Author: P. W. Grant

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-11

Total Pages: 652

ISBN-13: 9781331190608

Excerpt from The Revelation of John: An Exposition The Revelation of John may be regarded as, to no small extent, an epitome of the entire Scriptures, or a summary of all Revelation. It condenses, and at the same time completes, the whole prophetic history of human Redemption. It need hardly be said, however, that, whilst thus comprehensive, it treats, directly or indirectly, very largely of the great Apostasy elsewhere alluded to in Scripture, or of the rise and reign and fall of a power most hostile and destructive to the cause and kingdom of Jesus Christ. Symbolic from beginning to end, it contains, within the smallest compass, the very greatest amount of redemptive truth. Only as the consecutive representations are rightly interpreted, and their inter-relations seen, can this most marvellous Book, whose complex structure is the very perfection of superhuman art, be at all satisfactorily understood, or be regarded as, to any great extent, even intelligible. As is frequently remarked in this book, the gravest mistakes have been made, and the wildest imaginations formed, through the most common of all the errors into which interpreters have often fallen, - we mean that of con founding the symbol with the thing symbolised. We have, whether successfully or not, at least endeavoured to keep free from this error, through which, we are persuaded, the whole Book has, in some instances, come to be so thoroughly misinterpreted as to lead many to neglect the study of it, if not to deem it beyond the reach of any consistent or even rational interpretation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.