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Denis M. MacEoin
Differentiates the Bab's works and reviews manuscript loss, copying and archive access.
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Encyclopaedia Iranica online, displayed author and date metadata
Opening work chronology and concluding manuscript transmission discussion
Servants of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, collective attribution in 12.2.44 colophon
These explanatory notes accompany the Bhāgavata Purāṇa’s chapter on the symptoms of Kali-yuga. The note on 12.2.38 says that Maru and Devāpi are already on earth, waiting to restore religious life after the age ends. The closing note contrasts the passing power of kings with spiritual liberation.
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The kings are already waiting · commentary →
VedaBase modern Purport sections, separate from Translation
12.2.44 Purport closing colophon at https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/12/2/44/; 12.2.38 Purport
Ibrahim George Kheiralla, assisted by Howard MacNutt
Calculates prophetic dates through Daniel/Revelation, with extensive Cumming and Guinness citations. Distinguishes millennium beginning in 1892 from Great Peace commencing in 1917 after war. Concrete dated reception claim.
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Chicago: I. G. Kheiralla, 1900; hosted uncorrected volume-II OCR and 2023 optimized scan
Volume II, chapter XXVI, Time of His Coming, pp. 475–486
Record of Bernt Knipperdolling’s confession
The Low German record of the confession of Bernt Knipperdolling, taken at Dülmen on 25 July 1535.
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Knipperdolling’s confession on the failed Easter promise · commentary →
Knipperdolling’s confession on the failed Easter promise · commentary →
Carl Adolf Cornelius (ed.), Berichte der Augenzeugen über das Münsterische Wiedertäuferreich (Die Geschichtsquellen des Bisthums Münster, 2; Münster: Theissing, 1853), Internet Archive berichtederaugen00corn. Actenstücke no. LXXII, “Bekenntniss Bernt Knipperdollings”, Dülmen, 25 July 1535, p. 377 (leaves n477–n478), from “Seght oich, wie der koninck” to “sin solde.” Followed in the note by a new AI-assisted English translation (Rainbow Watch, 2026), labelled as such. Low German (Westphalian) text as printed by Cornelius. German-style low and high quotation marks as printed. Spacing normalized; line-end hyphenation joined. Transcribed from the page images.
Cornelius, Actenstücke LXXII, p. 377
Examiners’ record of Jan van Leiden’s confession
The examiners’ Low German record of the confession of Jan van Leiden, king of Münster, taken at Dülmen on 25 July 1535.
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Jan van Leiden’s confession: an inward deliverance · commentary →
Jan van Leiden’s confession: an inward deliverance · commentary →
Carl Adolf Cornelius (ed.), Berichte der Augenzeugen über das Münsterische Wiedertäuferreich (Die Geschichtsquellen des Bisthums Münster, 2; Münster: Theissing, 1853), Internet Archive berichtederaugen00corn. Actenstücke no. LXXI, “Bekenntniss Johanns von Leiden”, Dülmen, 25 July 1535, p. 373 (leaves n470, n474), from “Und oich van einem brif” to “in den geist gemeint hedde.” The excerpt begins within a sentence: the confession says he knows of no understanding with princes or towns except through Henricus Graess, and also of a letter; the omitted opening is marked […]. The confession is recorded in the third person by the examiners. Followed in the note by a new AI-assisted English translation (Rainbow Watch, 2026), labelled as such. Low German (Westphalian) text as printed by Cornelius. German-style low and high quotation marks as printed. Spacing normalized; line-end hyphenation joined. Transcribed from the page images.
Cornelius, Actenstücke LXXI, p. 373
Guido de Bres and later Reformed synods; CRC edition
Describes bodily visible return, cleansing fire, universal resurrection and public judgment; date remains unknown to creatures.
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Article 37
Anonymous rabbinic compilation with attributed teachings
The passage connects Judah’s donkey imagery to Zechariah 9:9 and debates what the messianic king will teach or accomplish, including gathering exiles.
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The Sefaria Midrash Rabbah, 2022 English edition; Hebrew Midrash Rabbah -- TE.
98:9, exposition of Genesis 49:11
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Distinguishes the once-offered sacrifice from a future glorious advent and describes believers' life between the two.
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Spurgeon Library transcription from Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit; printed volume listed on page
Hebrews 9:26–28; opening two-advents exposition
George D. Chryssides
Compares envisioned earthly paradises while warning that superficially similar expectations occupy different doctrinal systems.
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Journal of Daesoon Academy of Sciences32:237–267; DOI10.25050/jdaos.2019.32.0.237
SectionsI–II and closingIII discussion of technology, completeIV comparison andV conclusion
Tom De Rauw
Examines how predicted Buddhist decline supported competing claims about royal authority over the monastic community.
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Ghent University doctoral dissertation, 2008; institutional repository PDF.
Chapter II.2.3, printed pages 84–89, with preceding pages 80–83
Do / Heaven's Gate
The speaker links Ti and Do's mission with Revelation's two witnesses while expressing uncertainty about that identification. Session2 describes an imminent end-of-age harvest; these are the movement's claims.
