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By ARON HELLER — Associated Press
Posted: 1:16pm on Feb 15, 2012; Modified: 2:11pm on Feb 15, 2012
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JERUSALEM — He's considered to be one of the greatest scientists of all time. But Sir Isaac Newton was also an influential theologian who applied a scientific approach to the study of scripture, Hebrew and Jewish mysticism.

Now Israel's national library, an unlikely owner of a vast trove of Newton's writings, has digitized his theological collection - some 7,500 pages in Newton's own handwriting - and put it online. Among the yellowed texts are Newton's famous prediction of the apocalypse in 2060.

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I am a stranger in a wicked and adulterous land. I look forward to returning home one day.

This is exciting; however, I am surprised to see how many of his works are in Latin.

I was reading about this yesterday evening. Very interesting.

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Until He Returns (Rev. 2:17),
Travis

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. ~George Orwell

That does sound interesting. There are many people who recognize Newton for his science but as was stated earlier he was also a theologian.

if memory serves, he wrote more on theology than science -- of course, even back then the media was biased against that sorta thing