Prophecy and interpretation through time

17th century

1. 1697 · stated in 1693

   Beverley in 1693: the Kingdom of Christ enters its succession in 1697

   Predicted dateJohn eats the little bookGeneral Christianity

   Dating basis

   The title page of A Fresh Memorial of the Kingdom of Christ (1693) says that by the oath of Revelation 10 the Kingdom of Christ “must needs enter its Succession 1697”. On p. 28 Beverley defends “what I have so often fixed at 1697” and concludes that the change “shall come to pass at 1697.”

   Named year

   Stated 1693. Beverley’s A Fresh Memorial of the Kingdom of Christ was printed in London for William Marshal and John Salusbury in 1693.

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2. 1697 · stated in 1692

   Beverley in 1692: the Kingdom of Christ in its succession at the farthest in 1697

   Predicted dateRevelation 11: the two witnessesGeneral Christianity

   Dating basis

   The title page of A Demonstrative Scripture-Proof from Mahometan Times (London, 1692) reads “The Kingdom of Christ Must needs be in its Succession, 1697.” Page 1 counts from the Hegira of 622 “That the Kingdom of Christ must at the farthest be in its Succession 1697. the 1260. Days of Years of the Roman Empire in the Papal Tyranny then Ending”.

   Named year, the latest year Beverley allows

   Stated 1692. Beverley’s A Demonstrative Scripture-Proof from Mahometan Times is dated on its title page “London, Printed in the Year, 1692.”

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3. 1697–1698 · dedication dated 1697, imprint 1698

   Beverley’s apology after the 1697 expectation

   Interpretation recordedRevelation 13: the beast and its numberGeneral Christianity

   Dating basis

   The Review’s dedication is dated “Mo. 9. D. 12th. 1697.” and the title page imprint is MDCXCVIII; the text speaks of “this Present Year 1697”. The response was written after the expected date near 23 August 1697 passed.

   Between the dated dedication (1697) and the imprint (1698)

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4. 1699–1708 or 1718

   Proposed dates for the Khalsa sovereignty text

   Prophecy given or recordedThe Khalsa will ruleGeneral Sikhism

   Dating basis

   Harinder Singh proposes 1699–1708 and reports another scholarly dating of 1718 for the Nasihatnamah/Tankhahnamah.

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5. About 1700 · stated as likely

   Archer: Christ comes and the thousand years begin about 1700

   Predicted dateDaniel’s vision of resurrectionGeneral Judaism

   Dating basis

   The 1641 text says it is likely that Christ’s coming from heaven, the raising of the dead and the beginning of the thousand years will be “about the yeare of our Lord 1700”, forty-five years after 1650 or 1656 (1290 days as years added to 360 or 366). The 1642 edition gives the same year in different wording.

   Approximate year: “about the yeare of our Lord 1700”

   Stated 1641–1642. The Personall Reigne of Christ upon Earth appeared in London in 1641 and again in 1642; the 1642 issue is dated on its title page.

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18th century

1. 1701 · “about forty seven, or forty eight years hence”

   Tillinghast: Christ’s personal appearance and the thousand years in 1701

   Predicted dateDaniel’s vision of resurrectionGeneral Judaism

   Dating basis

   Tillinghast ends Daniel’s 2,300 and 1,335 years together at the end of 1701 and writes that Christ’s personal appearance, Israel’s complete redemption, the overthrow of the Beast, the binding of the Dragon and the beginning of the thousand years “falls to be, Anno Dom. one thousand seven hundred and one, about forty seven, or forty eight years hence”. He leaves open whether the days may be shortened so that Christ appears “some years sooner”.

   Stated year; the author allows that it may be some years sooner

   Stated 1654. Tillinghast's Knowledge of the Times was printed in London for Livewell Chapman in 1654.

