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| AAJ | An Answer to the Jews (c. 200), by Tertullian, in The Writings of Quintus Sept Florens Tertullianus, S. Thelwall, trans. (Edinburgh: T. and T. Clark, 1870). |
| ACR | Apologies for the Christian Religion (c. 150), by Justin Martyr, in St. Justin Martyr: the First and Second Apologies, Leslie William Barnard, trans. (New York: Paulist Press, 1997). |
| ADH | A Door of Hope (anonymous 1657 tract), in FMM. |
| AEV | An Eschatology of Victory, by J. Marcellus Kik (Nutley, New Jersey: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Co., 1971). |
| AEX | The Apocalypse Explained, by H. M. Féret, OP, Elizabethe Corathiel, trans. (Fort Collins, Colorado: Roman Catholic Books, 1958). |
| AG | Against Heresies (174), by Irenaeus, in The Writings of Irenaeus, Alexander Roberts and W. H. Rambaut, trans. (Edinburgh: T. and T. Clark, 1874). |
| AGM | Against Marcion (c. 200), by Tertullian, in The Writings of Quintus Sept Florens Tertullianus, S. Thelwall, trans. (Edinburgh: T. and T. Clark, 1870). |
| AIR | Annals of Imperial Rome (109), by Cornelius Tacitus (New York: Penguin Books, 1989). |
| AJ | Antiquities of the Jews (c. 100), by Flavius Josephus, in The Life and Works of Flavius Josephus, William Whiston, trans. (Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson Publishers, Inc., 1987). |
| ANF | The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Fathers Down to A.D. 325, 10 volumes, Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson, eds. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1989). |
| APO | Apologetic (c. 200), Tertullian, in Works of Tertullian, C. Dodgson, trans. (Oxford: J. H. Parker, 1842). |
| ATF | After the Rapture, by Raymond Schafer and P. H. Johnston (Santa Ana, California: Vision House, 1977). |
| AWL | Are We Living in the End Times?, by Tim LaHaye (Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House, 1999). |
| BAP | Biblical Apocalyptics: A Study of the Most Notable Revelations of God, by Milton S. Terry (Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock, 2001). |
| BET | Beyond the End Times, by John Noe (Bradford, Pennsylvania: International Preterist Assoc., 2000). |
| BFB | Born Fundamentalist, Born Again Catholic, by David B. Currie (San Francisco, Ignatius Press, 1996). |
| BJF | Before Jerusalem Fell: Dating the book of Revelation, by Kenneth L. Gentry (Tyler, Texas: Institute for Christian Economics, 1989). |
| BS | Bibliotheca Sacra Journal (Dallas, Texas: Dallas Theological Seminary). |
| CAT | Catecheses, Catechetical Lectures (348), by Cyril of Jerusalem, in The Works of Saint Cyril of Jerusalem, Leo P. McCauley and Anthony A. Stephenson, trans. (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1970). |
| CCC | Catechism of the Catholic Church (Boston: St. Paul Books and Media, 1994). |
| CCE | Contra Celsus (c. 200), by Origen, in Origen Against Celsus, James Bellamy, trans. (London: B. Mills and J. Robinson, 1660). |
| CCO | Catechetical Commentary on the New Testament (1884), by William Hurte, in TBR. |
| CE | Catholic Encyclopedia, 18 volumes (New York: The Encyclopedia Press, 1913). |
| CEC | Celibacy in the Early Church, by Stefan Heid (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2001). |
| CH | Chronologia (397), by Julias Africanus, in NPN. |
| CHR | Chronicle (c. 300), by Eusebius Pamphilius, in ANF. |
| CID | Commentaria in Danielem (408), by Jerome, in Jerome’s Commentary on Daniel, Gleason L. Archer, Jr., trans. (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House 1958). |
| CLH | Clementine Homilia (c. 200), by Titus Flavius Clemens (Clement of Alexandria), in The Apostolic Father, 2 volumes, Kirsopp Lake, trans. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1959). |
| CNT | Commentary on the New Testament from the Talmud and Hebraica (1674), by John Lightfoot (Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson Publishers, Inc., 1989). |
| COA | Commentary on The Apocalypse (270), by Victorinus, in ANF. |
| COG | The City of God (c. 400), by Augustine (New York: Modern Library, 1950). |
| COR | Commentary on Revelation (1884), by Robert Young, in TBR. |
| CSP | Clarendon State Papers (c. 1640), in FMM. |
| CT | Chicago Tribune (daily newspaper). |
| CUM | Cum sicut (1459), by Pope Pius II, in DNZ. |
