A commentary on the Revelation of St. John, the Divine

The book of Revelation supplied endless ammunition to preachers of doom, so Whittemore met it head-on with a full commentary. Following the preterist line of interpretation, he reads the Apocalypse as prophecy long since fulfilled — in the fall of Jerusalem, the persecutions of the early church, and the collapse of pagan Rome — rather than as a preview of endless torment to come. A characteristic piece of Universalist exegesis: sober verse-by-verse work deployed to disarm the most terrifying book in the Bible.

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