Having gone into the writing of this commentary, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Book of Revelation, with no preconceived notions, Barnes notes how he was surprised "to find how nearly (his) views coincide with those taken by the great body of Protestant interpreters."

He further notes that "perhaps this fact may be regarded as furnishing some evidence that, after all the obscurity attending it, there is a natural and obvious interpretation of which the book is susceptible."

The Protestant confessions also attest to this fact, having all taken the Historicist view of the book of Revelation.

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