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- 07950
- * Blessed.
- # 7 Ps 106:3-5 112:1 119:1-6 Isa 56:1,2 Da 12:12 Mt 7:21-27
- # Lu 12:37,38 Joh 14:15,21-23 15:10-14 1Co 7:19 Ga 5:6
- # 1Jo 3:3,23,24 5:3
- * may have.
- # Joh 4:12 1Co 8:9 9:5 *Gr:
- * to the.
- # 2 2:7
- * and may.
- # 21:27 Joh 10:7,9 14:6
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- * without.
- # 9:20,21 21:8,27 1Co 6:9,10 Ga 5:19-21 Eph 5:3-6 Col 3:6
- * dogs.
- # Php 3:2
- * sorcerers.
- # 9:21 18:23 Isa 47:9,12 57:3 Mal 3:5 Ac 8:11 13:6-11
- * whoremongers.
- # 17:1-6
- * whosoever.
- # 21:8,27 1Ki 22:8,21-23 Isa 9:15,16 Jer 5:31 Joh 3:18-21
- # Joh 8:46 2Th 2:10-12
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- * I Jesus.
- # 6 1:1
- * to testify.
- # 20
- * See on ver.
- # 1,11 2:7,11,17,29 3:6,13,22
- * I am.
- # 5:5 Isa 11:1 Zec 6:12 Mt 22:42,45 Ro 1:3,4 9:5
- * the bright.
- # 2:28 Nu 24:17 Mt 2:2,7-10 Lu 1:78 2Pe 1:19
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- * the Spirit.
- # 16 Isa 55:1-3 Joh 16:7-15
- * the bride.
- # 21:2,9
- * Come.
- # Isa 2:5
- * let him that heareth.
- # Ps 34:8 Isa 2:3,5 48:16-18 Jer 50:5 Mic 4:2 Zec 8:21-23
- # Joh 1:39-46 4:29 1Th 1:5-8
- * let him that is athirst.
- # 21:6 Isa 55:1 Joh 7:37
- * let him take.
- # Isa 12:3 Joh 4:10,14
- * freely.
- # Ro 3:24 1Co 2:12
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- * testify.
- # 16 3:14 Eph 4:17 1Th 4:6
- * heareth.
- # 1:3
- * If.
- # De 4:2 12:32 Pr 30:6 Mt 15:6-9,13
- * God.
- # 14:10,11 15:1 16:1 19:20 20:10,15 Le 26:18,24,25,28,37
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- * take.
- # 2:18 Lu 11:52
- * God.
- # 3:5 13:8 Ex 32:33 Ps 69:28
- * out of the book of life. or, from the tree of life.
- # 2
- * and out.
- # 21:2,22-27
- * and from.
- # 12 1:3 2:7,11,17,26 3:4,5,12,21 7:9-17 14:13
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- * which.
- # 18
- * Surely.
- # 7,10,12
- * Amen.
- # 1:18 So 8:14 Isa 25:9 Joh 21:25 2Ti 4:8 Heb 9:28 2Pe 3:12-14
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- # 1:4 Ro 1:7 16:20,24 2Co 13:14 Eph 6:23,24 2Th 3:18
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- CONCLUDING REMARKS ON THE BOOK OF REVELATION.
-
- The obscurity of this prophecy, which has been urged against its
- genuineness, necessarily results from the highly figurative and
- symbolical language in which it is delivered, and is, in fact, a
- strong internal proof of its authenticity and divine original.
- "For it is a part of this prophecy," as Sir Isaac Newton justly
- remarks, "that it should not be understood before the last age
- of the world; and therefore it makes for the credit of the
- prophecy that it is not yet understood. The folly of
- interpreters has been to foretell times and things by this
- prophecy, as if God designed to make them prophets. By this
- rashness they have not only exposed themselves, but brought the
- prophecy also into contempt. The design of God was much
- otherwise. He gave this, and the prophecies of the Old
- Testament, not to gratify men's curiosities by enabling them to
- foreknow things, but that, after that they were fulfilled, they
- might be interpreted by the event; and his own providence, not
- the interpreter's, be then manifested thereby to the world. For
- the event of things, predicted many ages before, will then be a
- convincing argument that the world is governed by Providence.
