CHAPTER XIV. 

 THE CEDARS AND THE CANDLESTICKS. 



" And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the 

 garden in the cool of the day." GENESIS iii. 8. 



" And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks ; and in 

 the midst of the seven candlesticks One like unto the Son of Man." 

 REVELATION i. 12, 13. 



THE book of Revelation is a mosaic, in which the 

 previous parts of the Bible are brought together 

 and formed into a new picture, illustrative of the 

 fortunes of the Church and the world. By its constant 

 use of the imagery of former books in new combinations, 

 we are impressively taught how the future arises from 

 and is shaped and conditioned by the past. The 

 moulds of older history are used over again for the inci- 

 dents of the present and the forecasts of the future. As 

 Genesis is the book of beginnings, so Revelation is the 

 book of completions, in which the copestone is placed 

 upon the building, which, in the previous Scriptures, 

 has been slowly constructed through the ages, and the 

 capital laid on the pillar of truth whose foundation is 

 seen in Eden, and whose top reaches to heaven. 

 Q 241 



