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in English with some Latin
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.
For confirming what has been said, it may not be amiss to give a short
explication of the seven Epistles.
Vpon the opening of the fift seale, the affairs of the Church begin to be considered
as was said above, & the Church is represented by a Woman appearing in
toe
admonished by seven Epistles sent to the seven Churches chby them are illuminating them that ch& dress that
they may illuminate it the better
saith, I have something against thee because thou hast left thy first love Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen & the first works or else I will come unto thee quickly & And this reproof
When Eusebius had brought down his Ecclesiastical history to the r
Cyrill bishop of Antioch
quantam gloriam simul ac libertatem doctrina – – – – in religionem nostram
affecti erant benevolentiam.
bilem hominum quotidie ad fidem Christi confugentium trubam, quis numerum
– – – – – – – – – quasi tyrannidem quandam contentissima sibi vindicantes;
tunc demum juxta dictum Hieremiæ obscuravit dominus in ira sua filiam
Sion & dejecit de cœlo gloriam Israel.
the first of the seven Epistles . Church of Ephesus . I have something against thee , saith Christ to the Angel of the
The persecution of Dioclesian began in the year of Christ 302 & lasted two
ten years in the eastern Empire & two years in the western. And to this the
state of the Church the second Epistle, that to the Church of
agrees. I know, saith Christ, thy works & tribulation & poverty, ( but thou art rich, ) & I know the blasphemy of them ( the Nicolaitans ) who say they are Iews & are not but are the synagogue of Satan. Fear none of those things w The tribulation of ten days can agree to no other persecution then
These Id Nicolaitans are complained of in t
as men that held the doctrine of Balaam who taught Balac to cast a stum
bling block to
to commit spiritual fornication. For Balaam taugh
tempt Israel f
25 & 31. They are complained of also in the fourth Epistle under the
the synagogue of Satan in the second & sixt Epistles , ch
to fly into the wilderness.
And in the sixt Epistle, that to the Church of Philadelphia Christ
saith, Because thou hast kept the word of my patience [ in the reign of Iulian the Apos I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation w
The reign of Constantine the great from the time of his victory over L
Then the Empire became divided between the sons of Constantine reigning
at Rome & for And then it was united under Constantius by his
victory over Magnentius. And to the affairs of the Church in these three of
Thyatira, & Sardis seem to relate. After the reign of Iulian & his succes
sor Iovian who reigned but five months, the e
between Valentinian & Valens. And then the Church in the Epistle to the
Angel of the Church in Laodicea is reprehended as luke-warm, & threat
ned to be spewed out of Christs mouth. She said that she was rich and
increased in goods & had need of nothing ( in outward appearance ) & knew
not that she was ( inwardly ) misrably
& for her luke-warmness deserved to be spewed out of Christs mouth.
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not much amiss. If he had observed that the prophesy of pouring out the
Vialls of wrath is synchronal to that of sounding the Trumpets, his Commentary It remains that we expect
with patientch
hitherto put into his own breast. The first four plagues are repre
sented T l The warrs sacrificech
The sacrifices of ischch
out, are represented by the four winds to the four corners of e
first was an east wind, the second a west wind, the third a south wind,
the for
The first plague fell upon the Earth & signifies the invasion of
Empire & Pannoniaibetween the dea presently after the death of Theodosius.
The second plague fell commenced A.C. 406 & fell upon the sea or Western Empire & principallyTinvasion inrode
of the Visigoths, Vandals, Alans, Sueves, Ostrogoths, Burgundians by ch6
western Empire was broken into ten kingdoms , It commenced A.C. 406.
The third was the invasion of Afric by the Vandals & Alans A.C 428.
And by this war Afric was taken from the Romns
a second time & Italy much wasted . The fourth dwindled away & ceased in Augustulus . The fourth whom the Vandals had called into Italy, succeeding him.
The fourth began with the invasion of Italy by the Ostrogoths A.C.
492.
The third fell upon the
Empire now divided into many kingdoms, & commenced with the invasion of Afric
by the Vandals A.C. 428. And by this war Afric was taken from the Van
The fourth fell upon the Sun Moon & Stars, that is upon the Western Emperor
& the remainder of his dominions, &
Heruli sei invaded Italy & seized the dominions of Augustulus the last of the
western Emperors , &
Theoderic made upon Heruli the Heruli & ch
upon the Ostrogoths, & chthe Italy when
they invaded it. And in all these wars Italy was miserably wasted & Rome
twice taken.
