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    CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN: Passing Over the Time of Expectation

    Strange to record, as the years of historical expectation- 1843, 1844, and 1847-drew near, the eyes of Old World expositors came to be fixed more and more upon a later date for the time of consummation. The years 1867 or 1868 were stressed as the probable close of the 1335 years, and the expected end. There was still talk of an approaching climax. There were still voices in the Old World ardently advocating the soon coming of Christ. But they were on the wane, and the notes of the specific trumpet of alarm were fading out. Most prophetic interpreters now injected a period of time before the advent, and those who still noted 1843 or 1844 made it but a milepost on the way to the ultimate climax. So, in the period from 1843 to 1847 there were relatively few in the Old World looking for the advent or the establishment of the millennium in those years. That was left to the New World Adventists, who will be traced in Volume 4.PFF3 704.1

    Many of the strong voices of these earlier prophetic and advent heralds-who preceded the witnesses in America-were now stilled. And among their successors specific expectation had given way to generalities. Strong expositors, such as Birks and Elliott, appeared; strong isolated defenses were made of the Historical School of interpretation and of the year-day principle; the Futurist School and its arguments were ably met. Nevertheless the inroads of Futurism continued, as did those of Preterism and postmillenmialism. The force of prophetic emphasis for 1843-47 as the terminus of the 2300 years was on the way out in the Old World. Let us scan the leading features.PFF3 704.2

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