Revelation 4:1 Heaven Near, though Hidden. Note: I. The division between earth and heaven. The fact that earth and heaven are divided by so wide a gulf seems to me one of the strangest facts in our experience, though long habit prevents the strangeness from striking us so much. We should have expe... [ Continue Reading ]
Revelation 4:2 The Revelation of the Triune God and its Diffusion. I. The form which both Prophet and Apostle saw seated on the heavenly throne was of a clear, brilliant flame colour, partly red like the sardine, or, to use a modern term, the carnelian, and partly of the lighter hue of yellow amber... [ Continue Reading ]
Revelation 4:3 The Throne and the Rainbow. Look I. At this wonderful throne. Of course we understand such a thing to be the symbol of government, of the Divine government in the universe, for that Being on the seat of royalty is God. But what do the other emblems mean? The whole chapter seems to g... [ Continue Reading ]
Revelation 4:8 New Year's Day. There is something exceedingly solemn in the opening of a new year. At such times more than others, when even the trifler is visited for an instant by serious thought, does the Christian love to trace the hand of God in the Church and in the world, to abstract himsel... [ Continue Reading ]