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most interesting response. At 05:45 AM 3/31/00 -0800, you wrote: >[log in to unmask] wrote: >My impression also, though I would much prefer to deal with the text in >the original language and possibly a little context? Anyway, though it >occasioned a goodly display of erudition by some esteemed members of the >list, millenarism does not appear in the passage you cited, as it >stands. correct. nor did i say the passage was millenarian. it's apocalyptic. matthew thinks the end of the world is about to happen in this year and sets down his pen. rlandes Richard Landes Center for Millennial Studies at Boston University Department of History 704 Commonwealth Ave. Suite 205 226 Bay State Road Boston MA 02215 Boston MA 02215 617-358-0226 of 358-0225 fax 617-353-2558 of 353-2556 fax http://www.mille.org [log in to unmask] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%