Prophetic text
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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Edition and location
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