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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

Ellicott commentary contributors; individual Matthew author not established in this inspection

Connects recurring historical judgments with the final coming and considers why the apparent nearness of that coming has not been realized.

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Plumptre: the sign is the Son of Man himself · commentary →

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Bible Hub English transcription of Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers; exact print edition requires collation.

Matthew 24:27-29

Elpis Israel

John Thomas

John Thomas’s 1849 exposition of the kingdom of God and the time of the end, published in London. It dates the end of Daniel’s 1335 days to about 1865.

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John Thomas: the 1335 end about 1865, then forty years · commentary →

John Thomas revises Elpis Israel in 1867: 2400 for 2300, about 1868, and the kingdom after forty years · commentary →

John Thomas revises Elpis Israel in 1867: 2400 for 2300, about 1868, and the kingdom after forty years · commentary →

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John Thomas, Elpis Israel; a Book for the Times: Being an Exposition of the Kingdom of God, with Reference to “the Time of the End” and “the Age to Come” (London: published by the author, 1849), p. 373, one paragraph from “From this diagram it will be seen” through “absorbs everything.” Internet Archive scan of the 1849 first edition, page image inspected (leaf 391); the diagram above the paragraph (labels quoted in the timeline basis) was read from the image. Line-end hyphenation joined; italics rendered plain; whitespace normalized.

p. 373

Enlightenment on the Spirit-Altar: Eschatology and Restoration of Morality at the King Kwan Shrine in Fin de siècle Seoul

Jihyun Kim

Studies spirit-written promises of rescue at a cosmic transition and moral renewal in late Chosŏn Korea.

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The Thearch of Literature warns of catastrophe →

Kalpa and the work of spirit-writing · commentary →

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Religions 11 (2020), 273; DOI 10.3390/rel11060273; publisher reprint in Religious Conflict and Coexistence.

Sections 5.1–5.2 and 7; collected PDF pages 129–131 and 139–140

Epistle to Yemen (Iggeret Teiman)

Moses Maimonides

Rejects precise messianic dates and astrology while transmitting a family calculation for restoration of prophecy; also describes wonders as messianic evidence, a tension with Mishneh Torah requiring contextual analysis.

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Maimonides’ tradition of prophecy returning in 4970 →

The letter’s warning before its discussion of dates · commentary →

Failed forecasts and the expected approach of redemption · commentary →

Calculating redemption and trusting the stars · commentary →

How Maimonides tests the Yemeni claimant · commentary →

The claimant’s powers and the danger to the community · commentary →

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Boaz Cohen English translation, American Academy for Jewish Research 1952; Abraham S. Halkin edition/introduction; Wikisource transcription

Sections xii–xiii and xv–xviii, especially date computation and claimant criteria

Evidences for the Coming of the Lord in 1873

Nelson H. Barbour

Nelson H. Barbour’s 1871 Second Adventist tract, published at Rochester, New York. It reads the parable of the ten virgins and the prophetic periods of Daniel as pointing to Christ’s coming in 1873.

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Barbour’s 1873 expectation →

Barbour’s table: “The 1335 days reach to 1873” · commentary →

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Nelson H. Barbour, Evidences for the Coming of the Lord in 1873: or the Midnight Cry, second edition (Rochester, N.Y.: published by Nelson H. Barbour, 1871), from “An Exposition of the Parable of the Ten Virgins,” printed pp. 20–21, four consecutive paragraphs from “This is self- apparent” through “this present generation.” Witness: a modern retyped transcription that keeps the 1871 page numbers, hosted by the Internet Archive (PDF pages 14–15, page images inspected). Wording, spelling, straight quotation marks and the transcription’s spaced hyphens (“self- apparent,” “faith- not,” “sin- cursed”) are kept as the transcription gives them; italics rendered plain; page markers and ornamental rules removed; whitespace normalized. No omissions within the unit.

Printed pp. 20–21

Excerpt from Joseph Smith’s Journal, 19 May 1838 [D&C 116]

Joseph Smith, attributed source of the naming; George W. Robinson and James Mulholland, journal keepers

An entry in Joseph Smith’s 1838 journal, under 19 May, records that Spring Hill in Daviess County, Missouri, was named Adam-ondi-Ahman as the place where Adam would come to visit his people. The sentence is now Doctrine and Covenants 116.

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D&C 116: Adam-ondi-Ahman, where the Ancient of Days shall sit →

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Joseph Smith Papers featured historical witness: JS, Journal, Mar.–Sept. 1838, pp. 43–44. Source note and historical introduction consulted 30 September 2026. Catalogue identity for the revelation; the selected reader text is the later official English scripture witness (edition-lds-dc-116-english).

JS, Journal, Mar.–Sept. 1838, pp. 43–44

Fairburn’s Genuine Edition of the Life of Joanna Southcott

John Fairburn, publisher; author unnamed

Reports Tozer’s August 1814 expectation of a mid-October birth and peace without labor or war. Reprints Southcott’s conditional warnings to bishops and September denial of seal sales and extravagant gifts.

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Southcott’s promised child →

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IAPSOP scanned historical print

Title; PDF pp. 26–29, 36–43, printed pp. 21–24, 31–38

Fatima homily, 13 May 2010

Benedict XVI

Benedict XVI says Fatima’s prophetic mission remains open and prays that the seven years to its centenary hasten the triumph of Mary’s heart. The passage expresses a prayer.

