BROTHERS, RICHARD

Francis & Robert Bailey

Philadelphia

1795

Brothers, Richard. A Revealed Knowledge of the Prophecies and Times, particularly of the Present Time, the Present War, and the Prophecy Now Fulfilling. Containing, with other great and remarkable things not revealed to any other person on earth, the sudden and perpetual fall of the Turkish, German & Russian Empires…It being a second sign of warning for the benefit of all nations; by the man that will be revealed to the Hebrews as their Prince and Prophet.

Rosenbach 98

RARE APOCALYPTIC WORK Reflective of the upheavals in Europe brought about by the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror (most shocking was the regicide of King Louis the XVIth of France), this apocalyptic work predicts the fall of Catherine, Empress of Russia, the King of Prussia, and the Turkish Sultan — all as predicted in the Book of Daniel. The instrument of the divine wrath will be the French Republic. One notes that among the Chassidic rabbis in Eastern Europe, there were those who pinned Messianic expectations on the conquests of the French Army, by that time commanded by Napoleon Bonaparte, while others regarded French civilization as Satan incarnate. See Martin Buber’s fictionalized account of these internal Chassidic debates, Gog and Magog