Brief Historical Explanation of the Revelation of St. John, Acording to the 'Horae Apocalypticae' of E.B. Elliott (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 Excerpt: ... Christ's true Church, distinctively from the mere professing one, which was the means of saving them from the great and now rapidly advancing Church apostasy. THE SEVENTH SEAL, INCLUDING THE SEVEN TRUMPETS. THE FIRST FOUR TRUMPETS. THE DESTRUCTION OF THE WESTERN EMPIRE OF ROME, BY THE GOTHIC NATIONS. Chapter VIII. 1. And when He had opened the in heaven about the space of half seventh seal, there was silence an hour. This was the stillness, the anxious hush, before the storm. To use the words of our great poet, "'Twas as we often see, against some storm, A silence in the heavens, the rack stand still, The bold winds speechless, and the orb below As hush as death. Anon the dreadful thunder Doth rend the regions."--Hamlet, n. 2. 2. And I saw the seven angels 4. And the smoke of the incense, which stood before God: and to which came with the prayers of them were given seven trumpets. the saints, ascended up before God 3. And another Angel came, and out of the Angel's hand. stood at the altar, having a golden 5. And the Angel took the cen censer; and there was given unto ser, and filled it with fire of the Him much incense, that He should altar, and cast it upon the earth; offer it with the prayers of all the and there were voices, and thunder saints, upon the golden altar which ings, and lightnings, and an earth was before the throne. quake. The tempest of barbarian invasion, which had been restrained upon the frontier by the strong arm of the emperor Theodosius, almost immediately upon his death, in A.d. 395, burst over the western portion of the empire. The angel ministers of the Divine wrath, like the Jewish priests of old before the walls of Jericho, took up their trumpets to announce the coming judgments. But ere they sounded, the Angel of the Covenant, ...