...angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches. Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth ths seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks." We have...

...the world ; and the reapers are the angels;' Matt. 12, 13. So in the Apocalypse: " The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches; and the seven candlesticks are the seven churches ;" 1, 20. We find the like, moreover, in a multitude of other cases. Nor is such language at all confined...

...the ten horns, in one of Daniel's visions, " are ten kings;" and in the Apocalypse, " The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven candlesticks are the seven churches." Moses, speaking of the paschal lamb, says, " It is the Lord's passover;" just as our Saviour says of...

...might have corrected their mistake out of the Scripture, that saith, Rev. i. 20, " The seven stars arc the Angels of the seven Churches, and the seven candlesticks are the seven Churches." St. Ambrose, or whosoever writ those Commentaries, upon 1 Cor. xii. 28, ra saith two things : first,...

...authority to cleanse it from the followers of the doctone of Balaam, and of the " 3. Rev. ii, 1, 2, ' Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write, These...hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks ; I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how than canst not bear them...

...point admit of question, the Redeemer himself decides the doubt, when he declares, " The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven candlesticks are the seven churches." It would, therefore, be monstrous to confound what he has so clearly distinguished, and to represent...

...Observer. I SEND a few more notes from Zuellig, for the consideration of your biblical readers. Verse 1. " Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write ; These...hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks." Through the whole of this epistle (Zuellig objects to the term epistle : but it is more...

...hand seven stars, and out of His mouth went a sharp two-edged sword." And he said: " The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven candlesticks are the seven churches." The whole vision expresses the invisible order of His Kingdom: CHRIST the Head over all; under HIM the...

...way of interpretation of these mystic symbols, " The seven stars (lights) are the angels (ministers) of the seven churches; and the seven candlesticks are the seven churches." (Rev. 5. 20.) The number seven is frequently used to denote an indefinite number. It is here a number...

...Last left thy first love. sent to one of these churches: " Unto the angel," or principal minister, "of the Church of Ephesus, write: These things saith...hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks: I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience; and how thou canst not bear them...