The Bible hand-book: an introduction to the study of Sacred Scripture . nt,which will cause mourning to some on earth, will occasion great joyand thanksgiving in heaven, Rev. xviii. 9-19; xix. 1-6. Again, andagain, and again, the cry is heard there, Alleluia; and the servantsof God on earth are summoned to join in the song. 205. Our work is done. The first chapters of Matthewshow us Christ in his weakness; of royal descent indeed, andreceiving the profoundest homage, yet poor and persecute d ;the last of Revelation show him with memorials of his Buffer-ing—fer he is a Lamb still—but triumphant
The Bible hand-book: an introduction to the study of Sacred Scripture . nt,which will cause mourning to some on earth, will occasion great joyand thanksgiving in heaven, Rev. xviii. 9-19; xix. 1-6. Again, andagain, and again, the cry is heard there, Alleluia; and the servantsof God on earth are summoned to join in the song. 205. Our work is done. The first chapters of Matthewshow us Christ in his weakness; of royal descent indeed, andreceiving the profoundest homage, yet poor and persecute d ;the last of Revelation show him with memorials of his Buffer-ing—fer he is a Lamb still—but triumphant, reigning forever and ever. In Genesis we see Paradise lost, and mandriven forth from the presence of God; in Revelation mm 716 REVELATION—MODES OF INTERPRETATION. than Paradise is regained, men are once more in fellowshipwith God (xxii. 3, 4, 5), a fellowship that shall know no had ended with a curse, the last words of Johnare of blessing (xxii. 21). So characteristic are the variousportions of the Inspired Volume throughout: so complete Roman Banners. NOTES. Note I, § 4, p. 13. The application of the word /3i,3Aia, the looks, to the collectedhooks of the Old and the New Testaments has been traced buck to the 5th was thus applied by Chrysostom, in a way which shows this use to have bi comefamiliar to those to whom he wrote. From the Eastern Church, this use of theword passed gradually to the Western; and, at length, through the Normans, wasintroduced into England. Its long established use, brevity, comprehensiveness,and its transformation from a plural into a singular noun in all the modernlanguages of Europe, specially fitted it to become, what th3 choice of it by thegreat translators of the Scriptures made it—the enduring title of that which byvirtue of its unity and plan is emphatically The Book.—(Smiths Bible Dictionary.) Note II, §4, p. 13. It is not certain what time the triple division of tin OldTestament was made; but it i
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