Sir Isaac Newton’s Prisca Sapientia
" Newton was a judaic monotheist of the school of Maimonides " - John Maynard Keynes
Described by the British economist John Maynard Keynes as a “ Judaic monotheist of the school of Maimonides” the 17th century British Renaissance man, natural philosopher par excellence and hold-over from the Arian tradition, Sir Isaac Newton combined his philosophical and metaphysical investigations of the natural world with his in-depth studies of the Holy texts of the Bible in his quest to understand the very structure of the cosmos and to recover the fabled “Prisca Sapientia”(An ancient wisdom that was thought to have been revealed directly to Adam, Noah and Moses by God).
A Royal Society member and often regarded as the icon of the age of reason, Newton’s works, such as the Principia Mathematica and The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms, are seen as classics. Like many polymaths of his time such as Christopher Wren and Athanasius Kircher, he did not specialise in just one field but became skilled in multiple disciplines, in order to deduce the dynamics of reality, the nature of God and the fundamental structure of space and time, into one all-encompassing system and synthesis of unified theory, incorporating both the micro-cosmic and the macro-cosmic, a unity of truth for human understanding to digest. Indeed the scope of Newton’s natural philosophy and scientific experimentation covered a vast range of phenomena that included both the scientific and the Metaphysical, from alchemical research, astronomy, chronology, Biblical prophecy and the nature of time and space to name a few. Such was the greatness of his intellect!
But for Newton, a devout Christian, the driving force behind all his research and speculation was to find how the fingerprint of God could be observed in the hidden order of the world and find order and design from what appeared to others to be chaos. In his certain conviction that the universe was created and held in place by a supernatural, omnipotent and personal God, who’s hand influenced all things, Newton developed a much more brilliant and profound natural philosophy to plot the sphere of God's creation, with all it’s phenomena as a whole, quite different to the pure mechanical description that has often been attributed to him. His massive collection of unpublished manuscripts, which remained hidden for more then a century and a half, many of which were bequeathed to the Jewish National Library in Jerusalem and are a treasure trove of the English genius’s esoteric writings,
A Royal Society member and often regarded as the icon of the age of reason, Newton’s works, such as the Principia Mathematica and The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms, are seen as classics. Like many polymaths of his time such as Christopher Wren and Athanasius Kircher, he did not specialise in just one field but became skilled in multiple disciplines, in order to deduce the dynamics of reality, the nature of God and the fundamental structure of space and time, into one all-encompassing system and synthesis of unified theory, incorporating both the micro-cosmic and the macro-cosmic, a unity of truth for human understanding to digest. Indeed the scope of Newton’s natural philosophy and scientific experimentation covered a vast range of phenomena that included both the scientific and the Metaphysical, from alchemical research, astronomy, chronology, Biblical prophecy and the nature of time and space to name a few. Such was the greatness of his intellect!
But for Newton, a devout Christian, the driving force behind all his research and speculation was to find how the fingerprint of God could be observed in the hidden order of the world and find order and design from what appeared to others to be chaos. In his certain conviction that the universe was created and held in place by a supernatural, omnipotent and personal God, who’s hand influenced all things, Newton developed a much more brilliant and profound natural philosophy to plot the sphere of God's creation, with all it’s phenomena as a whole, quite different to the pure mechanical description that has often been attributed to him. His massive collection of unpublished manuscripts, which remained hidden for more then a century and a half, many of which were bequeathed to the Jewish National Library in Jerusalem and are a treasure trove of the English genius’s esoteric writings,
with many of his manuscripts packed with revision after revision, reflecting the processes of his thoughts, Newton altered his scientific notes to accommodate incoming data, basing his meticulous assessment and understanding of phenomena as his guide to reality and reflecting the Royal Society's motto, 'Nullius in verba” meaning 'take nobody's word for it'.
