The Apocalypse - Expounded by Scripture, Abridged from the Four Volume Set by Robert Govett and published by Classics.
Robert Govett’s four volumes on the Revelation, in a complete set, has long been an expensive purchase, so this abridged version makes Govett’s work more accessible.
It is inevitable that in this abridged edition, containing less than a fourth of the original, much critical and even essential matter has had to be omitted, together with proofs decisive on many disputed points.
So also the cost of printing has made it necessary to omit his penetrating and pulverizing criticisms of all interpretations of the Apocalypse which, by taking it as a huge symbol, reduce it to the unintelligible. Scripture quotations also, most regrettably, have had to be given as references only. Nevertheless, to quote Mr. Spurgeon, “Mr. Govett wrote a hundred years before his time, and the day will come when his works will be treasured as sifted gold” and this exposition of the Revelation without a peer was never more vital or more urgent than in the moment when we are manifestly entering the outer edges of the last judgments.