- For, as the few and obscure prophecies concerning Christ's first
- coming were for setting up the Christian religion, which all
- nations have since corrupted, so the many and clear prophecies
- concerning the things to be done at Christ's second coming, are
- not only for predicting, but also for effecting a recovery and
- re-establishment of the long-lost truth, and setting up a
- kingdom wherein dwells righteousness. The event will prove the
- Apocalypse; and this prophecy, thus proved and understood, will
- open the old prophets; and all together will make known the true
- religion, and establish it. There is already so much of the
- prophecy fulfilled, that as many as will take pains in this
- study may see sufficient instances of God's promise; but then,
- the signal revolutions predicted by all the holy prophets, will
- at once both turn men's eyes upon considering the predictions,
- and plainly interpret them. Till then we must content ourselves
- with interpreting what hath already been fulfilled." And, as
- Mr. Weston observes, "if we were in possession of a complete and
- particular history of Asia, not only of great events, without
- person or place, names or dates, but of the exactest biography,
- geography, topography, and chronology, we might, perhaps, still
- be able to explain and appropriate more circumstances recorded
- in the Revelation, under the emperors of the East and the West,
- and in Arabia, Persia, Tartary, and Asia, the seat of the most
- important revolutions with which the history of Christianity has
- ever been interwoven and closely connected." History is the
- great interpreter of prophecy. "Prophecy is, as I may say,"
- observes Bp. Newton, "history anticipated and contracted;
- history is prophecy accomplished and dilated; and the prophecies
- of Scripture contain the fate of the most considerable nations,
- and the substance of the most memorable transactions in the
- world, from the earliest to the latest times. Daniel and St.
- John, with regard to those latter times, are more copious and
- particular than the other prophets. They exhibit a series and
- succession of the most important events from the first of the
- four great empires to the consummation of all things. Their
- prophecies may really be said to be a summary of the history of
- the world; and the history of the world is the best comment upon
- their prophecies....and the more you know of ancient and modern
- times, and the farther you search into the truth of history, the
- more you will be satisfied of the truth of prophecy." The
- Revelation was designed to supply the place of that continued
- succession of prophets, which demonstrated the continued
- providence of God to the patriarchal and Jewish churches. "The
- majority of commentators on the Apocalypse," says Mr. Townsend,
- "generally acted on these principles of interpretation. They
- discover in this Book certain predictions of events which were
- fulfilled soon after they were announced; they trace in the
- history of later years various coincidences, which so fully
- agree with the various parts of the Apocalypse, that they are
- justly entitled to consider them as the fulfilment of its
- prophecies; and, by thus tracing the one God of revelation
- through the clouds of the dark ages, through the storms of
- revolutions and wars, through the mighty convulsions which at
- various periods have agitated the world, their interpretations,
- even when they are most contradictory, when they venture to
- speculate concerning the future, are founded on so much
- undoubted truth that they have materially confirmed the wavering
- faith of thousands. Clouds and darkness must cover the
- brightness of the throne of God, till it shall please him to
- enable us to bear the brighter beams of his glory. In the mean
- time, we trace his footsteps in the sea of the Gentile world,
- his path in the mighty waters of the ambitions and clashing
- passions of man. We rejoice to anticipate the day when the
- bondage of Rome, which would perpetuate the intellectual and
- spiritual slavery of man, shall be overthrown, and day-spring of
- united knowledge and holiness bless the world."
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- 1 God creates heaven and earth;
- 3 the light;
- 6 the firmament;
- 9 separates the dry land;
- 14 forms the sun, moon, and stars;
- 20 fishes and fowls;
- 24 cattle, wild beasts, and creeping things;
- 26 creates man in his own image, blesses him;
- 29 grants the fruits of the earth for food.
-
- * beginning.
- # Pr 8:22-24 16:4 Mr 13:19 Joh 1:1-3 Heb 1:10 1Jo 1:1
- * God.
