The Revelation Explained / An Exposition, Text by Text, of the Apocalypse of St. John

by F. G. Smith

Ready for the marriage-day."

Amen. "Even so come, Lord Jesus." Then will appear the great "Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending." In the beginning he "created the heaven and the earth." In the end, John said, "I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea." In the beginning Satan entered the domain of God's people to deceive and destroy. In the end he is cast out, and will deceive the nations no more. In the beginning sickness, pain, sorrow, and wretchedness found entrance to the world. In the end "God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away." In the beginning the people of earth were placed under the iron hand of death, who has claimed his teeming millions. In the end, "I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God.... And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them ... and death and hell were cast into the lake of fire." In the beginning was a blooming garden containing the tree of immortal life. In the end we find the tree of life again "in the midst of the Paradise of God." In the beginning a curse was placed upon this earth. In the world to come "there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it." In the beginning the first Adam lost his universal dominion over the earth. In the end we find Jesus Christ, the second Adam, crowned King of kings and Lord of lords, and reigning in triumph and glory forever. In the beginning man was barred from the tree of life and driven from the garden of Eden. In the end, "Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city."

INDEX

A
Aachen, [326].
Abaddon, [162].
Abubekr, first caliph, [155].
Aegean Sea, [36], [46].
Africa, conquered by Saracens, [160].
Ahab, [53].
Alani, [145].
Alans, [146], [215].
Alaric, invades Italy, [136-141], [149].
Ala-Shehr, [63].
Albi, council of, [339].
Albigenses, [113], [161], [196], [270], [342].
Aleppo, [165].
Alexander I., [172].
Alexander the Great, [320].
Alexander VI., Pope, [346], [347].
Alexandria, [109], [110].
Alison, A., quoted, [307-315].
Ammianus Marcellinus, quoted, [188].
Amiens, [140].
Ammon, [330].
Anabaptists, [292].
Anglo-Saxons, [215].
Anthony, founder of monasticism, [189], [190].
Antioch, [104], [109], [110].
Antioch Epiphanes, [230].
Antipas, [49].
Apollo, [241].
Apollyon, [162].
Aquinas, Thos., [340], [341].
Arabia, [330]; conquered by Saracens, [160].
Arras, [140].
Arcadius, Roman emp., [137], [138], [440], [n].
Argos, [137].
Armageddon, [332].
Armenia, [330]; conquered by Turks, [165].
Arnout, Mme., quoted, [310].
Asbury, Bishop, [368].
Assyria, [330].
Astolphus, k. of Lombards, [351], [n].
Athanasius, [190].
Athens, [137].
Attalus, [139].
Atkins, Robert, quoted, [365].
Attica, [137].
Attila, [142], [145], [146], [149].
Atys, [407].
Augsburg, [191].
Augsburg Confession (A.D. 1530), [191], [247], [252], [253].
Augustine, [96].
Augustines, Order of, [246], [251].
Augustulus, Roman emp., [148].
Augustus Cæsar, first Roman emp., [222].
Aurelian, Roman emp., [189].
Aurelius, Marcus, Roman emp., [46], [98].
Austerlitz, battle of, [322].
Avignon, 327; removal of Papal chair to, [305], [306];
council of, [339].
B
Babylon, taken by Cyrus, [166], [329], [331];
great edifices of, [432].
Babylonian empire, [330], [397].
Bacchus, [407].
Bagdad, founded (A.D. 762), [160], [165].
Balaam, [49], [50].
Balak, [50].
Barak, [332].
Barnes, Dr., quoted, [359].
Baronius, quoted, [345].
Barrows, John Henry, quoted, [409], [410].
Basil, council of, [340].
Bayazid, Sultan, [61].
Bedford jail, [36].
Beethoven, [88].
Behiston rock, noted inscription on, [18], [n].
Belisarius, general of Justinian, [148], [236], [351], [n].
Bellarmine, Cardinal, quoted, [341], [342].
Benedict IX., Pope, [345], [346].
Bernard, 197; quoted, [199].
Beziers, council of, [339].
Boetia, [137].
Bohemia, [244], [339].
Bologna, [327].
Bonaparte, Jerome, [321].
Bonaparte, Louis, [321].
Bonaparte, Joseph, [321].
Bonaparte, Napoleon, [172], [317], [320-325], [327].
Boniface IV., Pope, [240].
Bonney, Chas. Carroll, quoted, [408], [409].
Borgia, Roderick, [346], [347].
Bosphorus, [171].
Bouchard, M., [18], [n].
Buddha, [409].
Bunyan, John, his imprisonment, [36], [n]., [293].
