Note 171 — SERMON X. THE STYLE AND METHOD OF THE APOCALYPSE. Ezekiel xx. 49.

An eminent writer gives an exact idea of it, in these words—“The style [of the Revelations] is very prophetical, as to the things spoken: And very hebraizing, as to the speaking of them. Exceeding much of the old prophets language and matter adduced to intimate new stories: And exceeding much of the Jews language and allusion to their customs and opinions, thereby to speak the things more familiarly to be understood.” Dr. Lightfoot, Harm. of the N. T. p. 154, London, 1655.