Sir Isaac Newton

PART I

Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel.

Chapter 1  Introduction concerning the Compilers of the Books of the Old Testament

Chapter 2 Of the Prophetic Language.

Chapter 3 Of the vision of the Image composed of four Metals.

Chapter 4 Of the vision of the four Beasts.

Chapter 5 Of the Kingdoms represented by the feet of the Image composed of iron and clay.

Chapter 6 Of the ten Kingdoms represented by the ten horns of the fourth Beast.

Chapter 7 Of the eleventh horn of Daniel’s fourth Beast.

Chapter 8  Of the power of the eleventh horn of Daniel’s fourth Beast, to change times and laws.

Chapter 9  Of the Kingdoms represented in Daniel by the Ram and He-Goat.

Chapter 10  Of the Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks.

Chapter 11  Of the Times of the Birth and Passion of Christ.

Chapter 12  Of the Prophecy of the Scripture of Truth.

Chapter 13  Of the King who did according to his will, and magnified himself above every God, and honoured Mahuzzims, and regarded not the desire of women.

Chapter 14  Of the Mahuzzims, honoured by the King who doth according to his will. PART 2
Observations upon the Apocalypse of St. John.

Part II

Chapter 1 Introduction, concerning the time when the Apocalypse was written

Chapter 2  Of the relation which the Apocalypse of John hath to the Book of the Law of Moses, and to the worship of God in the Temple.

Chapter 3 Of the relation which the Prophecy of John hath to those of Daniel; and of the Subject of the Prophecy.

OBSERVATIONS ON DANIEL

AND THE APOCALYPSE OF ST. JOHN

by Isaac Newton

Woolsthorpe Manor, Newton' Birthplace

Newton was the greatest mind of his day.  It is said that after study of the stars, the Bible was his greatest passion.  Little wonder England rose to world prominence when its greatest minds turn to things Eternal. 

Unfortunately, Newton was caught up in the errors of his day and the great contests with the Roman Papacy.  His commentary takes a "continuous historical" approach to Daniel; he erroneously applies Daniel to the break up of the Roman Empire, middle ages, and the rise of the Papacy, the latter of which is seen as the Antichrist.  Few serious scholars credit this approach today.  The loose approximations in Daniel's imagery hat superficially look like the Roman Papacy cannot be sustained against serious scrutiny. 

Even so, Newton's work is important for its historic value as a testimony to men's attempt to apply the prophecies of Daniel to their own times, far beyond the period so plainly assigned by the Lord, which placed the fall of Jerusalem as the terminus of the prophecies (Dan. 12:7).