The Jerusalem manuscripts themselves cover the 18th-century mystic's delvings into Biblical interpretations, such as the Hebrew Tabernacle and Temple, his chemical experiments or alchemy and a calculation pointing to the apocalypse, as described in the book of Daniel and Revelation occurring in 2060. All this was gleaned from applying his unique scientific approach and talents to understanding the laws and principles behind the material and spiritual worlds. In fact the holy text’s of the Old and New testament were Newton's laboratory for unlocking both mankind’s history and the hidden domains of nature. Newton utilised the Fortean discipline of alchemy, to find the material components of the Universe or, as he saw it, the mind or spirit in matter. He also conducted in-depth studies of Biblical prophesy, to ascertain the time for the second coming of Christ, and his metaphysical theorising about the ancient Hebrew Temples displayed a single minded dedication to unlock riddles of the spiritual kind. Newton’s Judeo-Christian theology and his natural philosophy were never separated, one complimented the other. Newton's attempt to construct an over-arching framework in his natural philosophy and cosmology, lead directly to his discovery of God in nature, and embodied a much broader scope than does modern science.
Sir Isaac Newton rediscovered a Hebraic conception
of God through a careful study of the holy scriptures.
He approached biblical study as a type of science
of God through a careful study of the holy scriptures.
He approached biblical study as a type of science
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Below is a page from Newton's manuscript on the Temple of Solomon
Prolegomena ad Lexici Prophetici partem secundam manuscript
Prolegomena ad Lexici Prophetici partem secundam manuscript
The interconnectedness of both his theology and natural philosophy, was in fact a harking back to the Da Vincian style of encyclopaedism, when all knowledge had been connected in both the Sciences and the Arts.
In his attempts to find a more holistic picture of our reality, Newton’s singular consciousness may be seen to have embraced the tradition and mindset of the ancients. As a chemical philosopher and unifier par excellence, Newton's view of the universe paralleled his conviction that the pristine knowledge “Prisca Sapientia” could be disseminated through his natural philosophical work and experimental practice. He believed the people of antiquity such as the Hebrews and Pythagoreans had already possessed this knowledge. His Christian faith was the conceptual glue that held his distinctive natural philosophy together, seeking to find man's place in creation and seeing himself as a kind of high priest of nature, who would uncover the ultimate “Elixir Of Knowledge”, the true Philosopher's Stone.
John Maynard Keynes described Newton as the last of the the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, -
“ Why do I call him a magician? Because he looked on the whole universe and all that is in it as a riddle, as a secret which could be read by applying pure thought to certain evidence, certain mystic clues which God had laid about the world to allow a sort of philosopher's treasure hunt to the esoteric brotherhood. He believed that these clues were to be found partly in the evidence of the heavens and in the constitution of elements (and that is what gives the false suggestion of his being an experimental natural philosopher), but also partly in certain papers and traditions handed down by the brethren in an unbroken chain back to the original cryptic revelation in Babylonia. He regarded the universe as a cryptogram set by the Almighty.”- John Maynard Keynes
In his attempts to find a more holistic picture of our reality, Newton’s singular consciousness may be seen to have embraced the tradition and mindset of the ancients. As a chemical philosopher and unifier par excellence, Newton's view of the universe paralleled his conviction that the pristine knowledge “Prisca Sapientia” could be disseminated through his natural philosophical work and experimental practice. He believed the people of antiquity such as the Hebrews and Pythagoreans had already possessed this knowledge. His Christian faith was the conceptual glue that held his distinctive natural philosophy together, seeking to find man's place in creation and seeing himself as a kind of high priest of nature, who would uncover the ultimate “Elixir Of Knowledge”, the true Philosopher's Stone.
John Maynard Keynes described Newton as the last of the the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, -
“ Why do I call him a magician? Because he looked on the whole universe and all that is in it as a riddle, as a secret which could be read by applying pure thought to certain evidence, certain mystic clues which God had laid about the world to allow a sort of philosopher's treasure hunt to the esoteric brotherhood. He believed that these clues were to be found partly in the evidence of the heavens and in the constitution of elements (and that is what gives the false suggestion of his being an experimental natural philosopher), but also partly in certain papers and traditions handed down by the brethren in an unbroken chain back to the original cryptic revelation in Babylonia. He regarded the universe as a cryptogram set by the Almighty.”- John Maynard Keynes
The heretical nature of Newton’s unique beliefs, which were close theologically speaking to the original Messianic Christianity preached by Jesus Christ, was also infused throughout with aspects of Judaic thought, that was eventually integrated into the structure of his natural philosophy, to further the case he made for the design argument and the unity of all microcosmic and macrocosmic phenomena. His perspective was Hebraic in structure and this can especially be seen in his conception and description of the divine Pantocrator, which often reflected the Talmudic texts and his interest in Rabbinics.
