1821 JOHN GOTTFRIED HERDER. Commentary on the Book of Revelation. Very Scarce. Bible The Original Edition

The Original Edition

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1821 JOHN GOTTFRIED HERDER. Commentary on the Book of Revelation. Very Scarce. Bible The Original EditionA very scarce work indeed by German philosopher and theologian, Johann Gottfried [von] Herder [1744 1803]. His work takes the view that many of the Gospel prophecies were fulfilled at the destruction of Jerusalem between 66 and 70 AD. While this idea is not particularly innovative, what he does with it is. He then takes that to take what I would call an even more innovative position by reading Revelation through that lens, so that Babylon is Jerusalem