Neilos Sotiropoulos (1973)

An Athonite Hieromonk from Simonpetra Monastery. Published a partial commentary on Revelation and Daniel in the book titled “The Coming Sharp and Two-Edged Sword“. His was one of the first modern commentaries combining the Byzantine Apocalyptic Tradition with the prophecies of Daniel and the Book of Revelation. He identifies Islam and the Papacy as the two beasts. He provides an interesting interpretation to Daniel’s 70 weeks showing 2 separate timelines. A 490-year timeline calculating Christ, and a 2520-year timeline of the 70 weeks which accurately calculated the return of the Jews to Palestine. He attempts to resolve the dates of Daniel and Revelation, pointing to the fall of the Ottomans by 1912, the formation of Israel in 1948, and uses Agathangelos’s prophecies to attempt to calculate and predict the year of the return of Constantinople by the end of the 20th century. The book was an excellent resource for providing many of the Greek Orthodox prophecies to English for the first time.