The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1825-02-11
FOR TIE FIRGINTAs.
REVIEW

REVIEW
d or General .qieraader so,g'h's explanation
OF the Ipoealypse.
81 mia ;e certainly an aye of wonders. Ii
,mongst the least Of them that Grnl.
's,,ndrr smyth, Of Virginia, should snf-
81 ~ ~ sin.elf to be led into so egregioas a
& &c l',s IN publish to the world that the
p2..lyase Of st. john is spurious, and
~, T., he banished from the sacred canon.
- ont believe that Gen. A. sSInyth would
80. veniurrd his serdclly on gtounds so
w ,o.r The f,ilnre ola Bolingbroke, Vol
- and a Pune, III eudeasoriug to de.
..a Christians Of their Last, best hope
!, possbe that Gen, Alexander Smyth
,,ij raise his pnny arm in rebellion against
.,i.tisnily aud ioio this triu'nyirate, in
.odr,,urlng to destroy il, detail. hat thry
gross, with all their taIenls, cauld not
IA This, achnow edSe, Is placing Gen.
!, smyth in bad company; but we knoW
a man by the company he keeps. If Gen.
snyih's hostility is as great to chris
Ganilr-as i, is 10 his political enemies, no
u,Rlcr he wishes To Danish from the sacred
ramon the Apocalypse. Any man no note
calls il question the grnuIneness of any part
orit must expect to suffer loss in his repu.
tioD, as d,vine. w. now proceed vi h
our review.
The pamphlet commences, by proposing
hr question for discussion, viz: Whether
oThe Revelation of ST. john the divine, IS
propntticaI vision nf future events, or IN
ar'f,l rnigmalicaI relation Of past events,
under the form # prophecy"
1--we can establish the fact that st. john
,e divine, as he is called, was the author
onle book in q',silon; We hope that even
Gen. A. Smylh viii be convinced that II
is a prophcllcal vision Of future events >
and not -" an artlaI enigmallcaI relation,
Ec.n In the ii, 81 chapter, ST. john as
sr.i- lhe divine authority of ,he predictions
winch he IS about In d-lNer and describes
the first vision, in which he is commanded
toXrte the things then revealed 10 him.
nThe testimonies IN favor of the book
If g,,tlaflou being a genuine work Of ST.
Joln The E,angeIst,* are very full and sa
u,aclory. Justin Martyr,who lived ahont
,lyty wears aflcI il Was written, ascrlhes
II 10 thai apostle aud go does EeneuS,
wha,r ,>ldence il alone sufficient uyUn
TN. polut, Ton he was the disciple Of Poly
caYp. Who was The disciple of John himself.
Aud hp expressly le!ls us that he tad the
explauafi0n Of a certain passage II this
book, lRefrlafiOn,) from those who had
Sua,trsed with ST. John. the author. -
ldroductioa to The study Of The B'jte, by
e T.' Ptuyman, u u. f X. 5. Lord b.
tq T Liatota.
JUSTIN AID Irtneus are followed by
C#m nj # Aiexand ia, Tultulliaa, Origrn,
c fJon, Lacle lots Eu-rhIus, 4 a.a.
s,s. Jnd many utaer "ccltN astlcal " ltcrs.
all oil NAom concur IN considering The
A5o.tlr John AS the author OF The K.s,la.
tia Ibid
"Nr, Lnwmap observes; hsrdiy Any
book his RECEIVED NOR early, more an
ihetlc, aud more satisfactory aitestatlous
d
It is called the Revelation of St. John
the divine, aud tbs apo, lldtion Was first
g'an 10 st. JOHN by Eusehlus, not to dis
ulgalsh him from any other person of the
suur maine but as an honorable uIe. -
j.
Tap learned Ntde Dauhuz, Sir Isaac
NeN,on. Lounan. Bishop Hard, and ma
ny other excellent commentators, testify
/, The geauineocss to-. book, aud last.
though not least, IS the Rev. and learned
VI Thomas Scott, mh1 says IN his com
menidry, II Is II suGui,t circumstance
this book, that liz authenticity
WAS very generally, if not universally at
Nnonledgrd, during tn. two fr-t centuries
and YET H. the th,t century ii began 10
be q9"stioned !" Notwithstanding this, he
sa!s, =" liz divine original aud authority
have been fully established To- The clrartot
nd most decisive evidence" That this
'ouk was written in the first century, is
Hsbllshed ht lhr brst evidence, hryoud
I5dbt, General Smsthlo thu canlrary not
Outstanding. It was mltuin 4. D. 81 or
~ u hen 81. John, rs aulhor, nas IN the
''e Of Patuus. ia tie Eacau sra, in The
,Np ar Is m IlnpIIilan