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Updated: June 7, 2025
The appearance of the great God must be considered an actual event; for, as clearly shown, he can not be symbolized, neither can he appear as the symbol of some other object, from the fact that there is no other object of analagous nature of which he could stand as the representative. The resurrection of itself is an event of such a peculiar nature as to forbid its symbolization.
The case of the cause and the effect is thus analagous to that of the child and the youth: the word 'effect' denotes nothing else but the causal substance which has passed over into a different condition.
This led him to the results mentioned above, and presently to the discovery that the contagious and infectious diseases with which men and the lower animals are affected are in general the results of processes in the system that are nearly analagous to fermentation, and that such diseases are therefore traceable ultimately to the existence of living germs.
Such ulcers are evidently not political calamities; for the symbol is drawn, not from nature, but from human life. What, then, is the analagous object of which the human body may stand as a proper representative? Evidently, the mind.
As this description is entirely symbolic, we must consider the time symbolic also, for time certainly can be symbolized as well as anything else. It is very appropriate for days to symbolize years, for they are analagous periods of time; the diurnal revolution of the earth being taken to represent the earth's annual movement. Such a system of reckoning time was known centuries ago.
I must speak with hesitation on what is signified by "the creatures which were in the sea" and the "ships." By analogy I would be led to refer the former to the rulers and the dignitaries in the empire, they bearing an analagous position to the empire that fishes do to the waters of the sea; while the latter may refer to public monuments and structures.
Applying this as a symbol to the analagous department of the church, we have the fact set forth that those without the special mark have no more recognized standing in the so-called churches than men that are not allowed to buy or sell have in a community. But selling, as a symbol, would specially indicate the dealing out of truth, or the preaching of the gospel.
Angels in the Scripture is frequently used to denote evil agencies as well as good, the context determining which is meant. See Chap. 12:7. The design of the winds was to "hurt the earth, the sea, and the trees." What, let me ask, in the political world is analagous to tempestuous storms sweeping over the earth?
This was strictly a geographical division, analagous to our parishes, and had no connection with families, like that of the Jewish tribes. Still more remarkable was the institution of the census, and the distribution of the people into classes and centuries proportionate to their wealth.
So we may accept it as one established landmark in the interpretation of the Apocalypse, that every symbol, regardless of the department from which it is taken whether from the material universe, the animal kingdom, human life or the heavenly realm stands as the representative, not of itself, but of some other object of analagous character not found in the same department from which it is drawn.
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