Footnotes

[1] Constantine Tischendorf, the new testament with readings of old manuscripts (London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company, Limited, 1869), 330.

[2] The Greek word kateko is incorrectly rendered “letteth” in the KJV. Kateko is used eighteen other times in the New Testament and in every instance contains the thought of “hold” (possess) or “withhold” (restrain). the new englishman’s Greek concordance of the new testament (Wilmington, DE: Associated Publishers & Authors, 1976), 417. It is translated “withholdeth” in the KJV of vs. 6 and “restrains” in the NAS version of vs. 6.

[3] Those who hold that the church will be taken before the tribulation.

[4] Dr. James Strong, Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (Grand Rapids: Guardian Press), Gk. word #646.

[5] New Englishman’s Greek Concordance Of The New Testament, 76.

[6] James Strong, Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance, Gk. Word #473.

[7] New Englishmen’s Greek Concordance Of The New Testament, 467.

[8] These following quotes and citations from Augustine’s writing are found in the collection, A Select Library Of The Nicene And Post-Nicene Fathers (hereafter abbreviated NPNF). These quotes and citations are also found in the prophetic faith of our fathers by Le Roy Edwin Froom (Washington, D.C.: Review and Herald, 1950), Vol. 1, 473-490.

[9] Augustine, Tractate 4 On The Gospel Of John, Sec. 4, NPNF, 1st Series, Vol. 7, 26.

[10] Augustine, The City Of God, Book 20, Ch. 8, NPNF, 1st Series, Vol. 2, 428.

[11] Ibid., 428.

[12] Ibid., 425, 426.

[13] The Time Is At Hand (New Brunswick: Bible Students Congregation of New Brunswick, 1977), 295.

[14] Volume of the Civil Law. Codices lib. I tit. i (A.D. 533).

[15] Ibid., 75.

[16] Gibbon, The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire, Vol. 3, 536 (including footnote), 537.

[17] John M’Clintock and James Strong, Cyclopaedia Of Biblical, Theological, And Ecclesiastical Literature (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1877), Vol. 7, 630, and Vol. 9, 996.

[18] Adolphe Thiers & Edward E. Bowen, The Campaigns Of Napoleon (London: Rivingtons, 1875), 89, 90.

[19] John Ferrar, An Ecclesiastical Dictionary (London: John Mason, 1858).

[20] Ibid., Thomas J. Capel, The Pope: The Vicar Of Christ, The Head Of The Church (New York: Pustet & Co., 1885).Fox’s Book Of Martyrs cited by H. Gratton Guinness, The Approaching End Of The Age (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1878), 191-192.

[21] J. H. Merle D’Aubigne, History Of The Reformation Of The Sixteenth Century, Vol. 1 (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1976), 32.

[22] D. Martin Luther’s Works, ed. Briefwechsel (Weimar, 1930-1948), Vol. 2, 167, cited in What Luther Says, ed. Ewald M. Plass, Vol. 1, 34.

[23] H. Grattan Guinness, Romanism and the Reformation (Toronto: S. R. Briggs, [n.d.]), 250-260.

[24] Joseph Tanner, Daniel And The Revelation (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1898), 16, 17.

[25] Robert Bellarmine, De Summo Pontifici, Disputations, 1593, Bk. 3, 185.

[26] Dr. L. E. Froom, The Prophetic Faith Of Our Fathers, Vol. 4, 396.

[27] S. P. Tregelles, The Hope Of Christ’s Coming, p. 35, cited by George L. Murry, Millennial Studies-A Search For Truth (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1960), 138.

[28] These diabolical events are documented in the following reference works:

Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History Of England From Ascension Of James II (New York: Harper & Bros., 1861).

John L. Kotley, the rise of the dutch republic, 1855.

Jean Hinore D. Aubigne, History Of The Great Reformation (New York: Robt. Carter, 1842).

White, elements of universal history.

Edward B. Elliot, Horæ Apocalypticæ (London: Seeley, Jackson & Holliday, 1860).

William Byron Forbush, Ed., Fox’s Book Of Martyrs (Philadelphia: John C. Winston Company, 1926).

[29] Thiers & Bowen, The Campaigns Of Napoleon, cited by H. Grattan Guinness, The Approaching End Of The Age (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1878), 205-207.

[30] Farrar, An Ecclesiastical Dictionary.

[31] H. Grattan Guinness, Light For The Last Days (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1887), 74.

[32] Thy Kingdom Come (New Brunswick: Bible Students Congregation of New Brunswick, 1977), 110, 111.

[33] Robert Fleming, The Rise And Fall Of Rome Papal (London: Houlston & Stoneman, Pateroster Row, 1849), 47, 48.

[34] Paul J. Murphy, La Popessa (New York: Warner Books, 1980), 52.

[35] Avro Manhattan, The Vatican In World Politics (New York: Horizon Press, Inc. 1949), 272.

[36] Ibid., 272, 280.

[37] Ibid., 273-275 (Many references given for documentation).

[38] Manhattan, The Vatican In World Politics, 168, 169.

[39] Murphy, La Popessa, and Manhattan, The Vatican In World Politics, 22-24.

[40] Manhattan, The Vatican In World Politics, 168,169.

[41] Leon Lehmann, Behind The Dictators (1942), Fritz Thyssen, I Paid Hitler (1941).

[42] Hermann Rauschning, Hitler Said To Me (1939), 266-267.

[43] Manhattan, The Vatican In World Politics, 95-99.

[44] Ibid., 247-265, 340-341.

[45] Ibid., 262-263.

[46] Manhattan, 192-194.

[47] Ibid., 282-291, 307-322.

[48] Ibid., 327.

[49] Avro Manhattan, The Terror Over Yugoslavia, the threat to yugoslavia (London: waters, 1953).

[50] John Loftus & Mark Aarons, The Secret War Against The Jews (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994), 87.

[51] World, March 6, 1992.

[52] New York Times, April 23, 1990.

Introduction     Chapter 5
Chapter 1        Chapter 6
Chapter 2        Chapter 7
Chapter 3        Chapter 8
Chapter 4        Chapter 9
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