AN
EXPOSITION,
W I T H P R A C T I C A L O B S E R V A T I O N S,
OF THE
R E V E L A T I O N O F S T. J O H N
THE DIVINE.
IT
ought to be no prejudice to the credit and authority of this book that
it has been rejected by men of corrupt minds, such as Cerdon and
Marcion, and doubted of by men of a better character; for this has been
the lot of other parts of holy writ, and of the divine Author of the
scripture himself. The image and superscription of this book are truly
sacred and divine, and the matter of it agreeable with other
prophetical books, particularly Ezekiel and Daniel; the church of God
has generally received it, and found good counsel and great comfort in
it. From the beginning, the church of God has been blessed with
prophecy. That glorious prediction of breaking the serpent's head was
the stay and support of the patriarchal age; and the many prophecies
there were concerning the Messiah to come were the gospel of the Old
Testament. Christ himself prophesied of the destruction of Jerusalem;
and, about the time in which that was accomplished, he entrusted the
apostle John with this book of revelation, to deliver it to the church
as a prediction of the most important events that should happen to it
to the end of time, for the support of the faith of his people and the
direction of their hope. It is called the Revelation, because
God therein discovers those things which could never have been sifted
out by the reasonings of human understanding, those deep things of God
which no man knows, but the Spirit of God, and those to whom he reveals
them.
Matthew Henry "Verse by Verse Commentary for 'Revelation' Matthew Henry Bible Commentary".
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