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John W. Hoopes
Traces modern catastrophe and transformation expectations through colonial Christian eschatology, speculative archaeology, and New Age reception.
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IAU Symposium 278, pages 240–243; DOI 10.1017/S174392131101266X
J. Buckley
Counters Southcott’s use of the woman’s seed with an account centered on Mary and Christ’s already completed saving work; interprets Abraham’s blessing spiritually rather than as worldly principalities.
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Buckley places the promise in Christ and Mary · commentary →
IAPSOP historical scan; edition details noted separately
Title and opening covenant argument, PDF/printed pp. 1–4
Thomas Beverley
Thomas Beverley’s 1692 tract counting from the Hegira of 622 that the Kingdom of Christ must enter its succession in 1697 at the farthest, when the 1260 years of the papacy end.
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Beverley in 1692: the Kingdom of Christ in its succession at the farthest in 1697 · commentary →
T. Beverley, A Demonstrative Scripture-Proof from Mahometan Times: The Kingdom of Christ Must needs be in its Succession, 1697 (London, Printed in the Year, 1692). Title page (leaf n0) and the heading of p. 1 (leaf n2), from “A Demonstrative Proof from the Space of Time run out” to “according to the Line of Time given.” (Internet Archive bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_a-demonstrative-scriptur_beverley-thomas_1692). Long s (ſ) rendered s; ligatures expanded; roman and italic type not distinguished; line-end hyphenation joined; spacing normalized (one space after punctuation, paragraph breaks as blank lines); running heads, catchwords, signatures and marginal notes omitted; spelling, capitalization and punctuation otherwise as printed; omissions inside the selection marked […]. Transcribed from the Internet Archive page images and checked against the item’s OCR text layer.
Title page; p. 1
Joanna Southcott
Describes a seven-day contest against Satan whose outcome is tied to the woman’s freedom and Satan’s fall. The Answer applies Job to Southcott and announces conditional exposure and judgment by the old-style year end. Conservatively counts the connected disputation and answer once; original editions require collation.
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IAPSOP scanned historical print
Opening four PDF pages of both tracts
Thomas Beverley
Thomas Beverley’s 1693 tract arguing from the oath of Revelation 10 that the Kingdom of Christ must enter its succession in 1697, the date he says he had “so often fixed”.
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Beverley in 1693: “what I have so often fixed at 1697” · commentary →
T. Beverley, A Fresh Memorial of the Kingdom of Christ: Demonstrating from that Solemn Oath of Christ, Rev. X. … It must needs enter its Succession 1697 (London: Printed for William Marshal at the Bible in Newgate-Street, and John Salusbury, at the Rising Sun in Corn-hill, 1693). Title page (leaf n0) and pp. 27–28, from “Object. 2d.” to “shall come to pass at 1697.” (Internet Archive bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_a-fresh-memorial_beverley-thomas_1693, leaves n32–n33). The printed forms “begnn”, “Time ot a former Date” and “beginning at 1597” are kept as printed. Long s (ſ) rendered s; ligatures expanded; roman and italic type not distinguished; line-end hyphenation joined; spacing normalized (one space after punctuation, paragraph breaks as blank lines); running heads, catchwords, signatures and marginal notes omitted; spelling, capitalization and punctuation otherwise as printed; omissions inside the selection marked […]. Transcribed from the Internet Archive page images and checked against the item’s OCR text layer.
Title page; pp. 27–28
Gerhard Genis
Studies poetic remembrance of Nongqawuse and the Mendi dead through images of water, resurrection and judgment.
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Pharos Journal of Theology 102 special edition 1, pages 1–2 and 9–12
Joseph Davey Cunningham; H. L. O. Garrett, editor of the 1918 edition
Cunningham’s history includes a translated reply attributed to Nanak, accompanied by his criticism of its attribution.
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Cunningham questioned the attribution to Nanak · commentary →
Joseph Davey Cunningham, A History of the Sikhs from the Origin of the Nation to the Battles of the Sutlej, edited by H.L.O.Garrett, new and revised edition (Oxford University Press,1918), Appendix XX, item 2, “The Reply of Nānak to Karun, the Lord of Medina,” pp.371–372. Complete historical translation, collated with scan; verse line breaks retained, line wraps joined, spacing normalized. The appendix’s attribution note is separate commentary; its footnote 1 is separately anchored.
