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Russell führte Maße der Großen Pyramide als Beleg für seine Chronologie an, und die Zahlen wurden zwischen den Ausgaben verändert. Auf Seite 342 der Erstausgabe von Thy Kingdom Come von 1891 ergibt ein Gang von “3416 inches” “A. D. 1874 as marking the beginning of the period of trouble”; auf derselben Seite der Ausgabe von 1914 lautet dieselbe Stelle “3457 inches” und ergibt “A. D. 1915”, mit “the close of 1914” als Beginn der Drangsal.

Claim ID claim-authority-pyramid-edition-changeConcerns 1914Spätere Neudeutung

Die Aussage und ihre Belege

Spätere Neudeutung · 1914 Geprüft

Russell führte Maße der Großen Pyramide als Beleg für seine Chronologie an, und die Zahlen wurden zwischen den Ausgaben verändert. Auf Seite 342 der Erstausgabe von Thy Kingdom Come von 1891 ergibt ein Gang von “3416 inches” “A. D. 1874 as marking the beginning of the period of trouble”; auf derselben Seite der Ausgabe von 1914 lautet dieselbe Stelle “3457 inches” und ergibt “A. D. 1915”, mit “the close of 1914” als Beginn der Drangsal. Source: Millennial Dawn, Volume III — Thy Kingdom Come, 1891Source: Studies in the Scriptures, Series III — Thy Kingdom Come (1,385,000 Edition), 1914Source: Jehovah's Witnesses—Proclaimers of God's Kingdom (1993), 1993Source: The Watchtower, 1. Januar 2000

Die Position der Organisation oder ihre spätere Erklärung: Verkündiger des Königreiches Gottes (1993) sagt, Russell habe diese Ansicht “for some 35 years” vertreten und “Jehovah's Witnesses have abandoned the idea that an Egyptian pyramid has anything to do with true worship”; Der Wachtturm vom 1. Januar 2000 erinnert daran, dass “the length of certain passages in the Great Pyramid was said to indicate the time for the beginning of the ‘great tribulation’”. Keine der beiden Darstellungen erwähnt, dass die veröffentlichte Maßangabe selbst zwischen den Ausgaben geändert wurde.

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Primärveröffentlichung von Jehovas Zeugen Geprüft

Millennial Dawn, Volume III — Thy Kingdom Come, “The Testimony of God's Stone Witness and Prophet, the Great Pyramid in Egypt”

1891 · p.342 · Charles Taze Russell · Tower Bible and Tract Society / Watch Tower

“we find it to be 3416 inches, symbolizing 3416 years from the above date, B. C. 1542. This calculation shows A. D. 1874 as marking the beginning of the period of trouble; for 1542 years B. C. plus 1874 years A. D. equals 3416 years. Thus the Pyramid witnesses that the close of 1874 was the chronological beginning of the time of trouble such as was not since there was a nation—no, nor ever shall be afterward.”

Russell measures the descending passage of the Great Pyramid from a point he dates to 1542 B.C. and reads the distance to the “Pit” as a date for the beginning of the time of trouble.

Hinweis zu Herkunft und Überprüfung for Millennial Dawn, Volume III — Thy Kingdom Come, The Testimony of God's Stone Witness and Prophet, the Great Pyramid in Egypt

Hinweis zur Vertrauensangabe. Read in the 1891 first-edition scan; the page header on the same page reads “342 Thy Kingdom Come.” Obvious OCR artefacts repaired; figures checked character by character.

Herkunft des Scans. First edition of June 1891, issued as a special number of Zion’s Watch Tower (the scan’s front matter reads “SPECIAL ISSUE OF ZION’S WATCH TOWER … VOL. XII, JUNE, 1891” and gives the publisher as “TOWER BIBLE & TRACT SOCIETY, BIBLE HOUSE, ARCH ST., ALLEGHENY, PA.”), scanned on the Internet Archive.

