Earliest use of 2300 years for the Advent

koot van wyk (DLitt et Phil; ThD)

Kyungpook National University

Sangju Campus

South Korea

Conjoint lecturer of Avondale College

Australia

6 June 2011

2300 years doctrine in 1204/5 in De Semine

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2300

Terminus                                                                                                         terminus

Ad                                                                                                                        ante

quem                                                                                                                    quem

735 BCE                                                                                                                  1565

Finding of Rome

(Modern books are giving the date 753 BCE)

END OF THE WORLD

(Source: Sabine Schmolinsky, Der Apokalypsenkommentar des Alexander Minorita [Hannover: Hahnische Buchhandlung, 1991], 13).

The document is discussed in the following works:

E. Randolph Daniel, "Roger Bacon and the 'De seminibus scriptuarum'" Medieval Studies 34 (1972): 462-467.

Johannes Fried, "Die Bamberger Domschule und die Rezeption von Frühscholastik und Rechtwissenschaft in ihrem Umkreis bis zum Ende der Stauferzeit, in: Schulen und Studium im sozialen Wandel des hohen und späten Mittelalters" editor J. Fried, Vorträge und Forschungen 30 (1986): 163-201.

Beatrice Hirsch, "Zur 'Noticia saeculi' und zum 'Pavo'. Mit einem Exkurs über die Verbreitung des pseudojoachimitischen Büchleins 'De semine scripturarum' MIÖG 38 (1920): 571-610.

Hirsch-Reich, "Alexanders von Roes Stellung zu den Prophetien. Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Traktates 'De semine scripturarem' in der 'Noticia seculi' MIÖG 67 (1959): 306-316.

Implications for Seventh-day Adventist doctrines

1. The end-time is said to begin at the end of 2300 years.

2. William Miller and people like the Daniel commentator Hengstenberg were not the first people to suggest that the Coming of the Lord will be after 2300 years.

3. Regardless whether they were right or wrong in their initial identifications, that a great event was to happen in that year is no doubt.

4. The important aspect of these calculations is that they are based on two different sets of apriori rules. A non-bibilical century allocation to each letter of the Latin alphabet system and a biblical system that is using the year-day principle.

5. There is no one-from-one relationship of borrowing here between De Semine and William Miller.

6. It is one of the major contributions to Christian exegesis in modern times that Adventists brought with their theology of the continuing functions of atonement, but one absolute sacrifice at the cross doctrine, which is going unnoticed by Modern day Protetstants and Christianity at large. Except of course the millions that are converted to Adventism, who utilize the book of Hebrews in the New Testament now fully and not just partially or not at all. Quietism on the book of Hebrews is a known fact among commentators of Protestant commentaries.