Burgundians, [215].
Burgundy, [215].
Burke, quoted, [303].
Butler, quoted, [222], [223], [224], [230], [231].
C
Cadiz, [324].
Cæsar, [320].
Cæsar Augustus, Roman emp., [222].
Calcedon, council of, [110].
Calvin, John, reformer, [252]Calvinists, [252], [291].
Campbell, Alexander, quoted, [359], [360].
Canoosa, [111].
Canterbury, See of, [112], [n].
Carlovingian dynasty, [325], [326], [350-352].
Carrier, [310], [311].
Cassini, quoted, [200].
Cathari, [196].
Catherine de Medici, [118].
Catherine the Great of Russia, [172].
Chaldea, [330].
Chalons, [146].
Charlemagne, [236], [305], [320], [325];
restores the Western empire, [325], [326], [350-352];
patriciate of, [350], [351], also [n].
Charles Martel, [161], [325].
Charles V., k. of France, [307].
Charles IX., k. of France, [118].
Chase, Chas. Wingate, quoted, [405].
Chaumette, [308], [309].
Christians,
persecutions of, [97], [295];
by the Roman emperors (ten seasons of), [98], [116], [230], [231];
by the Papacy, [113], [116-118], [196-200], [243], [295], [338-344];
by Protestants, [252], [291-294].
Christian Science, [410], [411].
Chrysostom, [96].
Cicero, [222].
Claudius, quoted, [199].
Clement of Rome, [95].
Cologne (wrongly spelled Colonge in text), [197].
Constance, council of, [244], [245], [339], [345].
Constantine the Great, [189], [231], [241].
Constantinople, [158];
captured by the Turks (A.D. 1453), [169];
council of, [109], [344].
Constitutionalists, [314].
Consular power, [214], also [n]., [351].
Copenhagen, [324].
Corinth, [137].
Council, first of church, [231].
Councils, general, of church, [109], [231], [321], [339], [340], [345], [346].
Covenanters, Scotch, [293], [294].
Creasy, quoted, [324].
Crellius, [292].
Croesus, k. of Lydia, [56].
Crusades, [166].
Cyprian, [107].
Cyrus the Great, his capture of Babylon, [166], [329], [331].
D
Dacia, [137].
D'Alembert, [297-303].
Dalmatia, [136].
Damascus, [165].
Daniel, prophecies of, [235-238].
Danton, [310].
Dantonists, [315].
Darwin, [411].
D'Aubigne, quoted, [96], [185], [191], [192], [195], [208], [209], [244], [245], [247], [253], [276], [277].
Decemvirate, [214], also [n]., [351].
Decius, Roman emp., [98].
Decretals of Isodore, [344].
Demetrius, [43].
Demetrius Cantemir, quoted, [170].
Diana, [241];
temple of at Ephesus, [42], [64].
Diderot, [297-308].
Dictator, office of, at Rome, [214], [n].
Diocletian, Roman emp., [48], [98], [230].
Dionysis, [407].
Diotrephes, [102], [103].
Donatists, [342].
Domitian, Roman emp., [36], [98].
Domnus, [189].
Dow, Lorenzo, quoted, [278], [360].
Dowling, quoted, [187], [188], [189], [190], [196], [241], [243].
Duke of Alva, [118].
Du Guesclin, [307].
Dupin, quoted, [344].
Dwight, Pres., quoted, [303].
E
Easter, [105].
Eastern Empire, See Roman Empire.
Eastern Question, [172], [173].
Edgar, quoted, [340].
Edict of Nantes, [118], [295].
Egbert, quoted, [196], [197].
Egypt, conquered by Saracens, [160].
Elba, Island of, [323], [324].
Ephesus, fate of, [45], [64], [68]; temple at, [42].
Eudoxia, [143].
Euphrates, [164], [166]; turned by Cyrus, [166], [329], [331].
Eusebius, quoted, [188], [189].
Evervinus, quoted. [197-199].
F
Farrara, [327].
Feldkirchen, [247].
Fisher, Geo., quoted, [103], [189].
Fletcher, John, quoted, [277].
Formosus, Pope, [345].
Foster, Bishop R.S., quoted, [368-370].
France, invaded by Saracens, [161].
Francis I., of France, [307].
Franks, [146], [215].
Frederick of Saxony, quoted, [247-249].
Frederick II., k. of Prussia, [297].
French Revolution, [305-315], [324], [352].
Freron, quoted, [313], [314].
Friedland, battle of, [322].
Fuller, quoted, [340].
G
Gallienus, Roman emp., [187]Gallus, Roman emp., [98].
