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Apocalypsis (V)

V. APOCALYPSIS or Revelation of Cerinthus. This Arch-heretick composed certain Revelations, which he pretended to have had1, wherein he spoke of an earthly kingdom, and particular sensual pleasures which the Saints should enjoy for a thousand years at Jerusalem. It has been already observed in another place, that some of the ancients believed Cerinthus to be the author even of S. John’s Revelations perhaps for no other reason, but because of the ill use which this Heretick made of the Apostle’s words, the better to authorize his visions.

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  1. Theodoret. l. ii. hæretic. Fab. c. 3. ↩

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