Appendix XX item 2, pp.371–372 and attribution note p.370
Islam — Ahmadiyya
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad
Ghulam Ahmad explains his use of prophetic titles, his relationship to Muhammad and his rejection of a new religious law. Later Ahmadiyya interpreters dispute how this statement defines his claim.
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Munawar Ahmad Saeed English, revised institutional team; Islam International2007 ISBN1853729124
Printedpp1–7 and publisher note
Moses Lowman
Moses Lowman’s historical commentary on Revelation (first edition 1737; second edition 1745). It counts the 1,260 years of the beast from about 756 to about 2016, after which the millennium follows.
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Lowman: the antichristian power destroyed about 2016, before the millennium · commentary →
Lowman: the antichristian power destroyed about 2016, before the millennium · commentary →
Moses Lowman, A Paraphrase and Notes on the Revelation of St. John, second edition (London: John Noon, 1745), note (i) to chapter XVI, pp. 204–205 (Internet Archive paraphrasenoteso00lowm, leaves n245–n246). Transcribed from the page images; OCR used only to locate the passage. Long s rendered s; “ct” ligature expanded; spacing before semicolons and colons normalized; line-end hyphenation joined; italics not distinguished; spelling as printed, including “Council” for counsel.
Note (i) to chapter XVI, pp. 204–205
John Napier
John Napier’s commentary on Revelation (Edinburgh, 1593), arranged as numbered propositions. Proposition 14 reasons that the day of judgment should fall between 1688 and 1700.
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Napier: the day of judgment between 1688 and 1700 · commentary →
Napier: the day of judgment between 1688 and 1700 · commentary →
John Napier, A Plaine Discovery, of the Whole Revelation of Saint Iohn (Edinburgh: Robert Walde-grave, 1593), first treatise, Proposition 14, pp. 16 and 20–22 (Internet Archive NapierJohn.APlaineDiscoveryOfTheWholeRevelationOfSaintJohnSet, two-page spreads at BookReader leaves n15, n17, n18). Proposition heading from p. 16; reckoning from p. 21 (“Therfore, from this yeare of Christ 365.”) to p. 22 (“vtterlie nothing at all.”); the intervening argument on pp. 16–21 omitted and marked […]. Long s (ſ) rendered s; ligatures expanded; roman and italic type not distinguished; line-end hyphenation joined; spacing normalized (one space after punctuation, paragraph breaks as blank lines); running heads, catchwords, signatures, marginal notes and reference asterisks omitted; spelling, capitalization, u/v and i/j usage and punctuation otherwise as printed; omissions inside the selection marked […]. Transcribed from the Internet Archive page images and checked against the item's OCR text layer. Tilde abbreviation retained in “apparãtly”; “æternallie” and “Irenæus” keep the printed ligature.
Proposition 14, pp. 16, 20–22
Athenagoras
Connects bodily resurrection and future accountability to Christian conduct in a defense against accusations of cannibalism.
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Source. Translated by B.P. Pratten. From Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 2. Edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1885.) New Advent revised web edition.
Chapter 36
Edward Bickersteth
Edward Bickersteth’s guide to interpreting prophecy, reprinted at Philadelphia in 1841 from the enlarged sixth London edition. It ends the 2,300 years of Daniel 8 in 1867–8 with the completed Jewish restoration and the 1335 years of Daniel 12 in 1868 with the full blessedness of the earth.