Gascoigne, [215].
Gates, Theophilus R., quoted, [278-283].
Geneva, [252].
Genseric, k. of Vandals, [25], [142], [143], [149].
Germania, [139].
Gepidæ, [145].
Gibbon, quoted, [64], [136-138], [142], [143], [145], [158], [351].
Gibbons, Cardinal, quoted [343], [344].
Gieseler, quoted, [103].
Girondists, [315].
Gnostics, [410].
Gobet, [308].
Goddess of Reason, [209], [401].
Goths, [136], [141].
Greek Empire (Eastern Empire), See Roman Empire.
Green, B.A., quoted, [412], [413].
Gregory VII., Pope, [111], [184], [242].
H
Haeckel, [411].
Hamlet, [307].
Handel, [88].
Hartley, quoted, [361].
Heads, seven, of dragon and Papal beasts,
signifying seven forms of government,
[214], also [n]., [235], [349], [350].
Hebert, [308], [309].
Henry VIII., k. of England, [292].
Henry IV., k. of France, [307].
Henry IV., emperor of Holy Roman empire, [111].
Henry, k. of Navarre, [118].
Hera, [154].
Hermus, [56].
Herod Agrippa, [240].
Herodotus, [166], [329].
Heruli, [145], [148], [215], [236].
Hieroglyphics, [18], [19], [n].
Hilarion, [189].
Hildebrand, See Gregory VII.
Hilton, John, quoted, [246], [247].
Hiram Abiff, [407].
Holbach, Baron, [300].
Holland, [321].
Holy Roman Empire, [325], [326], [351];
dissolved (A.D. 1806), [327].
Honorius, Roman emp., [136], [138], [139], [440], [n].
Honorius, Pope, [344], [346].
Hopkins, quoted, [362].
Horn, the little, of Daniel [7],
a symbol of the Papacy, [235-238], [350], [357].
Horn, of the goat, symbol of Alexander, [20].
Horns, ten, of the Dragon and Papal beast,
signifying ten kingdoms, [14], [215], [235], [236], [349].
Horns, three, plucked up before the little horn,
[236], [350], [351].
Horns, four, of the goat,
symbolizing four divisions of Alexander's empire, [20].
Hugenots, [118].
Hugenot wars, [252].
Hungary, [169], [215].
Huns, [141], [145], [146], [215].
Huntington, Lady, [369].
Huss, John, [62], [244], [245], [249], [339].
I
Iconium, [165].
Ignatius, his epistles, extracts from, [104].
Illuminati, [297-303], [404].
Illyricum, [137].
Indulgences, [250], [251].
Imperial power, [214], also [n].
Innocent III., Pope, [111], [n]., [339].
Innocent XI., Pope, [118].
Institorus, Henry, quoted, [246].
Interdicts, [111], also [n]., [112], also [n].
Ionia, [64].
Isodore, false Decretals of, [344], [345].
Islam, See Mohammedanism.
J
Jena, battle of, [322].
Jerome, [36], [96].
Jerome of Prague, [62], [339].
Jerusalem, captured by Saracens, [110].
Jezebel, [53].
John XI., Pope, [345].
John, k. of England,
his quarrel with Innocent III., [112], [n].
Johnson, B.W., quoted, [357-359].
Judson, quoted, [171], [172], [321].
Jupiter, [241].
Justinian, Roman emp., [148], [351], [n].
K
Kinkade, Wm., quoted, [359].
Klondyke, [433].
Koran, [158], [406].
Kurtz, quoted, [95], [96].
L
Laodicea, fate of, [64], [67], [68].
Lateran, councils of, [329], [339], [340].
Lavaur, council of, [339].
Leo III., Pope, [325].
Leo X., Pope, [250].
Lepelletier, [308].
Liszt, [88].
Lombards, [196].
Lombards (barbarians), [215], [236], [350].
Lombardy, [351].
Lord, Mr., quoted, [100].
Louis XII., k. of France, [307].
Louis, XIV., k. of France, [118], [295], [307].
Lucretia, [347].
Luther, Martin, reformer,
[62], [244], [246], [247], [249], [251],
[252], [342]; quoted, [361].
Lutherans, [252],

[291].
Lydia, [56], [64].
M
Machiard, [215].
Mackey, quoted, [405].
Mackintosh, Sir James, quoted, [323], [324].
Mæcenas, [222].
Mæsia, [215].
Mahomet, See Mohammed.
Manes, [298].
Manicheans, [342].
Mantz, Felix, [292].
Marat, [308], [310], [311].
Marathon, battle of, [191].
Marcellus, Pope, [341].
