Towards Understanding Revelation

Category: 19th Century

  • 1/7/23 REVELATION 1:1a, PART 5

    1/7/23 REVELATION 1:1a, PART 5

    And still in the 19th century: “The Apocalypse is the mystery of Christ, or the mystical account of His kingdom from the day of Pentecost till the day of Judgment; not strictly predictive, but interweaving the past, present, and future as seen of God. There is a Divine dignity in the opening words, as in…

  • 12/23/22 REVELATION 1:1a, PART 4

    12/23/22 REVELATION 1:1a, PART 4

    Continuing on in the 19th century with Joseph Augustus Seiss: “What concerns the subject and contents of this book, I find for the most part in the name which it gives itself. It is the common rule with Scripture names, to express the substance of the things to which they are applied. The name of…