is the Millennium. Between the Reformation and the Millennium there is no more remarkable revolution , than the Reformation itself the great importance of which is sufficiently perceived from this.
7. 'O Mtyurfk) Michael) The archangel, but still a created angel. Dan. x. 13 ; Jude ver. 9. Nic. Collado, Raph. Eglinus, Jonas Le Buy, Grotius, Cluver, Mede, Dimpelius, and others, recognise a created angel. — roZ •jcoXe/iricaff) that is, rgrav. An elegant expres- sion. Thus Basil of Seleucia says of Abel, oXog roZ ddipov yevofievog, altogether intent upon that which he was offering. Comp. 2 Chron. xxvi. 5, in the Hebrew. The war was occasioned by the <rAawj, with which the whole world was carried away.— /xsrcc) together with , that is, against. So ^sra, ver. 17, ii. 16, xi. 7, xiii. 4, 7, xvii. 14, xix. 19.
and the end [terminus ad quem] not in the gear 1521, that is, at the Reforma- tion, but in the violent suppression of the Bohemian Church, which followed in the year 1617, so that the Reformation itself ver. 14 , finds its place in the middle of times 1, 2, and speaking exactly in the middle of the binary number, which these times represent. That you may not think that a great leap is here made , Reader ! I wish you to remember {aus der Einleitung zur Erkl. Offenb. § 52), that a prophetical day comprises half an ordinary year, with the addition of about 14 days. If you take 14 full days : 1260 days, by this measure will make 678 years, with an addition {which Erkl. Offenb. nearly represents at the passage quoted) ; but if instead of 14 days, you take 8, the sum of 657 years will come forth {which the Gnomon proposes , which is almost equally distant from Erkl. Offenb. c. ix. 15). The method of computation therefore itself introduces a dif- ference of only 21 years {in which matter I would rather give the preference to Erkl. Offenb., the 2d Edition of which is certainly more recent than the Gnomon , than to the Gnomon) : but the places assigned to the beginning and the end re- spectively [termini a quo et ad quem], vary within a space of 96 years ; but this difference makes no variance as far as concerns the chief point of the subject, which comprises most important revolutions, and those brought about gradually. {Respecting a latitude of this kind, comp, den Beschluss der Erkl. Offenb. ii. St. p. 1082, and the next , or die Vorrede zu meiner erklarenden Umschreibung, etc., p. ix.) To this you may refer the conclusion which presents itself in der Erkl. Offenb., Ed. ii., p. 591. Also waren die 677, Jahre zwischen a. 1524 und 1624 ausgeloffen. In dem Raum dieser 100 Jahre ist nichts bedenklicher, als die Reformation , und die mit deren Bestatigung verknupfte betriibte Zerstorung der Bohmisclien Bruder — Gemeine : und also ist bey solcher Revolution das Ziel der 677, Jahre order der 1260, prophetischen Tage zu suchen. Wir lassen einem jeden die Freyheit, das Jahr zu bestimmen : doch priife man, was folgt. a. 1517, nahm diess grosse Werk seinen Anfang. Die Bohmische Bruder — Gemeine, und die Reformation, stunden 100 Jahr nebeneinander, bis auf Jahr 1617. — Von a. 1617, kommt man mit 677 Jahren zwuicke auf das Jahr 940. — und also geben die 1260, Tage den Periodum der bohmischen Ivirche. — E. B.
1 So AB (omitting rov) Syr. But Rec. Text, iizoKk^aot,]) ; Vulg. “pnelia- bantur.” — E.