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Benedict XVI on Fatima’s continuing mission · commentary →

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Official English HTML publication; text inspected using web tool

Closing prophetic-mission paragraph

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Official Vatican English web text

Closing discussion of Fatima's prophetic mission

For I Will Lead You Along

Neal A. Maxwell

Warns against premature expectation from selective signs and against complacency. Distinguishes multigenerational developments from rapid scourges, and explicitly says some but not all signs suggest nearness. His Jewish-return fulfillment assertion remains attributed interpretation.

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Maxwell sees some signs still ahead · commentary →

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Official Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints online conference text

Opening prophecy caution through fig-tree analogy; conclusion

Forty Prophetic Wonders Predicted in Daniel and Revelation

Michael M. Baxter; 1918 Christian Herald edition

A 1918 American edition of Michael Baxter’s prophetic calendar, published by the Christian Herald after his death. Its calendar dates the end of the age to 2 May 1929 or 9 April 1931.

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The 1918 publishers: Baxter averaged other writers’ dates · commentary →

The 1918 publishers: Baxter averaged other writers’ dates · commentary →

The 1918 calendar: Armageddon on 2 May 1929 or 9 April 1931 · commentary →

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Michael M. Baxter (“the late Rev.”), Forty Prophetic Wonders Predicted in Daniel and Revelation, “our second edition” (Cleveland, Ohio: Union Gospel Printing Co.; copyright 1918, The Christian Herald, New York). Internet Archive scan fortypropheticwo0000mich (The Master’s College Library), page images inspected: Preface, pp. 3–4, the paragraph “Regarding the Calendar of prophetic dates” through “compilation of the Calendar.”; Prophetic Calendar, p. 8, the Thirty-Sixth through Fortieth Wonders. Small-capital headings rendered in title case; line-end hyphenation joined; whitespace normalized.

Preface pp. 3–4; Prophetic Calendar p. 8

Fragments on the rise of the papacy and Revelation

Isaac Newton

An unpublished manuscript fragment interpreting Daniel and Revelation. Newton calculates 2060 from a proposed 800 CE starting point, allows a later ending, and rejects claims to know the exact end.

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Newton’s conditional 2060 calculation · commentary →

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Isaac Newton, YahudaMs7.3g, f13v, complete calculation beginning “So then the time times” through its closing qualification. Newton Project normalized electronic edition, transcription Shannon Higgins, checked Niki Black, code checked Robert Ralley. Normalized edition incorporates additions and expands abbreviations.

YahudaMs7.3g,f13v

Future Wonders of Prophecy

Michael Baxter

Michael Baxter’s prophetic calendar in its eighth edition of 1894, published by the Christian Herald in London and New York. Its title page dates the ascension of 144,000 living Christians to about 12 March 1903 and the Second Advent to 23 April 1908; a postscript of 1897 allows a covenant week ending in 1911.

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Baxter’s dates for 1903 and 1908 →

Baxter’s preface and 1897 postscript: the covenant week may instead run to 1911 · commentary →

Baxter’s preface and 1897 postscript: the covenant week may instead run to 1911 · commentary →

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Rev. M. Baxter, editor of “The Christian Herald,” Future Wonders of Prophecy … eighth edition in 1894, “one hundredth thousand” (London: Christian Herald Office, 20 Tudor Street, and Bible House, New York). This copy includes a postscript dated 1897, so it is a printing of 1897 or later. Internet Archive scan futurewondersof00theouoft (University of Toronto, Robarts Library), page images inspected: title page (leaf 4), complete title block from “Future Wonders of Prophecy” through “for 1000 years.”; Preface to the Eighth Edition, dated March 1894, and its “Postscript in 1897,” complete (leaf 8). Title page set in capitals and small capitals, rendered here in title case following the large capitals; the misprint “Ppophecies” is kept; spaces before semicolons closed; broken type read as “without” and “with”; whitespace normalized.

Title page; preface and 1897 postscript

Genesis

Narrator unnamed in this chapter; traditional Mosaic attribution not asserted as established authorship

The opening book of the Torah narrates creation and the lives of Israel’s ancestors. Its garden narrative includes the words about enmity between the serpent and the woman’s offspring.

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Genesis 45: Joseph makes himself known to his brothers →

Genesis 3: the woman and the serpent →

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American Standard Version 1901, eBible electronic witness

Genesis 3:1–24

General Christianity

Gnomon of the New Testament

Johann Albrecht Bengel · William Fletcher translation

Bengel’s New Testament commentary gives a connected chronology of Revelation. The displayed historical translation preserves the predicted years and his qualification of their certainty.

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Bengel’s timetable: 1810, 1832 and 1836 · commentary →

Bengel’s timetable: 1810, 1832 and 1836 · commentary →

Bengel’s timetable: 1810, 1832 and 1836 · commentary →

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Bible Hub English translation with separately signed editorial notes; translator and print impression unspecified on inspected page.

Matthew 24:27–30, especially four observations on verse 29

Gospel according to Luke

Traditionally attributed to Luke

Luke 21 describes Jerusalem surrounded by armies, distress among nations, and the coming of the Son of man. Its warnings about Jerusalem and its instructions to remain alert can be read alongside Matthew and Mark.

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Luke 12: be ready for the returning master →

Jesus’ discourse on the Mount of Olives →

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eBible American Standard Version (1901), electronic HTML; index/copyright reports generated 8 August 2026 from source files of that date

Luke 21:5-7; Luke 21:8-19; Luke 21:20-24; Luke 21:25-28; Luke 21:29-36