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Bickersteth: the 2,300 years end in 1867–8, the 1335 years in 1868 · commentary →
Bickersteth: the 2,300 years end in 1867–8, the 1335 years in 1868 · commentary →
Edward Bickersteth, A Practical Guide to the Prophecies, with Reference to Their Interpretation and Fulfilment, and to Personal Edification, “from the sixth London edition, enlarged” (Philadelphia: Orrin Rogers; E. G. Dorsey, printer, 1841), p. 146: the heading “2,300.—Dan. viii. 13.” and its second paragraph, and the heading “1,290 and 1335.—Dan. xii. 11, 12.” with its three paragraphs. Internet Archive item practicalguideto00bick (Princeton Theological Seminary Library), BookReader leaves 14 (title page) and 159. Transcribed from the page images. Italics rendered plain; line-end hyphenation joined; whitespace normalized; omissions marked “…”.
p. 146
Universal House of Justice, Research Department
Cannot identify the Denkard passage behind Ferraby's prediction of an Iranian prophet after twelve hundred years. Suggests two unattributed passages in Natiq might be combined; records three Ferraby edition page locations.
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Bahai Library Online recipient-supplied transcription, scanned 1999
Complete memorandum, Source of the Quotation and Authenticity sections
A Clerk of Oxford
Criticizes a heritage festival’s apocalypse publicity for presenting invented calendar precision as Norse textual authority and reports disagreement with the organizers.
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Edition stated above
Main post, critique and dated update
Faxian (Fa-hien), recorder; the forecast is attributed to an unnamed Indian devotee
Records a forecast of Maitreya’s advent, the disappearance of Buddhist teaching, shortening human life, violence, and subsequent moral recovery.
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The Buddha’s bowl and the coming of Maitreya →
James Legge translation, online under The Travels of Fa-Hien; one whole travel account, not one work per chapter.
Chapter XXXIX, Sermon of a Devotee, from the alms-bowl itinerary through the closing attribution
Richard Brothers
Uses a 2300-year calculation to designate 1798 for the restoration of the Hebrews to Jerusalem and identifies Brothers as the authorized interpreter and future prince. Two books are conservatively one work, not two counts.
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Richard Brothers predicts restoration in 1798 · commentary →
West Springfield: Edward Gray for Asaph Chilson, 1797; later incomplete web transcription
Book I title, preface and pp. 7–11
Thomas Beverley
Thomas Beverley’s 1698 pamphlet reviewing the events of 1697, with an apology for the falling short of what he had expected from prophecy.
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Beverley’s apology after 1697 · commentary →
T. Beverley, A Review of What God hath been Pleased to do This Year, According to Prophecy … with A most Humble Apology and Defence concerning the falling short of Events (London: William Marshal and John Marshal, MDCXCVIII [1698]); dedication to the Lord Mayor signed “Tho. Beverley” and dated “Mo. 9. D. 12th. 1697.” Selected unit: section heading and first three paragraphs of p. 1 (Internet Archive bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_a-review-of-what-god-hat_beverley-thomas_1698, leaf n8). Long s (ſ) rendered s; ligatures expanded; roman and italic type not distinguished; line-end hyphenation joined; spacing normalized (one space after punctuation, paragraph breaks as blank lines); running heads, catchwords, signatures, marginal notes and reference asterisks omitted; spelling, capitalization, u/v and i/j usage and punctuation otherwise as printed; omissions inside the selection marked […]. Transcribed from the Internet Archive page images and checked against the item's OCR text layer.
p. 1
Thomas Beverley
A four-page tract by Thomas Beverley giving a scheme of prophecy “Beginning this present Year, 1691” and carried on to the succession of the Kingdom of Christ in 1697, assuring the success of the King’s expedition that summer and appealing to the event to confirm his prophetical grounds.
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[T. Beverley], A Scheme of Prophecy Now to be Fulfilled; Beginning this present Year, 1691 (no imprint; four pages; the author is not named in the tract). The “Catalogue of Late Books By That Reverend Divine Mr. Thomas Beverly” printed at the end of the 1696 second edition of his Catechism of the Kingdom lists “A Scheam of Prophecies now to be Fulfilled” as item 24 (Internet Archive bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_the-catechism-of-the-kin_beverley-thomas_1696, leaves n24 and n26). Pp. [1]–2 (leaves n0–n1), from “A Scheme of Prophecy” to “the Thousand Years Glory.” (Internet Archive bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_a-scheme-of-prophecy_beverley-thomas_1696, catalogued there under 1696). Long s (ſ) rendered s; ligatures expanded; roman and italic type not distinguished; line-end hyphenation joined; spacing normalized (one space after punctuation, paragraph breaks as blank lines); running heads, catchwords, signatures and marginal notes omitted; spelling, capitalization and punctuation otherwise as printed; omissions inside the selection marked […]. Transcribed from the Internet Archive page images.
