it more fitly symbolizes the entire restoration of the city by virtue of them who cried and sighed for its abominations. We think it symbolizes its restoration, with all its abominations and perverseness cut off for ever, and that the city of Jerusalem is here symbolized by the whole earth, and that these visions reveal the means and the agencies by which this restoration is to be accomplished. "Now the cherubim stood on the right side of the house when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court. Then the glory of the Lord went up from the cherub, and stood over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the Lord's glory. And the sound of the cherubim's wings was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of the Almighty God when he speaketh."
Our eighth proposition is that St. John says that this mighty angel had a book in his hand. Now what does a book indicate in the Bible, or out of it? It indicates knowledge, doesn't it? Well, Daniel says that many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. And
