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The Chapter  This chapter Rev. 6 contains an account of the
opening of six of the seven seals. It need hardly be said to
anyone who is at all familiar with the numerous - not to say
numberless - expositions of the Apocalypse, that it is at this
point that interpreters begin to differ, and that here commences
the divergence toward those various, discordant, and many of
them wild and fantastic theories, which have been proposed in
the exposition of this wonderful book. Up to this point, though
there may be unimportant diversities in the exposition of words
and phrases, there is no material difference of opinion as to
the general meaning of the writer. In the epistles to the seven
churches, and in the introductory scenes to the main visions,
there can be no doubt, in the main, as to what the writer had in
view, and what he meant to describe. He addressed churches then
existing Rev. 1; Re