CHAPTER VI.

_CONTEMPORARY EVIDENCE._

The Apostle John the author of the Apocalypse--Importance of the admission--The precise date of its composition--Its allegorical character--"Pilgrim's Progress" and "Paradise Lost and Regained"--The doctrines indicated in the Apocalypse--Rome the mystical Babylon-- Nero Cæsar--The number of the beast--The Lord's day--Prominence of the allusion to the Lamb slain to take away sin--Paul's epistles identical in doctrine with the Apocalypse--Professor Owen--Quotation from "The Merchant of Venice" 163