Category: 18th Century
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9/2/22 FROM THE INTRODUCTIONS OF 18TH CENTURY BOOKS, PART 2
Good morning! We’re returning to the quotes from Sir Isaac Newton’s OBSERVATIONS UPON THE PROPHECIES OF DANIEL, AND THE APOCALYPSE OF JOHN from 1733: “With the opinion of the first Commentators agrees the tradition of the Churches of Syria, preserved to this day in the title of the Syriac Version of the Apocalypse, which title…
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8/29/22 FROM THE INTRODUCTIONS OF 18TH CENTURY BOOKS ON REVELATION, PART 1
Good morning! I’ve got a fair amount of material from the 18th century, I’ll be looking to pare it down a bit, but it’s still going to take more than one post. Let’s start with Matthew Henry. Probably you know his big Bible commentary, but he wrote more on Revelation than is in my copy…
Go deeply into Revelation 