Interesting…
“F. Roy Coad, the Brethren historian, claims to trace John Nelson Darby’s views back to the works of a Jesuit, Francesco Ribera of the sixteenth century, whose writings were later popularized in the nineteenth century by another Spanish Jesuit, Manuel Lacunza.”Stephen Sizer
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“In order to remove the papacy of the Catholic Church from consideration as the Antichrist (as an act of countering the Protestant Reformation), Francisco Ribera began writing a lengthy (500 page) commentary in 1585 on the Book of Revelation … proposing that the first few chapters of Revelation apply to ancient pagan Rome, and the rest he limited to a yet future period of 3½ literal years, immediately prior to the second coming.” Wikipedia
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