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2. After 1700, before 1734 · “post annum … 1700, ante annum 1734”

   Nicholas of Cusa: the resurrection of the Church after 1700 and before 1734

   Predicted dateNicholas of Cusa: the Church’s resurrection between 1700 and 1734General Christianity

   Dating basis

   Cusa counts each year of Christ’s life after his twenty-ninth year as one jubilee of the Church and places the Church’s resurrection, after the Antichrist is driven out, in the thirty-fourth jubilee from Christ’s resurrection: “Et hoc erit post annum natiuitatis domini 1700 / ante annum 1734.” The ascension of the Church at Christ’s coming to judgment follows, at a time he says no one will know.

   After the year 1700 and before 1734, as Cusa states

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3. 1705 · reported by Jurieu

   An anonymous divine, reported by Jurieu: the Antichristian empire ends in 1705

   Predicted dateThe seven bowls of wrathGeneral Christianity

   Dating basis

   Jurieu reports that an anonymous writer “fixes it precisely to the year 1705”, puts “the end of the Antichristian Empire in the year 1705” and reckons the ruin of the papacy from 1689. Jurieu rejects his treatment of the vials.

   Stated year of a reported prediction

   Stated 1687–1688. Jurieu's French continuation of the Accomplissement des prophéties appeared at Rotterdam in 1687; the English translation with the Confirmation on the vials was printed in London in 1688.

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4. 1710–1715 · “according to all appearance”

   Jurieu: the Antichristian empire falls between 1710 and 1715

   Predicted dateRevelation 13: the beast and its numberGeneral Christianity

   Dating basis

   Jurieu dates the 1260 years of Antichristianism from the division of the Roman Empire into ten kingdoms (about 450–455) and says the fall of the Antichristian empire must happen “according to all appearance” between 1710 and 1715; his title page adds that the kingdom of Christ shall then come upon earth. He declines to set down the very year.

   Stated range of five years

   Stated 1686. Jurieu set the fall of the Antichristian empire between 1710 and 1715 in L'accomplissement des prophéties (Rotterdam: Abraham Acher, 1686), second part, chapter II; the English translation of 1687 gives the same words in chapter V.

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5. 1710–1720 · restated in 1688

   Jurieu restates the end of the papacy as between 1710 and 1720

   Predicted dateThe seven bowls of wrathGeneral Christianity

   Dating basis

   In 1688 Jurieu writes of the end of the papacy: “I fixt it betwixt the year 1710. and the year 1720.” His 1687 Accomplishment put the fall of the Antichristian empire between 1710 and 1715.

   Stated range, as the author restates it

   Stated 1687–1688. Jurieu's French continuation of the Accomplissement des prophéties appeared at Rotterdam in 1687; the English translation with the Confirmation on the vials was printed in London in 1688.

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6. 1716

   Whiston: the commencement of Christ’s kingdom in 1716

   Predicted dateRevelation 11: the two witnessesGeneral Christianity

   Dating basis

   Whiston adds 360 years to 96 (St John’s visions) and 1260 years to 456 to reach “the commencing of our Saviour’s Kingdom” in 1716, “supposing” the proportions of the type apply. The evidence page is Part III of the same edition, which repeats the 1716 period; the OCR of the corollary page misreads the year.

   Named year

   Stated 1706. Whiston's An Essay on the Revelation of Saint John was printed at the Cambridge University Press in 1706.

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7. 1731 · stated in 1724

   Whiston in 1724: Daniel’s 2300 Chaldean years end in 1731

   Predicted dateDaniel 8: the sanctuary and the 2,300 evenings and morningsJewish / Christian — Shared scriptures

   Dating basis

   Whiston counts the 2300 years as Chaldean years of 360 days, “near 2267 Julian Years”, from the first year of Darius the Mede: “Which will bring its Period to 1731 or 1764. according as we use Chaldean or Julian Years.” Counted from the third year of Belshazzar, as in his Essay, the same years “will end 1716”.

