Revelation 7:6 The Servants of God Sealed. I. The passage from the book of Revelation selected as the Epistle for All Saints' Day, while it carries our thought onward to the glories of the world to come, is a most striking reminiscence of old Hebrew history. The constitution of the twelve tribes,... [ Continue Reading ]
Revelation 7:9 The Festival of All Saints. The Festival of All Saints is related in conception to, yet distinct from, the Festival of All Angels. For while the latter speaks of angelic victory, the former speaks only of human victory over evil. It was considered to be the feast of the glorificatio... [ Continue Reading ]
Revelation 7:13 Heavenly Raiment. I. Here, in the text, we are presented to a great, victorious company. These pure, victorious ones are as numerous as they are beautiful; from all nations they come; all languages have they spoken; yet have they all been beaten and bruised with the tribulations of... [ Continue Reading ]
Revelation 7:13 Who are Saints? I. Notice what we certainly do not mean when we speak of men being saints of God. (1) I find no warrant for believing that the asceticism which appears to have so strange a charm for some minds is pleasing to God, and I find a great deal to convince me that it is ev... [ Continue Reading ]
Revelation 7:14 We owe very little debt to those who take this out of the grand signification, and say that it belongs to the "multitudes" of Constantine, or the "Constantine age." I would far rather keep to the simple ideas of my childhood, and see in it nothing but a beautiful description of the... [ Continue Reading ]
Revelation 7:16 "No More" and "More.". There are four things asserted here: I. All need is supplied: "They shall hunger no more, for the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them." (1) Look at the source of the supply. This is sixfold: (_a_) love which passeth knowledge; (_b_) powe... [ Continue Reading ]