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'''Chiliasm''' is the doctrine based on Revelation 20:4-6 that [[Jesus Christ|Christ]] will reign on earth a thousand years.<ref>''The Reader's Digest Great Encyclopedic Dictionary'' including Funk & Wagnalls Standard College Dictionary, copyright 1966, The Reader's Digest Association, Inc., Pleasantville, New York. Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 66-21606. page 237a</ref> The word chiliasm is from Greek ''chiliasmos'', from ''chilias'', from ''chilioi'' thousand. A ''chiliad'' is literally ''a thousand'', also a period of a thousand years.
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'''Chiliasm''' is the doctrine based on [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=revelation%2020:4-6&version=NABRE Revelation 20:4-6] that [[Jesus Christ|Christ]] will reign on earth a thousand years.<ref>''The Reader's Digest Great Encyclopedic Dictionary'' including Funk & Wagnalls Standard College Dictionary, copyright 1966, The Reader's Digest Association, Inc., Pleasantville, New York. Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 66-21606. page 237a</ref> The word chiliasm is from Greek ''chiliasmos'', from ''chilias'', from ''chilioi'' thousand.<ref>[http://kenfortier.com/site/images/articles/A%20Preliminary%20Study%20of%20the%20Greek%20Words%20updated.pdf A Preliminary Study of the Greek Words Xilias and Xilioi, by Kenneth Fortier] pdf. (kenfortier.com)</ref> A ''chiliad'' is literally ''a thousand'', also a period of a thousand years.
  
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Chiliasm has been condemned as a [[heresy]] in the East and West since A.D. 381. It is defended as a true doctrine of Christianity by several Christian denominations and literalist schools of biblical interpretation since the beginning of the [[Protestant Reformation|Reformation]]. See  
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Chiliasm has been condemned as a [[heresy]] in the East and West since A.D. 381. It is defended as a true doctrine of Christianity by several Christian denominations and literalist schools of biblical interpretation since the beginning of the [[Protestant Reformation|Reformation]]. See [[Revelation, Book of (historical exegesis)#12 schools of interpretation|12 schools of interpretation]] and [[Revelation, Book of (historical exegesis)#Millennium|Millennium]]
  
 
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=== Rejection of Chiliasm in the East and West since A.D. 381 ===
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=== Multiple commentaries on Revelation 20:4 ===
  
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[http://www.orthodoxphotos.com/readings/end/chiliasm.shtml The Inconsistency of Chiliasm] (Orthodox). The Second Ecumenical Council (381) and the Condemnation of Apollinarius (orthodoxphotos.com)
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* [http://biblehub.com/commentaries/revelation/20-4.htm BibleHub multiple commentaries on Revelation 20:4]
  
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[http://www.pravoslavie.ru/english/86520.htm The Inconsistency of Chiliasm, Bishop Alexander (Mileant)] - Russian Orthodox (pravoslavie.ru)
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[http://www.roca.org/OA/15/15h.htm Orthodox America: 381 - The Second Ecumenical Council - 1981. From the "Last Farewell" of St. Gregory the Theologian to the 150 Fathers of the Second Ecumenical Council (on his resignation as Patriarch)] (roca.org)
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* [http://biblehub.com/commentaries/revelation/1-1.htm BibleHub multiple commentaries] (biblehub.com) includes access links to: • Alford • Barnes • Bengel • Benson • BI • Bonar • Cambridge • Clarke • Darby • Ellicott • Expositor's • Exp Dct • Exp Grk • Gaebelein • GSB • Gill • Gray • Guzik • Haydock • Hastings • Homiletics • ICC • JFB • Kelly • KJT • Lange • MacLaren • MHC • MHCW • Meyer • Newell • Parker • PNT • Poole • Pulpit • Sermon • SCO • TTB • VWS • WES • TSK
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* [http://www.usccb.org/bible/scripture.cfm?bk=Revelation&ch= New American Bible, Revised Edition NABRE: Book of Revelation] (usccb.org)
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* [http://www.biblestudytools.com/commentaries/scofield-reference-notes/revelation/ Scofield Reference Bible Notes: Revelation] (biblestudytools.com)
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* [http://www.biblestudytools.com/revelation/ Book of Revelation. eCampus.com] at (biblestudytools.com) Table of contents outline with links to particular sections of the book of Revelation. Each accessed link to the NIV text offers links to several online classical commentaries on that particular passage.
  
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[http://francisgumerlock.com/wp-content/upload/2009/01/Millenialism%20and%20the%20Early%20Church%20Councils.%20Gumerlock.pdf ''Fides et Historia'' 36:2 (Summer/Fall 2004): 83-95.  Millenialism and the Early Church Councils: Was Chiliasm Condemned at Constantinople?, by Francis X. Gumerlock, Saint Louis University] (francisgumerlock.com)
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=== Rejection of Chiliasm in the East and West since A.D. 381 ===
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[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10307a.htm Catholic Encyclopedia: Millenium and Millenarianism] (newadvent.org)
 
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[https://bible.org/article/phantom-heresy-did-council-ephesus-431-condemn-chiliasm The Phantom Heresy: Did the Council of Ephesus (431) Condemn Chiliasm?], Michael Svigel
 
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[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04308b.htm Catholic Encyclopedia: Second Council of Constantinople (553) Fifth Ecumenical Council] (newadvent.org)
 
