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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.
active service at the first opportunity. The
renewal of these teachings wrought the same
effect in the sixteenth century that the false
teachings of the Alexandrian philosophers did
in the church of the early Christians.
One cannot condemn the Jesuit teaching as
wholly evil. It was as subtile a mixture of the
good and evil as the devil ever compounded. It
was when the two witnesses were escaping
from the bondage of the Dark Ages, where
they had finished their testimony in sackcloth,
that the beast, which ascended out of the
bottomless pit, made war against them and
overcame them, and killed them.
The Counter-Reformation, known as such by
all historians, was felt throughout Europe; but