their widows made no lamentation. It was through their villainy and the abomination that existed under their administration, that God forsook the tabernacle at Shiloh, the tent which He placed among men, and delivered His strength into captivity, and His glory into the enemy’s hand; that He gave His people over unto the sword, and was wroth with His inheritance.
Now we are not to discuss some pre-Adamite theory, or something that nobody knows whether any such thing ever existed or whether it did not; but we are about to consider some-thing that our own eyes see, and our own hands handle, so that they who run may read and see for themselves how much truth there may be in the train of reasoning that we shall present. And may the spirit of God, which moved upon the face of the waters in the beginning, move on our disordered spirits, and give us light as we contemplate this sublime and glorious subject.
On the book of Revelation, the Encyclopaedia Britannica says: "The book of the New Testament, called Revelation of John, so long passed for the most obscure and difficult document
