PREFACE, N such a portion of the Word of God as the are comparatively few. To assign a valid reason for this fact would not be difficult. But with the Revelation it has fared otherwise; the number of its expositors is truly legion. Yet by many it has been judged advisable to publish in this form, this other aid to the study of this Book. As most readers are probably aware, it has already appeared in successive numbers of The Latter-Rain; but there are those who prefer to have a continued exposition bound in a volume, than in its original shape, in a series of articles in that periodical. That will be a recom The book is a small one. mendation to some who have not an abundance of leisure. The object aimed at has been to assist the student of the Word in his own examination and grasp of the teaching of this precious portion of God's Word. Some of the most difficult chapters in the Bible are passed in review in the following pages, as Rev. iv., Rev. ix., and incidentally, that obscure chapter, Dan. x.; of the former two, each in its proper place, the last at page 138. And if the |