INTRODUCTION: From the Author to the Reader

Throughout the ages godly men have seriously sought to understand and to interpret the prophecies recorded in God’s Holy Word. They have sought to know where they were in the unfolding of the divine plan of the ages—and what was coming hereafter in God’s scheme of things. An earnest endeavor has here been made to trace this quest of man back through the centuries by systematically gathering and analyzing the essential records of all leading expositors of Bible prophecy from apostolic days down to the twentieth century; yes, beginning, in fact, with Jewish expositors prior to the Christian Era.PFF1 9.1