Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1914 — NEW LIGHT ON SCRIPTURES [ARTICLE]

NEW LIGHT ON SCRIPTURES

Russian Writers Satisfied That They Have Found Proper Solutions to Biblical Parables. Some years ago a Russian wrote a fantastic (but none the less interesting on that account) book in which he set forth that the intervening years between the boyhood of Jesuß and his appearance at the age of thirty years were chiefly spent in India, and that it was there that he Obtained a knowledge of which he made good use in his ministry. Another Russian, Nicholas Morosow, a biblical critic, recent* ly published a book on the revelation of St. John, the sale of which has been interdicted by the Russian church. Morosow claims to have discovered all the mysteries in the Apocalypse. He avers that all the signs of the zodiac are discoverable in iha-JboOk of Revelation; that the four cherubim are the four constellations; the twelve gated celestial city is the firmament. This author claims to have discovered the actual day in which the Christian prophet wrote Revelation; that the writer thereof was not the apostolic St. John, the beloved of Jesus, but St John Chrysostom, “the golden-mouthed” patriarch of Constantinople and that the year of the writing was 395 A. D. In this Russian’s argument it is set out that the representation of the heavens in the Apocalypse corresponds exactly to what It appeared from the Isle of Patmos on the evening of September 30, 396, A. D., and the like appearance has never since been witnessed on this Iffiand.