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The Great Controversy
see George Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testa-
ment (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 lead-
ing 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 Jalland, The Church
and the Papacy (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge,
1944, a Bampton Lecture); and Richard Frederick Littledale, Petrine
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Claims (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1899).
For sources of the early centuries of the Petrine theory, see James
T. Shotwell and Louise Ropes Loomis, The See of Peter (New York:
Columbia University Press, 1927). For the false “Donation of Constan-
tine” see Christopher B. Coleman, The Treatise of Lorenzo Valla on
the Donation of Constantine (New York, 1914), which gives the full
Latin text and translation, and a complete criticism of the document
and its thesis.
Page 565. Quotations from Josiah Strong.—In his first edition
of Our Country, Josiah Strong, without access to primary sources,
incorrectly referenced the statements attributed to Pope Pius IX.