- # Ex 20:11 31:18 1Ch 16:26 Ne 9:6 Job 26:13 38:4 Ps 8:3 33:6,9
- # Ps 89:11,12 96:5 102:25 104:24,30 115:15 121:2 124:8 134:3
- # Ps 136:5 146:6 148:4,5 Pr 3:19 8:22-30 Ec 12:1 Isa 37:16 40:26
- # Isa 40:28 42:5 44:24 45:18 51:13,16 65:17 Jer 10:12 32:17
- # Jer 51:15 Zec 12:1 Mt 11:25 Ac 4:24 14:15 17:24 Ro 1:19,20
- # Ro 11:36 1Co 8:6 Eph 3:9 Col 1:16,17 Heb 1:2 3:4 11:3 2Pe 3:5
- # Re 3:14 4:11 10:6 14:7 21:6 22:13
- 07959
- * without.
- # Job 26:7 Isa 45:18 Jer 4:23 Na 2:10
- * Spirit.
- # Job 26:14 Ps 33:6 104:30 Isa 40:12-14
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- * God.
- # Ps 33:6,9 148:5 Mt 8:3 Joh 11:43
- * Let.
- # Job 36:30 38:19 Ps 97:11 104:2 118:27 Isa 45:7 60:19 Joh 1:5,9
- # Joh 3:19 2Co 4:6 Eph 5:8,14 1Ti 6:16 1Jo 1:5 2:8
- 07961
- * that.
- # 10,12,18,25,31 Ec 2:13 11:7
- * the light from the darkness. Heb. between the light and
- between the darkness.
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- * Day, and.
- # 8:22 Ps 19:2 74:16 104:20 Isa 45:7 Jer 33:20 1Co 3:13 Eph 5:13
- # 1Th 5:5
- * And the evening and the morning were. Heb. And the evening
- was, and the morning was.
- # 8,13,19,23,31
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- * Let there.
- # 14,20 7:11,12 Job 26:7,8,13 37:11,18 38:22-26 Ps 19:1 33:6,9
- # Ps 104:2 136:5,6 148:4 150:1 Ec 11:3 Jer 10:10,12,13 51:15
- # Zec 12:1
- * firmament. Heb. expansion.
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- * divided.
- # Pr 8:28,29
- * above.
- # Job 26:8 Ps 104:10 148:4 Ec 11:3
- * and it.
- # 9,11,15,24 Mt 8:27
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- * God.
- # 5,10 5:2
- * evening.
- # 5,13,19,23,31
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- # Job 26:7,10 38:8-11 Ps 24:1,2 33:7 95:5 104:3,5-9 136:5,6
- # Pr 8:28,29 Ec 1:7 Jer 5:22 Jon 1:9 2Pe 3:5 Re 10:6
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- * God saw.
- # 4 De 32:4 Ps 104:31
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- * Let the.
- # 2:5 Job 28:5 Ps 104:14-17 147:8 Mt 6:30 Heb 6:7
- * grass. Heb. tender grass. fruit.
- # 29 2:9,16 Ps 1:3 Jer 17:8 Mt 3:10 7:16-20 Mr 4:28 Lu 6:43,44
- # Jas 3:12
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- * earth.
- # Isa 61:11 Mr 4:28
- * herb.
- # Isa 55:10,11 Mt 13:24-26 Lu 6:44 2Co 9:10 Ga 6:7
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- # 13
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- * Let there.
- # De 4:19 Job 25:3,5 38:12-14 Ps 8:3,4 19:1-6 74:16,17 104:19,20
- # Ps 119:91 136:7-9 148:3,6 Isa 40:26 Jer 31:35 33:20,25
- * lights.
- Or, rather, luminaries or light-bearers; being a different
- world from that rendered light, in ver. 3, the day from the
- night.
-
- * between the day and between the night. and let.
- # 8:22 9:13 Job 3:9 38:31,32 Ps 81:3 Eze 32:7,8 46:1,6
- # Joe 2:10,30,31 3:15 Am 5:8 8:9 Mt 2:2 16:2,3 24:29 Mr 13:24
- # Lu 21:25,26 23:45 Ac 2:19,20 Re 6:12 8:12 9:2
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- # 15
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- * to rule. Heb. for the rule, etc.
