Before Jerusalem Fell

Tb Looming Jmish War 255
With frets such as these before us, how can we doubt what interpretation
ought to be put upon the times thus designated in these respective
passages? 70
There are those who view the Neronic persecution as lasting but a few
months in A.D. 64 – 65. The later deaths of Peter and Paul and the
evil role of Nero in early Christian literature, however, militate
against such a delimitation. A number of scholars have held to the
persecution as lasting until Nero’s death.71
Conclusion
It is most remarkable that not only in Revelation do we find large
patterns of evidences befitting the A.D. 60s era, but also even many
smaller details. It surely is no accidental similarity that allows us to
p. 56; John Rutherford, “Persecution,“ in ISBE 42325; von Mosheim, History of Chtitiani~
1:142.
70. Stuart, Apoca~pse 2:469.
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Henry Cowan, Landnurrks of Church History to the ReJn-m.ation, 2nd ed. (Philadelphia:
Westminster, 1904), p. 6.
Franz Xavier Funk, A Manual of Church HistoU, trans. Luigi Cappadelta, 5th ed. (St.
Louis: B. Herder, 1904) 1:40.
Justo L. Gonzalez, The Story of ChristianiQ, vol. 1: lhr~ Church to the Dawn of the
Reformation (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1984), p. 36.
Samuel G. Green, A Handbook of Church Histoy from the Apostokc Era to the Dawn #tlu
Reformation (London: Religious Tract Society, 1904), p. 64.
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Presad Time, ed. Martin Ruter (Cincinnati: Roff and Young, 1832), p. 28.
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