OF

THE SEALED BOOK

IN THE

APOCALYPSE

SHEWN TO BE A SYMBOL OF A FUTURE REPUBLICATION

OF THE

OLD TESTAMENT.

BY

RICHARD NEWTON ADAMS, D.D.

FELLOW OF SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE,

AND

LADY MARGARET'S PREACHER IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.

Liber...signatus...VETUS TESTAMENTUM significat

VICTORINUS. Comment. in Apocalypsin.

CAMBRIDGE:

PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

LONDON:

JOHN W. PARKER, WEST STRAND.

M.DCCC.XXXVIII.

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CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION

PAGE

vii

Catalogue of the Fathers who have illustrated the Sealed Book.. xvii

PART I.

ON THE GENERAL SUBJECT OF THE APOCALYPSE.

CHAPTER I. Statement of the Subject.-Interpretation adopted by

the present Writer...

CHAPTER II. On the Antiquity of the proposed Interpretation...

Section 1. Ch. i. ver. 7. and ver. 13-16.........

Section 4. Ch. iv............................

Section 5. The Opening of the Seals..

CHAPTER III. On the Analysis of the Apocalypse.

1. The Ancient Analysis....

2. The Modern Analysis...

CHAPTER IV. An Objection to the proposed Interpretation ...........

PART II.

ON THE MEANING OF THE SEALED BOOK.

CHAPTER I. On the Introductory Vision contained in the fourth

Chapter..

1

6

10

16

21

25

28

36

ib.

41

45

CHAPTER II. Proposed Interpretation of the Sealed Book..

CHAPTER III. Passages of the Old Testament relative to the