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Israel A. Smith and Stephen M. Veazey
Section 140:5a–d; revelation through Israel A. Smith, 7 April 1947. Scripture Toolbox transcription; paragraph 5c–d corroborated by Mission Road congregation.
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Zion depends on the people’s spiritual preparation →
Veazey’s later counsel on creating Zion · commentary →
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Section 140:5a–d; revelation through Israel A. Smith, 7 April 1947. Scripture Toolbox transcription; paragraph 5c–d corroborated by Mission Road congregation.
Section 140:5a–d; revelation through Israel A. Smith, 7 April 1947. Scripture Toolbox transcription; paragraph 5c–d corroborated by Mission Road congregation.
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Section 163:1–4, Stephen M. Veazey, presented 25 March 2007; Open Scripture Foundation transcription.
Section 163:1–4, Stephen M. Veazey, presented 25 March 2007; Open Scripture Foundation transcription.
Taigen Dan Leighton
Explains Lotus bodhisattvas' continued work in a future evil age and Buddha's vast lifespan as context for Dogen's reception.
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Neil L. Andersen; The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Applies Matthew's signs and wheat-and-tares imagery to the present period before Christ's return.
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Being wheat among the tares · commentary →
Nathan C. Johnson
Distinguishes literary and historical messiahs, explains disputed reconstruction of messianic language in Josephus, and cautions against inferring apocalyptic ideology for every royal insurgent.
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Critical Dictionary of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements, English online edition
Introduction, Robber War, Between the Wars through Egyptian figure
Nathan C. Johnson
Analyzes promised signs of deliverance, Roman suppression and the evidentiary limits of reconstructing group aims from Josephus; distinguishes sign prophets from royal messiah claimants.
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Critical Dictionary of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements, English online edition
Introduction through Jonathan the Weaver
John Lagerwey
Discusses the Scripture of Divine Incantations, protection from demonic attacks and a flood, community formation, and political legitimation.
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Persée page text of Cahiers d’Extrême-Asie6; author authority identified as John Lagerwey despite OCR misspelling.
Cahiers d’Extrême-Asie6, pp.213–216; substantive opening page213
Qoheleth (the Preacher); historical author not named
A biblical wisdom book reflecting on life and mortality, with a closing poem about aging and death.
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The poem Cyril interprets: youth, aging and death · commentary →
Eusebius of Caesarea
Transmits Dionysius's dispute with Nepos's earthly kingdom teaching and its reported divisive effects; indirect witness to a lost controversy.
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Source. Translated by Arthur Cushman McGiffert. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Vol. 1. Edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1890.) New Advent revised web edition.
Book VII, chapter 24
Fred Espenak
Supplies astronomical dates and types for examining McCann's 1999 eclipse interpretation: partial lunar eclipse on 28 July and total solar eclipse on 11 August. These are calculations, not evidence for an Antichrist interpretation.
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Arthur Lacey White; Ellen G. White Estate
Later institutional account compares early printings of the first vision and discusses omissions. Supplies a transmission-history claim requiring original-print collation, not independent evidence for the vision.
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Ellen G. White Writings digital transcription; anthology or reprint details specified above
The First Vision as Published in Mrs. White’s First Book, pp. 38–39; book details page
Ellicott commentary contributors; individual Matthew author not established in this inspection
Connects recurring historical judgments with the final coming and considers why the apparent nearness of that coming has not been realized.
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Plumptre: the sign is the Son of Man himself · commentary →
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Bible Hub English transcription of Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers; exact print edition requires collation.
Matthew 24:27-29
John Thomas
John Thomas’s 1849 exposition of the kingdom of God and the time of the end, published in London. It dates the end of Daniel’s 1335 days to about 1865.
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John Thomas: the 1335 end about 1865, then forty years · commentary →
John Thomas revises Elpis Israel in 1867: 2400 for 2300, about 1868, and the kingdom after forty years · commentary →
John Thomas revises Elpis Israel in 1867: 2400 for 2300, about 1868, and the kingdom after forty years · commentary →
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John Thomas, Elpis Israel; a Book for the Times: Being an Exposition of the Kingdom of God, with Reference to “the Time of the End” and “the Age to Come” (London: published by the author, 1849), p. 373, one paragraph from “From this diagram it will be seen” through “absorbs everything.” Internet Archive scan of the 1849 first edition, page image inspected (leaf 391); the diagram above the paragraph (labels quoted in the timeline basis) was read from the image. Line-end hyphenation joined; italics rendered plain; whitespace normalized.
