Matthew Poole and continuators on Revelation 21:5

5 And he that [illegible: 1 letter]ate upon the throne , said , Behold, I make all things new . And he said unto me Write for these words are true and faithful .

That is, Christ said,

Behold I will put a new Face upon all things; the state of my People shall not for ever be a troubled and afflicted state.

Because the Vision is to be for an appointed time, and what I now tell thee will not be accomplished of many years, and yet the knowledg and prospect of it, and meditations upon it, is of highest importance to keep up the Spirits of my People under all Su[illegible: 2 letters]erings, during that time of the Dragon (the Romish Heathen Emperors) not yet run out, and the 1200 years of Antichri[illegible: 2 letters], &c. therefore write it, that all my People in all Ages, may know it, believe it, and suffer patiently [illegible: 1 word] the hopes of it.

For what I tell thee is, what comes from the true and faithful Witness, and shall have a certain being in its time.

Marginal references: Chap. 4.2. and 20.11.; Isa. 43.19. 2 Cor. 5.17.; Chap. 19.9.