A Commentary on the Apocalypse
by Moses Stuart
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217907019
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: everything which belongs to his house and to Jerusalem. The Ca- naanites will no more dwell in the land. This prophecy seems to tally with that in Ezek. 39: 20?28. Joel 3:17?21. Rev. 20: 8?10, and to relate to the times which are to follow the invasion by Gog and Magog- (39) Mal. 4: 2?6. The Sun of righteousness will arise with healing in his wings. Israel shall prosper, and the wicked be trodden down. Elijah, the prophet, will come as the forerunner of the day of the Lord. He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and of the children to the fathers. Such is the tenor of the predictions in the Old Testament, in relation to the deeply interesting subject before us. I have not aimed at citing them all; and I have purposely omitted such as relate merely to the person of the Messiah; because these had been fulfilled when the Apocalypse was written, and could not be there introduced as predictions of what was yet to come. Only such prophecies as have relation to the universal spread of religion, whether among the Jews, or Gentiles, or both, have a direct bearing on our subject. Of these the number is so great, as to leave no room for well-grounded doubt in the mind, that the pious Jews of former ages must have been filled with high expectations in regard to the Messianic period, and, like good old Simeon, must have been waiting for the Consolation of Israel, or, like Abraham, they must have seen the Saviour's day afar off, and have been glad. That some of the predictions cited above, as having relation to the future extent and glory of the church, have been, and will be, interpreted differently from what they are here supposed to mean, every reader well versed in biblical interpretation will know without admonition. It is a fact, moreover, that interpreters have...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217907019 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217907016 |
| Weight | 1.54 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.06 In |
| List Price | $29.13 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 478 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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