The Reformers View of the

In 1528 Martin Luther republished a commentary on the book of Revelation, written 140 years earlier by John Purvey, an Englishman and follower of John Wycliffe.  In the preface to this reprinted commentary, Martin Luther wrote:
    "This preface, noble reader, you may understand was written by us for this reason–that we might make known to the world that we are not the first to interpret the Papacy as the kingdom of the Antichrist.  For many years prior to us, so many and so great men (whose number is large, and their memory eternal) have attempted this so clearly and openly, and that with great spirit and force, that [those] who were driven by the fury of the papal tyranny into the farthest boundaries of the earth, and suffering the most atrocious tortures, nevertheless bravely and faithfully persisted in the confession of the truth."
        (Quoted in L.E.Froome, Prophetic Faith of our Fathers, vol. 2, p 94)

"Wycliffe, Tyndale, Luther, Calvin, Cranmer; in the seventeenth century, Bunyan, the translators of the King James Bible and the men who published the Westminster and Baptist Confessions of Faith; Sir Isaac Newton, John Wesley, Whitfield, Jonathan Edwards; and more recently, Spurgeon, Bishop J. C. Ryle and Dr. Martin Lloyd-Jones; these men among countless others, all saw the office of the Papacy as the antichrist."
        (Michael de Semlyen, All Roads Lead to Rome, pp 205, 206)

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