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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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9 7I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty (but thou art rich) and the blasphemy of them, which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the Synagogue of Satan.
9 7I know thy workes, and tribulation, and pouertie (but thou art rich) and the blasphemy of them, which say they are Iewes, and are not, but are the Synagogue of Satan.
- 7The proposition of praise is in this verse; and of exhortation joined with promise, is in the next verse.The proposition of praise is in this verse; and of exhortation ioyned with promise, is in the next verse.
10 Fear none of those things, which thou shalt suffer: behold, it shall come to pass, that the devil shall cast some of you into prison that ye may be tried; and ye shall have 8tribulation for ten days: be thou faithful unto the death, and I will give thee the crown of life.
10 Feare none of those things, which thou shalt suffer: behold, it shall come to passe, that the diuell shall cast some of you into prison that ye may be tried; and ye shall haue 8tribulation for ten dayes: be thou faithfull vnto the death, and I will giue thee the crowne of life.
- 8That is, often years. For so commonly both in this book and in Daniel, years are signified by the name of days; that God thereby might declare, that the space of time is appointed by him, and the same very short. Now because S. John wrote this book in the end of Domitian the Emperor his reign, as Justinus and Irenaeus do witness, it is altogether necessary that this should be referred unto that persecution which was done by the authority of the Emperor Trajan: who began to make havoc of the Christian Church in the tenth year of his reign, as the historiographers do write; and his bloody persecution continued until Adrian the Emperor had succeeded in his place. The space of which time is precisely teny ears which are here mentioned.