Untermauert durch. src-ctr-sits3-1914-p342-pyramid-1914

Abgerufen. 19. September 2026 · Quellenkennung. src-ctr-md3-1891-p342-pyramid-1874

Primärveröffentlichung von Jehovas Zeugen Geprüft

Studies in the Scriptures, Series III — Thy Kingdom Come (1,385,000 Edition), “The Testimony of God's Stone Witness and Prophet, the Great Pyramid in Egypt”

1914 · p.342 · Charles Taze Russell · International Bible Students Association

“we find it to be 3457 inches, symbolizing 3457 years from the above date, B. C. 1542. This calculation shows A. D. 1915 as marking the beginning of the period of trouble; for 1542 years B. C. plus 1915 years A. D. equals 3457 years. Thus the Pyramid witnesses that the close of 1914 will be the beginning of the time of trouble such as was not since there was a nation—no, nor ever shall be afterward.”

The same paragraph on the same page of the same chapter as the 1891 first edition, with the pyramid measurement and the resulting date altered.

Hinweis zu Herkunft und Überprüfung for Studies in the Scriptures, Series III — Thy Kingdom Come (1,385,000 Edition), The Testimony of God's Stone Witness and Prophet, the Great Pyramid in Egypt

Hinweis zur Vertrauensangabe. Read in the 1914 edition scan (title page: “SERIES III / Thy Kingdom Come / 1,385,000 Edition / International Bible Students Association / … 1914”); the same wording, with the same figures, also appears on page 342 of the 1918 printing (archive.org item studiesinscriptu03russ_0), which was checked as a second witness.

Herkunft des Scans. University of Illinois copy of the 1,385,000 Edition (Brooklyn, 1914), scanned on the Internet Archive.

Untermauert durch. src-ctr-md3-1891-p342-pyramid-1874

Abgerufen. 19. September 2026 · Quellenkennung. src-ctr-sits3-1914-p342-pyramid-1914

Primärveröffentlichung von Jehovas Zeugen Geprüft

Jehovah's Witnesses—Proclaimers of God's Kingdom (1993), “Chapter 14 — “They Are No Part of the World””

1993 · pp.188-201 · p. 201 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society

“For some 35 years, Pastor Russell thought that the Great Pyramid of Gizeh was God's stone witness, corroborating Biblical time periods. (Isa. 19:19) But Jehovah's Witnesses have abandoned the idea that an Egyptian pyramid has anything to do with true worship. (See “Watchtower” issues of November 15 and December 1, 1928)”

The organisation's own summary.

Hinweis zu Herkunft und Überprüfung for Jehovah's Witnesses—Proclaimers of God's Kingdom (1993), Chapter 14 — “They Are No Part of the World”

Hinweis zur Vertrauensangabe. Opened on wol.jw.org; wording and page confirmed.

Untermauert durch. src-w-1928-1201-altar-in-egypt-pt2

Abgerufen. 19. September 2026 · Quellenkennung. src-jv-1993-ch14-pyramid

Primärveröffentlichung von Jehovas Zeugen Geprüft

The Watchtower, “Serving With the Watchman”

1. Januar 2000 · pp.6-11 · par. 16 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society

“In 1886 when C. T. Russell published a book that came to be called The Divine Plan of the Ages, this volume contained a chart linking the ages of mankind with the Great Pyramid of Egypt. It was thought that this memorial of Pharaoh Khufu was the pillar referred to at Isaiah 19:19, 20”

Adds that 'the length of certain passages in the Great Pyramid was said to indicate the time for the beginning of the “great tribulation”'.

Hinweis zu Herkunft und Überprüfung for The Watchtower, Serving With the Watchman

Hinweis zur Vertrauensangabe. Opened on wol.jw.org; wording confirmed.

Untermauert durch. src-ss3-1891-thy-kingdom-come-pyramid

Abgerufen. 19. September 2026 · Quellenkennung. src-w-2000-0101-serving-watchman-pyramid

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