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51441 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 303.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… the spiritual aspect, whereas others, as already mentioned, wax extravagant in their descriptions of the saints’ prosperity, fertility, and dominion over …
51442 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 305.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… true spiritual Israel; for the anti-Judaistic Gentile Christian, although absorbing the Messianic traditions, could not then allow a literal Jewish rule …
51443 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 305.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
(c) In addition to this, certain ideas in pagan philosophy, which assumed the inherent evil of matter, could not be reconciled with a divine new earth on a material basis; such concepts had to be spiritualized.
51444 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 306.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… more spiritual and less material terms than others. Among the premillennialists, says Schaff, are counted many “who simply believe in a golden age of Christianity …
51445 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 306.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… and spiritualizing interpretation of Scripture, pursuant to his pronounced Greek philosophical ideas. In the East, chiliasm died out in proportion as …
51446 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.
51447 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 …
51448 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 …
51449 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 …
51450 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 …
51451 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 318.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… a spiritual sense alone for the enlightened Christian.
51452 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.
51453 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 …
51454 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 …
51455 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 …
51456 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.
51457 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 …
51458 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 …
51459 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 …
51460 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 …