   Named year: the end of the 2300 years counted in Chaldean years from the first year of Darius the Mede

   Stated 1724. Whiston printed this reckoning in the corrections to his Essay on the Revelation in The Literal Accomplishment of Scripture Prophecies, published in London in 1724.

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8. End of Sambat 1800 · 1743 in Field’s conversion

   Sikhs take possession of countries in Field’s reported prediction

   Predicted dateGobind Singh’s reported predictions about the Khalsa and the EnglishGeneral Sikhism

   Dating basis

   Field’s 1914 account places this at the end of Sambat 1800 and supplies the parenthetical 1743 conversion. This preserves that edition’s year label without claiming exact calendar boundaries or that the account was recorded before the event.

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9. 1744 · second edition

   Whiston acknowledges the failure of the 1716 expectation

   Interpretation recordedDaniel 8: the sanctuary and the 2,300 evenings and morningsJewish / Christian — Shared scriptures

   Dating basis

   In the 1744 second edition Whiston writes that he had “falsely applied” the conclusion of Daniel’s 2300 to 1716 and, “upon the Failure of our Expectations that Year”, had for a time given the point up.

   Publication year of the second edition

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10. c.1746 · three years after Field’s 1743

    Sikhs spring from every bush, three years later

    Predicted dateGobind Singh’s reported predictions about the Khalsa and the EnglishGeneral Sikhism

    Dating basis

    The reported speech places this development three years after the preceding Sambat 1800/1743 claim. 1746 is an editorial arithmetic inference from Field’s own conversion.

    relative_interval_calendar_inference

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11. 1757 · claimed date; published 1758

    Swedenborg dates the Last Judgment he reports to 1757

    Interpretation recordedRevelation 20: the millennium and final judgmentGeneral Christianity

    Dating basis

    Swedenborg states that the Last Judgment, which he says took place in the spiritual world, began at the beginning of 1757 and was accomplished by its end. The date is his claim; De Ultimo Judicio was published in 1758. Evidence page from the 1840 Boston translation, whose OCR is legible where the 1788 scan is not.

    Year stated by the author for the event he claims to have witnessed

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12. 1764

    Whiston: the temple cleansed in 1764

    Predicted dateDaniel 8: the sanctuary and the 2,300 evenings and morningsJewish / Christian — Shared scriptures

    Dating basis

    Whiston counts Daniel’s 2300 evening-mornings from the first year of Darius the Mede (538 before the Christian era) to reach 1764, when he “fully expect[s]” the temple to be cleansed and its sacrifices revived.

    Named year

    Stated 1744. Whiston added this reckoning to the second edition of his Essay on the Revelation of St. John, printed in London in 1744.

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13. 1764 · stated in 1724

    Whiston in 1724: Daniel’s 2300 Julian years end in 1764

    Predicted dateDaniel 8: the sanctuary and the 2,300 evenings and morningsJewish / Christian — Shared scriptures

    Dating basis

    In the corrections to his Essay on the Revelation printed in The Literal Accomplishment of Scripture Prophecies (1724), Whiston replaces the Essay’s end of the 2300 years in 1716 and dates the vision to “the first Year of Darius the Mede, 15 Years later: Which will bring its Period to 1731 or 1764. according as we use Chaldean or Julian Years.”

    Named year: the end of the 2300 years counted in Julian years from the first year of Darius the Mede

    Stated 1724. Whiston printed this reckoning in the corrections to his Essay on the Revelation in The Literal Accomplishment of Scripture Prophecies, published in London in 1724.

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14. 1766

    Whiston: the seventh thousand years or millennium begins in 1766

    Predicted dateDaniel 8: the sanctuary and the 2,300 evenings and morningsJewish / Christian — Shared scriptures

    Dating basis

    Whiston places the end of the world’s 6000 years and “the Commencement of the seventh thousand or Millennium” at 1766 and expects the restoration of the Jews before then.

    Named year

    Stated 1744. Whiston added this reckoning to the second edition of his Essay on the Revelation of St. John, printed in London in 1744.

