Matthew Poole and continuators on Revelation 5:1

1 AND I saw in the right hand of him that sate on the throne; a book written within, and on the back-side , sealed with seven seals .

The Disputes what this Book was, are very idle; for it was certainly the Book of which we read hereafter, that it was opened, and to which the seven Seals mentioned in the following Chapters were annexed, of the opening of all which we read; and this could be no other than Codex fa [illegible: 1 letter]idicus (as Mr. Mede calls it) the Book of the Counsels, Decrees, and Purposes of God relating to his Church, as to what more remarkable things should happen to it to the end of the World; which Book was in the Hand of the Father.

Very full of matter, so as it was written on all sides.

But hitherto concealed from the World, and to be revealed by parts, as to the bringing to pass of those things decreed in it, tho all at once by God, here revealed in a degree, by Visions unto Iohn.

Marginal references: Ezek. 2.10.