![]() Reformation Of The Ministry And Of The Church.Chronological Notice Of The Reformation.Discovery Of Antichrist The Usurper, A.D. The Epoch Of Antichrist’s Triumph, A.D.The Unrepentant State of Western Christendom. The Faithful Distinguished Amidst Increasing Apostasy, A.D. Dissolution Of The Pagan Firmament - Constantine Establishes Christianity.Last Pagan Persecution Of The Church, Diocletian.Oppression Of The Empire, Military And Civil, And By God’s Four Sore Judgments.Prosperity and Triumph of the Roman Empire in the Era Next Following After the Visions in Patmos, Nerve to Commodus.Recommendatory Notice By The Author Of The “Horae Apocalypticae.”. ![]() Level of Difficulty: Primer: No subject matter knowledge needed. those lessons in Church History, as well as in Prophecy, contained in the larger four volume Horae Apocalypticae.” - Edward Bishop Elliott “The history of the Christian Church, nowadays more especially, must be considered an essential in education. Begun in 1837, it ran for five editions between 18.” His Horae Apocalypticae is the greatest historicist exposition of the Apocalypse ever written. He was of the Evangelical school… A first rate scholar, he was deeply interested in bible prophecy and devoted his lifetime to its study. This book provides a wealth of historical evidence, including some 10,000 references and footnotes, and many engravings of coins and medallions.Edward Bishop Elliott (1793-1875) “graduated from Cambridge in 1816 and he served in various positions as a minister for the Church of England. The visions of the beasts are interpreted as the various aspects of Rome, pagan and papal, and the vision of the “little book” as the era of the Reformation and re-publication of the Bible. The following is a brief summary of the historic interpretation of the seals given in this book:ġst Seal – Roman Empire triumphant, 5 good emperors 2nd Seal – Civil war, military domination 3rd Seal – Oppressive taxation, depression 4th Seal – War, famine, pestilence, wild beasts 5th Seal – Persecution under Diocletion 6th Seal – Fall of paganism (Constantine) 7th Seal – Comprises the 7 Trumpetsġst Trumpet – Goths (Alaric) 2nd Trumpet – Vandals (Genseric) 3rd Trumpet – Huns (Attila) 4th Trumpet – Heruli (Odoacer), fall of the Western Empire 5th Trumpet – Saracens and the rise of Islam 6th Trumpet – Turks, fall of the Eastern Empire 7th Trumpet – Comprises the 7 Vialsġst Vial – French (or European) Revolution 2nd Vial – Maritime wars (Nelson, Hood, etc.) 3rd Vial – French Revolutionary wars 4th Vial – Wars of Napoleon, fall of thrones 5th Vial – Papacy loses lands and temporal power 6th Vial – Drying up of the Turkish Empire 7th Vial – Final European wars (in 1862 still future) It contains many useful appendices including a full history of the various interpreters and interpretations of the Revelation from early church times to Elliott’s own day. The Horæ Apocalypticæ was called into existence by futurist attacks on the historicist interpretation of prophecy. Like Gibbon’s ‘History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,’ to which it frequently refers, it stands alone in its sphere, as a monumental work of surpassing value.”Īlbert Barnes, who wrote a very good commentary on the book of Revelation around the same time, follows Elliott very closely (though Barnes’ views on the millennium in our view need caution he was not a premillennialist-most of Albert Barnes’ commentary can be obtained with the free E-Sword Bible program). Grattan Guinness considered it “the most important and valuable commentary on the Apocalypse which has ever been written” and writes, “Elliott’s Commentary was practically the work of the lifetime of one of the most learned and laborious expositors of modern times. ![]() Horæ Apocalypticæ is considered the “standard” historicist work on the book of Revelation, and the interpretation is generally followed by many subsequent authors down to our own day. ![]() It is an exposition of the book of Revelation and related prophecies in Daniel and the other prophets. The title means Hours with the Apocalypse. The work comprises four volumes and the book provided here is the fifth and last edition before Elliott’s death in 1871. Horæ Apocalypticæ was first published in 1844.
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