fore merely mention that it accords with John's vision, chap. xix. 19-21; and I will briefly recapitulate the points which we have established from the structure of the Apocalypse alone.

The descent of the bride, and the description of it, chap. xxi., are parallel with the song of triumph in chap. xix. 6, 7.

The desent of the city, chap. xxi. 2 and 10, is prior to the attack upon the city recorded in chap. xx. 9.

The events are in regular sequence from chap. xx. 11, to chap. xxi. 2; therefore chap. xx. 11, is also before chap. xx. 9; chap. xx. 11, is parallel with chap. xi. 18; chap. xx. 4, is parallel with chap. xi. 18; therefore, in chap. xx. verses 4 and 11 are parallel: from all these points we learn, that the narrative chap. xx. 5-10, must be in a parenthesis.

And, as if to prevent the possibility of any cavil, the rewarding of the servants in chap. xi. is posterior, in the order of narration, to the judgment of the dead; but when the judging of the dead is mentioned prior

to the rewarding of the servants, and that with a note of time, how can it be conceived that the rewarding of the servants is to be in a different dispensation, and a thousand years before the judging of the dead?

passages.

I now proceed to the examination of some passages which seem to be parallel. Chap. xx. 11, 12, 13, appears to corre- Parallel spond with Dan. vii. 9, 10; and Dan. vii. 13, 14, probably relates to the kingdoms of the world becoming the kingdoms of Christ, which will be upon the sounding of the seventh trumpet, chap. xi. 15.

Perhaps chap. xx. 14, applies to the same event as 1 Cor. xv. 54, 55:

"Death and hades were

cast into the lake of fire."

"Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? hades, where is thy victory?"

But of this parallel I am not confident, as one appears to relate to the church, and the other to the wicked.

Chap. xxi. 1, appears to be parallel with Isaiah, lxv. 17, 19, and lxvi. 22:

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Rev. xxi.

4.

"And I saw a new heaven and a new earth."

"Behold, I create new heavens and a new earth. ... The new heavens and new earth which I will make."

The context in Isaiah seems clearly to speak of the restitution of all things, and the restoration of Israel. I have already attempted to shew, that this passage of Isaiah is parallel with the third chapter of the second epistle of Peter, and therefore it must refer to the period of the second advent.

Chap. xxi. 2, appears to describe the descent of the saints; but from 1 Thess. iv. 14, and Zec. xiv. 5, we learn, that they will come with Jesus, whose descent is indeed apparently also described in the following verse in Revelations. Chap. xxi. 4, is clearly parallel with Isaiah, xxv. 8:

"And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and death shall be no more, neither sorrow, nor crying, nor pain shall be any more."

"He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces."

But we have already seen, that Is. xxv.

8,

will be fulfilled at the second advent of

54.

Jesus, "when" also "this mortal shall have put on immortality, and this corruptible shall have put on incorruptibility." This also strengthens the parallel between 1 Cor. xv. 1 Cor. xv. 54, 55, and chap. xx. 14, already mentioned. And we may conclude, that Rev. xx. 14 to xxi. 4, will be fulfilled, when the rebuke of God's people will be taken away, in that day when they will exclaim, "Lo, this is Isa. xxv. 9. our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us :" this will be when the dead 1 Cor. xv.

54.

saints shall be raised, and when the living saints shall be changed. The song which Isa. xxvi. 1.

shall be sung in that day, in the land of "in

Judah," is also recorded. Chap. xxi. 11, may also be compared with Isaiah, lx. 2; chap. xxi. 23, and Isaiah, lx. 19; chap. xxi. 25, and Isaiah, lx. 11.

faith.

The analogy of faith is the next head. I Analogy of shall, however, do little more than put down the references to the passages, as there are regular treatises upon the subject, to which any one may refer.

Daniel mentions expressly that, at the

time of the deliverance of the Jews, "Many Dan. xii. 2.

that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt." There will, therefore, be a resurrection of wicked as

well as righteous ones, at the time of the Isa. xxvi. restoration of the Jews. From Isaiah we

19.

Compare
Ps. cx.

Matt. XXV.

learn, I think, that these righteous and wicked will be the Christ mystical and the Rephaim. I conceive the interpretation of the passage to be as follows: The Father says to Christ, "Thy dead shall live." Christ responds, "My dead body shall they arise." He then speaks the word, “Awake, and sing, ye that dwell in the dust, for thy dew [is as] the dew of the morning; and the earth shall cast out the Rephaim." The context sufficiently marks the time.

From the twenty-fifth of Matthew we learn, that when the Son of man shall return, he then will be seated upon the throne of glory peculiar to him as Son of man; and that then, before him, all the nations shall be gathered to judgment. Now, the throne of Messiah will be esta