A book; a scroll, written on both sides to denote the fulness of its contents, rolled up and sealed with seven seals. Compare Ezekiel 2:9-10. The successive opening of the seals represents the gradual unfolding of the counsels of God in the history of this world. This represented the purposes of God with regard to events which were future, and which no one could know except God, and those to whom he should reveal them.

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Old Testament