Note and Comment by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · May 16, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 19.

Note and Comment

By Editor

1. A GREAT SIGN.—The word "sign" in the original means that which signifies, a mark or symbol. So God "sign-i-fied" the Revelation, by these visions to the church, chapter 1:1. These signs can not therefore mean the objects used to symbolize, but must signify something else. For instance, the woman does not represent a literal woman, nor the dragon a literal sea or land reptile. IN HEAVEN, as tho appearing in the sky, placed high in its revealing, where all could see it, above mere earthly things in nature and importance. It is in the spiritual realms that the things symbolized occur; and they can be truly seen only in the light of God's Word by the eye of faith. So Paul, to show the spiritual, places both the church and her foes in "heavenly places." See Eph. 2:6; 6:12, margin.