In the following quote he gives a very Hebraic description of a universal god of dominion - "This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all: And on account of his dominion he is wont to be called Lord God παντοκρατωρ, or Universal Ruler. . . . It is the dominion of a spiritual being which constitutes a God. . . And from his true dominion it follows that the true God is a living, intelligent and powerful Being. . . he governs all things, and knows all things that are or can be done. . . He endures forever.”
Newton was truly the “mad scientist” of the 17th century. As a secret Arian heretic and a practising alchemist, he craved for an understanding which could not be satiated by pure scientific pursuits. Indeed, he started with science, but ventured into the metaphysical. Newton could possibly be considered as one of the greatest scientific theologian’s of all time and the best scholar in 17th century Hebraism, comparable to the ancient Jewish sages themselves.
" Newton also rejected the immortality of the soul which he similarly found to be unbiblical. Instead of natural immortality, eternal life for Newton was obtained through bodily resurrection. A thoroughly Hebraic idea " - Stephen D. Snobelen
Believing that the identification of the true religion was his spiritual duty, Newton became proficient in reading and writing Biblical Hebrew, which he possibly learned from the Hebraist and book collector, Isaac Abendana. To further his search for spiritual truth {Prisca Theologia} and the arcane knowledge of the ancients {Prisca Sapientia}, he delved into the esoteric writings of the Hebrew mystics such as the Kabbalah and Biblical commentaries like the Talmud, the six-hundred-year old commentary on the Bible by the ancient Jewish sages. Newton believed that Prisca Sapientia would merge all the sciences into a unified whole, which he describes in the following quote - " I suspect that my theories may all depend upon a force for which philosophers have searched all of nature in vain."
Newton incorporated a great deal of ancient Hebraic conceptions into his scientific works. He was also influenced by the books of alchemist and kabbalist Francis Van Helmont, who had a deep interest in the Hebrew Adamic language and the Old Testament prophets. - " Is there no key to be found with which the Mysteries of Scripture might be opened? And forasmuch as the Old Testament was written in Hebrew and that it cannot be translated into another language so as to retain its own proper force and energy, may not we therefore suppose that in the Hebrew language (as we consider the same to be a living language) this key is to be found?" - Francis Van Helmont
Newton also accumulated more than Thirty bibles, in English, French, Greek, Latin, Arabic, Hebrew and Syrian, including the six-volume Polyglot Bible of Brian Walton, the Targum or the Aramaic translation of the Hebrew Bible and his own annotated Latin translation of Maimonide's Mishne Torah, from which he took notes. The manuscript entitled “ On Maimonides ” was compiled from these notes.
