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51481 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 472.4 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… to spiritualize the different visions in the Apocalypse even more, and to interpret the tremendous struggle pictured there as a spiritual struggle between …
51482 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 472.5 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… his spiritualizing commentary have exercised. This group of medieval expositions forms the connecting link between inter pretations of the early church …
51483 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 475.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… of spiritual good, and that Adam’s fall involved only himself. Pelagius was in direct conflict with Augustine, and he and his doctrines were condemned by …
51484 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 477.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… purely spiritual means of opposing error, Augustine later asserted the fatal principle of forcible coercion, and lent the weight of his name to civil persecution …
51485 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 478.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… made spiritual, taking place in this life; the second is that of the body, at the end of the world. The description in Revelation 20 of Satan’s being bound and …
51486 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 …
51487 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 479 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
5. FIRST RESURRECTION SPIRITUAL; SECOND CORPOREAL
51488 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 …
51489 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 …
51490 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 …
51491 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 …
51492 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 490.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… a spiritual to a religio-political empire.
51493 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 …
51494 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 …
51495 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 492 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
I. Worldly Advance Matched by Spiritual Decline
51496 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 …
51497 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 …
51498 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 …
51499 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 …
51500 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: