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Excerpt from The Doctrine of the Apocalypse, and Its Relation to the Doctrine of the Gospel and Epistles of John
Whichever of the two sides the solution might be nearest, in order to escape the dilemma between the unsatisfactory nature of the negative criticism and the not less imperfect character of all positive attempts at a solution of this question, I began a com parison between the doctrine of the Apocalypse and that of the Gospel and Epistles of John. It was very soon clear to me, that the individuality of the first of these three was such as to render this comparison impossible before I had fully wrought out for myself its doctrinal ideas; and though at first led only by personal interest, I did not permit myself to be intimidated either by the entire absence of a precedent to any considerable extent, or by the testimony of Baur and others respecting the great and almost unconquerable difficulties presented by the style of the Apocalypse itself. Only when, in the course of my labours, I found that the obstacles to a doctrinal representation of the Apocalypse, though considerable, and partly from other causes than its symbolic character, were not in any way insur mountable, did I decide to write with a View to publication, and thus, according to my ability, to help to supply a want in New Testament theology.
There should certainly be no need for the assurance, though I may here most expressly give it, that in my examination and representation of' apocalyptic doctrine I have designedly with drawn my attention as much as possible from the Gospel and the Epistles of John, and with all the means in my power have endeavoured to make myself thoroughly at home in the apocalyptic world of thought. That which during a series of years, in the little time left by the ordinary duties of my office and many additional interruptions caused by Sickness, domestic occurrences, change of place, and teaching, I have been able gradually to examine and verify as the doctrinal contents of the Apocalypse, forms the chief part of the following treatise.
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