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15. 1766 · stated in 1727

    Whiston in 1727: the six thousand years end in 1766 by the Samaritan count

    Predicted dateWhy has the promised coming been delayed?General Christianity

    Dating basis

    Whiston writes that by the Samaritan copy, which gives 249 years fewer before the Flood, “these 6000 Years will not end till A. D. 1766, two Years after the future Dedication of the Jewish Temple at Jerusalem. Which may, perhaps, prove the more genuine Calculation.” By Jerome’s copy, which he follows, the six thousand years ended at the equinox of 1517.

    Named year: the end of the six thousand years and the beginning of the seventh millenary by the Samaritan count

    Stated 1727. Whiston printed this reckoning in Part I of his Collection of Authentick Records, published in London in 1727.

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16. 1772 · end of the 2,300 years

    Beverley: the full cleansing of the sanctuary, the New Jerusalem, in 1772

    Predicted dateDaniel 8: the sanctuary and the 2,300 evenings and morningsJewish / Christian — Shared scriptures

    Dating basis

    Beverley ends Daniel’s 2,300 evenings and mornings with “the full cleansing of the Sanctuary, or the New Jerusalem, at 1772”, and on p. 59 places the full appearance of Christ’s kingdom “75 Years after” 1697. The prefatory table gives the same year (“ending in It is done, It is done, at 1772”).

    Stated year

    Stated 1684. Beverley's A Scripture-Line of Time is dated on its title page "Printed according to a Calendar, 1684."

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17. 1780-05-19

    New England Dark Day

    Proposed fulfillmentJesus’ discourse on the Mount of OlivesGeneral Christianity

    Dating basis

    A marked daytime darkening occurred across New England on 19 May 1780.

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18. 1792 · date claimed in the later account

    Southcott dates the reported visitation to 1792

    Prophecy given or recordedSouthcott’s account of a visitation in 1792Christian — Southcottian

    Dating basis

    The selected text explicitly begins by placing the revelations in 1792. This is Southcott’s retrospective date.

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19. 1792 · “a renovation of Age”

    Nostradamus: a persecution of the Church lasting until 1792

    Predicted dateNostradamus to Henry II: persecution of the Church until 1792Astrological prophecy — Nostradamus

    Dating basis

    In his epistle to Henry II, dated 27 June 1558, Nostradamus says that in the beginning of a year marked by a stated configuration of the planets a persecution of the Christian Church greater than any in Africa will begin, “and it shall last till the year 1792. at which time every body will think it a renovation of Age” (French: “& durera ceste-icy iusques, à l’an mil sept cens nonante deux que l’ô cuydera estre vne renouation de siecle”). The renovation is what people will take the year to be.

    The year until which the persecution lasts; people will think it (“que l'ô cuydera estre”) a renovation of the age.

    Stated 27 June 1558. Nostradamus dates his epistle to Henry II from Salon, 27 June 1558.

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20. 1798

    Brothers: Hebrews restored to Jerusalem

    Predicted dateDaniel 8: the sanctuary and the 2,300 evenings and morningsJewish / Christian — Shared scriptures

    Dating basis

    Brothers 1794 text explicitly equates year 5917 of his chronology with 1798 CE and predicts restoration then. His 3617 starting epoch and 2300 interval are inputs, not extra predictions.

    Named target year in the 1794 witness

    Stated 1794. Brothers's A Revealed Knowledge of the Prophecies and Times, Book the First, is dated on its title page "Printed in the year of Christ 1794."

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19th century

1. 1801 · Third Part signed 19 May

   Southcott dates the Third Part of Strange Effects of Faith

   Prophecy given or recordedSouthcott: three years to convince the nationChristian — Southcottian

   Dating basis

   Part III’s closing page 144 bears Exeter, May 19th, 1801.