| DAS | Divino Afflante Spiritu, by Pope Pius XII (Boston: Daughters of St. Paul, 1943). |
| DCF | Dogmatic Constitution on the Catholic Faith, Vatican I, 1870. |
| DHF | Apologia de Fuga (Defense of His Flight; 358), by Athanasius, in NPN. |
| DID | Didache (c. 100), author uncertain, in The Apostolic Father, 2 volumes, Kirsopp Lake, trans. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1959). |
| DJT | Dialogue with the Jew Trypho (c. 150), by Justin Martyr, in ANF. |
| DKP | Daniel, The Key to Prophetic Revelation, by John Walvoord (Chicago: Moody Press, 1989). |
| DM | Decision Magazine (Evangelical Christian periodical). |
| DNZ | Enchiridion Symbolorum: The Sources of Catholic Dogma, Henry Denzinger, ed., Roy J. Deferrari, trans. (St. Louis: Herder Book Co., 1957). |
| DRC | De Resurrectione Carnis, Treatise on the Resurrection, by Quintus Florens Tertullian, Ernest Evans, trans. (London: SPCK, 1960). |
| DRE | Discourse on the Resurrection (c. 150), by Melito of Sardis, in On Pascha and Fragments, Stuart George Hall, trans. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979). |
| DT | Dispensational Truth (Fundamentalist Christian periodical). |
| DV | Dei Verbum, in Vatican Council II: The Conciliar and Post Conciliar Documents, Austin Flannery, OP, ed. (North-port, New York: Costello Publishing Co., Inc., 1992). |
| EH | Ecclesiastical History (325), by Eusebius Pamphilius, Kirsopp Lake, trans. (New York: Harvard University Press, 1980). |
| EOB | Epistle of Barnabas (c. 100), author uncertain, in ANF. |
| EP | Epistle 30 to Paula (c. 400), by Jerome, in The Letters of Saint Jerome, James Duff, trans. (Dublin: Brown and Nolan Limited, 1942). |
| EPA | Epistle of Augustine (c. 400), by Augustine, in GCC. |
| EPI | Epistle 82 to Jerome (405), by Augustine, in The Correspondence (394–419) Between Jerome and Augustine of Hippo, Carolinne White, trans. (Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1990). |
| EPJ | Epistle 121 to Algasiam (c. 400), by Jerome, in The Letters of Saint Jerome, James Duff, trans. (Dublin: Brown and Nolan Limited, 1942). |
| EPP | Epistle to the Philippians (c. 150), by Polycarp, in ANF. |
| EPS | Epistle 21 (c. 400), by Jerome, in Certain Selected Epistles of St. Hierome, Henry Hawkins, ed. (St. Omer: English College Press, 1975). |
| EPT | Epistle 149 to Paulinum (c. 400), by Augustine, in Letters of Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, translator: J. G. Cunningham, ed. (Edinburgh: T. and T. Clark, 1872). |
| ET | Everyman’s Talmud, Abraham Cohen, ed. (New York: Schocken Books, 1995). |
| ETS | Epistula ad Smyrnaeos (Epistle to Smyrna; c. 100), by Ignatius of Antioch, in ANF. |
| ETV | End Time Visions, by Richard Abanes (Nashville: Broadman and Holman Publishers, 1999). |
| FA | First Apology (c. 150), by Justin Martyr, in ANF. |
| FEC | First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians (c. 70), by Clement of Rome, in The Apostolic Father, 2 volumes, Kirsopp Lake, trans. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1959). |
| FEL | The Festal Letters (c. 350), by Athanasius, William Cureton, ed. (London: Society for the Publication of Oriental Texts, 1848). |
| FMM | Fifth Monarchy Men, by B. S. Capp (Totowa, New Jersey: Rowman and Littlefield, 1972). |
| FS | Future Survival, by Chuck Smith (New York: Aperture, 1978). |
| GCC | Golden Chain, by Thomas Aquinas (New York: Mowbray, 1956). |
| GHF | The Gnostic Heresies of the First and Second Centuries, by Henry L. Mansel (London: J. Murray, 1875). |
| GPR | Global Peace and the Rise of the Antichrist, by Dave Hunt (Eugene, Oregon: Harvest House Publishers, 1990). |
| HCC | History of the Christian Church, 8 volumes, by Philip Schaff (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 1950). |
| HE | Heresies, The Panarion of St. Epiphanius of Salamis (375), by Epiphanius, Frank Williams, trans. (New York: E. J. Brill, 1987). |
| HFT | Homilies on First Thessalonians (c. 400), by John Chrysostom, in The Homilies of Saint John Chrysostom on the Epistles of St. Paul the Apostle to the Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians, H. Walford, ed. (London: W. Smith, 1879). |
| HOA | History of the Arians (c. 350), by Athanasius, in Historical Writings of St. Athanasius, William Bright, trans. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1881). |
