Commentary on the Revelation . certain of his parables. Theword has no polemical value either forthose who hold to a pre-millennial coming,or for those who place the great event a thou-sand years later. If it is to be taken abso-lutely, it is as difficult of explanation, really,for the one of these theories as for the other;since not even can a coming to usher in themillennium be, strictly speaking, a coming quickly. It seems to have been the Lordsintention that the attitude of his church dur-ing the whole period between his Ascensionand his Return, .should be an attitude ofexpectancy. And in
Commentary on the Revelation . certain of his parables. Theword has no polemical value either forthose who hold to a pre-millennial coming,or for those who place the great event a thou-sand years later. If it is to be taken abso-lutely, it is as difficult of explanation, really,for the one of these theories as for the other;since not even can a coming to usher in themillennium be, strictly speaking, a coming quickly. It seems to have been the Lordsintention that the attitude of his church dur-ing the whole period between his Ascensionand his Return, .should be an attitude ofexpectancy. And in a true sense—althoughnot in a limited, temporal sense—this returnto take account of liis servants would ineach age, even in that of the apostles them-selves, be near. Measured on the scale ofGods great plan, a thousand years are asone daj. We have no right to assume thathe will estimate his own periods by thoseintervals of earthly time which, however,they may seem to us, are in truth but asseconds on the dial of ^ ?W >H^-C-. -^ra3i^-^!^js?r ^t^wi^ . ?-^ *^ >^ ,v JT DATE DUE
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