The Definition of the word Revelation

Revelation

An uncovering, a bringing to light of that which had been previously wholly hidden or only obscurely seen. God has been pleased in various ways and at different times (Heb. 1:1) to make a supernatural revelation of himself and his purposes and "plans, which, under the guidance of his Spirit, has been" committed to writing. (See WORD OF [532]GOD.) The Scriptures are "not merely the "record" of revelation; they are the revelation" "itself in a written form, in order to the accurate presevation" and propagation of the truth. "Revelation and inspiration differ. Revelation is the supernatural communication of truth to the mind; inspiration (q.v.) secures to the teacher or writer infallibility in communicating that truth to others. It renders its subject the spokesman or prophet of God in such a sense that everything he "asserts to be true, whether fact or doctrine or moral principle," "is true, infallibly true."