A 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 and the New Jerusalem is the spiritual people of Christ.
Originally written in the 1780's in German, this was its first translation into English and it is very scarce on the second hand market.
Herder, Johann Gottfried von. A Brief Commentary on the Revelation of Saint John [from the German of]. To which is Prefixed a Short Biographical Account of the Author. London. John Hatchard and Son. 1821. 291pp.
Very handsome small 8vo in original finest quality vellum binding. Small break at head of front hinge, but nothing substantial. An ink correction on the title page, a few pencil marks, and one page with a tear that had been sellotape repaired and has left a brown mark; not rendering illegible.
