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The Announcement of the Coming of the Antichrist and the Medieval Concept of Time

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2016

Adriaan H. Bredero
Adriaan H. Bredero*
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Free University, Amsterdam
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Part I: The Apocalypse
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Studies in Church History Subsidia , Volume 10: Prophecy and Eschatology , 1994 , pp. 3 - 13
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Copyright © Ecclesiastical History Society 1994 

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3 Augustine, De cathechizandis rudibus, xxii. 39 (CChr, SL, xlvi. 163–4); Gregory the Great, Homillis in Evangelia, i. 1–2 (PL, lxxvi. 1154–5). Gregory applied the allegory of the six days to the parable of the master who hired workers for his vineyard in Matt. 20. 1–7, making the six hours of the day during which the workers were taken into service correspond with the six periods of time symbolizing the six days of the Creation.

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