Wrote Dr. J. A. Seiss in his famous book "The Apocalypse" (emphasis mine):
THIS book of the Apocalypse is one of the most wonderful in the Sacred
Scriptures. As the Bible among literature, so is this part of it among the
inspired writings. Though it has had to fight its way in every age, and to
struggle to maintain its place in the sacred canon, there is not another book
in the volume of inspiration more strongly attested, or more fully
authenticated. Its superscription, its historical statements, its catena of
testimonies, and the nature of its contents, amply evidence its genuineness,
and its divine original. Its imposing scenery, its grand similitudes, its
pregnant maxims, its significant dialogues, its stirring exhortations, its
glowing prayers, its evangelic songs, and its sublime doxologies, give to it
all the majesty of the book of the mighty consummation, not of inspiration
only, but of the grandest revealed plans and purposes of God. And if an
inspired book at all, there is not another which so solemnly enforces itself
upon the attention of the Churches, or that is compassed about with guards
and penalties more explicit and severe. We must needs regard its author as
an unaccountable boaster, if it is not the highest interest and duty of every
earnest Christian to read and try to understand it, so as to take its
momentous presentations in among the most settled and potent things by
which to direct his way and fashion his expectations. (Comment upon Rev. 12: 1,2)
Jan 10, 2017
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