- # De 4:19 Jos 10:12-14 Job 31:26 38:7 Ps 8:3 19:6 74:16
- # Ps 136:7,8,9 148:3,5 Isa 13:10 24:23 45:7 Hab 3:11 Mt 24:29
- # Mt 27:45 1Co 15:41 Re 16:8,9 21:23
- * he made the stars also. Or, with the stars also.
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- # 9:13 Job 38:12 Ps 8:1,3 Ac 13:47
- 07975
- # Ps 19:6 Jer 31:35
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- # 19
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- * Let the waters.
- # 22 2:19 8:17 Ps 104:24,25 148:10 Ac 17:25
- * moving. or, creeping.
- # 1Ki 4:33
- * life. Heb. a living soul.
- # 30 Ec 2:21
- * fowl that may fly. Heb. let fowl fly.
- This marginal reading is more conformable to the original, and
- reconciles this passage with ch. 2:19. The word fowl, from
- the Saxon {fleon,} to fly, exactly corresponds to the
- original, which denotes every thing that flies, whether bird
- or insect.
-
- * open firmament. Heb. face of the firmament.
- # 7,14
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- * great.
- # 6:20 7:14 8:19 Job 7:12 26:5 Ps 104:24-26 Eze 32:2 Jon 1:17
- # Jon 2:10 Mt 12:40
- * brought.
- # 8:17 9:7 Ex 1:7 8:3
- * God saw.
- # 18,25,31
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- # 28 8:17 9:1 30:27,30 35:11 Le 26:9 Job 40:15 42:12 Ps 107:31,38
- # Ps 128:3 144:13,14 Pr 10:22
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- # 23
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- * Let.
- # 6:20 7:14 8:19 Job 38:39,40 39:1,5,9,19 40:15 Ps 50:9,10
- # Ps 104:18,23 148:10
- Cattle, denotes domestic animals living on vegetables;--Beasts
- of the earth, wild animals; especially such as live on flesh;
- and--Creeping things, reptiles; or all the different genera of
- serpents, worms, and such animals as have no feet.
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- # 2:19,20 Job 12:8-10 26:13
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- * Let us.
- # 3:22 11:7 Job 35:10 Ps 100:3 149:2 Isa 64:8 Joh 5:17 14:23
- # 1Jo 5:7
- * man.
- In Hebrew, Adam; probably so called either from the red earth
- of which he was formed, or from the blush or flesh-tint of
- the human countenance: the name is intended to designate the
- species.
-
- * in our.
- # 5:1 9:6 Ec 7:29 Ac 17:26,28,29 1Co 11:7 2Co 3:18 4:4 Eph 4:24
- # Col 1:15 3:10 Jas 3:9
- * have dominion.
- # 9:2,3,4 Job 5:23 Ps 8:4-8 104:20-24 Ec 7:29 Jer 27:6
- # Ac 17:20,28,29 1Co 11:7 2Co 3:18 Eph 4:24 Col 3:10 Heb 2:6-9
- # Jas 3:7,9
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- * in the image.
- # Ps 139:14 Isa 43:7 Eph 2:10 4:24 Col 1:15
- * See
- # 26
- * male.
- # 2:21-25 5:2 Mal 2:15 Mt 19:4 Mr 10:6 1Co 11:8,9
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- # 22 8:17 9:1,7 17:16,20 22:17,18 24:60 26:3,4,24 33:5 49:25
- # Le 26:9 1Ch 4:10 26:5 Job 42:12 Ps 107:38 127:1-5 128:3,4
- # Isa 45:18 1Ti 4:3
- * moveth. Heb. creepeth.
- # Ps 69:34 *marg:
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- * I have.
- # Ps 24:1 115:16 Ho 2:8 Ac 17:24,25,28 1Ti 6:17
- * bearing. Heb. seeding. to you.
- # 2:16 9:3 Job 36:31 Ps 104:14,15,27,28 111:5 136:25 145:15,16
- # Ps 146:7 147:9 Isa 33:16 Mt 6:11,25,26 Ac 14:17
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- # 9:3 Job 38:39-41 39:4,8,30 40:15,20 Ps 104:14 145:15,16 147:9
- * life. Heb. a living soul.
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- * very good.
- # Job 38:7 Ps 19:1,2 104:24,31 La 3:38 1Ti 4:4
- * and the.
