.

695 – Is. 2:5.

696 – ch. 21:6.

697 – Pr. 30:6.

698 – ch. 3:5.

699 – or, _from the tree_.

700 – ver. 7, 12.

701 – He. 9:28; Is. 25:9.

702 – 2 Th. 3:18.

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

The following corrections have been made in the text:

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Sentence starting: Map of N. Italy....
– Publisher included this entry in the list but did no include
the map in the book.

Page xlviii:
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Page 40:
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Page 190; verse 8. 1:
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– ‘and’ replaced with ‘an’
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(shown to the dead if they were not suffered to be)

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(they were the viceregents of heaven)

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