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Excerpt from A Popular Exposition of the Epistles to the Seven Churches of Asia
From time to time beheld the form of the risen and ascended Christ (acts xxii. I7, 18; xxviii. Or of some angel sent by Him (acts xxvii. In this way prophets and apostles had been taught what till then eye had not seen nor ear heard, neither had it entered into the hear of man to conceive. (i Cor. Ii. 9, Each mystery of the faith was imparted by a new revelation. An apocalypse extending to the far future, to the coming of the Lord, to the signs of its approach, is implied as given to St. Paul in 2 Thess. Ii. 1 - 12; in I Tim. Iv. 1 - 3; and to St. Peter in 2 Pet. Ii. 10 - 13. It would hardly be a paradox to say that a state com mouly so abnormal as that of trance or ecstasy was part of the normal life of the Apostles of the Faith. John, when he addressed his Revelation to the Churches of Asia was claim ing no exceptional privilege. They would not be startled bv it as by something altogether extraordinary.
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