17 JULY 1886, Page 25

CURRENT LITERATURE.

The Revelation of St. John. By William Milligan, D.D. (Mao- millan.)—This is a reasonable and learned exposition of the most difficult of books. Professor Milligan is neither a futurist nor a preterist, though, indeed, in one sense, he may be said to combine and reconcile both theories. Ho does not find in the Revelation what the extreme prwterists see in it, the picture drawn by a contemporary of the horrors of the Neronian period ; nor does he attempt to fit its predictions to this or that event in history, the accession of a Pope, the calling of a Council, or the promulgation of a doctrine. But he finds throughout the enunciation of principles which have had their exemplification in the past, and will have it again in the future. His volume is a valuable addition to Biblical criticism.