PREFACE.

THE Biblical student must be allowed to lament that the department of Prophecy has worn such a repulsive aspect to the world, as not only to leave it without the assistance, which literary conversation, and the statement of various opinions, usually give; but also to produce a feeling of discouragement among those who are really friends to prophetic investigation. Nevertheless, after a research into the obscured path of Prophecy has once been cautiously ventured upon, and a view towards the opening prospect of conviction has become discernible, the solitary examiner finds that it cannot be quitted.

And what other pursuit, it may be asked, in the whole range of human intelligence, is so worthy