| HOM | Homily on Matthew (c. 400), by John Chrysostom, in Homilies of Saint John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople, on the Gospel of St. Matthew (London: W. Smith, 1885). |
| IAH | Is The Antichrist at Hand?, by Oswald J. Smith (Toronto: Tabernacle, 1926). |
| INC | Incarnation (c. 350), by Athanasius, in The Incarnation of the Word of God (New York: Macmillan, 1946). |
| ISW | Interpretation of Seventy Weeks of Daniel, by Louis E. Knowles (Chestnut Hill: Westminster Theological Journal, 1948). |
| ITR | Interpretation of the Revelation (c. 450), by Andreas of Cappadocia, in BJF. |
| KJV | Authorized King James Version of the Bible (New York: Oxford University Press, 1945). |
| LAH | L’Apocalypse et L’Histoire (1957), by S. Giet, in NCE. |
| LAP | L’Apocalypse ou les Apocalypses de Saint Jean? (1949), by M. E. Boismard, in NCE. |
| LB | Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth’s Last Days, by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins (Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House, 1996). |
| LGP | The Late Great Planet Earth, by Hal Lindsey (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 1970). |
| LUM | Lumen Gentium, in Vatican Council II: The Conciliar and Post Conciliar Documents, Austin Flannery OP, ed. (Northport, New York: Costello Publishing Co., Inc., 1992). |
| NAB | New American Bible (New York: Catholic Book Publishing Co., 1991). |
| NCE | New Catholic Encyclopedia (New York: McGraw Hill, 1967). |
| NIV | The Holy Bible, New International Version (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Bible Publishers, 1978). |
| NNF | 1994?, by Harold Camping (New York: Vantage Press, 1992). |
| NPN | Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, 14 volumes (New York: The Christian Literature Co., 1890). |
| NTD | The New Testament Documents, Are They Reliable?, by Frederick Fyvie Bruce (Downers Grove, Illinois: Intervarsity Press, 1960). |
| PD | Providentissimus Deus, by Pope Leo XIII (Boston: Daughters of St. Paul, 1893). |
| PDG | Pascendi Dominica Gregis, by Pope Pius X (Boston: Daughters of St. Paul, 1907). |
| PE | Pentecostal Evangel (Christian periodical), 1949. |
| PEN | Pascal’s Pensées (c. 1656), by Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, trans. (New York: Dutton, 1958). |
| PEW | Planet Earth—2000 A.D.: Will Mankind Survive?, by Hal Lindsey (Torrance, California: Western Front Ltd., 1994). |
| POD | “Preterism and the Orthodox Doctrine of Christ’s Parousia: a Constructive Critique of M. R. King,” by Richard A. White (Trinity Evangelical Divinity School Thesis, 1988). |
| POG | The Proof of the Gospel (c. 300), by Eusebius Pamphilius, W. J. Ferrar, trans. (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1920). |
| PSB | Prophecy Study Bible, John Hagee, ed. (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishing, 1997). |
| REV | Revelation, by John Peter Lange, in Lange’s Commentary on the Holy Scriptures, 24 volumes (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House, 1960). |
| RKC | Revelation: Kingdoms in Conflict, by Gene Fadeley (Waxhaw, North Carolina: Anchor Publishing, 1995). |
| RLP | Will Russia Invade Palestine? Russia in the Light of Prophecy, by Dan Gilbert (Los Angeles: Jewish Hope Publishing House, 1944). |
| RSV | Revised Standard Version of the Bible, Catholic Edition (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1966). |
| SEC | Second Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians (c. 70), by Clement of Rome, in The Apostolic Father, 2 volumes, Kirsopp Lake, trans. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1959). |
| SH | Sacred History (c. 400), by Sulpicius Severus, in The Western Fathers (New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1965). |
| SLB | Shattering the Left Behind Delusion, by John Noe (Bradford, Pennsylvania: International Preterist Assoc., 2000). |
| SME | Sancta Mater Ecclesia, The Historicity of the Gospels (Boston: Pauline Book and Media, 1964). |
| SO | The Sibylline Oracles of Egyptian Judaism (c. 100), author unknown, John Joseph Collins, trans. (Missoula, Montana: Society of Biblical Literature for the Pseudepigrapha Group, 1974). |
| SOC | “The Signs of His Coming: An Examination of the Olivet Discourse,” by David J. Palm (Trinity Evangelical Divinity School Thesis, 1993). |