Marcus Aurelius, Roman emp., [46], [98].
Marengo, battle of, [191], [322].
Marie Antoinette, q. of France, her execution, [306].
Marozia, [345].
Marsh, quoted, [186].
Martin, Pope, [339].
Mary Tudor, [117].
Maximus, Roman emp., [98], [143].
Mecca, [154].
Megara, [137].
Megiddo, [332].
Melanchthon, Philip, [247].
Mentz, [140].
Mesopotamia, [330].
Metropolitan, office of, [105], [106].
Military Tribunes, [214], also [n].
Milman, quoted, [95].
Milner, Joseph, quoted, [190], [191].
Mithras, [407].
Moab, [330].
Mohammed, [61], [154-162], [389].
Mohammedanism, [25], [61], [134], [154-173], [331], [341].
Moldavia, prince of, [170].
Momoro, [309].
Momyllus Augustulus, Roman emp., [148].
Montanism, [105].
Monasticism, rise of, [189], [190].
Montesquieu, [300].
Morea, [170].
Moscow, [322], [324].
Mosheim, quoted, [94], [105], [106], [109].
Mozart, [87].
Murat, [321].
Myers, quoted, [293].
Mysia, [49].
Mythra, mysteries of, [298].
N
Nantes, [310]; edict of, [118], [295].
Naples, [324].
Napoleon, See Bonaparte.
Narbonne, council of, [339].
National Convention of France, [307], [317].
Nero, Roman emp., [98], [311].
Nerva, Roman emp., [36].
Ney, Marshal, [322].
Niagara Falls, [87].
Nicaea, council of, [109], [231].
Nicolaitans, [44], [49], [50]Nicholas, [172].
Nicolas, [44].
Notre Dame, [309].
O
Odoacer, [148], [236].
Oppede, [117].
Oriental Philosophy, [410].
Origen, [107].
Osiris, [407].
Ostrogoths, [141], [145], [148], [215], [236], [351], [n].
Othman, See Ottoman.
Otto the Great, [326]Ottoman, [61], [169].
Ottoman empire, [64], [165], [173], [441].
Oxford, council of, [339].
P
Pactolus, [56].
Pache, [308].
Paderewski, [88].
Paganism, [97], [214-232], [331], [388-390].
Palestine, conquered by Saracens, [160];
invaded by Crusaders, [166].
Pannonia, [215].
Papacy, first steps to apostasy,
[102], [184], [185]; growth of its power,
[103-107], [108], [110], [111], [184], [236-243], [352], [n].;
Pope styled Universal Bishop, [110], [184];
blasphemous titles of, [242], [243], [264], [337];
its war against the saints, See Christians,
persecutions of; at its height, [111],
also [n]., [184], [236], [305], [326], [236-243];
temporal power of, [184], [236], [305], [326], [336], [352], [n].;
removal of Papal chair to Avignon, [305], [306];
spiritual supremacy lost at the Reformation,
[191], [249-251];
revolt of the temporal princes, [255], [355];
end of its temporal power, [255], [327], [328];
decree of Papal infallibility, [243], [346].
Papal States, See Papacy, temporal power of.Patmos, [36].
Patriarch, office of, [109], [110].
Patriciate, [350], [351], also [n].
Paul of Antioch, [188], [189].
Paulus, [344].
Pavia, battle of, [191].
Pepin, Carlovingian king, [236], [305], [326], [350].
Pergamus, fate of, [64], [68].
Persecutions, See Christians, persecutions of.Persia, conquered by Saracens, [160].
Petrus Lombardus, [96].
Peucer, [292].
Philadelphia, remarkable preservation of, [61-64], [68].
Philip Augustus, [111].
Philosophists, [297-303].
Phocas, Roman emp. [184].
Phocis, [137].
Pius IV., Pope, [327].
Platina, [345].
Pliny, [222], [226].
Poland, [169].
Polycarp, [46].
Pontifex Maxima, [222], [239].
Poor Men of Lyons, [198].
Popes, power of, See Papacy.
Portugal overrun by Saracens, [160].
Prague, [244].
Proles, Andrew, quoted, [246].
Protestantism, rise of, [191], [252], [254];
its false miracles, [259-261];
its persecutions, See Christians,
persecutions of.Proetextatus, [188].
Puritans, [293].
R
Ravenna, [148], [351], [352], [n].;
exarchate of, [351], [n].
Reformation, the, [249-252];
predictions of by medieval Christians, [243-249].
Regal power, [214], also [n].
Reign of Terror in France, [306-315].
Revival of Learning, [249].
Rheims, [140].
