Excerpt from The Pentateuch Vindicated: From the Objections and Misrepresentations of Bishop ColensoRev. Xvi. 15. Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.BY many modern interpreters of prophecy, and, among others, by the late acute and learned G. Stanley Faber, who in 1817 predicted the revival of the French Empire, this context has been regarded as referring to the times in which we live - giving symbolical representations of the events which are now passing over us. If this opinion be correct, the text must plainly be regarded as addressed to ourselves, warn ing us of the peculiar dangers and temptations to which we are exposed, and admonishing us to be on our guard against them Behold, says the faith ful and true Witness, I come as a thief.

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