CA .5. Blielatianofthe Apocal.ypfc; The Analyfis or Refolution. C Htat much path been fjioken fummarily of the common Type of the Whole Church militant. The ffeciall Prophetic containetb partly thefitrpaffingdignitie of this Revelation,in this Chapter, part- ly the events themfelves, in the refsof the Booke. That is declared, firff in regard of thecreature, and then inref ell ofthe Lambe. In re- ified ofthe creature,it is altogether Vnfearchable,as it appearethpart- ly out ofthefealing of it up withfeverfeales, verf i.partly ,out of the teftimonyof all thecreatures, Whichdoeall of them acknoWledre their oWn impotency, after that the matter war fetforth to be enquired into, by theproclamation ofthe Angellae it Were ofa fryer, verf. 2, Asalfo after that trialshadbeen madeat 14what they coulddo,ver.3. and the confequenthereofis lamentable, even the Weeping of?ohn. Which this. Weaknef fe ofthe creatures, and his defairing to enjoyfo notable a bene- fit, wrungfrom him, verf 4. In reffell ofthe Lambone, it is able tq be fearched out ; asfief! theElder teacheth Who comferteth john, verf.5: After thatthe Lamb comming in thefame infiant and takingthe Book, verf.6,7. Whence at tall arifithaftngularjoy and thankéfgiving ofthe Wholecreature, but infeverallfirft of the Churcb,verf.8,'9,ró. And of the Angels,verf.i I, 12, Andthen ofthe refl. of thecreatures, verf: 13. Laff cfalljoyntly, the Church fubfcribing to the com2non rejoyce- ing andgladrieffe ofall the re?,verf. i..l. THE EXPOSITION. i . Then Ifawat the righthand. The vulgar readeth, in the right hand ; fo doth the InterpreterofAretasalfo ; but all the Greeke Co- pies do withone confent read e, at or upon the right hand. They tranf- lated it perhaps in the Ablative cafe, becaufe it followeth beneath in the feventhverfe, that the Lambe took,theBook out ofthe right hand. But this was not a fufficient caufe to depart from thenative proprie- ty ofthe words,feeing it might be ofpurpofe faid for the better con- vincingoftheweaknell'eofthe creatures, that the Book was at firff, not in the right hand, but at the right hand ofhim that fate on the Throne. Whence it would follow, thatif they hadno ability to open it when it was offered and let forth of purpofe to their view, much le% ability fhould they have had, if he had held it in his hands. Then afterwards when the impotencyof the creature was convicted; it is Paid that theBook was taken into his hand, that fo the worthinelreof thti,Lambe might be made morenotable, who. did not catch at the Books.:.
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