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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
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Subject: Re: 25 Classic Books That Have Been Banned
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2025 08:37:56 -0400 (EDT)
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The Horny Goat  <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
>On Sun, 20 Jul 2025 08:27:09 -0700, Paul S Person
><psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
>
>>One of the commentaries (a modernist one, IIRC) actually asserted
>>that, when the Seven Churches read the book, they believed the results
>>of the various seals, trumpets, and bowls were something God Himself
>>was sending them right then. Most commentators, of course, believe
>>these are more generally applicable.
>>
>>He never did get around to explaining what they thought the New
>>Jerusalem represented.=20
>
>Any idea which commentator said that? Because I've never heard any
>such claim of the book of Revelation was intended to come about
>immediately.

Turn on your radio and tune to the bottom of the dial anywhere in the South
and you can find two or three preachers telling you that we are all living
in the End Times and that they can see it by the Signs.  Right here, right now!
--scott

-- 
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."