Excerpt from A Bible School Manual: Studies in the Book of Revelation; An Introduction, Analysis, and Notes Containing a Concise Interpretation According to the Symbolic View, Numerous References to Authorities, and General Mention of Other Interpretations, With the Text of the American Rev

The Revelation is the most difficult book to interpret of any in the New Testament canon. Its meaning is Often involved in much Obscurity, and the interpretation of eminent scholars has differed so widely in the past that we cannot always be sure, especially in the more diffi cult portions, that the particular View which appears. To us the more satisfactory or convincing is certainly the correct one. This divergence Of opinion has had the nu fortunate effect of disparaging the worth of the Apoca lypse as a part of the Word Of God in the mind of many earnest students, who have come to regard its meaning as so Obscure, and hidden in such hopeless perplexity, that any further attempt to interpret it is entirely fruitless. So much, too, has been written about the book which abounds in manifest vagaries that men of sober mind have Often been thereby deterred from forming or ex pressing any definite Opinion concerning its teaching. Indeed it is difficult to say whether the Revelation has suffered more in the hands of expositors by means of fanciful and mistaken interpretation of its true contents, or by the interpolation Of ideas wholly foreign to its thought. But, however brought about, we have reached this strangely incongruous result, that what was original ly designed to be the revelation of mystery has become instead the mystery of Revelation.

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