| SPA | Spiritus Paraclitus, by Pope Benedict XV (Boston: Daughters of St. Paul, 1920). |
| SRB | The New Scofield Reference Bible, C. I. Scofield, ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1967). |
| SSA | Sermons, by St. Augustine, in The Later Christian Fathers: A Selection from the Writings of the Fathers from St. Cyril of Jerusalem to St. Leo the Great (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1970). |
| STO | Stromata (c. 200), by Titus Flavius Clemens, in Stromateis, Clement of Alexandria, John Ferguson, trans. (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1991). |
| SUM | Summa Theologiae: A Concise Translation (c. 1250), by Thomas Aquinas, Timothy McDermott, ed. (Westminster, Maryland: Christians Classics, 1989). |
| TAP | The Apocalypse, by André Feuillet, Thomas E. Crane, trans. (Staten Island, New York: Alba House, 1964). |
| TBC | The Bible Code, by Michael Drosnin (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997). |
| TBR | The Book of Revelation, by Foy E. Wallace (Fort Smith, Arkansas: Wallace Jr. Publications, 1997). |
| TCA | Treatise on Christ and Antichrist (c. 200), by Hippolytus of Rome, in Treatise on Antichrist (Willits, California: Eastern Orthodox Books, 1979). |
| TDY | The Day and Year of Christ’s Birth and Crucifixion, by Robert L. Thomas and Stanley N. Gundry (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, n.d.). |
| TED | The Epitome of the Divine Institutes (310), by Lucius Caecilius Firmianius Lactantius, in The Divine Institutes, Sister M. F. McDonald, trans. (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1964). |
| TEL | The Essential C. S. Lewis, Lyle W. Dorsett, ed. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996). |
| TEM | The Everlasting Man, by G. K. Chesterton (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1993). |
| THI | The Annals (109), Bks. 1–6, by Cornelius Tacitus, W. F. Allen, trans. (Boston: Ginn and Co., 1890). |
| TKB | The King’s Business Magazine (Fundamentalist Christian periodical), 1938. |
| TMK | The Millennial Kingdom, by John F. Walvoord (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 1983). |
| TPR | De Principiis (c. 300), by Origen, in On First Principles: Being Koetschau’s Text of the de Principiis, G. W. Butterworth, trans. (Gloucester, Massachusetts: Peter Smith Publisher, Inc., 1985). |
| TRB | The Rise of Babylon: Sign of the End Times, by Charles Dyer (Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House, 1991). |
| TRQ | The Rapture Question, by John Walvoord (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 1957). |
| TSS | The Search for Salvation, by David Wells (Downers Grove, Illinois: Intervarsity Press, 1978). |
| TSV | The Shepherd: First Book of Visions, by Hermas, in The Apostolic Fathers, 6 volumes, Robert A. Kraft, ed. (New York: Thomas Nelson, 1964). |
| TTC | Things to Come, by J. Dwight Pentecost (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 1965). |
| TW | The Way, by Josemaria Escriva (New York: Scepter, 1992). |
| TWE | The Weekly Evangel (Evangelical Christian periodical). |
| UBH | Unger’s Bible Handbook, by Merrill F. Unger (Chicago: Moody Press, 1967). |
| USN | U.S. News and World Report (weekly news periodical). |
| WD | Webster’s Dictionary, David B. Guralnik, ed. (Cleveland: World Publishing Co., 1979). |
| WIN | Why I Am Not a Christian, and Other Essays on Religion, by Bertrand Russell (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1977). |
| WJ | Wars of the Jews (c. 100), by Flavius Josephus, in The Life and Works of Flavius Josephus, William Whiston, trans. (Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson, n.d.). |
| WQT | The Writings of Quintus Sept Florens Tertullianus, S. Thelwall, trans. (Edinburgh: T. and T. Clark, 1870). |
| WRI | The Collected Writings of J. N. Darby, William Kelly, ed. (London: G. Morrish, 1867). |
| XGM | Exercitations upon the Gospel of St. Matthew, Commentary on the New Testament, Matthew—1 Corinthians (1658), by John Lightfoot (Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson Publishers, Inc., 1995). |
| ZPE | Zondervan Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Bible, Merrill C. Tenney, ed. (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 1975). |