11/08/2012

November 8: Martin and Milton

On November 8, 397, Martin of Tours died. He had claimed the Antichrist was alive on Earth, and would begin his premillennial reign sometime prior to 400 CE.
And in 1674, John Milton died. With his contemporaries George Fox (author of the anti-Catholic "Book of Martyrs"), John Bunyan ("Pilgrim's Progress"), and Isaac Newton, Milton suspected the Pope was the Antichrist.