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Nicholas of Cusa: the Church’s resurrection between 1700 and 1734

Coniectura de novissimis diebus (new translation) · Coniectura de novissimis diebus, Paris 1514 edition, leaf headed “De novissimis diebus. Fo. II.”

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Rainbow Watch, 2026. New AI-assisted English translation made directly from the Latin of the Paris 1514 edition (Internet Archive ARes38417, leaf n162).

New translation of a public-domain text by Rainbow Watch (2026). The original-language witness is published beside it.

This alone I say, without rash judgment, conjecturing as a Christian: that by extending one year of the Lord into a jubilee in the things that CHRIST did, and that were done concerning CHRIST, after his twenty-ninth year until the day of his resurrection from death, anyone will be able to foresee with more likelihood what is to come in the Church; so that in the thirty-fourth jubilee from the resurrection of CHRIST, the Antichrist having been driven out, he may hope by the mercy of God for the victorious and glorious resurrection of the Church. And this will be after the year of the Lord's nativity 1700, before the year 1734. After that time the ascension of the Church is to come, CHRIST the bridegroom arriving for the judgment. But when he will come, no one will know. For that coming will be unknown to all beforehand as to the precise time, just as his coming into the world was unknown to all in the precise time of it.

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