The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Revelation

John Stuart Mill · en
ST. PETER. By Rev. Prof. J. Rawson Lumby, D.D.

    EPISTLES OF ST. JOHN. By Rt. Rev. W. Alexander, Lord Bishop of
        Derry.

    REVELATION. By Prof. W. Milligan, D.D.

    INDEX VOLUME TO ENTIRE SERIES.

              _New York_: HODDER & STOUGHTON, _Publishers_

                                  THE
                           BOOK OF REVELATION

                                   BY
                         WILLIAM MILLIGAN, D.D.

     PROFESSOR OF DIVINITY AND BIBLICAL CRITICISM IN THE UNIVERSITY
                OF ABERDEEN. AUTHOR OF "THE RESURRECTION
                           OF OUR LORD," ETC.

                           HODDER & STOUGHTON
                                NEW YORK
                        GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY

                            PREFATORY NOTE.

In ordinary circumstances one who undertakes to comment upon a book of
the New Testament may be justly expected to make every effort to
explain each successive clause and each difficult expression of the
book on which he writes. My aim in the following Commentary is rather
to catch the general import and object of the Revelation of St. John
considered as a whole. The latter purpose indeed cannot be attained
unless the commentator has himself paid faithful attention to the
former; but it is not necessary that the results of these inquiries
should in every case be presented to the English reader. To him this
book is for the most part a perplexity and enigma, and he would only
be embarrassed by a multitude of details. It seemed well, therefore,
to treat the book in its sections and paragraphs rather than verse by
verse; and this is the course pursued in the following pages. The
translation used is for the most part that of the Revised Version. An
examination of the words and clauses of the book, conducted upon a
plan different from that here adopted, and much more minute in its
character, will be found in the Author's Commentary on the Apocalypse,
in the Commentary upon the books of the New Testament edited by
Professor Schaff and published by Messrs. Clark, Edinburgh. The
principles upon which the Author has proceeded have been fully
discussed in his Baird Lectures.

  THE UNIVERSITY, ABERDEEN,
          _May 1889_.

                               CONTENTS.

                               CHAPTER I.

                                                             PAGE

  THE PROLOGUE                                                  1

                              CHAPTER II.

  THE CHURCH ON THE FIELD OF HISTORY                           21

                              CHAPTER III.

  ANTICIPATIONS OF THE CHURCH'S VICTORY                        65

                              CHAPTER IV.

  THE SEALED ROLL OPENED                                       86

                               CHAPTER V.

  CONSOLATORY VISIONS. THE SEALING AND THE PALM-BEARING
      MULTITUDE                                               111