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50321 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 310.4 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
He also hoped for ultimate universal salvation. He opposed all millenarianism, for he spiritualized the resurrection and allegorized the prophecies, thus striking at these inseparable corollaries of the advent. Ibid., pp. 611, 619.
50322 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 315.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… . This spiritualizing, or anagogical principle (passing to a higher sense than literal, i.e., a “more literal”), determined the whole pattern of Origen’s exegesis …
50323 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 315.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… so spiritualized the symbolic language of the Scriptures as to deprive them of all actual force. He asserted, following the allegorical method of Plato …
50324 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 316.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… Interpreted Spiritually,” and chapter 4 is headed, “Scripture Contains Many Contradictions, and Many Statements Which Are Not Literally True, but Must Be …
50325 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 317.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… his spiritual interpretation are the gates of Ezekiel, and of the New Jerusalem of Revelation 21, as the various modes by which souls enter the better world …
50326 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 318.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… a spiritual sense alone for the enlightened Christian.
50327 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 319.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
So the supreme event of the ages and of the plan of salvation is spiritualized away, with the observation that the literal understanding is only for the simple.
50328 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 319.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… resurrected spiritual bodies must undergo gradual, perhaps age-long purification in the next world, perhaps many worlds, and become more spiritual and …
50329 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 320.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… his spiritualizing away of Biblical truth, were held to be principally: (1) the preexistence of the human soul, (2) the pre-existence of even the “human” soul of Christ …
50330 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 321.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… a spiritual purgation of the sinner by the fire of remorse, accordingly leave Christ and His grace largely out of the transaction of salvation. He teaches …
50331 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 323.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… this spiritualizing interpretation, as the darkness of mystic philosophy supplanted the light of the Scriptural advent hope.
50332 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 323.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… subtle spiritualization and allegorization of the Scriptures began to take root, and in time to be widely accepted, as the church’s attention became diverted …
50333 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 325.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… Origen’s spiritualization of the prophetic symbols to deprive them of all force. It was about A.D. 255 that dispute arose concerning the chiliastic opinions …
50334 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 344.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… resurrection hinted at by Origen likewise makes its appearance, the interpolation contending that the first resurrection is spiritual—that of …
50335 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 348.11 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… -century spiritualization of the resurrection, blended with his allegorization of the prophetic Scriptures, constituted the first in a series of three …
50336 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 385.4 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… in spiritual life, but also to a gross change in the attitude of the church toward the Lord’s coming, as we shall see.Uhlhorn, op. at., book 3, chap. 3, p 449
50337 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 395.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… regarding spiritual Israel were claimed for the established church, and the New Jerusalem was believed to have come, at least in shadow. But the spread of …
50338 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 397.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… the spiritual head.” Flick, op. cit., p 168
50339 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 397.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… the spiritual and temporal supremacy of the Holy See. They gave the death blow to paganism in Rome. Once converted to Roman Christianity, the Germans became …
50340 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 399.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… became spiritually a “harlot,” according to the Apocalypse, reveling in her illicit union with the kings of the earth.See pages 530-533.