Vol. 1. p. 428,436
The Epheso-Smyrnean State of the Ecclesias degenerates into the Pergamian. The doctrine of Balaam and the Nikolaitanes gaining the ascendancy. Celsus, a heathen opponent of the word, objects, that Christians were now so split into sects, that the name, Christian, only remained to them in common.
ACT II. — SEAL-PERIOD SECOND Apoc. 6:3,4
The rider of the Red Horse puts an end to the previous peace, and involves the populations of the Fourth Beast Polity in bloody civil wars.
A.D. 183
- “And when He opened the Second Seal, / heard from the Second Living One saying, ‘Come and see!’ 4. And there went forth another, a fiery-red horse; and to him sitting upon him, to him it was given to take the peace from the earth and that they might slay one another; and there was given to him a great dagger.”
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