The Jewish sage Moses Maimonides, also known as the “Rambam,” who’s writings on the Temple of Solomon along with the Talmudic scholars, Newton had referenced in his systematic investigation into the geometry and reconstruction of that ancient building, which he viewed as a treasure-trove of ancient Hebrew wisdom. Maimonides has often been considered one of the foremost medieval rabbinic Torah scholars and philosophers. He authored the fourteen-volume Mishneh Torah as well as his magnum opus 'The Guide of The Perplexed', which Newton was well acquainted with. Maimonides eventually abandoned some of the essential Jewish teachings of Moses and the Talmudic sages in favor of a synthesis of Greek philosophy with Judaism, prompting a number of the Rabbinic sages of northern France such as Solomon ben Abraham to view him as a heretic. His work was also criticised by the Kabbalist Rabbi and Jewish mystic Abraham ben David. The 18th century Talmudic scholar, Elijah ben Solomon commented on how Maimonides Judaism had become corrupted. -
“ that Rambam was led astray by the accursed philosophy { Aristotelian philosophy } to deny the existence of demons and other such phenomena, even though their existence is attested to in the Gemara. " - Elijah ben Solomon
Newton incorporated a great deal of ancient Hebraic conceptions into his scientific works. He was also influenced by the books of alchemist and kabbalist Francis Van Helmont, who had a deep interest in the Hebrew Adamic language and the Old Testament prophets. - " Is there no key to be found with which the Mysteries of Scripture might be opened? And forasmuch as the Old Testament was written in Hebrew and that it cannot be translated into another language so as to retain its own proper force and energy, may not we therefore suppose that in the Hebrew language (as we consider the same to be a living language) this key is to be found?" - Francis Van Helmont
Newton also accumulated more than Thirty bibles, in English, French, Greek, Latin, Arabic, Hebrew and Syrian, including the six-volume Polyglot Bible of Brian Walton, the Targum or the Aramaic translation of the Hebrew Bible and his own annotated Latin translation of Maimonide's Mishne Torah, from which he took notes. The manuscript entitled “ On Maimonides ” was compiled from these notes.
The Jewish sage Moses Maimonides, also known as the “Rambam,” who’s writings on the Temple of Solomon along with the Talmudic scholars, Newton had referenced in his systematic investigation into the geometry and reconstruction of that ancient building, which he viewed as a treasure-trove of ancient Hebrew wisdom. Maimonides has often been considered one of the foremost medieval rabbinic Torah scholars and philosophers. He authored the fourteen-volume Mishneh Torah as well as his magnum opus 'The Guide of The Perplexed', which Newton was well acquainted with. Maimonides eventually abandoned some of the essential Jewish teachings of Moses and the Talmudic sages in favor of a synthesis of Greek philosophy with Judaism, prompting a number of the Rabbinic sages of northern France such as Solomon ben Abraham to view him as a heretic. His work was also criticised by the Kabbalist Rabbi and Jewish mystic Abraham ben David. The 18th century Talmudic scholar, Elijah ben Solomon commented on how Maimonides Judaism had become corrupted. -
“ that Rambam was led astray by the accursed philosophy { Aristotelian philosophy } to deny the existence of demons and other such phenomena, even though their existence is attested to in the Gemara. " - Elijah ben Solomon
In a similar vane to the criticism by Elijah ben Solomon to the Hellenising of Judaism that had occurred in the Maimonidean texts, Newton also rejected the Hellenising of the original Hebraic Christianity that had infiltrated much of the orthodox church. Newton went to great efforts, through his in-depth theological studies, to research the early history of the Church Fathers and Christian creeds, in an effort to uncover Christianity in its original, pure Hebrew form and purge it of it's corruption. He came to see the original primitive Messianic Christianity of the first-century had become hopelessly distorted with idolatrous doctrines. This had occurred due to the introduction of Platonic teachings, following the influx of Greek and Roman believers into the church, bringing with them their pagan philosophies, one of which was the immortality of the soul in a heavenly after-life. This belief was in stark contrast to the Hebraic idea of a bodily resurrection on earth. Newton came to reject the immortality of the soul teaching as un-biblical,
He came to accept the Biblical teaching that there is no concious state between death and the resurrection as Ecclesiastes 9:5 and 9:10 amongst other texts show.
“ For if you have fallen in with some who are called Christians, but who do not admit this [truth] and venture to blaspheme the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; who say there is no resurrection of the dead, and that their souls, when they die, are taken to heaven; do not imagine that they are Christians ” - Justin Martyr
In a similar vane to the criticism by Elijah ben Solomon to the Hellenising of Judaism that had occurred in the Maimonidean texts, Newton also rejected the Hellenising of the original Hebraic Christianity that had infiltrated much of the orthodox church. Newton went to great efforts, through his in-depth theological studies, to research the early history of the Church Fathers and Christian creeds, in an effort to uncover Christianity in its original, pure Hebrew form and purge it of it's corruption. He came to see the original primitive Messianic Christianity of the first-century had become hopelessly distorted with idolatrous doctrines. This had occurred due to the introduction of Platonic teachings, following the influx of Greek and Roman believers into the church, bringing with them their pagan philosophies, one of which was the immortality of the soul in a heavenly after-life. This belief was in stark contrast to the Hebraic idea of a bodily resurrection on earth. Newton came to reject the immortality of the soul teaching as un-biblical,
He came to accept the Biblical teaching that there is no concious state between death and the resurrection as Ecclesiastes 9:5 and 9:10 amongst other texts show.
