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On July 27th, 1713, Newton, by this time a favourite at Court, waited on the Queen, and presented her with a copy of the new edition of the "Principia." Throughout his life Newton appears to have been greatly interested in theological studies, and he specially devoted his attention to the subject of prophecy. He left behind him a manuscript on the prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse of St.
What was more obscurely revealed in the monarch's dream, is rendered more intelligible by various symbols in Daniel's first vision. In this book, styled Apocalypse, or Revelation, we are told in the first verse, that the Lord Christ "signified," made known by signs, to his servant John the things that were to come to pass.
Thirdly, because the Cities of Sodom, and Gomorrah, by the extraordinary wrath of God, were consumed for their wickednesse with Fire and Brimstone, and together with them the countrey about made a stinking bituminous Lake; the place of the Damned is sometimes expressed by Fire, and a Fiery Lake: as in the Apocalypse ch.21.8.
This must, of course, be only a translation of the Testament, if it be true that the original books were written in Greek. The Peshito omits the second and third epistles of John, second of Peter, that of Jude, and the Apocalypse. All the evidence so laboriously gathered together by the learned Canon proves our proposition to demonstration.
If their meeting or parting takes place at sunrise or sunset, as it often does, one gets the splendor of the apocalypse. There will be cloud pillars miles high, snow-capped, glorified, and preserving an orderly perspective before the unbarred door of the sun, or perhaps mere ghosts of clouds that dance to some pied piper of an unfelt wind.
"You are always preaching about resting; you are a regular nurse to me, prince. As soon as the sun begins to 'resound' in the sky what poet said that? 'The sun resounded in the sky. It is beautiful, though there's no sense in it! then we will go to bed. Lebedeff, tell me, is the sun the source of life? What does the source, or 'spring, of life really mean in the Apocalypse?
Of course, we are aware that Dean Farrar has as effectually explained away the Orientalisms of the Christian heaven as the Paganisms of the orthodox hell; we are ready to believe that the Apocalypse which is held now not to be a Christian book at all, but a Jewish composition, edited and amended by a Christian hand sets forth only figures and types of the great supernal blessedness.
It is assumed in the beginning of the Apocalypse, that only some will have sufficient education to "read the words of the prophecy of this book;" and such is the condescension of our gracious Master, that those who, by reason of invincible ignorance, cannot read, yet may share in the reward promised to such as "hear and keep" the sayings of this book.
Mara, little and unformed as she yet was, belonged to the race of those spirits to whom is deputed the office of the angel in the Apocalypse, to whom was given the golden rod which measured the New Jerusalem. Infant though she was, she had ever in her hands that invisible measuring-rod, which she was laying to the foundations of all actions and thoughts.
The cannon was rushing back and forth on the deck. One might have supposed it to be the living chariot of the Apocalypse. The marine lantern swinging overhead added a dizzy shifting of light and shade to the picture. The form of the cannon disappeared in the violence of its course, and it looked now black in the light, now mysteriously white in the darkness. It went on in its destructive work.
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