“So ends this demonstratiue resolution of all difficulties of the Revelation, first of all dates and times, and last of the principall termes and matters, as to the meaner termes and smaller matters, they are interpreted in the notes of the principall treatise.”

—  John Napier

A Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of St. John (1593), The First and Introductory Treatise

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