The composition of the Books of the Bible was begun by Moses on the plains of Moab in the 15th century, B.C.; the subjects of which they treat were completed by Paul during his Roman imprisonment in the latter half of the 1St Christian century; while John, the last of the Apostolic band, had those wondrous visions and sights vouchsafed to him in the rocky isle of Patmos, and the whole committed to writing and known to us as “ The Revelation,” by the close of the century.
If the first book of the Bible unfolds to us the sources of good and evil, the origin of all things, the germ of every truth, the foundation of every divine and human relationship; the last book shows us the final and eternal results, the triumph of good over evil, the issues, whether of glory or judgment of the human race,-there we behold the pride of man humbled and flesh wither under the hand of God; there too the meek and lowly ones of earth who identified themselves through grace with Christ and His cross, are exalted; the impress of eternity, the touch of God’s hand rests on every person and every subject treated of in the 66th book of Holy Scripture—THE REVELATION.