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THE STORY OF THE SEER OF PATMOS
Stephen N. Haskell
“Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at
hand” Revelation 22:10.
Vandal empire. “Their distress,” says Gibbon,
“was aggravated by the unfeeling barbarians,
who, in the division of the booty, separated the
wives from their husbands, and the children
from their parents.” The sack of Rome by the
Goths had been a terrible calamity; but that by
the Vandals, forty-five years later, was still
worse. However, the devastation of the city
itself was but a small part of the destructive
work of these barbarians. The prophet was
shown a great mountain, burning with fire,
cast into the sea. It was like a mighty stone cast
into the waters, causing wave after wave to
beat against the defenseless shores; or like an
active volcano in the midst of the sea which
periodically caused the waters to boil. This
agrees with the description of the inroads of
