Free Bible Commentaries by Thomas Brightman

Re A Commentary on the Canticles 1644. Brightman was a writer of high renown among the prophetic students of the seventeenth century. With singular strength of the visionary faculties he sees in the Canticles "the whole condition of the church from the time of David, till time shall be no more." Expounding on this theory needs an acrobatic imagination. Re A most comfortable Exposition of the last and most difficult part of the Prophecie of Daniel, from the 26th verse of the 11th Chapter to the end of the 12th Chapter 1644. This exposition and the author's commentary on Canticles are appended to his work on Revelation, and do not appear to have been published separately. In his title-page Brightman is called a bright and worthy man, and in the preface we are told that "he shined every way and was a Brightman indeed." His work is rather a curiosity than a treasure. Re Davidson distinguishes a fourfold manner of apprehending Apocalyptic Prophecy. 2. Continuists. The Apocalyptic prophecies are predictive of progressive history, being partly fulfilled, partly unfulfilled. Thus Mede, Brightman, Isaac Newton, Woodhouse, Cunningham, Birks, Elliott (and many Germans). Re The Revelation of St. John. 1644. 1611. Brightman's admirers called him "the English Prophet," and this work they styled the "Apocalypse of the Apocalypse;" but it survives only as a noteworthy monument of the failure of the most learned to expound the mysteries of this book. Elliott says "his Commentary is one of great vigor both in thought and language, and deservedly one of the most popular with the Protestant Churches of the time."

Revelation, 1607, Thomas Brightman, Open Library OL16096535W, 1 editions
The Revelation of Saint Iohn