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VicTORiNus. A. U. 290. 179
tongues, and nations:" (livv. x. 11.) that is, because wlien
John SRM- tlii* he was in the isle ofPatnios, having- been coiitlenined
to the mines by the emperor Domitian : there he
saw the Revelation. And when, being- now ohl, he expected
to be received up [^to heaven] through his sutlerings, Domitian
Avas killed, and all his acts disannulled, and John was
set at liberty from the mines. Then afterwards he wrote
the same Revelation, which he had received from the
Lord. This is the uieaning- of those words : " Thou must
prophesy again," ' In another place he says: ' When'' the
scripture of the Revelation was published, Domitian was
emperor.'
11. We have already seen some forms of citation : a par-
ticular or two may be added. ' The" other three horses,'
says he, ' signify the wars, famines, and pestilences, more
plainly spoken of by the Lord in the gospel.' ' For*^ the
Lord says :
" This gospel shall be preached in all the world,
for a witness unto the nations, and then shall the end come :"
Matt. xxiv. 14. Presently afterwards :
' As' we read in the
gospel " : Nation shall rise
against kingdom:"
against nation, and kingdom
' ver. 7. ' And so the Lord says in his
gospel : " Then let them which are in Judea flee to the
mountains:" ver. 16*. And in like manner often. ' And"
the Jews saying, " Forty and six years has this temple been
building," ' the evangelist says: " He spake of the temple
of his body," John ii. 20, 21. Having quoted Matt. xiii.
52, " Therefore every scribe instructed to the kingdom of
God is like unto an householder, Avhich bringeth forth out
of his treasure things new and old," he says: ' The" new
things are the Avords of the gospel : the old those of the law
and the prophets.' By " the Avords of the gospel," or evangelic
words, meaning, as it seems, the whole New Testament.
After his long account of the four gospels, and their symbolical
representations before transcribed, he observes: ' All?
these, though four, are one, because they proceed from one
mouth.' Explaining some words in the Revelation, he
'' Intelligi oportet tempus, quo scriptura Apocalypsis edita est, quoniam tunc
erat Caesar Doinitianus—unus exstat, sub quo scnbitur Apocalypsis, Domi-
tianus scilicet, p. 420. C. ' Caeteri tres equi, belia, fames, pestes
in evangelio a Domino prsedicata manifestius significanf.
^ Alt enim Dommus : Pisdicabitur, &c. ib. H.
p. 417. H,
' Ut legimus in evangelio : Surget enim gens, &c. ib.
" Sic et Dominus in evangelio ait :
Tunc qui in Judaea sunt, &c. p. 419. H.
" Evaugelista inquit : Ule dicebat de temple corporis sui. p. 418. G.
° Nova evangehca verba : vetera legis et prophetarum. ib. p. 415. B.
P Hae praedicationes, quamvis quatuor sunt, una est tamen, quia de uno ore
processit. p. 416. A.
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