...and John tell the church what was to happen ? And here is not the Apocalypse written on very purpose to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass ? What do these boasters of themselves mean ? What meaneth this confederacy of all orthodox and heterodox,...

...BooK.l. The sealed book written within and on the backside. This book has been thought to be " the Revelation of Jesus Christ which God gave unto him,...servants things which must shortly come to pass," plausibly enough ; but our Lord's omniscience seems to have been inherent in him, before he took the...

...12; 2 Thess. i. 7; 1 Pet. i. 13, &.c. : and this seems ^o be^confirmed^DjTThe following context : " to shew unto his servants things which must SHORTLY come to pass." That the period limited by our Lord for the commencement of this catastrophe must * I cannot help here...

...the Gentiles is given their whole history, in the last canonical book of Holy Scripture, called "The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him,...— "And he sent, and signified it, by his angel, to his servant John; who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and...

...book are, (as it were, a title-page, containing a brief description of it, and of its author. " The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him,...shortly come to pass ; and he sent and signified it unto his servant John, who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and...

...chiefly had to ministers of the Gospel; who are stewards in the household of God. So too Rev. 1. 1, ' The revelation of Jesus Christ which God gave unto him to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly come to pasm ;' ie to shew unto his ministering servants, the pastors...

...his servants things which must shortly come to pass — and sent and signified it by his angel, to his servant John ; who bare record of the word of God, and the testimony of Jesus Christ."* * Rev. i. 1, 2. 266 After having given a particular account of the...

...through the knowledge of things to come, until he should return. It has, for its proximate object, " will do all my pleasure." (Isai. xlvi.5 — 10.) " And who, as I " (or shortly be). If, as is perhaps the scriptural idea, we hold that the date of this communication...

...inditeth the book which he had received from the angel of Christ, and which Christ had received from God, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass. God, in .giving it, indites it to all his servants, and the style of it throughout is, to every one...

...from the first chapter, that the faithful witness is Jesus Christ ; and that the whole book is " the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him,...servants things which must shortly come to pass." (Rev. 1. | , 2.) It is then no less than Christ, the Judge Himself, who warns in these words not that...