The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2
X. Lucius and Comenius on the 1260 Years
JOHANN ANDREAS Lucius (1625-1686), Spener’s predecessor at Dresden, devoted many years to prophetic research, citing many able commentators. He prepared 231 sermons and issued them in a ponderous work On the Apocalyps. Contending the 1260 days to be prophetic days, or years, he began them with Boniface III, in 606. 77 He interpreted the fourth beast of Daniel 7 as well as that of Revelation 13 as the Roman Antichrist, or the kingdom of the pope and his sovereignty, with the mark of the Beast the confession of the Roman religion. 78 But he likewise held to the Augustinian view of the resurrection, and the millennium as beginning with the days of Constantine. PFF2 616.3
JOHANN AMOS COMENIUS (1592-1670), well-known Slavic minister, philologist, and educational reformer, as well as bishop of the Moravian Brethren, issued anonymously in 1664 Die geöfinete Offenbarung (The Opened Revelation), in which he placed the 1260 years from 395 to 1655, and ended the prophetic periods there. In 1655 he published Licht in Finsternis (Light in Darkness) at Amsterdam. PFF2 617.1