“ For if you have fallen in with some who are called Christians, but who do not admit this [truth] and venture to blaspheme the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; who say there is no resurrection of the dead, and that their souls, when they die, are taken to heaven; do not imagine that they are Christians ” - Justin Martyr
" This philosophy, both speculative and active, is not only to be found in the volume of nature, but also in the sacred scriptures, as in Genesis, Job, Psalms, Isaiah and others. In the knowledge of this philosophy, God made Solomon the greatest philosopher in the world " - Isaac Newton's search for the Prisca Sapientia
Newton's private manuscripts revealed him to be a strict Unitarian in his belief structure and held a christology in the tradition of the fourth-century Arians, who believed that the Father alone {Yaweh} was the only true god.
Newton, through his thorough interrogation of the biblical texts, came to reject the orthodox yet equally pagan polytheistic concept of the trinity, a corruption Newton thought had been inflicted on Christianity by the Church Father, Saint Athanasius of Alexandria, who became know as the "Father of Orthodoxy". Newton viewed Athanasius as the chief agent behind the falsification and corruption of the original primitive Christianity in its pure Hebrew form. The trinity, a creed stating that God is one yet co-existing in three, was a doctrine that particularly infuriated Newton and which also had it’s roots in Greek and Babylonian philosophy.
It was a doctrine which even today, it’s own supporters can not explain, ultimately declaring it to be a mystery. And as Newton came to realise through his careful study of the scriptures, the early Christians, like the ancient Jews, worshipped a singular God, the one god of Israel. The trinitarian apostasy, as he saw it, was also a doctrine that ran diametrically opposite to the unitarian creed of ancient Israel, known as the Shema, which reads in Deuteronomy 6:4- "Hear O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is One" also translated - “Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God; Yahweh is one” reaffirming the basic tenets of the Jewish faith, and quoted by the Messiah himself in answer to a Jewish scribe's question regarding which of the commandments in the Torah was the most important. Newton's hebraic-unitarian view of God can be seen in the following quote, which demonstrates the strict personal unity of the creator. - “ That is, we are to worship the father alone as God Almighty and Jesus alone as the Lord the Messiah the great King the Lamb of God who was slain and hath redeemed us with his blood and made us kings and Priests.”- Isaac Newton
" Sir Isaac Newton was a genuine Renaissance Man - as his unpublished papers, discovered last century, reveal. His certain conviction that “ a more profound natural philosophy exists to balance the mechanical description of the Universe ” is based upon the same physics principles that upheld the lost Classical Greek era’s science of life - and they are now at the cutting edge of fractal logic quantum biology." - Professor Robert Pope
Newton, through his thorough interrogation of the biblical texts, came to reject the orthodox yet equally pagan polytheistic concept of the trinity, a corruption Newton thought had been inflicted on Christianity by the Church Father, Saint Athanasius of Alexandria, who became know as the "Father of Orthodoxy". Newton viewed Athanasius as the chief agent behind the falsification and corruption of the original primitive Christianity in its pure Hebrew form. The trinity, a creed stating that God is one yet co-existing in three, was a doctrine that particularly infuriated Newton and which also had it’s roots in Greek and Babylonian philosophy.
