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CONTENTS.

DISSERTATION THE FIRST.

On the Opinions delivered by Ecclesiastical Writers,

respecting the Date of the Apocalypse

§ 1. OF traditionary Testimony respecting the Date of

the Apocalypse

§ 2. Of the Arguments for a late Date, founded on

the supposed State of the Asiatic Churches,

when the Apocalypse was written

§3. Other Arguments, which have been adduced

for and against a late Date to the Apocalypse,

considered

CONCLUSION

DISSERTATION THE SECOND.

On the Evidence furnished by the Epistles in the New

Testament, respecting the time when the Apo-

calypse was written

§ 1. Of Allusions to the Apocalypse found in the Epis-

tle to the Hebrews

§ 2. Of Allusions to the Apocalypse found in the

Epistles of Peter

Page.

1

6

15 ·

37

48

50

59

§ 3. Of Evidence furnished by Paul's Epistle to Ti-

mothy, respecting the Date of the Apocalypse 73

Of Allusions to the Apocalypse found in the Epis-

tle to the Ephesians

§ 4.

§ 5.

Of Allusions to the Apocalypse found in the

Epistle to the Philippians

§ 6. Of Evidence respecting the Date of the Apoca-

lypse furnished by the Epistle to the Colos-

§ 7. Of Evidence furnished by the Epistle to the

Romans

Page.

94

99

§ 8. Of Evidence furnished by the Epistles to the

Corinthians

9.

§ 10.

The Apocalypse quoted in the Epistle of James

Does the Epistle to the Galatians furnish any

Evidence of its being of a later Date than

the Apocalypse?

104

105

§ 11. Of Evidence furnished by the Epistles to the

Thessalonians

§ 12. Of Evidence furnished by the Epistles of John,

as to the priority of the Apocalypse

Respecting the Epistles to Titus and Philemon,

and the Epistle of Jude

110

122

§ 13.

125

§14.

Of the Sealed Book which has been opened by

the Apocalypse

On the Language and Structure of the Apocalypse.

§ 1. Of the Verbal Language

§ 2. Of Symbolical or Hieroglyphical Language

§ 3. Of the Structure of the Apocalypse.

CONCLUSION

On various Names by which the Creator of the Universe

is designated in the Scriptures, and the proper

mode of translating them

§ 1. Of certain Attributive Nouns employed in the Old

Testament to designate the Deity

§ 2. Of the Attributives or Epithets, ↳ [E], g

[Eloah], and DN [Elohim], com-

monly rendered "God" in the English Trans-

lations of the Hebrew Scriptures

191

. 195

Page.

§ 3. Of the manner in which the word

[Elo-

him] should be rendered in translating the

Old Testament

CONCLUSION

DISSERTATION THE FIFTH.

On the Hebrew name JEHOVAH [TT] and the Greek ex-

pression ΚΥΡΙΟΣ : ΘΕΟΣ [KYRIOs the THEos],

commonly rendered "the LORD God" ·

On certain Combinations of ¿©EÒΣ[THE Omnipotent]

and KÝPIOE [LORD] with other nouns of per-

sonal description, which are found in the Epis-

tles in the New Testament

CONCLUSION

DISSERTATION THE SEVENTH.

On certain Combinations of Nouns of personal descrip-

tion, which are found in the Apocalypse

§ 1. Of Definitions and Explanations of Terms, furnished

by the Writer of the Apocalypse

§ 2. Of the Junction of Attributive Nouns with Sym-

bolical Terms, and particularly with rò apvíov,

THE LAMB

§3. Of the Lamb in the midst of the Throne

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. 246

251

304

306

312

. 317

§ 4. Of the Throne, the Kathēmenos, or Sitting One,—

and the Book concerning the Right Hand of

the Kathēmenos

§ 5. Of the Scene of the Vision

§ 6. Particulars respecting the Kathēmenos, or Sitting

One

§ 7. Of the manner in which certain passages, where

common Attributive Nouns are found joined

to the Symbolical name "The Lamb," should

be rendered in English, that they may exhibit

the true sense of the Greek Text

CONCLUSION

Abbreviations sometimes used in the following Pages.

C. V. Common Version of the Scriptures.

V.

also verse; but when preceded by Ch. or the name of one of the books of Scripture then it means Chapter fifth.

to 1793, before Revelation insert the.

245 12, erase the turned commas at the beginning of the line.