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2. 7 November 1801 · letter date

   Southcott writes to Stanhope Bruce

   Interpretation recordedGenesis 3: the woman and the serpentJewish / Christian — Shared scriptures

   Dating basis

   The opening letter heading prints Exeter, Nov.7,1801.

   Printed letter date

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3. 17 Jan. 1806 · dated account

   Southcott’s written account is dated 17 January 1806

   Prophecy given or recordedSouthcott’s account of a visitation in 1792Christian — Southcottian

   Dating basis

   The inspected first page prints January 17, 1806. The date belongs to this account.

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4. 1810 · eighth edition

   Hann challenges Southcott’s three-year prediction

   Interpretation recordedSouthcott: three years to convince the nationChristian — Southcottian

   Dating basis

   Eighth-edition title identifies the present year 1810; the selected First Prophecy discussion appears on printed pp. 3–4. This is retrospective criticism, not prophecy delivery.

   Printed edition year; exact day unavailable

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5. 1810

   Wesley’s chronology: forty-two months end

   Predicted dateBabylon and the seven kingsGeneral Christianity

   Dating basis

   Explicit year in the complete Revelation 17:10 table reproduced by Wesley. His introduction attributes most notes to Bengel and does not defend every part.

   Year named in a historical interpretive chronology

   Stated 1755. Wesley printed this chronology in the first edition of his Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (London: William Bowyer, 1755).

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6. 1810

   Bengel: the forty-two months of the beast end in 1810

   Predicted dateBabylon and the seven kingsGeneral Christianity

   Dating basis

   Bengel’s chronological table of the Apocalypse gives: “1810. End of the 42 months of the beast; upon the completion of which, and the pouring out of the seven vials, he is not, and Babylon sits as a Queen, xv. etc.” Bengel adds: “I declare throughout, by what condition I wish it to be thought that the years in this table are defined.” The table is printed in the Gnomon (Tübingen, 1742), p. 1198; the English is Fletcher’s 1859 translation, p. 373.

   Named year in Bengel’s chronological table

   Stated 1742. Bengel printed the chronological table of the Apocalypse with this year in the first edition of his Gnomon Novi Testamenti (Tübingen, 1742), p. 1198.

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7. 27 September 1813 · reported in 1852

   Southcott’s reported marriage communication

   Prophecy given or recordedSouthcott’s promised marriage to PomeroyChristian — Southcottian

   Dating basis

   The 1852 title identifies letters dated September 1813; the selected communication begins Monday morning, September 27th. Date is attributed by this later publication. The separate 1852 point records the inspected edition.

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8. Jiaqing 18, 9th month, 15th day · 8 October 1813

   Eight Trigrams: the hour fixed for seizing the capital, noon on the fifteenth of the ninth month, Jiaqing 18

   Predicted dateThe Eight Trigrams’ appointed day, 1813Tianli (Eight Trigrams)

   Dating basis

   Huang Hongshou writes that the rebels, reading their scripture’s 二八中秋黄花落地, 謂據星象應在九月十五日午時 — “said that by the signs of the stars it fell on the fifteenth day of the ninth month at the hour of noon.” The entry is headed 十八年秋九月 (Jiaqing 18, autumn, ninth month), and the sentence names the eighteenth year’s intercalary eighth month. The Academia Sinica converter gives 嘉慶18年9月15日 = 8 October 1813.

   chinese_calendar_day: Jiaqing 18, ninth month, fifteenth day, the day and hour the rebels fixed by the stars for seizing the capital, as Huang Hongshou reports (1914)

   Stated 1811–1813. Qingshi jishi benmo says the sect fixed noon of the fifteenth day of the ninth month after the comet of autumn, Jiaqing 16 (1811), and the Board of Astronomy's move of the intercalary eighth month of Jiaqing 18. The Jiaqing emperor's essay at the head of the Qinding pingding jiaofei jilüe, written in January 1814, says the leaders agreed on that day in the summer of Jiaqing 16 (22 May to 18 August 1811).