It was a doctrine which even today, it’s own supporters can not explain, ultimately declaring it to be a mystery. And as Newton came to realise through his careful study of the scriptures, the early Christians, like the ancient Jews, worshipped a singular God, the one god of Israel. The trinitarian apostasy, as he saw it, was also a doctrine that ran diametrically opposite to the unitarian creed of ancient Israel, known as the Shema, which reads in Deuteronomy 6:4- "Hear O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is One" also translated - “Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God; Yahweh is one” reaffirming the basic tenets of the Jewish faith, and quoted by the Messiah himself in answer to a Jewish scribe's question regarding which of the commandments in the Torah was the most important. Newton's hebraic-unitarian view of God can be seen in the following quote, which demonstrates the strict personal unity of the creator. - “ That is, we are to worship the father alone as God Almighty and Jesus alone as the Lord the Messiah the great King the Lamb of God who was slain and hath redeemed us with his blood and made us kings and Priests.”- Isaac Newton
" Sir Isaac Newton was a genuine Renaissance Man - as his unpublished papers, discovered last century, reveal. His certain conviction that “ a more profound natural philosophy exists to balance the mechanical description of the Universe ” is based upon the same physics principles that upheld the lost Classical Greek era’s science of life - and they are now at the cutting edge of fractal logic quantum biology." - Professor Robert Pope
In addition to being the most celebrated natural philosopher of the Royal Society, Newton was unrivalled in his ability to synthesise vast tracts of knowledge of both the natural sciences and scriptural language into a singular truth, the“Prisca Sapientia”, the blueprint of creation. He saw himself as being an adept. His was skilled in the analysis of Biblical and prophetic exegesis, to the point that he gave himself the coded pseudonym, “Jehovah Sanctus Unus,” or “Jehovah, the Holy One”, an alchemical and scriptural synthesis, hinting at his virtuoso for unravelling the gordian knot of Biblical theology and prophecy.
Newton’s friend and fellow Royal Society member, John Locke, once remarked about him - “a very valuable man not only for his wonderful skill in Mathematics but in divinity too and his great knowledge in the Scriptures where in I know few his equals.”
Newton certainly had a clear understanding of true biblical eschatology in it’s original Hebrew Messianic context. Through his comprehensive efforts to plumb the depths of scriptures for the genuine knowledge employed in the holy writings, Newton could see that the inauguration of the Messianic rule had vast cataclysmic metaphysical revolutions that would see the establishment of the Kingdom of God on earth and the restoration of true Hebraic or, as he termed it, primitive Christianity. This was to be initiated in the end times by the successful preaching of the true Gospel, closely followed by the rebuilding of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem and the second coming of Christ (parousia), the Apocalypse along with a 1,000 year reign by the resurrected saints { all Christians } on the earth (Revelation 20:4-6).
A golden era of peace, when the long-awaited Messiah would restore Shalom or a universal flourishing, to every corner of God's creation, was a theme that ran deep in the hopes and writings of the old Testament prophets such as Isaiah,{Isaiah 2:2-4} and would become a reality with the return of Jesus to the holy land where he would reign over the world from Jerusalem which would be the capital city of his worldwide Kingdom, from where he will shepherd the nations with a rod of iron.
"The ruin of the wicked nations, the end of weeping and of all troubles, the return of the Jews from captivity and their setting up a flourishing and everlasting Kingdom". - Isaac Newton
The following quote from the book “ The Hebrew Utopia ” paints a vivid picture of Christ’s Messianic reign and a Shalom that encapsulates the whole earth - “ No words can describe the glory and the beauty, the grand perfection and sweet comfort, of that marvellous age of which prophet after prophet came forward to utter some fresh prediction. Plato’s model Republic and Sir Thomas More’s Utopia are cheerless and uninviting beside this ravishing dream of the future.......portrayed often as hovering just beyond their horizon, but always as certain to be enjoyed in this weary world at the fitting time.”- W.F. Adeney
Newton’s eschatological viewpoint, is known as Historic, or Classic Pre-millennialism and was the original teaching of the 1st century Church" (Jew & Gentile), after the Apostles.
Newton’s friend and fellow Royal Society member, John Locke, once remarked about him - “a very valuable man not only for his wonderful skill in Mathematics but in divinity too and his great knowledge in the Scriptures where in I know few his equals.”
