Vidění

Vidění a zjevení Kryštofa Kottera, souseda a jircháře šprotavského, kterýž měl od léta 1616 až do léta 1624. Z německé řeči do češtiny přeložené, na tři zvláštní díly i kapitoly sumovní spořádané a rozdělené, i pro náležitou důvěrnost ke všem těmto anjelským proroctvím skrz konkordanci Písem Starého i Nového zákona srovnalé a dostatečně vysvětlené

The Visions and revelations of Kryštof Kotter, neighbour and tawer of Sprottau, which he received from the year 1616 to the year 1624. Translated from the German language into Czech, in three separate parts and chapters summarily organised and sorted, and to establish their credibility each of these angelic prophecies compared with and suitably explained with concordances from the Scripture of the Old and New Testaments.

Origin of the work:
  1625

Editions:
  perhaps 1628, Leszno

Contents:

Comenius became familiar with the texts of the prophecies of Kryštof Kotter on a journey to Poland in 1625. “I was so taken with it all – certainly it came from God Himself – that I could not but wonder at the angelic voice that was heard again among a generation of Man, and at the grace which we had thought withheld from Mankind for centuries already, which had reached us through so many and such important revelations,” he wrote, “My euphoria was such that I ate virtually nothing, drank virtually nothing, and hardly slept at all” (Historia revelationum, 1657). Comenius translated Kotter’s text into Czech in the space of fourteen days, and sent it to Frederick of the Palatinate in 1626. Kotter, like Mikuláš Drabík later, forecast the defeat of the Habsburg military party, and this, amongst other things, caused Comenius’ euphoria; the revelations conveyed the Voice of God, and offered hope to those who had lost it.

For further study, see also:

Josef Volf: Krištofa Kottera Vidění a zjevení. In: Časopis Českého musea, 1911, p209

Studia Comeniana et historica VIII, 1977, no. 17

Jan Kumpera, Jan Amos Komenský, poutník na rozhraní věků. Prague & Ostrava 1992, p310