Texts and commentaries

Sefer ha-Geulah (Book of Redemption)

Moses ben Nahman (Nachmanides)

Argues that return under Ezra included only a remnant of the northern tribes, so prophetic restoration of the whole people remains outstanding; connects Obadiah's House of Joseph with future deliverance.

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Nahmanides: 1,290 years from the destruction to the Messiah son of Ephraim, 1,335 to complete redemption · commentary →

Sefer HaIkkarim (Book of Principles)

Joseph Albo

Makes Messiah obligatory through prophetic authority but not a fundamental principle whose denial nullifies Torah. Surveys past-fulfillment readings before defending still-unfulfilled national restoration, Gog, land allotment and Elijah prophecies.

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Sefer Zerubbabel

Anonymous, pseudepigraphically attributed to Zerubbabel

Joins a concealed Davidic Messiah, Hephsibah, a Josephite Messiah killed by Armilos, revival and dated deliverance.

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Selections from the Book of Moses

Joseph Smith; revelatory Bible revision

The Book of Moses is part of Joseph Smith’s revelatory revision of Genesis, later included in the Pearl of Great Price. Its Enoch narrative describes a city of Zion, heavenly visions and the future return of Christ.

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Enoch sees Zion return →

Selections of Zadspram

Zadspram; English compilation includes West and later translated selections

Uses house-building and seasonal analogies for resurrection; sequential abstention weakens Az before renewal.

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The defeat of hunger and the renewal of creation →

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Senji-sho: Looking Carefully at the Era

Nichiren Shu UK

Separate modern exposition explains time-appropriate teaching and a1052 beginning of mappo derived from an ancient Buddha-death calculation.

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Serene (Serenus)

Joseph Jacobs; M. Seligsohn

The article distinguishes forms of Serene’s name and recounts his reported promise to restore Jews to the Holy Land.

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Sermon to Catechumens on the Creed

Augustine

Explains Christ's judgment and offers alternative meanings of the living and the dead.

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Sermons

Henry Edward Manning, then Archdeacon of Chichester

Reads Revelation’s waiting martyrs as evidence of a divinely fixed but hidden advent time, completing the elect while allowing repentance. Treats 144,000 symbolically and applies waiting through suffering. This is Manning’s Anglican-era sermon.

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Serve with Eternity in View

Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society; unsigned institutional article

Before 1975, allows that mid-1970 s chronology could coincide with tribulation while denying exact prediction and urging service without a date as goal. Also distinguishes the claimed heavenly kingdom from future earthly life.

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Seventh-day Adventism

Tihomir Lazić; Critical Dictionary of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements

Explains the post-1844 shift from earthly advent to heavenly ministry and the relation of Sabbath, investigative judgment, conditional immortality and White’s prophetic authority.

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Seventy-Year History of Oomoto

Oomoto Seventy-Year History Compilation Committee

Oomoto’s institutional history traces the movement’s founding, teachings and development. Its account of the first revelation distinguishes the early writings attributed to Nao from Onisaburo’s later edited publication.

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Why an 1892 revelation has a 1917 publication date · commentary →

Sforno’s Commentary on the Torah

Obadiah Sforno

The star is read as enduring, with a Daniel 12:3 connection; Moab and Edom receive a particular future defeat.

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Shadal’s Commentary on the Torah

Samuel David Luzzatto (Shadal)

Discusses the scope of the oracle’s violent language, compares Jeremiah and Samaritan readings, and understands the final expression in terms of tumult rather than simply every descendant of Seth.

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Shāyest nē Shāyest (Proper and Improper)

Anonymous Middle Persian religious compilation; English translation by E. W. West

Discusses exclusions from resurrection and the places from which bodies are raised, furnishing a distinct Zoroastrian doctrinal account alongside the Bundahishn.

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Shaykhism

Denis Hermann

Distinguishes resurrection and occultation teachings and warns against conflating Shaykhi history with Babi and Bahai retrospective claims.

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Shinbashira's Sermon at the Spring Grand Service2018

Tenrikyo Shinbashira, official Tenrikyo Online

Explains promised settling of the world, health and life as requiring spiritual completion and unified Service, not construction alone.

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Shipton, Mother

Sidney Lee (signed S. L.)

Separates the first surviving 1641 tract, later fictional biographies, and the 1862 verses predicting an end in 1881. Reports an 1873 confession of fabrication.

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Shiva Shakthi

Sathya Sai Baba

Presents a threefold incarnation sequence culminating in Prema Sai and interprets the speaker’s illness and recovery as fulfillment of an ancient assurance.

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Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi Predicted Incarnation

Meditate 4 Free

Assembles claims that several traditions predicted Shri Mataji and interprets a claimed 1970 spiritual event as fulfillment.

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Shunki

Fujiwara no Sukefusa

The diary of the Heian courtier Fujiwara no Sukefusa. Its entry for the eighth month of Eishō 7 (1052) records the burning of Hase-dera and calls that year the first of the Final Dharma.

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Shunki: the first year of the Final Dharma, 1052 →

Shurangama Sutra Commentary: Exhortation to Protect and Propagate

Hsuan Hua

Argues that preserving Shurangama preserves the Proper Dharma Age, turning a decline prophecy into a call for action. Treats criticism of the sutra's authenticity as part of that threatened decline.

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Sifrei Devarim (Sifre on Deuteronomy)

Anonymous rabbinic compilation with attributed teachings

The exposition connects Israel’s future deliverance and judgment of nations with prophetic texts, concluding that the Song addresses past, present and future.

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Siftei Chakhamim

Shabbetai Bass

Explains Rashi’s dating of Judah’s authority from David onward, limited authority during exile, and Shiloh as either belonging to the Messiah or a gift brought to him.

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