Texts and commentaries

Sacred History

Sulpicius Severus

Records a belief that Nero survived or would return near the end, explicitly reporting what many believed. This is late-antique reception, not contemporary evidence of Nero’s survival.

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Saddhammapatirupaka Sutta (SN16.13)

Canonical Buddhist discourse; Thanissaro Bhikkhu translator

The discourse connects the disappearance of the true teaching with human conduct and counterfeit teachings rather than elemental disasters.

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What makes the true Dhamma disappear? →

The comparison with counterfeit gold · commentary →

Natural disasters and the disappearance of teaching · commentary →

Buddhist — Mahāyāna

Saddharmapuṇḍarīka (Lotus Sutra)

Anonymous Buddhist scripture; the narrative presents the Buddha as speaker

A Mahāyāna scripture containing teachings, parables and predictions of Buddhahood. In Kern’s chapter XXII, the Buddha recounts the Medicine King’s former devotion and entrusts the teaching for a future last period.

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The Lotus in the last period →

Safwat al-bayan li-maani al-Quran

Hasanayn Muhammad Makhluf

Identifies Jesus’ descent as a major sign, connects the alternative reading with a sign of nearness, and appeals to authenticated hadith.

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Sahih al-Bukhari

Muhammad ibn Ismail al-Bukhari (compiler)

Abu Huraira's report describes Jesus descending as a just judge, breaking the cross, killing pigs, ending jizya, and abundance. The narrator's Quran cross-reference is distinguished from the reported speech.

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Jesus returns as a just ruler →

Sahih Muslim

Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj, compiler · Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj (compiler); report attributed to Muhammad via Jabir ibn Abdullah · Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj (compiler); report attributed to Muhammad via an-Nawwas ibn Saman

This hadith collection preserves reports about Jesus’ descent, the community’s prayer leader, the Dajjal, and Gog and Magog. The selected reports describe different parts of an end-times sequence and retain their separate wording.

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Jesus’ descent and the prayer leader →

The Dajjal, Jesus, and the final Hour →

SAOŠYANT

William W. Malandra

William W. Malandra’s Encyclopaedia Iranica article traces the meaning and use of Saoshyant in Zoroastrian texts.

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Malandra on the meaning of Saoshyant · commentary →

Sathya Sai Gita (iii)

Sathya Sai Baba

States that his mortal human form will continue for fifty-nine more years and that the avatar’s purpose will be achieved.

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Sattasuriya Sutta: The Seven Suns (AN 7.66)

Pali Buddhist tradition; Bhikkhu Sujato translator

The Seven Suns is a discourse in the Pali Anguttara Nikaya. It teaches impermanence through the eventual destruction of the earth.

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Seven suns and the passing of the world →

Sau Sakhi (Sakhee Book, or the Description of Gooroo Gobind Singh's Religion and Doctrines)

Anonymous/contested attributed Sikh compilation; Attar Singh of Bhadour, translator and commentator

Contains Ram Singh, Khalsa rule, disorder and Duleep Singh future narratives; translator explicitly discusses contested authorship and Kuka identification.

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Sakhee 51: Ram Singh and the future Khalsa kingdom →

The four Asrums · commentary →

The translator records disagreement about authorship · commentary →

Bunya: a corn-chandler · commentary →

Mown: Englishmen · commentary →

Paniput, a railway train, or ocean steamers? · commentary →

Why Attar Singh published the translation · commentary →

The Kuka identification of Ram Singh · commentary →

Ruths: a carriage · commentary →

Attar Singh’s judgment about the book’s composition · commentary →

How Attar Singh understood his translation task · commentary →

Saved From a “Wicked Generation”

Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society; unsigned institutional article

Argues that Jesus’s generation language concerned contemporary wicked masses and applies this to modern judgment. Urges separation and watchfulness rather than calculating the length of a generation.

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Savoy Declaration of Faith and Order

Congregational churches assembled at Savoy

Confesses bodily resurrection, judgment of humans and fallen angels, permanent destinies, and deliberately unknown timing as grounds for watchfulness. Institutionally distinct confession, though its wording depends heavily on Westminster.

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Scatter the Seeds of Spirituality

Parthasarathi Rajagopalachari (Chariji)

Reports Babuji preparing for a future personality who will destroy the universe at Kali-yuga's end, while urging renewal through practitioners over coming generations.

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Scofield Reference Notes

C. I. Scofield and associated editors

Connects the final crisis with Daniel's seventieth week and distinguishes future deliverance of Jerusalem from its past destruction.

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Scofield: “generation” means the nation of Israel · commentary →

Scots Confession

Scottish Reformation confession; Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand presentation

Anticipates a visible return, restitution and judgment, with vindication of persecuted believers. The eschatological promise functions as encouragement against present political threats.

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Sealed Prophecies: First and Second Books

Joanna Southcott

Describes custodianship and opening of sealed writings and reinterprets prior war warnings through types and shadows. The second installment explicitly explains delayed publication; reported original sealing dates remain authorial claims.

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Why Satan’s sentence did not mean immediate destruction · commentary →

Second Advent Way Marks and High Heaps

Joseph Bates

Reinterprets the 1844 bridegroom event as heavenly marriage preceding a later earthly return and makes a festival-date typological argument.

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Second Apology

Justin Martyr

Explains delay of world destruction by the continued presence of Christians and distinguishes final conflagration from Stoic cycles.

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Second Epistle of Clement

Anonymous, formerly attributed to Clement

Urges repentance before a fiery judgment and a gathering of nations. Index marks Clement attribution spurious; homiletic work kept distinct from First Clement.

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Second Helvetic Confession

Heinrich Bullinger; Reformed confessional tradition

Places Antichrist’s persecution before Christ’s destructive return, resurrection and gathering; rejects universal eventual salvation and a pre-judgment earthly golden age. Its anti-Jewish polemical label describes the confession’s rhetoric, not Jewish teaching.

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The Second Helvetic Confession on Christ’s return · commentary →

Second London Baptist Confession of Faith

Particular Baptist churches

Teaches universal judgment, eternal destinies and an intentionally unknown day prompting watchfulness. Textual dependence on earlier confessions is acknowledged.

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Second Tablet to The Hague

Abdu'l-Baha

Warns that modern armaments threaten humanity's endurance; argues that spiritual conviction and unity of humanity are necessary to implement peace.

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Seeking Enlightenment in the Last Age: Mappo Thought in Kamakura Buddhism

Jackie (Jacqueline I.) Stone

Documents variant decline chronologies, retrospective historical confirmation and practices proposed for final-Dharma conditions.

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Sefer Elijah

Anonymous post-rabbinic work; named biblical or rabbinic speakers are literary attributions

Names competing proposed final rulers and several monthly dates for messianic intervention; the translation preserves variants and textual problems.

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