OUR QUESTION CORNER by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 3, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 34.

OUR QUESTION CORNER.

By Editor

[From time to time we will reply under this head, if deemed advisable, to such candid inquiries on scriptural topics or moral questions as may be sent us. Questions which minister strife to no profit to our readers will not be answered here. Correspondents wishing a reply to their questions must give their full name and address, not for publication unless they wish, but as an evidence of good faith on their part, and to give us opportunity to reply by letter if deemed best. It is always well to inclose stamp. The questions will be numbered continuously.]

94. REV. 13:10.

Please explain Rev. 13:10, which reads: “He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity; he that killeth with the sword must be killed by the sword.”

The truth stated in these words is general, similar to the words of Jesus to Peter in Matt. 26:52, and to Gen. 9:6. The special application of the truth in Rev. 13:10 is to the Papacy. As the Papacy had led into captivity during the 1260 years of its reign, so would it be led into captivity; as it had killed by the sword, so would it be killed by the sword. This was fulfilled in the captivity of the Papacy and the deadly wounding of its head, in 1798.