Bible, all interpretations of
Scripture which do violence to the laws of language and falsify their
meaning, and all opinions which are the result of mere traditions and
doctrines of men, are to be classed as fables. Mark 7:8-13; 1 Pet. 1:18; 1
Tim. 1:4; 4:7; Tit. 1:14.

44. SYNCHRONOUS SCRIPTURES are the several passages which have reference
to any one and the same event.

Each portion of Scripture respecting any subject, must be considered in
connection with all the Scriptures that refer to the same
subject.--_Compare_, for example, Dan. 2:34, 35, 44; 7:18, 27; Matt. 6:10;
13:37-43; 35:34; 1 Tim. 4:1; Rev. 11:15-18.

EXPOSITION OF THE APOCALYPSE.

The Title of the Book.

"The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to him, to show to
his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and sending,
he signified _them_ through his angel to his servant John: who
testified the word of God, and the testimony of Jesus Christ, and
whatever he saw."--Rev. 1:1, 2.--_Prof. Whiting's Translation._

"The very title of John's predictions, Apocalypse, implies the _unveiling_
or '_revelation_' of the mystic and hidden sense of the prophetic oracles,
previously uttered by his inspired predecessors."--PROF. BUSH.

"The {~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER PI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER PSI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~}, from which we have our word Apocalypse, signifies,
literally, a _revelation_, or _discovery_, of what was _concealed_, or
_hidden_."--DR. CLARKE.

The work of the apostles was "to make all men see what is the fellowship
of the mystery, which, from the beginning of the world, hath been hid in
God, who created all things by Jesus Christ," (Eph. 3:9); "even the
mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is
made manifest to his saints," Col. 1:26. The entire record of the New
Testament, is a revelation that God "hath in these last days spoken unto
us by his Son;" in distinction from the records of the Old Testament,
which He, "at sundry times and in divers manners, spake in time past unto
the fathers by the prophets," Heb. 1:1. But the closing book of the new
series is called, in distinction from the others, "THE REVELATION OF JESUS
CHRIST."

It contains the "many thi