[112]. Acts xx: 27-30.

[113]. II Tim. iv: 1-4.

[114]. II Peter i: 21.

[115]. II Peter ii: 1-3.

[116]. Tim. iv: 1, 2.

[117]. That is, that the day of Messiah's glorious coming is at hand.

[118]. Letteth and let are the old English equivalents of hindereth and hinder. The student will remember that Shakespeare makes Hamlet say to those who seek to prevent him following the ghost of his father when beckoned to private interview—"Still am I called. Unhand me, gentlemen. By heaven I'll make a ghost of him that lets me"—i.e. that hinders me.

[119]. II Thes. ii: 1-12.

[120]. Isaiah xxiv: 4-6.

[121]. Gal. iii. 8, 19, 24, 25.