A translation of sections from chapters 9–13 (pp. 252–290) of 1905.17. The translation is rather free; parts of the chapters are regularly omitted. The translator, Rev. G.M. van Pernis (1889–1968), was primarily interested in the contours and essential points of Kuyper’s treatment of millennialism in his commentary on Lord’s Day 22 of the Heidelberg Catechism. The translation of this pamphlet was undertaken as a preliminary study for the revision and expansion of Pernis’s Handbook of General Knowledge (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1927), which he hoped to make into a vade mecum. According to the concluding sentence of the preface, the purpose of this separately published edition was “that in some measure it may contribute to that much needed return to things Reformed.”

For the publisher’s commitment to premillennialism, see The House of Zondervan by James E. Ruark (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2006, pp. 27–28).