 This rider who "went forth conquering" was Rome's march toward Jerusalem in the year 67, to suppress "The Great Jewish Revolt".In the "historicist" views of Nicholas de Lyra (14th century), Robert Fleming (17th century), Charles Daubuz (c. 1720), Thomas Scott (18th century), and Cuninghame, they agreed that the "First Seal" opened thereupon the death of Christ.Puritan Joseph Mede (1627) associated the opening of the "First Seal" to year 73, during the reign of Vespasian, just after "The Great Jewish Revolt".