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50361 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 479.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… millennium, spiritualized into a present politico-religious fact, fastens itself upon the church for about thirteen long centuries. Note the particulars …

50362 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 479 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

5. FIRST RESURRECTION SPIRITUAL; SECOND CORPOREAL

50363 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 479.4 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… the spiritual, allegorical first resurrection lies at the foundation of Augustine’s structure—the resurrection of dead souls from the death of sin to …

50364 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 480.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… and spiritual resurrection, which has place in this life, and preserves us from coming into the second death; the other the second, which does not occur now …

50365 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 480.5 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… be spiritual, and consequent on the presence of God; for I myself, too, once held this opinion. But, as they assert that those who then rise again shall enjoy the …

50366 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 489.5 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… present spiritual resurrection and a secular millennium introduced through the first advent, together with a spiritualization of the prophecies and …

50367 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 490.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… a spiritual to a religio-political empire.

50368 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 490.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… or spiritualized away after Augustine’s time. The church always held to the Apostles’ Creed, with its definite declarations of faith in the return of Christ …

50369 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 492.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… vast spiritual empire in succeeding centuries. This is therefore a suitable place to trace the gradual growth of the once-humble bishop of Rome into the …

50370 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 492 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

I. Worldly Advance Matched by Spiritual Decline

50371 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 495.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… from spiritual leadership and temporal rule to the unparalleled power of the Papacy. The leading steps by which this was achieved must now be surveyed to …

50372 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 495.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… the spiritual head.” Flick, op. cit., pp. 168, 169; see also M. Creighton, A History of the Papacy, vol. 1, pp. 7, 8; Henry Edward Manning, The Temporal Power of the Vicar of Jesus …

50373 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 496.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… her spiritual authority the splendor of political power by inviting the bishops to participate in the administration of civil affairs, and by entrusting …

50374 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 499.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… the spiritual dictatorship of Christendom. More, perhaps, than any other, Leo laid the early foundations of that imposing edifice that towered among the …

50375 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 500.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

Contending that the spiritual extension of the Roman Empire was the carrying out of the divine scheme of Rome as the “head of the world,” he continues:

50376 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 503.5 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… the spiritual primacy and power conferred on him under law by Justinian. This will be more fully treated in section 4 of this chapter, but reference must first …

50377 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 511.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… a spiritual ban. In their distress some of the anathematized made appeal to Rome. The emperor then sent two Eastern prelates—Hypatius, bishop of Ephesus, and …

50378 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 513.5 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… have spiritual dominion for even longer than imperial Rome, and was later to climb to the peak of civil as well as religious domination. Croly, op. cit., pp. 340 …

50379 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 520.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… , or spiritual, view of the present millennium and the world-filling stone. Thus he said significantly:Gregory interpreted Augustine for the Middle Ages …

50380 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 523.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… the spiritualizing view, often found among certain fathers, regarding true Sabbath observance, as Christians ceasing from sin: