Continued: HOW TO INTERPRET PROPHECY

All utterances of the prophets fall into one of these classes. We must, therefore, examine each passage realizing that it has a literal meaning only, or that it has the literal plus one of the three supplemental ideas which we have discovered. Furthermore, we are to make allowances for all figures and interpret them as we do the same language in any other portion of the Scriptures. If we will only keep these general principles in mind, as we endeavor to arrive at the meaning of the prophets, we shall not go very far a field but shall, by the aid of the Spirit of God, arrive at a correct, definite idea of their teaching.