p. 120 | The Atlantic Cable

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 11, 1866

The Atlantic Cable.

It is astonishing that men will overlook startling fulfillments of prophecy in our own time, which are as consistent as the rules of mathematics, and as plain as the alphabet, and then strain themselves to find prophetic fulfillment, in a manner so distressing as the following:—

“SCRIPTURAL PROPHECY OF THE ATLANTIC CABLE. Rev. Tresham Dawes Gregg, Chaplain of Nicholas Within, Dublin, Ireland, has made an original translation of the Prayer of Habakkuk, in which he finds Scriptural prophecy concerning the Atlantic Telegraph, according to his version of the third chapter of Habakkuk, which differs in essential particulars from the accepted version. The ninth verse reads as follows: ‘Thou didst make thy bow quite naked, seven rods each, spoke Selah; thou didst cleave the earth with flowings.’ The explanation is, ‘Here the cable is the bow, composed of seven compartments (or wires), or seven may stand for a sufficiency. The oracle is marvelous in its accuracy.’ 11th verse, ‘The sun and the moon stood still in their habitation. For enlightenment thine arrows went for illumination, the lightning of thy spear.’ Comment: ‘Through telegraphic rapidity, the element of time seems illuminated as though heavenly bodies were stationary.’”