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SL245, described in the Sotheby catalogue as c. 300,000 words on 975 pp., was bought at the Sotheby sale by Gabriel Wells for £48 and sold to Yahuda on 1 Aug. 1936 for the sale price plus 15%. On 24 May 1949, Yahuda wrote to the London dealer Heinrich Eisemann, 'As to lot 245 the new arrangement and replacement of the pages resulted in 1,530 pages instead of 975 pages as many pages had to be taken out from other lots. But for this manuscript I have a customer who wants to pay a much higher price than $3,800 suggested by you.' If this was true, the prospective buyer's desire to part with his or her cash presumably waned. There must subsequently have been further reordering of the manuscript as the present Yahuda Ms. 7 amounts to nowhere near 1,530 pp.
Rough drafts of some of the chapters
of the work on the Prophecies
Paper A
Drawer 15
N. 4
Part of the Prophecy
Examined by
Sir D. Brewster
May 1837
sleep in the dust shall
For the better understanding of all this you are to remem
ber that the scene of the visions in the first Temple d fr
This Temple was opened in heaven for Iohn to see the visions
in it, & there he saw the Ark of the Testament & the child-bearing
woman & the Dragon standing by her & how her child was caught
up to e
of the people ch
& sea & how the Woman fled from this Temple through the
wilderness of Arabia towards the great city Babylon & left
a remnant of her seed with the Dragon in this Temple. There the second Beast
deifyd the first & caused men to erect an Image to him & to wor
ship the Image
Image made war upon the remnant of the womans seed & mysti
cally killed all that would not worship the Image, & there all
men received the mark or name or number of the Beast except
the 144000 who th
in the outward court of this Temple & standing upon mount Sion
with the Land singing a new song in the most of
the Elders & by consequence in the inner court of the same Temple. Thus the primitive Church catholick represented by the glorious – & all this in
represented by
visions ch
peared in the
Temple.
woman in heaven was by degrees diminished
number of 144000 chch
of the Empire)
Beast receiving the Dragon's throne &where
Iohn saw him upon with the Woman upon his back,
session thereof
& two horned Beast remain alone in the outward court of this
Temple. while& the 144000 hence forward
thereof other ten hornedupon his back
glorious woman in number being soe
court of this Temple & before ee
horned Beast. & all this is represented by visions while the ch
Templee to reign e
in the Wilderness.
the four horsemen ch
been well explained by Mr Mead excepting that------& reigning over the
whole Roman Empire.
About one half of the Roman Empire turned Christians in the reign of Constan
tine the great & his sons. After Iulian had opened the Temples & restored the worship
of the heathens, the Emperors Valentinian & Valens tollerated it all their reign
& therefore the prophesy of the sixt seal was not fully accomplished before the
----- So long the four winds were held, & so long there was silence
in heaven. And the seventh seal was opened when this silence began.
The affairs of the Church are not considered during the opening of the first four
seals. They begin to be considered at the opening of the fift seale, as was said above & arte fur &
opening of the seventh seale, & therefore were written to the Angels of the churches in
the times of the fift & sixt seales.
When Eusebius had brought down the ecclesiastical history to the times reign of
Dioclesian, he thus describes the state of the Church.
hominum quotidie ad fidem Christi confugientium turbam, quis numerum ecclesiarum
in singulis urbibus, quis illustres populorum concursus in singulis urbibus adibus sacris
cumulate possit describere? Quo factum est ut ------
that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, ch
the Continentes above described, who placed religion in abstinence from marriage
& abandoned their wives if they had any. These are here called Nicolaitans from Ni
colas one of the seven Deacons of the primitive church of Ierusalem, who having a
beautiful wife & being taxed with uxoriousness abandoned her & permitted her
to marry whom she pleased, saying that we must disuse the flesh; & thenceforward lived a single life in continency; & so did his children. But the Continents after
wards embraced the doctrine of Æons & Ghosts male & female, & were avoyded
by the churches till the fourth century: & the Church of Ephesus is here com
mended for hating their deeds.
The persecution of Dioclesian began in the year of Christ 302 & lasted
ten years---------She is therefore spewed out of Christs mouth
at the opening of the seventh seal. And this puts an end to the times of the first
Temple.
About one half of the Roman Empire turned Christians in the reign of
Constantine the great & his sons. After Iulian had opened the temples & restored
the worship of the heathens, the emperors Valentinian & Valens tolerated it all their
reign; & therefore the prophesy of the sixt
----So long the four winds were held, & so long there was silence in heaven. And
the seventh seal was opened when this silence began, A.C. 379 or 380.
This silence ended when the Angel which offered the incense took the censer &
filled it with fire of the altar & cast it unto the earth without the temple for sacrific
ing the Goat ch
quake. the trumpets & musick of the temple sounding thrice ats the sacrifice. This Goat
was
testimony of Iesus in the war ch
sealed 144000, & the rest received the mark of the Beast. This was in the reign
of Theodosius the great. And now the seven Angels w
The wars to ch
corners of the earth. The first was an east wind, the second a west wind, the third a south wind &
the fourth a north wind with respect to the city Rome, the metropolis of the old Roman Empire.
These four warrs fell upon the third part of the earth, sea, rivers, Sun Moon & stars that
is, upon the earth, sea, rivers, Sun Moon & stars of the third part of the whole scene of these
prophesies of Daniel & Iohn.
The war of the eastern wind at the sounding of the first trumpet fell upon the
earth ---------
The war of the northern wind at the sounding of the fourth trumpet, caused the sun
moon & stars, (that is, the Emperor Empire & princes of the Latines) to be darkened ---
----- subordinate to Ravenna the seat of the Exarchs
And I beheld & heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven saying with a loud voice, Wo, wo, wo to the inhabitants of the earth & by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels
And the fift Angel sounded to the wars made by Daniels king of the south
And the sixt to the wars made by Daniels king of the north. And
And the seventh Angel sounded to the battel of the great day of God Almighty & there were great voices in heaven saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of The righteous
And the sixt angel sounded to the wards made by Daniels king of the north. And the Beast that ascendeth out of the abyss hates the Whore & slays the two witnesses & they revive
And after these things the seventh angel sounded & there were great voices in heaven saying, The kingdomes of this world &c.
The heathen persecutions did not were not fully at an end before the
victory of Constantine the great over Licinius. And that victory put an end to the
division of the & A.C. 323 & united
the whole under Constantine the great A.C. 323. And this union lasted till the
deaths of Constantine A.C. 336 And to the time of this union agrees the third
epistle, that to the Angel of the Church of