Book Review: Ray of Light (new edition)

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Church teachings on End Times
  compiled by Archimandrite Panteliemon of old Jordanville (†1984)

new edition reviewed by Joanna
Jordanville
     1996 edition SOLD OUT
https://bookstore.jordanville.org/9780884650478
     2024 edition available now
https://bookstore.jordanville.org/9780884655077
  The webpage offers a pre-order discount, but the book is available now.

This book was first published in Russian, and later in 1991 translated into English.  Below are pictured the covers of the old edition and the new edition.
 

1996                         2024

I'm glad this book if finally for sale again.  But I wish they had left it as it was originally.  The only improvement is that in the new edition there is an added one-page biography of Archim. Panteleimon which includes his photo — the only photo in the book.  Otherwise, the format is not as clear as the original, the size is not as easy to handle as the original, the construction is not as easy to handle (PUR as opposed to saddle-stitched), none of the original photos are included.  Some people might prefer to have all the numbered notes at the end of the book instead of at the ends of the pages where they occur — so I won't complain about that.  BUT!  I will complain that the Editor's Notes (side comments) have been omitted altogether.   What a shame!  And why does the new edition so repeatedly insert the word "the" in front of "Antichrist," where Archimandrite Panteleimon just says, "Antichrist"?    This confuses the Antichrist spirit with Antichrist the person.   Archimandrite's contemporary, Abp. Averky, was careful to make the distinction between the spirit and the man.
https://archbishopaverky.blogspot.com/2011/02/spirit-of-antichrist-and-forerunner-of.html

I'm posting chapter 10 from each edition for your comparison.  ~jh

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