And I appeared unto Abraham,, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob by the name of God Almighty; but by My name Jehovah was I not known to them. - EXODUS. All things were made by Him; and without Him was not anything made that was made. In Him was life; and the life was the light of men. - JOHN. Spiritual interpretation 501:1 SCIENTIFIC interpretation of the Scriptures prop-         erly starts with the beginning of the Old Testa- 501:3 ment, chiefly because the spiritual import of         the Word, in its

Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand. - REVELATION.         Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised in the city of         our God, in the mountain of His holiness. - PSALMS. 558:1 ST. JOHN writes, in the tenth chapter of his book of         Revelation: - 558:3 And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven,         clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and  

These things saith He that is holy, He that is true, He that hath the key of David, He that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth; I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it. - REVELATION. 579:1 In Christian Science we learn that the substitution of         the spiritual for the material definition of a Scrip- 579:3 tural word often elucidates the meaning of the inspired         writer. On this account this chapter is added. It