Lectures on the Book of the Revelation

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ...a theme for praise infinitely more thrilling, more reverential and more joyful, than ever was known before. Hence, as we have already noted, the contrast marked between the " singing " of the Church of the first-born, and the "saying" of the angels by their thousands many in chapter v. Well; here in chapter vii. we listen to the praise of this earthly company of God's redeemed. And not without design, surely, is it that that praise of theirs is called a "cry" or " shout," (cpaovrec) rather than a song; as if their joy, however great, was exceeded far by the joy of that other, the heavenly company of God's redeemed. If it be a song at all that they are said to sing, (for so it is indeed termed elsewhere) the term is still qualified by their song being spoken of as "the song of Moses, tha servant of God, and the song of the Lamb." The words of their song, too, triumphant as they are, are widely different from the words used to express the Church's ecstasy. (See chap. xv. 2--4, and compare chap. i. 5, 6, or v. 10.) And once more; whilst it is a distinct and definite promise to those who are His now, that they shall be kept even from the hour itself of the temptation which is coming upon all the world, (chap. iii. 10); here, on the contrary, as we are expressly informed, these "come out of the tribulation, the great one." Besides which, it is one of the elders who, as we have seen, represent the Church, that gives the information to John about these future out-comers from the tribulation. Clearly, therefore, tho elders, that is to say, the Church, are a distinct company from those out-comers themselves, since the one company points to the other company, and discourses concerning it. It was essential that the general bearing of this chapter, ...

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