Building on Frances Rolleston’s Mazzaroth, the Anglican scholar Bullinger reads the twelve signs and their companion constellations, from Virgo to Leo, as a pictorial prophecy of the Redeemer and the redeemed. The argument is speculative and unsupported by astronomy or history; the book is best read as a record of what one strand of nineteenth-century Bible prophecy teaching believed.
Still influential in some evangelical circles, and a curious window on Victorian prophetic enthusiasm. Download the free EPUB.