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Edition specified in date and inspection fields
Sessions 11 (Two Witnesses discussion) and 2 (end-of-age teaching)
Muhammad Baqir al-Majlisi; selected English translation by Sayyid Athar Husayn S.H. Rizvi
Al-Majlisi develops an argument about divine assistance and why concealment need not mean every righteous follower is personally at fault.
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The Promised Mahdi Part1: translation of old volume13 / modern volumes51–53; Ja’fari Propagation Centre; edited Al-Islam.org export.
Book of Occultation, chapter17, Explanation of Allamah al-Majlisi, PDF pages198–199
Ankur Barua
Places reported destruction-and-renewal prophecies in Munda land dispossession and specific Hindu/Christian contacts; distinguishes colonial descriptions from Birsa's own perspective.
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Web edition identified above
Life; The Material and the Spiritual in Birsa's Visions
Baha'u'llah
Advocates the Lesser Peace alongside prescriptions for loyalty to government and constructive activity.
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Official Bahai Reference Library English HTML
Fifth through twelfth Glad-Tidings, especially sixth
Orthodox Church in America; responder not named in inspected page
Rejects identifying Revelation's animals with modern national emblems or tanks and explains a contextual reading. Its historical anecdotes remain the responder's account; this is distinct from Hopko's catechetical chapter.
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Orthodox Church in America HTML publication
Opening and responses on geopolitical symbols and Orthodox eschatology
Suzanne Newcombe; Silke Steidinger
Documents cycle teaching and date-setting history, including separately attributed Advance Party expectations.
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2021CDAMM reissue of2017Inform profile
Historical Introduction; Beliefs; Millennial Beliefs; source note
Reender Kranenborg
Describes a 5,000-year cycle and conditional transition to a golden age.
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CESNUR preliminary conference text
Section2d world cycle,2g Murli; surrounding overview
Traditional discourse attributed to Vyāsa; composite Sanskrit work
Describes the Kali age’s social, religious and environmental deterioration within a cycle ending in annihilation, while also explaining easier access to merit during that age.
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English transcription presented under G. P. Bhatt by Wisdom Library; precise printed edition needs further collation.
Chapters 122–123, first section verses 1–65
Traditional composite work; G. V. Tagare translator
A campaign by Pramati, surviving communities and sages, and a return to the Krita age appear within recurring cycles. The narration places the account in a former manvantara, a period of cosmic history.
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G. V. Tagare translation hosted by Wisdomlib
Anusanga-pada 31.74–127; contextual 31.1–73 and footnotes
Jennifer Wenzel
Examines how ancestral-return visions survive failed expectations through literary and political reuse, including comparisons with other anticolonial movements.
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Public full-text version; inspection limited to stated sections
Introduction, printed pages 2–5
Zoroastrian Middle Persian compilers; English E. W. West · Middle Persian compilation; individual historical compiler not established · Middle Persian compilation; historical compiler not established
The Bundahishn describes resurrection, purification through molten metal and the renewal of the world. Its account of collective renewal differs from judgment after an individual’s death.
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Resurrection and the renewal of the world →
West connects the opposing powers with Zamyad Yasht 96 · commentary →
West connects the opposing powers with Zamyad Yasht 96 · commentary →
West explains the disappearance of class distinctions · commentary →
West: the three nights of punishment · commentary →
West SBE5 1880; alternative avesta.org presentation
Chapter30, especially18–33
Peterson electronic text of E.W. West, SBE vol.5; website cites Oxford 1897
Bundahishn 30.1–17; especially 3–7 and 10–16; Bundahishn 30.18–33; especially 19–20, 25 and 30–33
E.W.West, Pahlavi Texts PartI (1880), Sacred Books of the East5; additional reading edition via Internet Sacred Text Archive
Bundahis chapterXXX §§18–33, printed pp.125–130
Ellen G. White
Uses Matthew 22 and the wedding garment to urge preparation for the approaching bridegroom. The approximate delivery date is retained without deriving an exact date from its thirty-year reference.
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Ellen G. White Writings digital transcription; anthology or reprint details specified above
Sermons and Talks 1, pp. 4–8
Cambridge Bible contributors; Matthew contributor not established in this inspection
Places the tribulation before the second advent, explains the cosmic imagery through prophetic figures, and assigns the fig-tree lesson to Jerusalem.
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Bible Hub English transcription of Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges; exact print edition requires collation.
Matthew 24:29-32
Stephen Lambden
Traces multiple figurative and historical referents for catastrophe, including Badasht, revelatory tablets and world wars. Argues most catastrophe expectations were realized by the twentieth century, a conclusion explicitly contested by Collins; the bibliography preserves disagreement.
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Bahai Studies Review 9 (1999), Bahai Library Online HTML transcription
The catastrophe; Bahai interpretations; The writings of Bahaullah; Armageddon as world war