Roberts, Bishop, quoted, [364].
Robespierre, [307], [309], [313].
Rodgers, Hester Ann, [368].
Romagna, [327].
Roman Empire, forms of, See Heads, seven, and Horns, ten;
Christianity the State religion under Constantine, [116], [231];
division of under Valens and Valentinian, [440];
overrun by barbarians, [25], [125], [136-141], [142], [143], [145], [146], [148];
fall of Western division (A.D. 476), [133], [148], [236], [440];
fall of Eastern division (A.D. 1453), [167], [169], [172], [440], [441].
Rome, [109], [138], [139], [143].
Rosetta stone, [18], [n].
Rosseau, [300].
Rubenstein, [88].
Rutter, quoted, [186].
S
St. Anthony, [189], [190].
St. Aquinas, quoted, [340].
St. Bartholomew, massacre of, [117].
St. Dennis, [307].
St. Petersburg, [172].
Salutaris Vibius, [42].
Saracens, [26], [61], [110], [156-163].
Sardinia, [143].
Sardis, capital of Lydia, [56];
fate of, [58], [64], [68].
Savage, Minton J., quoted, [413-415].
Saxons, See Anglo-Saxons.Saxony, [244], [250], [251].
Schweinitz, [248].
Scott, 0., quoted, [363].
Scythia, [136], [139].
Septimus Severus, Roman emp., [98], [224].
Sergius, Pope, [344], [345], [346].
Sickles, Daniel, quoted, [405].
Siddartha, [409].
Sienna, council of, [340].
Simpson, quoted, [362].
Sisera, [332].
Smyrna, preservation of, [48], [64], [68].
Socrates, [409].
Spain, overrun by Saracens, [160].
Sparta, [137].
Spires, [140], [191];
diet of, [191], [253].
Spiritualism, [411], [412].
States-General, of France, [306].
Strasburg, [140].
Suevi, [215].
Sultanies, Turkish, names of, [165].
Sunium, [137].
Symbols, See Hieroglyphics.
T
Tables of Laws, Roman, [214].
Talmage, T. DeWitt, quoted, [363], [412].
Temple of Reason, [309].
Tertullian, [107];
quoted, [134], [224-226].
Tetzel, [250], [251].
Theodoret, [96].
Theodoric, [148], [236].
Theodosius the Great, Roman emp., [136], [440], [n].
Thermopylae, [137].
Thrace, [137].
Thuanus, quoted, [200].
Thyatira, fate of, [64], [68].
Tiberius Cæsar, Roman emp., [66].
Tilsit, [172].
Tmolus, Mount, [56].
Toledo, council of, [339], [346].
Toloso, council of, [339].
Torgaw, [291].
Tournay, [140].
Tours, [161];
council of, [339].
Trajan, Roman emp., [98], [104], [222].
Trent, council of, [96].
Tribunes, [214], also [n].
Tripoli, [143].
Triumvirate, [214], also [n]., [351].
Turenne, [307].
Turin, [199].
Turings, [215].
Turks, See Ottoman empire.
U
Universal Bishop, Pope styled, See Papacy.Urban II., [96].
V
Valens, Roman emp., [440], also [n].
Valentinian, Roman emp., [143], [440], also [n].
Valerian, Roman emp., [98].
Vandals, [25], [142], [143], [215].
Vanosia, [347].
Vatican, council of, [346].
Vaudois, [196].
Venaissin, [327].
Venus, [241].
Vicarius Filii Dei, blasphemous title of the Pope, [264].
Victor Emmanuel, [255], [328].
Victor III., Pope, [345].
Vienna, attacked by Turks, [169];
congress of, [323].
Visigoths, [138], [141], [146], [215].
Voltaire, [297-302], [305], [306], [401].
W
Waddington, quoted, [94], [186], [346], [347].
Wagram, battle of, [322].
Waldenses, [113], [117], [161], [196], [200], [270], [339], [342].
Warburton, quoted, [404].
Waterloo, battle of, [324].
Weishaupt, Dr. Adam, [300], [302], [403].
Wesley, John, [368].
Western Empire, See Roman Empire also Charlemagne and Holy Roman Empire.Westphalia, [321].
Wicks, Thos., quoted, [297-303], [321], [323].
Wittemberg, [248], [249];
university of, [251].
Wurms, [140].
Wycliffe, [61], [340], [344].
X
Xerxes, [321].
Y
Yellowstone Park, [87].
Yosemite Valley, [87].
Yuruks, [58].
Z
Zend-Avesta, [406].
Zoroaster, [406].
Zurich, [292].
Zwingle, Ulrich, reformer, [252].