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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
10 Also they had tails like unto Scorpions; and there were stings in their tails; and their power was to hurt men five months.
10 Also they had tayles like vnto Scorpions; and there were stings in their tayles; and their power was to hurt men fiue monethes.
11 8Now they had a King set over them, which ⟨p. 31⟩is the Angel of the bottomless pit; whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek is called Apollyon, that is, the destroyer.
11 8Now they had a King set ouer them, which ⟨p. 31⟩is the Angell of the bottomlesse pit; whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greeke is called Apollyon, that is, the destroyer.
- 8The order of the powers of maliciousness: that they are subject unto one infernal king, whom thou mayest call in English the destroyer: who driveth the whole world both Jews and Gentiles into the destruction that belongeth unto him self. And I cannot tell whether this name have respect unto the Etvmologicall interpretation of Hildebrand, by a figure often used in Scripture: which albeit it may otherwise be turned of the Germans (as the sense of compound words is commonly ambiguous) yet in very deed it signifieth as much as if thou shouldest call him the firebrand, that is, he that setteth on fire those that be faithful unto him.The order of the powers of maliciousnesse: that they are subiect vnto one infernall king, whom thou mayest call in English the destroyer: who driueth the whole world both Iewes and Gentiles into the destruction that belongeth vnto him selfe. And I cannot tell whether this name haue respect vnto the Etvmologicall interpretation of Hildebrand, by a figure often vsed in Scripture: which albeit it may otherwise be turned of the Germaines (as the sence of cōpound wordes is commonly ambiguous) yet in very deede it signifieth as much as if thou shouldest call him the firebrand, that is, he that setteth on fire those that be faithfull vnto him.