Note 37 — SERMON III. CONCLUSIONS FROM THE TRUE IDEA OF PROPHECY. Rev. xix. 10.
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To this purpose the late learned and ingenious author of the Discourses on Prophecy—“A figurative and dark description of a future event will be figurative and dark still, when the event happens.” And again—“No event can make a figurative or metaphorical expression to be a plain or literal one.” Bishop Sherlock, Disc. II. p. 32 and 36. London, 1749.