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9. Jiaqing 18, 9th month, 15th day · 8 October 1813

   Tongxing’s memorial with Cui Shijun’s deposition reaches the court

   Prophecy given or recordedCui Shijun’s deposition: the White Yang kalpa, 1813Tianli (Eight Trigrams)

   Dating basis

   The Jilüe enters the memorial under 十五日戊寅 of the ninth month of Jiaqing 18: 是日辰刻山東巡撫同興奏言 — “on this day, in the chen hour, the Shandong governor Tongxing memorialized.” The Academia Sinica converter gives 嘉慶18年9月15日 = 8 October 1813.

   Day the memorial was presented.

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10. Jiaqing 18, after the ninth month · 24 October 1813 – 20 January 1814

    Xu Anguo, as Cui Shijun deposed: the White Yang kalpa arrives after the ninth month of Jiaqing 18

    Predicted dateCui Shijun’s deposition: the White Yang kalpa, 1813Tianli (Eight Trigrams)

    Dating basis

    Cui Shijun deposed that in the second month of the year Xu Anguo 口稱今歲九月以後交白洋刼 — “said that after the ninth month of this year the White Yang kalpa would arrive.” The deposition is in the Shandong governor’s memorial entered under Jiaqing 18, ninth month, fifteenth day. The Academia Sinica converter gives the first day of the tenth month of Jiaqing 18 as 24 October 1813 and the first day of Jiaqing 19 as 21 January 1814.

    chinese_calendar_range: the tenth to twelfth months of Jiaqing 18, the rest of “this year” after the ninth month, when Xu Anguo said the White Yang kalpa would arrive

    Stated Jiaqing 18, second month (March 1813). Cui Shijun deposed that Xu Anguo told him in the second month of Jiaqing 18 (3–31 March 1813) that the White Yang kalpa would arrive after the ninth month of that year.

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11. 1814 — surviving published account

    Fairburn publishes the reported Shiloh promise

    Prophecy given or recordedSouthcott’s promised childChristian — Southcottian

    Dating basis

    The scanned inner title page explicitly gives 1814.

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12. 1814 — “This year”

    Southcott: promised birth of a son

    Predicted dateSouthcott’s promised childChristian — Southcottian

    Dating basis

    Fairburn 1814 quotes Third Book of Wonders p 4: “This year, in the 65 th year of thy age”. Target year is contextualized by contemporary 1814 witness and independently catalogued 1814 original. The restoration promise is conditional on receiving the son.

    Reported target year; contemporary quotation

    Stated 1814. Southcott's The Third Book of Wonders, Announcing the Coming of Shiloh, which gives the words on page 4, was printed in London by W. Marchant in 1814.

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13. December 1814 · second edition

    Sealed Prophecies: inspected second edition

    Interpretation recordedRevelation 20: the millennium and final judgmentGeneral Christianity

    Dating basis

    Printed p. 2 colophon identifies the second edition printed in December 1814 from the first edition of March 1803.

    Printed edition month; exact day unavailable

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14. 21–22 September 1823 · reported visits

    Reported setting: the messenger’s visits of September 1823

    Prophecy given or recordedJoseph Smith recounts Moroni’s visitsGeneral Latter-day Saint

    Dating basis

    The history dates the first visit to the evening of 21 September 1823 (verses 27 and 29); the third visit ends as day approaches, and the messenger appears again in the field the next day (verses 47–49). The 1839 Draft 2 manuscript gives the same date. These are dates reported in an account composed in 1838–1839.

    Narrated dates of the reported visits; the account was written later

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15. 1825 · year of writing

    Irving reckons the 1335 days “when I now write,” 1825

    Interpretation recordedDaniel’s vision of resurrectionGeneral Judaism

    Dating basis

    Irving counts “in 43 years from this time (A. D. 1825), when I now write”; the discourse is printed in the Philadelphia extract of 1828.

    The year of writing that Irving names.

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