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Guinness points out that the 'Futurist view', like the other Catholic interpretation, has some elements that are clearly evident in the writings of the early Church Fathers. However, he adds: (175:4) In its present form... it [the futurist view] may be said to have originated at the end of the sixteenth century, with the Jesuit Ribera, who, moved like Alcazar, to relieve the Papacy from the terrible stigma cast upon it by the Protestant interpretation, tried to do so, by referring these prophecies to the distant future, instead of like Alcazar to the distant past. (Ibid. 95)
(175:5)
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