“15 Proposition. The 42. moneths, a thousand two hundred and three score propheticall daies, three greate daies and a halfe, and a time, times, and a halfe a time mentioned in Daniel, & in the Revelation, are all one date.”

—  John Napier

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

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