Commentary
A Supplement to A Dissertation on the Seals and Trumpets of the Apocalypse
William Cuninghame
William Cuninghame of Lainshaw’s Supplement to his Dissertation on the Seals and Trumpets, its preface signed on 26 December 1837 and its title page dated 1838. It reckons the end of Daniel’s 1335 years in 1867, “little more than 29 years and two months” from the time of writing.
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William Cuninghame, A Supplement to A Dissertation on the Seals and Trumpets of the Apocalypse, and the Prophetical Period of Twelve Hundred and Sixty Years (London: Thomas Cadell; Hatchard & Son, and James Nisbet & Co., 1838), preface signed “Lainshaw, 26th December, 1837”: p. 16, the sentence “The 1260 years are computed by me” through “the 1335 years in 1867.”; and the note to p. 75 continued on p. 76, from “My dates of the terminations” through “the great day of Armageddon.” Bound after the third edition of the Dissertation (London, 1832) in Internet Archive item adissertationon01cunigoog (Tappan Presbyterian Association copy, digitized by Google), BookReader leaves 5 (title page of the Dissertation, 1832), 591 (title page of the Supplement), 608 (end of the preface), 626 (p. 16), 685 (p. 75) and 686 (p. 76). Transcribed from the page images. Small capitals rendered in capitals (“B. C.”); line-end hyphenation joined; whitespace normalized; […] marks the omission.
Pp. 16, 75–76