Now, over or upon the head of this angel, John saw “the rainbow.” Before iris, all the recent editors of the text insert he, “the” which is no doubt correct, as having special reference to the rainbow in ch. 4:3. This is the symbol of the covenant, and inseparably connected with the throne.
The angelic symbol is peribeblemenon nephelen, one who hath been clothed with a cloud. Hence, there was a time when this clothing had not been developed.
The political death of the eastern Roman empire, and the transfer of its capital to the Ottoman Dynasty, interrupts the continuity of apocalyptic prophecy, as it did that of history.
Apoc. 10
New Testament Christianity was not promulgated as a civil and ecclesiastical constitution for peoples and nations. It is uthe Gospel of the Kingdom for the obedience of faith, with the uall things”enjoined upon the baptised by the Apostles.
In the original edition of Eureka, the present volume formed the second part of Volume Two, making it all a large book of some 736 pages. Subsequently this was found to be somewhat unwieldy, and the volume was divided into two, numbered Volume 2A and Volume 2B. But the volumes were divided in the middle of a sentence which added to their awkwardness.
A NEW TRANSLATION
OF
THE FIRST FIVE CHAPTERS
OF THE
APOCALYPSE
BY THE AUTHOR
CHAP. 1: