Commentary
An Essay on the Revelation of Saint John
William Whiston
William Whiston’s commentary on Revelation. The 1706 edition dates the commencement of Christ’s kingdom to 1716; the 1744 second edition acknowledges that failure and proposes 1764 and 1766.
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Edition and location
William Whiston, An Essay on the Revelation of Saint John, so far as concerns the Past and Present Times (Cambridge: University Press, for B. Tooke, MDCCVI [1706]), Part I, Proposition XIII heading (p. 81) and its Corollary (p. 82) (Internet Archive bub_gb_2vI2AAAAMAAJ, Google scan, leaves n86–n87); the proof between them omitted and marked […]. The OCR layer misreads the corollary’s date as 1715; the page image reads “A. D. 1716.” Long s (ſ) rendered s; ligatures expanded; roman and italic type not distinguished; line-end hyphenation joined; spacing normalized (one space after punctuation, paragraph breaks as blank lines); running heads, catchwords, signatures, marginal notes and reference asterisks omitted; spelling, capitalization, u/v and i/j usage and punctuation otherwise as printed; omissions inside the selection marked […]. Transcribed from the Internet Archive page images and checked against the item's OCR text layer.
1706: Part I, Proposition XIII; 1744: pp. 327–328