1881 240 Dear Mr. Editor,
In a Bible printed in the year A.D. 1599 I find the following annotation to 2 Thessalonians 4:15-18. It occurs to me that it might prove interesting if given to your readers, and perhaps you might give quotations from still earlier writers, affording ground to suppose, or rather proof, that the truth of our Lord's coming for His living saints was not altogether lost sight of by Bible students.
I am, yours affectionately, S. P.
"The manner of the resurrection shall be thus: the bodies of the dead shall be as it were raised out of sleep, at the sound of the trumpet of God; Christ Himself shall descend from heaven. The saints (for he speaketh properly of them) which shall then be found alive, together with the dead which shall rise, shall be taken up into the clouds to meete the Lord, and shall be in perpetuall glory with Him. He speaketh of these things, as though he should be one of them whom the Lord shall finde alive at His comming; because that time is uncertaine, and therefore every one of us ought to be in such a readinesse, as if the Lord were comming at every moment."