1841 William Miller Evidence from Scripture & History - A2Z.org

LECTURE XII.
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tba tribe of Judah,lhe mot of Darlb. Path pnrrUedto dm. b
and Lo loose tba mren esata U M ~ .
And one of tbe elders rakb unto me Weep no( : kbdd ~ &
THE book of Revelation baa been called by
a sealed book ; and many a dear mint, while in imrfect
state of vision and knowledge, has wept much,
Lause they co:~ld not read and uoderetaod the book.
For it is very evident that the book of Revelation is not
only ideresting in its symbolical and mystical descriptions,
natural scenery, and figurative laoguage, but it ie
rich in truth, and the communication of we& then hid
under the veil of futurity, and would only be unfolded
to the natural visiom of men, many to come. J&
b.s written this book after the lawe ynature; th.1 iq
he has seemed to copy after some of the richeat and
most picturesque scenes in nature's lawa Ife has, in
revealing truths to our minds, followed the same steady
course that fountains of \vnter do in their cwrse to the
sea. He begins as it were back upon the Inonnhms,
where the head may be but a fountain, and there gwes
us a description of the source. He then glides ntly
dong
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through the vale belor, winding between hiE md
mountaim, visiting in his course the hamlets of the
peasant, the villages of men, the populws tom and
cities of commerce, until he lands us or leaves us in the
ocean of etemit At finrt, he appears to be describing
bubbhng LW or geatle spring, and ewsnYp