the only Catholic king on earth; the other Germanic tribes were Arians and the Byzantine emperor was a heretic).11 Rolf Weiss, among others, proposes a new date for Clovis’s baptism—508.12 So did André P. van de Vyver13 before him, and Danuta Shanzer and Ian Wood after him.14 Among Seventh-day Adventist expositors, this new date of AD 508 for Clovis’s baptism is widely accepted as it coincides well with the interpretation of the 1,290 days of Daniel 12:11. Yet, this new dating is by no means secure