- # 5,8,13,19,23 2:2 Ex 20:11
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- 1 The first Sabbath.
- 4 Further particulars concerning the manner of creation.
- 8 The planting of the garden of Eden, and its situation;
- 15 man is placed in it; and the tree of knowledge only
- forbidden.
- 18 The animals are named by Adam.
- 21 The making of woman, and the institution of marriage.
-
- * Thus.
- # 4 1:1,10 Ex 20:11 31:17 2Ki 19:15 2Ch 2:12 Ne 9:6 Job 12:9
- # Ps 89:11-13 104:2 136:5-8 146:6 Isa 42:5 45:18 48:13 55:9
- # Isa 65:17 Jer 10:12,16 Zec 12:1 Ac 4:24 Heb 4:3
- * host.
- # De 4:19 17:3 2Ki 21:3-5 Ps 33:6,9 Isa 34:4 40:26-28 45:12
- # Jer 8:2 Lu 2:13 Ac 7:42
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- * And on.
- # 1:31 Ex 20:11 23:12 31:17 De 5:14 Isa 58:13 Joh 5:17 Heb 4:4
- * seventh day God.
- The LXX., Syriac, and the Samaritan Text read the sixth day,
- which is probably the true reading; as
- [vav <\\See definition 02053\\>,] which stands for six, might
- easily be changed into [zayin,] which denotes seven.
-
- * rested.
- Or, rather, ceased, as the Hebrew word is not opposed to
- weariness, but to action; as the Divine Being can neither know
- fatigue, nor stand in need of rest.
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- * blessed.
- # Ex 16:22-30 20:8-11 23:12 31:13-17 34:21 35:2,3 Le 23:3 25:2,3
- # De 5:12-14 Ne 9:14 13:15-22 Pr 10:22 Isa 56:2-7 58:13,14
- # Jer 17:21-27 Eze 20:12 Mr 2:27 Lu 23:56 Heb 4:4-10
- * created and made. Heb. created to make.
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- * the generations.
- # 1:4 5:1 10:1 11:10 25:12,19 36:1,9 Ex 6:16 Job 38:28 Ps 90:1,2
- * Lord.
- # Ex 15:3 1Ki 18:39 2Ch 20:6 Ps 18:31 86:10 Isa 44:6 Re 1:4,8
- # Re 11:17 16:5
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- * plant.
- # 1:12 Ps 104:14
- * had not.
- # Job 5:10 38:26-28 Ps 65:9-11 135:7 Jer 14:22 Mt 5:45 Heb 6:7
- * to till.
- # 3:23 4:2,12
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- * there went up a mist. or, a mist which went up.
- # 6
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- * formed man.
- # Ps 100:3 139:14,15 Isa 64:8
- * of the dust. Heb. the dust of, etc. dust.
- # 3:19,23 Job 4:19 33:6 Ps 103:14 Ec 3:7,20 12:7 Isa 64:8
- # Ro 9:20 1Co 15:47 2Co 4:7 5:1
- * and breathed.
- # Job 27:3 33:4 Joh 20:22 Ac 17:25
- * nostrils.
- # 7:22 Ec 3:21 Isa 2:22
- * a living.
- # Nu 16:22 27:16 Pr 20:27 Zec 12:1 1Co 15:45 Heb 12:9
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- * a garden.
- # 13:10 Eze 28:13 31:8,9 Joe 2:3
- * eastward.
- # 3:24 4:16 2Ki 19:12 Eze 27:23 31:16,18
- * put the.
- # 15
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- * every.
- # Eze 31:8,9,16,18
- * tree of life.
- # 3:22 Pr 3:18 11:30 Eze 47:12 Joh 6:48 Re 2:7 22:2,14
- * tree of knowledge.
- # 17 3:3,22 De 6:25 Isa 44:25 47:10 1Co 8:1
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- * a river.
- # Ps 46:4 Re 22:1
- * Eden.
- Eden denotes pleasure or delight; but was certainly the name
- of a place, and was, most probably, situated in Armenia, near
- the sources of the great rivers Euphrates, Tigris, Phasis, and
- Araxes.
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- * Havilah.
- # 10:7,29 25:18 1Sa 15:7
-