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me so far out of the way as to affect any of the great interests of truth or duty." "Your
error, as I apprehend, lies in another direction than your chronology." "You have
entirely mistaken the nature of the events which are to occur when those periods have
expired. This is the head and front of your expository offending." See also Leroy Edwin
Froom, Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers (Washington, D.C.: Review and Herald
Publishing Assn., 1950), vol. 1, chs. 1, 2.
Page 435. A Threefold Message.--Revelation 14:6, 7 foretells the proclamation of
the first angel's message. Then the prophet continues: "There followed another angel,
saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen. . . . And the third angel followed them." The word
here rendered "followed" means "to go along with," "to follow one," "go with him." See
Henry George Liddell and Robert Scott, Greek English Lexicon (Oxford: Clarendon
Press, 1940), vol. 1, p. 52. It also means "to accompany." See George Abbott-Smith, A
Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (Edinburgh: T. and T. Clark, 1950),
page 17. It is the same word that is used in mark 5:24, "Jesus went with him; and
much people followed Him, and thronged Him." It is also used of the redeemed one
hundred and forty-four thousand, Revelation 14:4, where it is said, "These are they
which follow the Lamb whithersoever He goeth." In both these places it is evident that
the idea intended to be conveyed is that of "going together," "in company with." So in
1 Corinthians 10:4, where we read of the children of Israel that "they drank of that
spiritual Rock that followed them," the word "followed" is translated from the same
Greek word, and the margin has it, "went with them." From this we learn that the
idea in Revelation 14:8, 9 is not simply that the second and third angels followed the
first in point of time, but that they went with him. The three messages are but one
threefold message. They are three only in the order of their rise. But having risen,
they go on together and are inseparable.
Page 447. Supremacy of the Bishops of Rome.--For the leading circumstances in
the assumption of supremacy by the bishops of Rome, see Robert Francis Cardinal
Bellarmine, Power of the Popes in Temporal Affairs (there is an English translation
in the Library of Congress, Washington, D. C.); Henry Edward Cardinal Manning,
The Temporal Power of the Vicar of Jesus Christ (London: Burns and Lambert, 2d ed.,
1862); and James Cardinal Gibbons, Faith of Our Fathers (Baltimore: John Murphy
Co., 110th ed., 1917), chs. 5, 9, 10, 12. For Protestant authors see Trevor Gervase
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