Extracts from Schmucker.
By Editor
[These extracts are from an exposition of the book of Revelation, published in Pennsylvania, in 1821, by J. G. Schmucker, a Lutheran minister. It is not my intention to exhibit the views of the author, which contain a mixture of truth and error, but to select such ideas as are most in harmony with our present light on these prophecies, not, however, endorsing every idea in these extracts.—R. F. C.] "And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ." This verse predicts the execution of a new series of measures and enterprises, perfectly distinct from the former, and marked with additional wrath and more explicit anger against Christians, on account of their religion. In my opinion this prophecy is not yet fulfilled, but its accomplishment is approaching, and is near at hand. The object of Satan's wrath is still the woman. But the power of his flood being now exhausted and insufficient to do her any material injury, he has projected a new plan of measures against the remnant of her seed. To make war. This signifies open opposition by the assistance of civil authority, in order to extinguish the light of the gospel, where it may yet appear like a faint glimmering taper through a dark atmosphere. The remnant of her seed. A remnant is the residue, that which is yet left, the remaining part.