Works Hippolytus of Rome (170-235)

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Das Buch über Christus und den Antichrist (BKV)

27. Zeit des Eintretens.

Da Dieses geschehen wird, wenn auch die zehn Zehen der Statue in Demokratien übergegangen und die zehn Hörner des andern Thiers in zehn Königreiche getheilt sind, so S. 32 wollen wir das Vorliegende genauer ansehen und augenscheinlich kennen lernen.

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Treatise on Christ and Antichrist

27.

As these things, then, are in the future, and as the ten toes of the image are equivalent to (so many) democracies, 1 and the ten horns of the fourth beast are distributed over ten kingdoms, let us look at the subject a little more closely, and consider these matters as in the clear light of a personal survey. 2

  1. [Deserving of especial note. Who could have foreseen the universal spirit of democracy in this century save by the light of this prophecy? Comp. 2 Tim. iii. 1-3.] ↩

  2. ophthalmophanos. ↩

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