Pp. [1]–2
Thomas Beverley
Thomas Beverley’s 1684 chronology of Daniel’s 2,300 evenings and mornings. It ends the 1,260 days in 1697 and places the full cleansing of the sanctuary, the New Jerusalem, in 1772.
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Beverley in 1684: the 1,260 days end in 1697, the New Jerusalem in 1772 · commentary →
Beverley in 1684: the 1,260 days end in 1697, the New Jerusalem in 1772 · commentary →
Thomas Beverley, A Scripture-Line of Time, Drawn in Brief from the Lapsed Creation, to the Restitution of All Things (“Printed according to a Calendar, 1684”), p. 16 and p. 59 (Internet Archive scripturelineoft00beve, Princeton Theological Seminary copy, leaves n121 and n164). Transcribed from the EEBO-TCP keyed text (CC0; textcreationpartnership GitHub repository A27623). Long s (ſ) rendered s; TCP line-end hyphenation markers joined; page breaks joined; marginal notes and running heads omitted; roman and italic type not distinguished; spelling, capitalization and punctuation otherwise as keyed; omissions marked […]. Checked against the page images of both pages; no differences from the keyed text were found apart from long s.
pp. 16, 59
Shaykh al-Saduq (Ibn Babawayh)
Argues for return through previous Qur'anic revivals and Jesus' descent; distinguishes selective gathering from universal gathering and rejects transmigration. An editorial note disputes using the Companions of the Cave as proof.
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Asaf A. A. Fyzee translation, World Organization for Islamic Services, 1982; generated 98-page PDF.
Generated PDF pp.44–48: Concerning Resurrection (Raj'a), Concerning Return (Ba'th) After Death
Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society; unsigned institutional article
Responds to date-based disappointment by calling for adjusted understanding and continuing ordinary responsibilities. Says the exact judgment date will remain unknown and that apparent national recovery need not postpone judgment.
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The Watchtower, pp. 438–443, paragraphs 15–19
Central Conference of American Rabbis
Defines repairing the world and interfaith action as bringing the messianic age nearer, affirms varied understandings of redemption and holds Zionist commitment together with viable diaspora.
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CCAR official English HTML transcription
Preamble, God covenant passage, Torah social-action paragraphs, Israel
William Cuninghame
William Cuninghame of Lainshaw’s Supplement to his Dissertation on the Seals and Trumpets, its preface signed on 26 December 1837 and its title page dated 1838. It reckons the end of Daniel’s 1335 years in 1867, “little more than 29 years and two months” from the time of writing.
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William Cuninghame, A Supplement to A Dissertation on the Seals and Trumpets of the Apocalypse, and the Prophetical Period of Twelve Hundred and Sixty Years (London: Thomas Cadell; Hatchard & Son, and James Nisbet & Co., 1838), preface signed “Lainshaw, 26th December, 1837”: p. 16, the sentence “The 1260 years are computed by me” through “the 1335 years in 1867.”; and the note to p. 75 continued on p. 76, from “My dates of the terminations” through “the great day of Armageddon.” Bound after the third edition of the Dissertation (London, 1832) in Internet Archive item adissertationon01cunigoog (Tappan Presbyterian Association copy, digitized by Google), BookReader leaves 5 (title page of the Dissertation, 1832), 591 (title page of the Supplement), 608 (end of the preface), 626 (p. 16), 685 (p. 75) and 686 (p. 76). Transcribed from the page images. Small capitals rendered in capitals (“B. C.”); line-end hyphenation joined; whitespace normalized; […] marks the omission.
Pp. 16, 75–76
Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society; unsigned institutional article
Rejects calculating a lifespan from 1914 while maintaining imminent Armageddon. Interprets the passing heavens and earth as rulers and ruled, and treats completion of worldwide witness as a condition whose satisfaction God determines.
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The Watchtower, pp. 16–21, paragraphs 6–20