Texts and commentaries

Commentary on Daniel

Hippolytus

Hippolytus’s early third-century commentary on Daniel, known in English through fragments translated in the Ante-Nicene Fathers. It reads the image and beasts of Daniel as successive empires and counts six thousand years from Adam to the end.

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Hippolytus: a bishop in Pontus foretells the judgment within a year →

Hippolytus: 500 years from Christ’s birth to the end · commentary →

Hippolytus: 500 years from Christ’s birth to the end · commentary →

Commentary on Daniel

Jerome

Jerome argues for a future resurrection and Antichrist interpretation of Daniel against Porphyry’s reading about Antiochus. He discusses a forty-five-day interval; Porphyry’s position survives here through his opponent’s account.

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Commentary on John

Origen

Extends the raising of Christ's temple to the resurrection of his whole body, the Church.

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Commentary on Matthew

Origen

Explains the net's separation at the consummation and why mixed congregations persist until the angels' judgment.

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Commentary on the Apocalypse

Victorinus of Pettau (attributed; recension requires study)

Identifies forty-two months with three and a half years and discusses the identities of two witnesses. Recensional lineage remains uncollated.

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Victorinus identifies the two witnesses · commentary →

Commentary on the Apostles' Creed

Rufinus of Aquileia

Reads Daniel and gospel warnings together in interpreting final deception; creedal reception.

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Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

Lange commentary contributors and English editors

Distinguishes Jerusalem's tribulation from a later period culminating in the cosmic catastrophe and Christ's advent.

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Commentary on the Later Prophets

Isaac Abarbanel

Treats Zechariah 12–14 as one prophecy; interprets pierced mourning through a fallen Israelite commander and challenges Christian identification. Places uncompleted restoration after the exile rather than in the Second Temple period.

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Commentary on the Mishnah: Introduction to Helek

Moses Maimonides

Separates messianic political restoration from ultimate world-to-come, reads ready-made bread imagery figuratively, predicts Messiah's death and descendants, and forbids fixing dates. Requires Davidic/Solomonic dynasty and rejects Torah abrogation.

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The messianic kingdom and the world to come · commentary →

Commentary on the Qur'anic Verses concerning the Overthrow of the Byzantines (Tafsir Surat al-Rum)

Abdu'l-Baha; provisional translation and commentary by Moojan Momen

Retains an outward Byzantine-Persian prediction while offering multiple spiritual senses involving revelation, divine law and resurrection.

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Abdu’l-Bahá on the many meanings of Qur’an 30 · commentary →

The Arabic witnesses · commentary →

Outward history and meanings within meanings · commentary →

Commentary on Zechariah and Malachi

John Calvin; English translation John Owen

John Calvin interprets the prophetic books of Zechariah and Malachi. In the selected commentary on Malachi 4:5, he identifies John the Baptist as the promised Elijah and explains their shared role in restoring religious worship.

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Calvin identifies John the Baptist as the promised Elijah · commentary →

Concise Bible Commentary

James Gray

Distinguishes the Church's removal, Israel's renewed witness, and a judgment of living nations from the last judgment.

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Confession of Patriarch Dositheos of Jerusalem

Dositheos of Jerusalem and synodal signatories

Distinguishes an incomplete intermediate state from bodily resurrection and completed judgment. Describes release of some repentant departed through prayer before the common resurrection, with the time unknown.

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Who signed the Jerusalem confession? · commentary →

Related doctrine: Synod of Jerusalem on resurrection · commentary →

Confrontation with the Police: The Israelites of Enoch Mgijima and the Bulhoek Massacre of 24 May 1921

D. H. Makobe

Records a 1920 end expectation and visions of judgment, while interpreting the confrontation through defiance of law and deception. Provides an account to evaluate against Edgar’s competing history.

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Congo: quelle identité pour l’Eglise kimbanguiste? Entretien avec Nduku-Fessau Badze

Nduku-Fessau Badze; Religioscope interviewer

A Kimbanguist theologian distinguishes the founder’s reported self-understanding as Christ’s servant from later expectations of his living return, while recounting succession traditions.

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Coniectura de novissimis diebus

Nicholas of Cusa

Nicholas of Cusa’s short Latin treatise on the last days, printed in the Paris edition of his works (1514). It reads the years of Christ’s life as jubilees of the Church and places the Church’s resurrection after 1700 and before 1734.

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Nicholas of Cusa: the Church’s resurrection between 1700 and 1734 →

Constructions of Cultural (In-)Compatibility: Islam as kastom in Tanna (Vanuatu)

Marc Tabani

Documents competing John Frum return interpretations, the year-2000 flood expectation, and local Islamic restoration perspectives. Shows why affiliation and interpretation must be attached to particular communities.

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Contemporary Paganism

Angela Puca

Discusses renewal and ecological futures alongside modern reception of Ragnarök.

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Daat Zekenim

Tosafist commentary collection

The commentary contrasts Balaam’s distant salvation language with Moses’ encouragement and identifies the Moab passage with David.

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Dadestan-i Denig (Religious Decisions)

Manushchihr i Goshnajaman per source; E.W.West translator

Explains uninterrupted human presence at resurrection, seven renovation agents and57-year raising of dead.

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Manushchihr on preparing the renewal · commentary →

Manushchihr on those alive at the resurrection · commentary →

Manushchihr explains resurrection and the world to come · commentary →

Daesoon Jinrihoe FAQ

Daesoon Jinrihoe

Contemporary institutional explanation of reordering, cultivation, plague and Later-World opening.

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Daesoon Jinrihoe Glossary

Daesoon Jinrihoe

Institution explicitly rejects fixed prophetic dates and a terminal apocalypse while describing cyclical Later World renewal and immortality.

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Scholarship

Dajjal

Hugh Beattie

Hugh Beattie traces interpretations of the Dajjal across Islamic traditions, including spiritual and political identifications and modern conspiracy narratives.

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Dajjal

Hamid Algar

Surveys contradictory locations and characteristics and differing assignments of the deceiver's defeat; does not homogenize Sunni and Shia transmission.

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