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Autorité et obligation de rendre des comptes · Claim record

Russell se servait des mesures de la Grande Pyramide comme preuve de sa chronologie, et les chiffres ont été modifiés d’une édition à l’autre. À la page 342 de la première édition de 1891 de Thy Kingdom Come, un couloir de “3416 inches” donne “A. D. 1874 as marking the beginning of the period of trouble” ; à la même page de l’édition de 1914, le même couloir mesure “3457 inches” et donne “A. D. 1915”, “the close of 1914” marquant le début de la période de détresse.

Claim ID claim-authority-pyramid-edition-changeConcerns 1914Réinterprétation ultérieure
Réinterprétation ultérieure · 1914 Vérifié

Russell se servait des mesures de la Grande Pyramide comme preuve de sa chronologie, et les chiffres ont été modifiés d’une édition à l’autre. À la page 342 de la première édition de 1891 de Thy Kingdom Come, un couloir de “3416 inches” donne “A. D. 1874 as marking the beginning of the period of trouble” ; à la même page de l’édition de 1914, le même couloir mesure “3457 inches” et donne “A. D. 1915”, “the close of 1914” marquant le début de la période de détresse. Millennial Dawn, Volume III — Thy Kingdom Come, 1891Studies in the Scriptures, Series III — Thy Kingdom Come (1,385,000 Edition), 1914Jehovah's Witnesses—Proclaimers of God's Kingdom (1993), 1993The Watchtower, 1 janvier 2000

Position de l’organisation ou explication ultérieure : Prédicateurs du Royaume de Dieu (1993) dit que Russell a soutenu cette idée “for some 35 years” et que “Jehovah's Witnesses have abandoned the idea that an Egyptian pyramid has anything to do with true worship” ; La Tour de Garde du 1er janvier 2000 rappelle que “the length of certain passages in the Great Pyramid was said to indicate the time for the beginning of the ‘great tribulation’”. Ni l’un ni l’autre récit ne mentionne que la mesure publiée elle-même a été modifiée d’une édition à l’autre.

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Publication primaire des Témoins de Jéhovah Vérifié

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.

Numérisation de l’original

Note de provenance et de vérification

Note sur la fiabilité. 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.

Provenance de la numérisation. 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.

Corroboré par. src-ctr-sits3-1914-p342-pyramid-1914

Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source. src-ctr-md3-1891-p342-pyramid-1874

Publication primaire des Témoins de Jéhovah Vérifié

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.

Numérisation de l’original

Note de provenance et de vérification

Note sur la fiabilité. 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.

Provenance de la numérisation. University of Illinois copy of the 1,385,000 Edition (Brooklyn, 1914), scanned on the Internet Archive.

Corroboré par. src-ctr-md3-1891-p342-pyramid-1874

Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source. src-ctr-sits3-1914-p342-pyramid-1914

Publication primaire des Témoins de Jéhovah Vérifié

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.

Source officielle

Note de provenance et de vérification

Note sur la fiabilité. Opened on wol.jw.org; wording and page confirmed.

Corroboré par. src-w-1928-1201-altar-in-egypt-pt2

Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source. src-jv-1993-ch14-pyramid

Publication primaire des Témoins de Jéhovah Vérifié

The Watchtower, “Serving With the Watchman”

1 janvier 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”'.

Source officielle

Note de provenance et de vérification

Note sur la fiabilité. Opened on wol.jw.org; wording confirmed.

Corroboré par. src-ss3-1891-thy-kingdom-come-pyramid

Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source. src-w-2000-0101-serving-watchman-pyramid

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