Book Quote by Joseph Franklin Rutherford Download Open image “The book of Revelation is written largely in symbols.” — Joseph Franklin Rutherford ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Book of revelation Book Revelation Books Largely Symbols Revelation Revelation Written Revelations Symbols Written
“The book of Revelation is filled with symbols, yet these symbols refer to things that are literal. They have literal referents (see, for example,… — Mark Hitchcock Copy Share Image
“Step two of properly interpreting a symbol in Revelation is to recognize that all the symbols in the book are explained either in Revelation… — Mark Hitchcock Copy Share Image
“The proper method of interpreting the symbols in Revelation involves two steps. The first is to remember that when symbols are employed, they refer… — Mark Hitchcock Copy Share Image
“the images of Revelation are symbols with evocative power inviting imaginative participation in the book’s symbolic world. But they do not work merely by… — Richard Bauckham Copy Share Image
“The whole book of Revelation is a circular letter addressed to seven specific churches: Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, Laodicea (1:11; cf. 1:4;… — Richard Bauckham Copy Share Image
I never thought I would write about the Book of Revelation. It's so dense; it's so complex and puzzling. But then I found I… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
The Book of Revelation, difficult as it may be for "literalists," becomes much simpler when we read it typologically, as a mosiac of allusions… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
I've read the Book of Revelation a million times. It does not make sense, obviously. It needs to be decoded. — Megan Fox Copy Share Image
“Symbols are valuable tools of communication. Symbols communicate truth concisely, and they communicate it graphically. In Revelation 11 the apostle John could have spent… — Mark Hitchcock Copy Share Image
All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front in the beginning, you… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
“One final reason to study Revelation is that it’s the only book of the Bible that contains a special blessing for those who read… — Mark Hitchcock Copy Share Image
Today the eyes of orthodox Jews of earth are fixed upon Palestine. — Joseph Franklin Rutherford Copy Share Image
God created the first man, whom he called Adam. Then God created a woman, whom ho named Eve; and this man and woman were… — Joseph Franklin Rutherford Copy Share Image
Man is more than merely an animal to exist and propagate his species. His mind gives him capacity to search out the great truths… — Joseph Franklin Rutherford Copy Share Image
Reason would lead us to the conclusion that Jehovah would not create a wonderful earth like this, permit man to bring it to a… — Joseph Franklin Rutherford Copy Share Image
The Bible shows the clear statement of God's purposes concerning the earth, and man once made its prince. Its opening chapters show that it… — Joseph Franklin Rutherford Copy Share Image
It is conceded by all that man is the very highest type of all living creatures on the earth. His intelligence is far superior… — Joseph Franklin Rutherford Copy Share Image
Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men. — Joseph Franklin Rutherford Copy Share Image
The ecclesiastical system of Rome, and particularly its leaders, for a thousand years and more thought that the earth is fixed and that everything… — Joseph Franklin Rutherford Copy Share Image
Since the days of Abraham many men of unusual intellect not only have diligently studied the divine plan, but have devoted their lives to… — Joseph Franklin Rutherford Copy Share Image
If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect… — Joseph Franklin Rutherford Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
