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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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14 9¶ And I looked, and behold 10a white cloud; and upon the cloud sate one like unto a man, 11having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a 12sharp sickle.
14 9¶ And I looked, and behold 10a white cloud; and vpon the cloud sate one like vnto a man, 11hauing on his head a golden crowne, and in his hand a 12sharpe sickle.
- 9The second part of this Chapter, as I said verse 1. Of the acts & doings of Christ in overthrowing of Antichrist and his Church, by the spirit of his divine mouth: seeing that having been called back by word both publicly and privately unto his duty, and admonished of his most certain ruin: he yet ceaseth not to maintain and protect his own adherents that they may do him service: and to afflict the godly with most barbarous persecutions. Of those things which Christ doth, there are two kinds; one common or general, in the rest of this Chapter; another particular, against that savage and rebellious beast, and his worshippers, in the 15. and 16. Chapters. That common kind, is the calamity of wars, spread abroad through the whole earth, & filling all things with blood, & that without respect of any person. This is figured or shadowed out in two types, of the harvest and vintage. Since the time that the light of the Gospel began to shine out; and since prophecie or preaching by the grace of God was raised up again, how horrible wars have been kindled in the world? how much humane flesh hath been thrown to the earth, by this divine reaping? how much blood (alas for woe) hath over flown for these three hundred years almost? all histories do cry out, and this our age (if ever before) is now in horror, by reason of the rage of that sickle which Antichrist calleth for. In this place is the first type, that is, of the harvest.