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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: Roman Pontiff or to the Emperor of the French.
But as the millenarism of the primitive Church gradually died out
during the second century, the essential principles involved in
it lost none of their hold on men's minds. As the generation
contemporary with Paul died away and was gathered into Sheol, it
became apparent that the original theory must be somewhat
modified, and to this question the author of the second epistle
to the Thessalonians addresses himself. Instead of literal
preservation from death, the doctrine of a resurrection from the
grave was gradually extended to the case of the new believers,
who were to share in the same glorious revival with the righteous
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