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Eschatology: Understanding the end of days

By F. F. Bruce

Eschatology, from the Greek eschatos meaning “last,” is traditionally the doctrine or study of the “last things.” The “last things” for an individual are death, resurrection, judgment and the afterlife; in a wider sense, however, they comprise the end of the world and all that goes with that concept.

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Footnotes

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B.C.E. and C.E. are the scholarly, religiously neutral designations corresponding to B.C. and A.D. They stand for “Before the common Era” and “Common Era.”

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If this prophecy could be reinterpreted in this way to refer to later events, phrases like “in the latter days” would be reinterpreted to refer to the “end of days.”