4. See II. Samuel vi, in connection with Numb. iv, 5-15. 5. II. Chron. xxvi. 6. Heb. v: 1-4. 7. "And take unto thee Aaron, thy brother, and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office." _Word of the Lord to Moses,_ Ex. xxviii: 1. 8. John xv: 16. 9. Heb. v: 5, 6. 10. Rev. xxii: 18, 19. 11. Vide Biblical Literature (Kitto), Art. Book of Revelation. 12. Early Days of Christianity, ch. xxvii. 13. This would make the 1st Epistle of John the closing book of the canon. 14. Deut, iv: 2. 15. Proverbs xxx: 6. 16. St. John xix: 30. 17. Corinth xiii: 8. 18. _Ibid,_ verse 9-12. 19. It should be remembered that the division of the Epistle, and for that matter the whole of the New Testament, into chapters and verses was not made by the writers of it, but is quite a modern work. The verse with which the fourteenth chapter opens is a direct and close continuation of the subject with which the thirteenth chapter closes, and ought not to have been separated from it into another chapter. It is an instance of how clumsily the work of dividing the New Testament into chapters and verses was done. 20. Matt. xvi. 21. St. John i: 42. 22. Footnote in the Douay Bible on Matt. xvi: 17, 18. 23. Genesis v:24; Heb. xi: 5. 24. Exodus xxxiii: 11. 25. II Peter i: 20, 21. 26. John xvi: 13. 27. John xv: 26--Jesus to the apostles. 28. I Cor. xii. 29. Rev. xix: 10. 30. Acts ii: 38, 39. 31. John iii: 5. 32. Acts ii. 33. Isaiah xi. 34. See Matt. xxiv. 35. Acts xiii. 36. Acts xvi:6. 37. Acts xvi:7. 38. Acts xvi:9, 10. 39. I Cor. ii: 11. 40. I Cor. ii: 4, 5. 41. I Cor. ii: 14. 42. I Cor. ii: 9, 10, 12. 43. Rom. ii: 11. CHAPTER IX. PROPHETIC HISTORY OF THE CHURCH--THE RESTORATION OF THE GOSPEL BY AN ANGEL. And now as to the direct testimony for the restoration of the gospel by means of a new revelation. It is to be found in one of the revelations to St. John upon the Isle of Patmos. While there, either as an exile, or a prisoner in the mines during the persecution under the Emperor Domitian--and in either case suffering for the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ--the apostle received many visions pertaining to the past, the present and the future of the Church of Christ. Especially are the twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth chapters of His revelation instructive. There is a unity of design in them that cannot be mistaken. They contain a history of the church from the time it was presided over by the Twelve Apostles of the Lamb, unto the time when the judgments of God fall upon Babylon to her utter destruction. Without entering into minute detail let me point this out.