“_In the Apocalypse the emphasis placed upon the omnipotence of God rises to a climax._ There only in the New Testament (except II Cor. 6.18) is the epithet Παντοκράτωρ [All‐Ruler] ascribed to Him; and the whole purport of the book is the portrayal of the Divine guidance of history, and the very essence of its message that, despite all surface appearances, it is the hand of God that really directs all occurrences, and all things are hastening to the end of His determining.... It is the completeness of the Divine government to which the world is subject by the Lord of lords and King of kings, the Ruler of the earth and King of the nations, whose control of all the occurrences of time is in accordance with His holy purposes, that it is the supreme object of this book to portray.”—B. B. WARFIELD,—in art. “Predestination”, Hastings’ _Dict. of the Bible_. “_The Apocalypse is doctrinally the connecting link between the Synoptists and the Fourth Gospel._ It offers the characteristic thoughts of the Fourth Gospel in that form of development which belongs to the earliest apostolic age.... The points of connection between the Apocalypse and the Gospel of St. John are far more numerous than are suggested by a first general comparison. The main idea of both is the same. Both present a view of a supreme conflict between the powers of good and evil.... In both books alike Christ is the central figure. His victory is the end to which history and vision lead as their consummation. His Person and Work are the ground of triumph; and of triumph through apparent failure. Both present the abiding of God with man as the issue of Christ’s work.”—BP. WESTCOTT,—in _Introduction to John’s Gospel, Bible Commentary_. “_In Revelation_, as in John’s Gospel and First Epistle, _the consciousness of a world‐conflict, a world‐process, and a world‐triumph is manifest_. The return of Jesus is contemplated in relation to the enlarged environment in which Christianity stood. Revelation testifies to the existence of the hope with which Christianity had begun; but also to the fact that into that hope had centered the fuller conception of Christ and His salvation which the apostles had taught, and the broadened vision of the purpose of God which history had made clear. Yet it was still the same hope, ‘Behold He cometh,’ and the prayer was still the same, ‘Come Lord Jesus’.”—GEORGE T. PURVES,—in _The Apostolic Age_. “_The fundamental conception of the book is_ neither human weakness upon the one hand nor divine power upon the other, but _divine power victorious through apparent human weakness, life triumphant over death_.”—WILLIAM MILLIGAN,—in _Discussions on the Apocalypse_.