Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-07-02
NEW BOOKS.
THE REVELATION OF ST. JOHN ITS OWN IN
TERPRETER. By JOHN COCHRAN. New York:
D. Appleton Co. Cincinnati: Hickey, Mallory


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This work proposes TO clear up the little mystery
remaining around the Apocalypse, by theory which
reduces the whole allegory to positive certainty
when, the writer says.
'It will he found that II forms a wonderful In
stance q tne wtsdam Us % ana gooeness oi G9a wno mas
their path BY the figures Of glowing imagery, which,
in the end, resolve themselves into problems of dem
@ t & t diyinitY % u ~ fPp VIVA n t
eminent Of tho worid.h
This demonstreble clearness has not hitherto been
raocbsd wbetber n 4. consistent with C,od,s mr.
pose In the prophesies, may consider at another
time. The saneuipe promise of the writer encour.
ages great hopes. Whether they are fulfilled, can
best be ascertained by reading the book.
The theory Of the book h that the Revelation is de-
lvered in double version, divided by the half-hour
silence in Heaven that one version ia repetition Of
the other, and helps to interpret IT, This at once
reduces the work of Interpretation one-haf besides
! making one allegory explain the other. The idea
finds analogies in the double dream Of Joseph which
excited the envy Of his brethren and in the double
dream Of Pharaoh, the Interpretation of which re-
lieyed joseph from the disgrace into which he had
fallen from his remarkable continency.
The best test OF the theory is the conclusions ar
rived at In fact fixed conclusions arc even the
clearest foundation for theory We can state hut
strated with mathematical certainty that the only
powers and domnons referred 70 in the Revelations
| are the Kingdom Of God and the Roman Power
This being settled the next point ia TO fnd which is
which. In this, as in other collections Of living
things, those who have rendered an equivalent take
their choice. Much depends ON tho choice. The
writer readily decides that the dragons, scarlet
woman, many horned beasts, plaques and famines
typify the Roman Church As a. specimen Of his
Iooic xva n,tota bia on tbo
beast with seven heads and ten horns
"Seyen heads are interpreted to be seven mount
., ai.ns, an sign ol home Whlen no sopl-
the domi1ions by the internTeting an1eI an that
are necessarily Roman But the same sign is attached
tbst thIea sra R, pSich S, ,h e st
| God, are ali the dominions in the book"
So 1t will be seen that tho clue furnished in the
seven mountains unravels the whole mystery. Omit.
ting intermediate stages we hasten to the final con.
clnsion which is the opening of the seven yials OF
judgments on the man Dominion and the beast
and the scarlet woman the casting Of the beast and
the false prophet into the lake of IRE, the casting
the dragon into the bottomless pit and lalss of fire
and the fall Of Babylon, all of which denote the
| entire destruction Of the Roman Dominion, I'm
perial, Papal and Ecclesiastical, when the new
| heaven, and the new EARTH and tho new Jerusalem
| begin
This contamination is sufficient yindicahon ofthC
theory to any devout mind; except it may be to the
Catholics but il is not according to nature that they
who feel the grip of the law should have a higl
opinion Of virtues. We suppose that they hav,
equal grace in Interpretation, and that by theory
equally clear they bring other religions to the
end. Thus, If Interpretation had free course, II
would dispose Of all the existing religions to prepare
the way for the establishment Of the Kingdom o
God on earth. This consequence can not be contem
/ plated without concern.
There ia a plausibility. thouph oroha
in the application Of the symbol of the beast of tn,
seven heads and ten horns, and the dragon and th'
searlet-woman to the English secession from the
Roman Church under the lead of Henry the Eighth
| of blessed memory-and to the Protestant move
ment OF which England became the bulwsrk. II
Will be seen by Rev 49, that the boast rises up out
the sea. This fact 10 omitted by the writer Rom,
does not rise out Of the sea. England does. Hei
uSual attitude Is "rulng the waves" 1t will not bt