To Correspondents

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 19, 1871

To Correspondents.

J. VAUGHAN: The woman in Rev. 12, evidently represents the true church, the woman in Rev. 17, the corrupt Romish church. John was taken into the wilderness to behold this church to signify that this corrupt church would occupy the position here represented during the time when the true church was in her wilderness state. The two wings of a great eagle given to the true church, Rev. 12:14, as they were given that she might fly to a place of protection, are doubtless to be taken as symbols of the facilities God provided, by which she should be hidden and shielded from the face of the serpent.

W. A. MATTHEWS: The ten commandments, Deut. 4:13, are called God's covenant, in that they are the conditions offered on his part, with which he commands all men to comply. What is spoken of in the New Testament as the first covenant, was the covenant made with Israel concerning these words. Ex. 24:8. See the Sermon on the Two Covenants, in The Ten Sermons, for sale at this Office.

J. Du BOIS: If the discourse is such as you represent, we shall be happy to publish it, giving it an equal chance with other matter as to the time of its insertion. W. A.