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Harjot Oberoi
Explains indigenous participation in colonial knowledge and the translation, dating and political uses of Sikh prophecy collections.
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Augustine of Hippo
Places Christ's judging return in the future and discusses the meaning of judging the living and dead.
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Source. Translated by J.F. Shaw. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 3. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1887.) New Advent revised web edition.
Chapters 54–55
Jihyun Kim
Studies spirit-written promises of rescue at a cosmic transition and moral renewal in late Chosŏn Korea.
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The Thearch of Literature warns of catastrophe →
Kalpa and the work of spirit-writing · commentary →
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Religions 11 (2020), 273; DOI 10.3390/rel11060273; publisher reprint in Religious Conflict and Coexistence.
Sections 5.1–5.2 and 7; collected PDF pages 129–131 and 139–140
Anonymous, traditionally attributed to Barnabas
Connects creation's six days to six thousand years and a seventh-day rest following the Son's return and judgment; anti-Jewish polemic belongs to the source.
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Source. Translated by Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson. From Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 1. Edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1885.) New Advent revised web edition.
Chapters 4 and 15
Anonymous; conventionally designated Mathetes
Places the heavenly kingdom and lasting punishment alongside an appeal to imitate divine generosity.
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Polycarp of Smyrna
Appeals to resurrection, reigning with Christ and universal accountability at his judgment seat.
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Bahaullah
Bahaullah retrospectively explains his correspondence with Napoleon III and a minister's response, explicitly distinguishing a perceived request for material aid from his religious proclamation. Requotes the warning of imperial loss from Suriy-i-Haykal; this is later self-presentation.
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Shoghi Effendi English translation, official Bahai Reference Library HTML
Passage introducing Napoleon III and the quotation beginning O King of Paris, through the warning of loss of empire
Moses Maimonides
Rejects precise messianic dates and astrology while transmitting a family calculation for restoration of prophecy; also describes wonders as messianic evidence, a tension with Mishneh Torah requiring contextual analysis.
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Maimonides’ tradition of prophecy returning in 4970 →
The letter’s warning before its discussion of dates · commentary →
Failed forecasts and the expected approach of redemption · commentary →
Calculating redemption and trusting the stars · commentary →
How Maimonides tests the Yemeni claimant · commentary →
The claimant’s powers and the danger to the community · commentary →
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Boaz Cohen English translation, American Academy for Jewish Research 1952; Abraham S. Halkin edition/introduction; Wikisource transcription
Sections xii–xiii and xv–xviii, especially date computation and claimant criteria
Manuschihar (Manuscihr); E. W. West translator; J. H. Peterson electronic editor
Uses future Soshyant's authority in a dispute over purification reform; charges Zadspram with prematurely seeking the future religious law.
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West Sacred Books of the East18, Pahlavi TextsII1882; normalized spelling online
EpistleI chapterV1–8; EpistleII chaptersI1–8 andIII1–8; dating notes toI XI12 andIII21
Anonymous work presented as the apostles’ testimony
The risen Jesus is represented as promising a glorious return and bodily resurrection; witnesses differ over the stated interval.
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M. R. James, The Apocryphal New Testament (1924), pp. 485–503; Early Christian Writings transcription with Coptic, Ethiopic and Latin variants.
Sections 15–18 and 21–26; translator’s opening account of witnesses
Lactantius
A separately composed epitome treats prophetic signs and the conclusion of time; derivative relation to Divine Institutes retained, not independent corroboration.
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Source. Translated by William Fletcher. From Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 7. Edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1886.) New Advent revised web edition.
Concluding end-of-world discussion
Lawrence J. Rabone
Uses Alexander's taxonomy to distinguish Menasseh's principal Davidic messiah from subordinate Josephite agency, and to characterize his catastrophic restoration expectations. Provides a method for comparing Jewish and Puritan eschatologies without simply equating them.
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