7 APRIL 1877, Page 23

CURRENT LITERATURE.

incorrect interpretations of the Scripture phrase, " the kingdom of the heavens." That phrase, he insists, always refers to a human kingdom, which from the time of Adam had been gradually formed in the third heaven, composed of the Saints, and governed by the Logos. At the end of the six ages, A.M. 6000—A.D. 70—it was promised by God that this kingdom should descend and be established upon earth. This event, therefore, ought to have happened at the date mentioned. It did not so happen, because the promise was given conditionally, and the conditions were not fulfilled,—men, in fact, were not prepared. The writer is one of those who see their own opinions everywhere, and see nothing else.