Newton certainly had a clear understanding of true biblical eschatology in it’s original Hebrew Messianic context. Through his comprehensive efforts to plumb the depths of scriptures for the genuine knowledge employed in the holy writings, Newton could see that the inauguration of the Messianic rule had vast cataclysmic metaphysical revolutions that would see the establishment of the Kingdom of God on earth and the restoration of true Hebraic or, as he termed it, primitive Christianity. This was to be initiated in the end times by the successful preaching of the true Gospel, closely followed by the rebuilding of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem and the second coming of Christ (parousia), the Apocalypse along with a 1,000 year reign by the resurrected saints { all Christians } on the earth (Revelation 20:4-6).
A golden era of peace, when the long-awaited Messiah would restore Shalom or a universal flourishing, to every corner of God's creation, was a theme that ran deep in the hopes and writings of the old Testament prophets such as Isaiah,{Isaiah 2:2-4} and would become a reality with the return of Jesus to the holy land where he would reign over the world from Jerusalem which would be the capital city of his worldwide Kingdom, from where he will shepherd the nations with a rod of iron.
"The ruin of the wicked nations, the end of weeping and of all troubles, the return of the Jews from captivity and their setting up a flourishing and everlasting Kingdom". - Isaac Newton
The following quote from the book “ The Hebrew Utopia ” paints a vivid picture of Christ’s Messianic reign and a Shalom that encapsulates the whole earth - “ No words can describe the glory and the beauty, the grand perfection and sweet comfort, of that marvellous age of which prophet after prophet came forward to utter some fresh prediction. Plato’s model Republic and Sir Thomas More’s Utopia are cheerless and uninviting beside this ravishing dream of the future.......portrayed often as hovering just beyond their horizon, but always as certain to be enjoyed in this weary world at the fitting time.”- W.F. Adeney
Newton’s eschatological viewpoint, is known as Historic, or Classic Pre-millennialism and was the original teaching of the 1st century Church" (Jew & Gentile), after the Apostles.
“ The webbing together of God, humans, and all creation in justice, fulfillment, and delight is what the Hebrew prophets call shalom. In English we call it peace, but it means far more than just peace of mind or ceasefire between enemies. In the Bible shalom means universal flourishing, wholeness, and delight - a rich state of affairs in which natural needs are satisfied and natural gifts fruitfully employed, a state of affairs that inspires joyful wonder as the creator and savior opens doors and speaks welcome to the creatures in whom he delights. Shalom, in other words, is the way things are supposed to be.”- Cornelius Plantinga
“ The webbing together of God, humans, and all creation in justice, fulfillment, and delight is what the Hebrew prophets call shalom. In English we call it peace, but it means far more than just peace of mind or ceasefire between enemies. In the Bible shalom means universal flourishing, wholeness, and delight - a rich state of affairs in which natural needs are satisfied and natural gifts fruitfully employed, a state of affairs that inspires joyful wonder as the creator and savior opens doors and speaks welcome to the creatures in whom he delights. Shalom, in other words, is the way things are supposed to be.”- Cornelius Plantinga
The Prophet Isaiah, oil painting by Giambattista Tiepolo
He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as those who began to build our intellectual inheritance rather less than 10,000 years ago. Isaac Newton, a posthumous child bom with no father on Christmas Day, 1642, was the last wonderchild to whom the Magi could do sincere and appropriate homage. - John Maynard Keynes on Sir Isaac Newton
He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as those who began to build our intellectual inheritance rather less than 10,000 years ago. Isaac Newton, a posthumous child bom with no father on Christmas Day, 1642, was the last wonderchild to whom the Magi could do sincere and appropriate homage. - John Maynard Keynes on Sir Isaac Newton
The geometry of Solomon's Temple held cosmic significance for Newton, he was interested in the sacred geometry of the Temple, such as golden sections, conic sections, spirals, orthographic projection, and other harmonious constructions.
Isaac Newton's Hebrew handwriting in a manuscript where Newton discussed aspects of the Temple in Jerusalem