Origin and history of the books of the Bible, both the canonical and the apocryphal, designed to show what the Bible is not, what it is, and how to use it . THE REVELATION OF ST. JOHN. 471 this doctrine, advocating it with great zeal, and main-taining it principally by quotations from the Apoc-alypse. The book was very popular, and gained manyadherents to the doctrine, and so high did their zealrun, that the chiliasts (as they were called) or the mil-lennialists, began to secede from the mother church atAlexandria, which opposed their notions. After thedeath of Nepos, Coracion, the pastor of a
Origin and history of the books of the Bible, both the canonical and the apocryphal, designed to show what the Bible is not, what it is, and how to use it . THE REVELATION OF ST. JOHN. 471 this doctrine, advocating it with great zeal, and main-taining it principally by quotations from the Apoc-alypse. The book was very popular, and gained manyadherents to the doctrine, and so high did their zealrun, that the chiliasts (as they were called) or the mil-lennialists, began to secede from the mother church atAlexandria, which opposed their notions. After thedeath of Nepos, Coracion, the pastor of a countrychurch, took the lead in propagating the same senti-ments. Dionysius, the mild and learned bishop ofAlexandria, desiring to put an end to this dispute, andunwilling to fulminate ecclesiastical thunders, which heknew could have no other effect than to irritate, with-out intimidating or subduing, went into the provinceof Arsinoe, where the seceders were most numerous,and proposed an amicable conference. They met himwith their leader, Coracion, at their head, and the bookof Nepos was carefully read, and its arguments ex-amined. The good bishop D
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