 | David F. Noble - 1995 - 186 strani
...viewed his own endeavours, which he called "the enterprise of Jerusalem," as the fulfilment of prophecy. "God made me the messenger of the new heaven and the new earth," Columbus wrote, "of which he spoke in the Apocalypse of St. John (Book of Revelation) after... | |
 | Ulrich van der Heyden, Heike Liebau - 1996 - 480 strani
...a divine plan for his life and for the soon coming end of the world."17 Columbus is quoted to have said, "God made me the messenger of the new heaven...the new earth of which he spoke in the Apocalypse of St John (Rev. 21.1) after having spoke of it through the mouth of Isaiah; and showed me the spot... | |
 | Reginald Stackhouse - 1997 - 148 strani
...to be expected that mankind will see two thousand years after the birth of Christ. —MARTIN LUTHER God made me the messenger of the New Heaven and the New Earth. —CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS We may be the generation that sees Armageddon. —RONALD REAGAN The... | |
 | James Berger - 1999 - 328 strani
...European settlement of America had an apocalyptic sensibility from its inception. Columbus himself wrote, "God made me the messenger of the new heaven and the new earth of which he spoke in the Apocalypse of St. John . . . and he showed me the spot where to find it" (in Boyer, 225). Later, the English inhabitants... | |
 | Deirdre David - 2001 - 292 strani
...sun sets, is powerfully revivified in myths of the American continent. Christopher Columbus wrote, "God made me the messenger of the new heaven and the new earth of which he spoke in the Apocalypse"; Harriet Beecher Stowe found in Cotton Mather's Magnolia her conviction of "the glorious future of the... | |
 | Werner Reinhart - 2001 - 704 strani
...nach seiner dritten Erkundungsexpedition zur Neuen Welt in einem seiner Briefe proklamiert: „God had made me the messenger of the new heaven and the new earth of which he spoke in the Apocalypse of St. John [...] and he showed me the spot where to find it."80 Doch spätestens im zweiten Viertel... | |
 | Jamie S. Scott, Paul Simpson-Housley - 2001 - 526 strani
...represents, animates, constitutes the otherwise silent and 7 Columbus writes, in a letter of 1 500: "God made me the messenger of the New Heaven and the New Earth of which he spoke through St John in the Apocalypsis, after having spoken of it through Isaiah; and He showed me to that... | |
 | Dominic Pettman - 2002 - 224 strani
...coming to an end. nation's violent inception was explained by Christopher Columbus in millennial terms: "God made me the messenger of the new heaven and the new earth of which he spoke in the Apocalypse of St. John after having spoken of it through the mouth of Isaiah; and he showed me the spot where... | |
 | Mark L. Prophet, Elizabeth Clare Prophet - 2003 - 565 strani
...had been inspired in part by this visionary statement. Columbus believed that God had made him to be "the messenger of the new heaven and the new earth of which He spake in the Apocalypse of St. John, after having spoken of it by the mouth of Isaiah."428 "In the... | |
 | Melvin Jonah Lasky - 752 strani
...This oniy dramatized Columbus's own millennial inspiration. "God made me the messenger," he wrote, "of the new heaven and the new earth, of which He spoke in the Apocalypse by St. John, after having spoke of it by the mouth of Isaiah; and He showed me the spot where to find... | |
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God made me the messenger of the new heaven and the new earth, of which he spoke in the Apocalypse of St. John, after having spoken of it by the mouth of Isaiah, and he showed me the spot where to find it. 
