Amongst the Interpreters of the last age there is scarce one of note who hath not made some discovery worth knowing; and thence I seem to gather that God is about opening these mysteries. The success of others put me upon considering it; and if I have done any thing which may be useful to following writers, I have my design. Notes to Chap. I. [1] Dem. Evang. l. 3. [2] Vid. _Pamelium_ in notis ad _Tertull._ de Praescriptionbus, n. 215 & _Hieron_ l. 1. contra _Jovinianum_, c. 14. Edit._Erasmi._ [3] Areth. c. 18, 19. [4] Hist. Eccl. l. 3. c. 23. [5] Chrysost. ad Theodorum lapsum. [6] Hieron. in Epist. ad Gal. l. 3. c. 6. [7] Apud Euseb. Eccl. Hist. l. 3. c. 28. Edit. _Valesii_. [8] Epiphan. Haeres. 28. [9] Hieron. adv. Lucif. [10] 1 Pet. i. 7, 13. iv. 13. & v. 1. [11] Apoc. xiii. 8. [12] Apoc. xxi. [13] Apoc. i. 6. & v. 10. [14] Apoc. xx. 6. [15] Apoc. xx. 4, 12. [16] Apoc. xvii. [17] Dan. viii. 15, 16, 27. & xii. 8, 9. [18] [Greek: aselgeias], _in many of the best MSS._ [19] Apoc. xiii. 7, 12. [20] Apoc. xiii. 1, 5, 6. [21] Apoc. xviii. 12, 13. [22] Apoc. xix. 20. [23] Apoc. xxi. 3, 4. [24] Apoc. ix. 21. _and_ xvii. 2. [25] Apoc. xiii. 6. [26] Apoc. xviii. 3, 7, 9. [27] [Greek: moichalidos]. [28] Apoc. ii. 14. [29] Apol. ad Antonin. Pium. [30] Haeres. l. 1. c. 20. Vide etiam Tertullianum, Apol. c. 13. [31] Euseb. Chron. [32] Cyril Catech. 6. Philastr. de haeres. cap. 30. Sulp. Hist. l. 2. Prosper de promiss. dimid. temp. cap. 13. Maximus serm. 5. in Natal. Apost. Hegesip. l. 2. c. 2. [33] Lactant de mortib. Persec. c. 2. [34] Hom. 70. in Matt. c. 22. [35] Apud Euseb. Eccl. Hist. l. 2. c. 25. [36] Euseb. Hist. l. 2. c. 25. [37] Arethas in Proaem. comment. in Apoc. [38] Euseb. Hist. l. 4. cap. 26. Hieron. [39] Euseb. Hist. l. 4. c. 24. [40] Hieron. [41] Dan. x. 21. xii. 4, 9. [42] Dan. xii. 4, 10. [43] Apoc. i. 3. * * * * * CHAP. II. _Of the relation which the _Apocalypse_ of _John_ hath to the Book of the Law of _Moses_, and to the worship of God in the Temple_. The _Apocalypse_ of _John_ is written in the same style and language with the Prophecies of _Daniel_, and hath the same relation to them which they have to one another, so that all of them together make but one complete Prophecy; and in like manner it consists of two parts, an introductory Prophecy, and an Interpretation thereof.