Section 1

“And One of the Four Living Ones gave to the Seven Angels, Seven Golden Vials full of the wrath of the Deity, who lives for the Aions oftheAions” — Verse 7

“And the Seven Angels having the Seven Plagues came out from the Nave, having been clothed in linen pure and bright, and girded around the breasts with golden girdles” — Verse 6.

“And after these things I saw, and behold the Nave of the Tabernacle of the Testimony had been opened in the heaven” — Verse 5.

“And they sing the song of the Lamb”.

“And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of the Deity”.

“And I saw the conquerors of the beast, and of his image, and of his sign, and of the number of his name, standing upon the glassy sea, having harps of the Deity”.

“And I saw as it were a glassy sea, which had been mingled with fire” — Verse 2.

“I saw another sign in the heaven, great and marvellous, Seven Angels having the Seven Last Plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of the Deity” — Verse 1.

This “thousand six hundred furlongs” is a great Apocalyptic puzzle. Is it a measure of territorial surface, a measure of length without breadth and depth; or is it such a measure of length, representative of a measure of time? It cannot be taken in the sense of territorial measure­ment, because this would require a continuous line of cavalry two hundred miles long; and whether in single file, or broadly massed, can­not be told. Such an exposition would not be reasonable; nor is there anything in the prophets to justify it.