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Charles Spurgeon called this commentary ‘The Standard Work’. Four volumes cover Daniel, Revelation. Includes many illustrations. Level of Difficulty: Intermediate/Advanced: Some subject matter knowledge helpful. Contents Contents of Volume 1 Dedication Preface To The Fifth Edition. Table Of Contents To Vol. I. Preliminary Essays On The Genuineness And The Date Of The Apocalypse Of St. John. 1 The Writer Of The Apocalypse. 2 The Date Of The Apocalypse. Introduction To The Prophecy Of The Future. Rev. 1-4 1 St. John In Patmos. 2 The Primary Apocalyptic Vision, On “the Things That Are.” 3 The Opening Vision Of The Heavenly Throne And Company, Preparatory To The Revelations Of The Future, 4 The Mode And Manner, Plan And Order, Of The Revelation. 5 On The Ensuing Historical Exposition Of The Revelation. Part I. The First Six Seals. The Coming Temporary Prosperity, And Then The Decline And Fall, Of The Empire Of Heathen Rome. (a. D. 96 - 395.) (Rev. 6) 1 The First Seal. 2 The Second Seal. 3 The Third Seal. 4 The Fourth Seal. 5 The Fifth Seal. 6 The Sixth Seal’s Primary Vision. 7 The Sixth Seal’s Sealing And Palm-bearing Visions. Part II. The First Six Trumpets. (Rev. 8:1 - 9:20) The Destruction Of The Western Empire By The Goths: And The Eastern Empire By The Saracens And Turks. (A.D. 395 To 1453) 1 The Half-hour’s Silence In Heaven, And Incense-offering By The Saints, Or Sealed Ones. 2 Intent Of The Trumpet-soundings, And Expository Principles Of The Four First Trumpets. 3 The Four First Trumpet-visions. 4 Forewarnings Of Coming Woe. 5 The Fifth Or First Woe Trumpet. 6 Pause Between The Fifth And Sixth Trumpets. 7 The Sixth, Or Second Woe Trumpet. Appendix To Vol. I. 1 Notice Of The Arguments Of Professors Lücke And M. Stuart For The Galbaic Or Neronic Date Of The Apocalypse. 2 On The Counter-structural Scheme Which Supposes A Chronological Parallelism Of Seals And Trumpets; The Seals As Prefiguring The Church History, The Trumpets The Secular History Of Roman Christendom. 3 On The Roman Coinage, Coins, And Weight, Engraved In This Volume. 4 Specific Objections To Certain Of My Explanations On Various Points In This Volume. Contents Volume 2 Titlepage Table Of Contents To Vol. II. Part III. (A.D. 1453-1789) (Rev. 9:20 - 11:15) The Reformation, As Occurring Under The Latter Half Of The Sixth Trumpet: Including The Antecedent History, And The Death, Resurrection, And Ascension, Of Christ’s Two Sackcloth-robed Witnesses. 1 Retrospective View From After The Fall Of Constantinople Of The Previous Four Hundred Years’ History Of Western Christendom; And Sketch Of Its Religious State In The Era Between That Event And The Reformation. 2 Intervention Of The Covenant-angel Fulfilled In The Reformation. Rev 10:1-4. 3 Epoch Of Antichrist’s Triumph The Epoch Of Christ’s Intervention, 4 Commencement Of The Reformation, In The Discovery First Of Christ The Saviour, Then Of Antichrist The Usurper. Rev. 10:1-5. 5 Revelation Of The Worlds Now 5 Advanced Chronological Position In The Great. Prophetic Calendar Of Daniel And The Apocalypse. 6 The Progress And Ecclesiastical Establishment Of The Reformation. 7 Retrospective View, From The Reformation, Of Christ’s Two Witnesses: - Considered In Respect Of Their Character, And Of The Earlier Half Of Their History. 8 Retrospective View Of Christ’s Witnesses, From The Epoch Of The Reformation, Continued And Concluded: Including Tie Papal Wild Beast’s War Against Them, Their Defeat, Death, And Resurrection. 9 Ascent Of The Witnesses, And Political Establishment Of The Reformation. 10 Termination Of The Second Or Turkish Woe, And Sounding Of The Seventh Trumpet. Contents Volume 3 Titlepage

4 Jun 2026

“The question of the Ministry is not in which each individual may decide according to his own judgment and pleasure. The Lord has decided it in the Holy Scriptures, and to this decision we should meekly submit.

27 May 2026

“(This is) one of the best contributions towards the explanation of the Old Testament… Comprehensive and trustworthy in its information, exhaustive in point of research and learning, fresh and vigorous in thought and style, throughout marked by sobriety and good sense; above all, thoroughly evangelical in its tone.” -Alfred Edersheim, from the Preface

20 May 2026

“God is a Sovereign and a Judge as well as a Father. The safety of the universe demands that God illustrate everlasting justice upon sinners, as well as infinite love."

6 May 2026

“Without the Holy Scriptures nothing certain would be known concerning the future destiny of man and the world. No book gives us such assurance as the Bible does. In the light of the Bible the riddle of the universe is solved. Only the Bible can console the human heart and show the way to salvation.

28 Apr 2026

“[This book] will… open many minds to perceive that the Bible gives no uncertain sound as to Romanism, and that those who will be guided by its teachings must shun an apostasy against which the sorest judgments are denounced. — H. Grattan Guinness

19 Mar 2026

Henry Guinness writes from an historic Pre-Millennial perspective. He traces which prophecies of Scripture have been fulfilled at the time of publication. Henry Grattan Guinness (1835-1910) was an Irish Protestant preacher, evangelist and author who started Harley College East London Missionary Training School which trained and sent hundreds of “faith missionaries” all over the world.

12 Mar 2026

“The Judgment Day will not convert people, it will only let the whole world know who was converted, who was regenerated. The Judgment Day will simply state the facts that have been long before.” — Simon Peter Long

19 Feb 2026

The Ultramontanes... conspire to lift the Church of Rome once more to universal sway over the nations. The Reactionaries...seek... despotic governments, and the Revolutionists... a universal republic.

12 Feb 2026

“The Bible to the early church was not a book merely; it was… a living creature (infused) in every part with a mysterious, manifold and superabundant life… And as a Divine work differs from a human chiefly in those minutia which lie beneath the surface… so, the early Christians argued, it must be with the Divine Word. They confidently expected to see “wondrous things” in it. And the more closely they scrutinized it, the more marks of the supernatural they professed to see therein.

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