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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 11
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The height and continuance of their tyranny is expressed, the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months. By the Law, Gentiles were inhibited the congregation and assembly of the people in this outer Court; so this giving to the Gentiles, must suppose a profaning of the visible Church, and corrupting and mixing of public Ordinances and Worship, even as admission of Gentiles to the outer court would have been under the Law; for which Paul was complained of, Acts 21. By Gentiles is to be understood not properly Pagans, for they are not capable to possess the visible Church, and to partake its name: for, it continueth ⟨p. 479⟩to be the outer Court, even while it is given to them, and is tread on by them. Beside (as was hinted) the time of their treading of it, will fall under the time of Antichrists sitting in the Temple of God, and therefore it must be understood of his vassals and followers. They are called Gentiles in this respect, that although they seem to bear the name of Christians, and so did not destroy, but possess the outer Court, and retain the name of the Christian Church; yet in respect of their defection from the purity of the Gospel, and of the superstitious and idolatrous worship propagated by them, they are rather to be accounted Gentiles than Christians; in which respect, their head Antichrist (Chap. 13.) is said to have a name of blasphemy, even as the Pagan heads had which went before him. This is further explained in the following expression, the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months. What he called the outer Court formerly, here he calleth the holy City, to wit, the visible Christian Church, whereof Jerusalem (called the holy City for the Ordinances of God in it) was a type. They shall tread upon it, that is, shall possess it, brook the name of it, pollute it, marring the beauty of it, and that with an high hand, as the Temple was polluted during Antiochus his tyranny.
The height and continuance of their tyrannie is expressed, the holy city shall they tread under foot fourty and two moneths. By the Law, Gentiles were inhibited the congregation and assembly of the people in this outer Court; so this giving to the Gentiles, must suppose a profaning of the visible Church, and corrupting and mixing of publick Ordinances and Worship, even as admission of Gentiles to the outer court would have been under the Law; for which Paul was complained of,