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Apocalypsis A brief and learned commentary upon the revelation of Saint John the apostle…Apocalypsis A briefe and learned commentarie vpon the reuelation of Saint Iohn the apostle…
Apocalypsis A brief and learned commentary upon the revelation of Saint John the apostle and evangelist, applied unto the history of the Catholic and Christian Church. Written in Latin by M. Francis Junius Doctor of Divinity, and professor in the University of Heidelberg: And translated into English for the benefit of those that understand not the Latin.Apocalypsis A briefe and learned commentarie vpon the reuelation of Saint Iohn the apostle and euangelist, applyed vnto the history of the Catholicke and Christian Church. Written in Latine by M. Francis Iunius Doctor of Diuinitie, and professor in the Vniuersitie of Heidelberge: And translated into English for the benefit of those that vnderstand not the Latine.
London: printed by Richard Field for Robert Dexter, 1592
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1 12And I saw at the 2right hand of him that sate upon the throne, 3a book written within, and on the backside, sealed with seven seals.
1 12ANd I saw at the 2right hād of him that sate vpon the throne, 3a booke written within, and on the backside, sealed with seuen seales.
- 1A passage unto the second principal cause, which is the sonne of God, God and man, the mediator of all, as the eternal word of God the Father, manifested in the flesh. This chapter hath two parts: one that prepareth the way unto the Revelation by rehearsal of the occasions that did occur, in the first four verses. Another, the history of the Revelation of Christ, thence unto the end of the chapter.A passage vnto the second principal cause, which is the sonne of God, God and man, the mediatour of all, as the eternall word of God the Father, manifested in the flesh. This chapter hath two parts: one that prepareth the way vnto the Reuelation by rehearsall of the occasions that did occurre, in the first foure verses. Another, the historie of the Reuelatiō of Christ, thence vnto the end of the chapter.
- 2F. IVNIVS.
- 2That is, in the very right hand of God.
- 3Here are showed the occasions for which this principal cause, and his Revelation was also necessary: the same are three: the first a present vision of the book of the counsels of God, concerning the government of this whole world, which book is said to be laid up with the Father as it were in his hand: but shut and unknown unto all creatures, in this verse. The second is a religious desire of the Angels of God, to understand the mysteries of this book, vers. 2. whereof see