Page 6 - 03b The Seven Churhces-Smyrna

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.

and Greeks. The Greeks were scholars, and

exalted the power of intellectual culture. Paul,

as a Christian missionary, first taught in the

synagogue, then in the schools, where the

Gospel of Jesus Christ was offered in place of

the philosophy of Plato, whom the Greeks

deified. Said he, “The Jews require a sign, and

the Greeks seek after wisdom: but we preach

Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling-

block, and unto the Greeks foolishness; but

unto them which are called, both Jews and

Greeks, Christ the power of God and the

wisdom of God.” So powerful was this

teaching of the apostle that many who owned

books of sorcery, or magic, which passed for

wisdom in the eyes of the world, brought

their books and burned them before all men.