Commentary
Babylon and Infidelity Foredoomed of God
Edward Irving
Edward Irving’s discourse on the prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse, written in 1825 and printed in this Philadelphia extract of 1828. It ends the 1260 years in 1792 and places the commencement of the blessed reign of Christ 75 years later, “in 43 years from this time (A. D. 1825).”
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Edition and location
Edward Irving, Babylon and Infidelity Foredoomed of God: A Discourse on the Prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse, which Relate to These Latter Times (Philadelphia: published at the Church Missionary House, 1828; “stereotyped by L. Johnson”), pp. 81–82: from “That these two numbers reckon” through “to behold his glorious coming!)”. The preface calls the book pages “extracted from a larger work, in two volumes.” Internet Archive item babylonandinfid00irvigoog (University of Michigan copy, digitized by Google), BookReader leaves 6 (title page), 86 and 87. Transcribed from the page images. Small capitals (“blessed”) rendered in lower case; line-end hyphenation joined; whitespace normalized.
pp. 81–82