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But had any John then living, seen the Transacti-ons of the Gospel, lave the Apostle ? He there-fore, and he only was the John, to whom Jesus by an Angel sent the Revelations.

‘thirdly, The Revelations was the Work of thatJohn who was in the Island of Patmos for theTestimony of the Gospel, which was then the pe-culiar Cafe of John the Apostle.

John the Author of the Revelations, is said ch. i.v. 9. to have been in the IJle that is called Pat­ mos , for the Word of God and for the tefmonyof Jesus Christ , i. e. He was banished to thatIsland , for preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ,which the Heathens called moving Sedition, theusual Punishment of which was Banishment tobarren and almost desolate Islands . See Grotius on the Place. Now this Circumstance not onlyagrees with the Hifory of John the Evangelist,but is also peculiar to him, and marks him outas effectually, as if he had been expressly so cal-led. For the Ancients unanimously declare, thatthis John was banished in the latter End of Domi-tian i’s Reign to that particular Island *. But wedo not find from Ecclesiastical Monuments, that

seen 2 Kings xvii. iz. according to the Version of the LXX.

cv]c>Mi fix st. t a. iixa<xua]d fas st vrai 7* T yiftot, S»tiiielesXttfitu/ toT; ■actl^ste-ty ifsui, V 02A aVcVc-Ma zrgj; if tets ci XHgX

®f fas t n$>9(D>i t»*. The Htbrew of ova in this Passage isas it is alio v. 15. and Eccles viii, ij. Lastly the Evange-list Job# uses iV* for ch.-x.xi. v. ij.

* See Clan. Alex. in his Book Dives falvetur, c. 0,1. p. 9$<J.Tertull. I. de Pr&fer. adv. Hsrec. e. 36. Eufeb. Chron , ad An. Do-mit. 14. and Hist. Eccl. I. 3. c. 18, 20. Of the same Mind wereEpiphamus and Sulpitius Severus , and Jercm in Cat . Vir. illustr.and in / l. contr. Joviqian. c. 14,

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