An Exposition Of The Revelation Of John From The Fourth Chapter Classic Reprint

Author : William Baltess Smith
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781391611006
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Revelation, Or the Apocalypse of John (Classic Reprint) written by William Baltess Smith and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Book of Revelation, or the Apocalypse of John The earliest writc's whose views haw come down to as, are Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Hippolytus, and Victorians, who lived and labored from fifty to one hundred years after the book had been written and its message received by its first readers. They all use -what is known as the Eschatological method, and all are strongly chiliastic in their interpretation, or, as we would say, they all stand firmly on the belief in the speedy return of Christ to defeat His enemies, set up His kingdom, and reign with His saints on the earth for a thousand years. In their writings, however, are found traces of a contemporary historical interpretation, by which they attempt to identify certain figures and references with persons and events of the author's own time. And again, there are to he found the beginnings of that tendency of the Alexandrian School to allegorize, a tendency which, as we shall see, held complete sway for more than eight hundred years. It succeeded in crowding out the Eschatological method as the opposition of the Empire to the Church died out and the Christian religion became more popular. Chiliasm then became a thing of the past, and Christ's reign of a thousand years was inter preted as simply a period in the history of the Church. To Tyconins it was that period between the first and second advents of Christ. The second was to take place three and a-half days, i.a 350 years after the first or about 350 ad. To meet scholars and teachers it meant a thousand years from either the birth or the death of Christ, and 'so intense and widespread was this belief that when the year onethousand approached great consternation prevailed and multitudes either gave or bequeathed all their possessions to the Church. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.