“But I appeal to the common sense of men and their sense of
fairness, and I ask them whether they have a right to expect that such a book
as the book of Revelation can in the very nature of things — be anything but dark
and mysterious. Here is a prophetic book which spans the mighty gulf
between the end of the first century — and the day of judgment; a book which was
given to show God's dealings with the Church and the world during a space of
well night 2000 years; a book which points to the rise and fall of empires and
kingdoms, with all the attendant wars and tumults over a third part of the
habitable globe; a book, above all, which does not tell its story in simple,
plain matter of fact narration, but clothes it in majestic visions, symbols,
emblems, figures, and similitudes.”
J. C. Ryle, from a sermon on Revelation, “The
Reading Which is Blessed.”
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