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A commentary upon the book of the Revelation Wherein the text is explained, the…A commentarie upon the book of the Revelation Wherein the text is explained, the…
A commentary upon the book of the Revelation Wherein the text is explained, the series of the several prophecies contained in that book, deduced according to their order and dependence on each other; the periods and succession of times, at, or about which, these prophecies, that are already fulfilled, began to be, and were more fully accomplished, fixed and applied according to history; and those that are yet to be fulfilled, modestly, and so far as is warrantable, enquired into. Together with some practical observations, and several digressions, necessary for vindicating, clearing, and confirming many weighty and important truths. Delivered in several lectures, by that learned, laborious, and faithful servant of Jesus Christ, James Durham, late Minister of the Gospel in Glasgow. To which is affixed a brief summary of the whole book, with a twofold index, one of the several digressions, another of the chief and principal purposes and words contained in this treatise.A commentarie upon the book of the Revelation Wherein the text is explained, the series of the several prophecies contained in that book, deduced according to their order and dependance on each other; the periods and succession of times, at, or about which, these prophecies, that are already fulfilled, began to be, and were more fully accomplished, fixed and applied according to history; and those that are yet to be fulfilled, modestly, and so far as is warrantable, enquired into. Together with some practical observations, and several digressions, necessary for vindicating, clearing, and confirming many weighty and important truths. Delivered in several lectures, by that learned, laborious, and faithfull servant of Jesus Christ, James Durham, late Minister of the Gospel in Glasgow. To which is affixed a brief summary of the whole book, with a twofold index, one of the several digressions, another of the chief and principall purposes and words contained in this treatise.
Edinburgh: printed by Christopher Higgins, 1658
AN EXPOSITION Of the BOOK of the REVELATION. › Lecture 1 › Chapter 4
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
To come more particularly to the words; There are in the first and second verses, four circumstances that make way to the vision. 1. After this, that is, after the first vision, spoken of in the first three Chapters: for, though it is like (as Chap. 1. vers. 10.) John had all this revelation revealed to him in one day from the Lord; yet the Lord gave him some breathings between visions, First, things present, and then things to come, being revealed to him; which is one cause why the prophesies and visions of this Book, are distinguished from each other.
To come more particularly to the words; There are in the first and second verses, four circumstances that make way to the vision. 1. After this, that is, after the first vision, spoken of in the first three Chapters: for, though it is like (as Chap. 1. vers. 10.) Iohn had all this revelation revealed to him in one day from the Lord; yet the Lord gave him some breathings between visions, First, things present, and then things to come, being revealed to him; which is one cause why the prophesies and visions of this Book, are distinguished from each other.
The second circumstance observable, is, the Lords giving access to John to see what he saw, Behold, a door was opened in heaven: what is meant by Heaven here, whether the Church Militant, which is often, in this Book, and in Scripture called Heaven, or, whether the third Heaven, spoken of, 2 Cor. 12.2. we shall not insist on it: What John saw, was concerning the Visible Church, and for their behove and advantage: but it is like, the place where John saw these things in vision, was even that which we call Heaven literally, God extraordinarily making way to him, to look in where His Glory was manifested; and it is called here an opening of a door in heaven, and there showing him things to come concerning His Church, which were afterward to fall out; yet this is now shown unto John in vision, as if it were for the present time acted in a kind of comedy before him. And therefore may either be supposed to be revealed to him in Heaven, or in a trance represented to him, as if it were there. And it agreeth best with the scope, that it be thus understood, to wit, that Heaven should be in this manner opened to John, and things revealed to him there, which he was to reveal to the Church.