The Influence of Prophecy
, pp.
–
. Viegas knew Joachim fairly well, citing Joachim, or Pseudo-Joachim, some thirty-eight times
by my count.
. Ibid., pp.
–
. Vegas’s fifteen pages on ch.
constitute less than
per cent of the
whole commentary (contrast this with the
pp. he devotes to ch.
). Most of his comment
mirrors that of Ribeira, but Viegas attacks his fellow Jesuit’s view of the
,
-year reign of
the saints, claiming that it refers
more prophetico
to the whole eternal reign of the saints in
heaven, not to the time they spend in heaven awaiting the coming judgment (see pp.
–
).
. Ibid., pp.
–
, where the comments are quite close to those of Ribeira.
. Ibid., p.
: ‘Non est autem verisimile, tam brevi quadraginta quinque dierum spatio,
post mortem Antichristi, homines usque adeo deposituros tantae persecutionis memoriam, ut
in ea vivant securitate, otio, ac deliciis, quae ante diluvium praecessisse memorantur.’ Here
Viegas is drawing on the tradition that cited Matthew
:
as evidence that those who will
live before the Last Judgment will live like people in the time before the flood – i.e. in pleasure,
and without mindfulness of the coming time of destruction.
. See Reeves,
The Influence of Prophecy
, pp.
–
.
. Benito Pereyra,
Disputationes super libro Apocalypsis
, as found in his
Opera Theologica
(Cologne,
), vol.
, pp.
–
.
. On Alcasar, see Armogathe, ‘Interpretations of the Revelation of John:
–
’,
pp.
–
; and Reeves
, The Influence of Prophecy
, pp.
–
.
. Quoted from Reeves,
The Influence of Prophecy
, p.
(Alcasar’s work is not currently
available to me).
. I will cite Cornelius a Lapide,
Commentaria in Acta Apostolorum, Epistulas Canonicas et
Apocalypsin
(Antwerp,
). On this Jesuit exegete, see Silver de Smet, ‘Lapide (Cornelius a
Lapide)’,
Dictionnaire de spiritualité
, Vol.
, pp.
–
. The best study of Lapide’s Apocalypse
commentary is Roberto Osculati, ‘
Hic Romae
: Cornelio a Lapide commentatore dell’
Apocalisse
al Collegio Romano’, in Rusconi (ed.),
Storia e figure dell’Apocalisse fra ’
e ’
, pp.
–
;
see also Armogathe, ‘Interpretations of the Revelation of John’, pp.
–
,
.
. In the ‘Quaestiones proemiales’ (ed., pp.
–
), Lapide discusses four different ways to
approach the
materia
of the apocalypse, with his longest consideration being devoted to Alcasar
(pp.
b–
b). His essentially negative comments on his fellow Jesuit can be summarized in three
phrases: (
) ‘Verum in hac explicatione multa difficultatem habent’; (
) ‘quod ex prophetia
faciat historiam’; and (
) ‘Verum haec, licet ingeniosa sint, tamen solidae expositioni non
satisfaciunt’.
. For his praise of these expositors, see Lapide,
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