Historicist interpretations of the Book of Revelation shower of November 13, 1833. The classical historicist view of the vision of the angel with the "little book", in Revelation 10, represents the Protestant Reformation and the printing of Bibles in the common languages. The Adventists take a unique view applying it to the Millerite movement; the "bitterness" of the book (Rev 10:10) represents the Great Disappointment. The classical historicist view takes a number of different perspectives, including that the two witnesses are symbolic of two insular Christian movements, such as the Waldenses, or that the Reformers are meant, or the Old Testament and the New Testament. It is
Development of the Old Testament canon the New Testament) rather than upon Jerome's translation into Latin, which at the time was the Bible of the Catholic Church. The reformers saw the Apocrypha at variance with the rest of Scripture. The Roman Catholic Church uses them to support the doctrine of Purgatory, for prayers and Masses for the dead (), and for the efficacy of good works in attaining salvation (; ), things that Protestants then and today deem to be blatantly contradicting other parts of the Bible. Luther did remove the deuterocanonical books from the Old Testament of his translation of the Bible, placing them in