An influential work, playing a role in the development of dispensational, adventist, and premillennial writings. The author contends that Daniel was "a sealed book up until the time of the end." Combining historicist readings by Archbishop Ussher and others, he maps these existing chronologies, with adjustments, onto a dispensational framework.
A member of the Brethren, he had already obtained some literary notoriety through his works on non-resistance during the Civil War. He obtained a significant Adventist / Millerite following after the release of the present work. It seems one Great Disappointment, wait, two Great Disappointments, just weren't enough. Here he attempts to demonstrate why Christ's Second Coming will happen on September 27, 1868. The Fifth Enlarged Edition, as here, was the final articulation before the day passed . . . uneventfully.
Superb full page engraving of Daniel's "Great Image" tied to the Babylonian, Roman, etc., empires, climaxing with the events of the Civil War, etc., It does seem that the maxim that all eschatology is local remains true, without exception.
For its immense popularity, it is scarce in the trade; not at auction since the 1920's and none on the market at the time of cataloguing.
Thurman, William C[arr]. Our Bible Chronology Established. The Sealed Book of Daniel Opened; Or, a Book of Reference for those who Wish to Examine the "Sure Word of Prophecy." Fifth Edition, Revised and Enlarged. For Sale at the Office of the "World's Crisis," Boston, MA. 1867.
Textually, very crisp and clean. Original brown blindstamped cloth with some light chipping at extremities. A diagonal 3/4 inch chip at head of spine. One page with more substantial toning from an early loosely inserted clipping.