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[http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Georg-Schieferdecker/192170660 Georg Albert Schieferdecker] 19th century (condemnation) Lutheran (zoominfo.com)
 
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[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/40929/40929-h/40929-h.htm The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Transformation of Early Christianity From an Eschatological to a Socialized Movement. Lyford Patterson Edwards, D.D., The University of Chicago. 1919] (gutenberg.org) - Apollinarianism
 
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[http://www.the-highway.com/chiliasm_Masselink.html "The History of Chiliasm", William Masselink] (the-highway.com)
 
  
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[http://mikeblume.com/chiliasm.html There Is No Future Physical Millenium, Mike Blume] (mikeblume.com)
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* [http://www.orthodoxphotos.com/readings/end/chiliasm.shtml The Inconsistency of Chiliasm] (Orthodox). The Second Ecumenical Council (381) and the Condemnation of Apollinarius (orthodoxphotos.com)
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* [http://www.pravoslavie.ru/english/86520.htm The Inconsistency of Chiliasm, Bishop Alexander (Mileant)] - Russian Orthodox (pravoslavie.ru)
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* [http://www.roca.org/OA/15/15h.htm Orthodox America: 381 - The Second Ecumenical Council - 1981. From the "Last Farewell" of St. Gregory the Theologian to the 150 Fathers of the Second Ecumenical Council (on his resignation as Patriarch)] (roca.org)
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* [http://francisgumerlock.com/wp-content/upload/2009/01/Millenialism%20and%20the%20Early%20Church%20Councils.%20Gumerlock.pdf ''Fides et Historia'' 36:2 (Summer/Fall 2004): 83-95.  Millenialism and the Early Church Councils: Was Chiliasm Condemned at Constantinople?, by Francis X. Gumerlock, Saint Louis University] (francisgumerlock.com)
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* [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10307a.htm Catholic Encyclopedia: Millenium and Millenarianism] (newadvent.org)
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* [https://bible.org/article/phantom-heresy-did-council-ephesus-431-condemn-chiliasm The Phantom Heresy: Did the Council of Ephesus (431) Condemn Chiliasm?], Michael Svigel
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* [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04308b.htm Catholic Encyclopedia: Second Council of Constantinople (553) Fifth Ecumenical Council] (newadvent.org)
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* [http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Georg-Schieferdecker/192170660 Georg Albert Schieferdecker] 19th century (condemnation) Lutheran (zoominfo.com)
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* [https://www.gutenberg.org/files/40929/40929-h/40929-h.htm The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Transformation of Early Christianity From an Eschatological to a Socialized Movement. Lyford Patterson Edwards, D.D., The University of Chicago. 1919] (gutenberg.org) - Apollinarianism
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* [http://www.the-highway.com/chiliasm_Masselink.html "The History of Chiliasm", William Masselink] (the-highway.com)
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* [http://mikeblume.com/chiliasm.html There Is No Future Physical Millenium, Mike Blume] (mikeblume.com)
  
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Latest revision as of 10:10, June 4, 2019

Chiliasm is the doctrine based on Revelation 20:4-6 that Christ will reign on earth a thousand years.[1] The word chiliasm is from Greek chiliasmos, from chilias, from chilioi thousand.[2] A chiliad is literally a thousand, also a period of a thousand years.

Heresy, or true doctrine?

Chiliasm has been condemned as a heresy in the East and West since A.D. 381. It is defended as a true doctrine of Christianity by several Christian denominations and literalist schools of biblical interpretation since the beginning of the Reformation. See 12 schools of interpretation and Millennium

See also

Prophecy

Eschatology

Premillennialism

End Times

Rapture

Book of Revelation

Revelation, Book of (historical exegesis)

John Nelson Darby

Dispensationalism

Fundamentalism

Millenial Day Theory

Hermeneutics

References

  1. ↑ The Reader's Digest Great Encyclopedic Dictionary including Funk & Wagnalls Standard College Dictionary, copyright 1966, The Reader's Digest Association, Inc., Pleasantville, New York. Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 66-21606. page 237a
  2. ↑ A Preliminary Study of the Greek Words Xilias and Xilioi, by Kenneth Fortier pdf. (kenfortier.com)

External links

Multiple commentaries on Revelation 20:4

Commentaries verse by verse

  • BibleHub multiple commentaries (biblehub.com) includes access links to: • Alford • Barnes • Bengel • Benson • BI • Bonar • Cambridge • Clarke • Darby • Ellicott • Expositor's • Exp Dct • Exp Grk • Gaebelein • GSB • Gill • Gray • Guzik • Haydock • Hastings • Homiletics • ICC • JFB • Kelly • KJT • Lange • MacLaren • MHC • MHCW • Meyer • Newell • Parker • PNT • Poole • Pulpit • Sermon • SCO • TTB • VWS • WES • TSK
  • New American Bible, Revised Edition NABRE: Book of Revelation (usccb.org)
  • Scofield Reference Bible Notes: Revelation (biblestudytools.com)
  • Book of Revelation. eCampus.com at (biblestudytools.com) Table of contents outline with links to particular sections of the book of Revelation. Each accessed link to the NIV text offers links to several online classical commentaries on that particular passage.

Rejection of Chiliasm in the East and West since A.D. 381