The fift Trumpet soundschaccording to
time of the end in pushing at the king who had done according to his will & magnified
himself above every God, & worshipped Mahuzzims.
And the sixt sounded to the warrs chthe ( according to Danielin coming
the same king who did
whirlwind & overflowing it
The time was
that of the third 48 2& years &
according to this progress that of the sixt may last above 800 or 1000 years
bech
put in his own Breast. Daniel calls the reign of the kings of the kings of the
South & North the time of the end, & tells us that at the time of the end
many shall run to & fro & knowledge shall be encreased & that none of the
wicked shall understand but the wise shall understand. B
in Iohn by the two Witnesses prophesying 1260 years in saccloth, & then ascend
ing up to heaven in a cloud the ever
lasting Gospel to those
mark. And w
three of the ten kings, then & times & laws were given into his ten hands
then the two Witnesses began to prophesy in sackcloth put on sackcloth.
They prophesy in sackcloth 1260 years, then are are slain by the Beast, rise
again, & upon the double fall of Babylon prophesy the her flesh & the fall of the tenth part of e& became a great multitude as is represented by their ascending up to heaven in a cloud
or great multitude &And
battel of the great day to ch
with Palm-branches in their hands, & the kingdoms of this world become the king
doms of God & Christ, & many that s new Ierusalem descends out of heaven, & many
that sleep in the dust awake, some to everlasting life & some to everlasting shame
& contempt. But when these things shall come to pass we are not before
The prophesy was given not to enable Christians to predict things, but to establish
the religion chse predictions
At the sounding of the fift Trumpet an Angel
( Manhomet by Apostacy, ) & the star opened the bottomless pit ( to let out a fals religion ) &
there arose a smoke out of the pit as the smok of a furnace ( a great number of disci
ples ) & there came out of the smoke locusts ( a military power like ) locusts ( for
multitude ) And chch
forehead, but not to kill them &
like weomen ( the Arabians wearing their hair long behind ) & the sound of their wings
was as the sound of Chariots of many horses running to the battel. And they had a
a king over them, the Calif reigning first at Damascus & then at Bagdad. And they
had tailes like unto Scorpions ( armies of foot ) & stings in their tailes. And the fift Angel
poured out of the seat of the B out his Vial upon the seat of the Beast & his kingdom was
full of darkness & they gnawed their tongues for pain. The Saracens invaded Syria
& Afric & made frequent attempts upon Euro the Italy & France. Locusts live
about five months & in allusion thereunto it that twice that they should torment men
five months. They reigned began their reign at Damascus A.C. 6
The fift & sixt Trumpets sounded to the warrs ch
Daniel made upon the king who did according to his will, & magnified himself above every
God.
Rut. l. 21. After Latine Empires write. In the latter end of Nero's reign when the Roma
began the siege of Ierusalem, the Iew Christian Iews seeing Ierusalem compassed with arm
fled from Iudea & Peter & Iohn many of the even Christian conver
ted Iews. And
Peter went on to Corinth & thence to Rome where he wrote his two Epistles
& was soon after crucified, but Iohn staying in Asia was banished to Patmos by the Romans
as being the head of a party of Iews with whom they were at war. And copies there
Iohn wrote his Apocalyps. As the old Prophets had their several styles so had Iohn had his
proper style. At his first coming from Iudæa where he had been used to the Hebrew
language hisbut & this is the style of the Apocalyps,
But when he had conversed longer with the Greeks in Asia he wrote his Gospel with fewer hebrisms
& intermixt Apocalyptic figures, such as were his calling Christ the Word of God, & in putting
light & darkness for good & evil knowledge & ignorance& the light of the world
& the Lamb of God, & the light of
the world, & putting light & darkness for good & evil, knowledge & ignorance. And this way
of speaking makes the style of the Apocalyps his Gospel more lofty then that of other Evangelists.
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When copies of the Apocalyps were sent to the Churches, Paul wrote his Epistle
to the chtIn the beginning of this Prophesy
Christ is represented in the habit of the High Priest dictating Epistles to the seven Chu
Angels of the Churches. Andtp
the vision of Christ tth chapter he saith the Apostle calls this High Priest the w Word of God more quick & powerfull then a two edged sword
The two Epistles of Peter have also much relation to the Apocalyps.