CHAPTER TWENTY: Revolutionary Concept of the Millennium Introduced

We now enter the period when for the first time the church in general completely leaves the prophetic trail of the apostolic period, and gets entirely away from the expectation of the Lord’s second advent to usher in the millennium. Traditionalism steadily encroaches on the Scriptures. The allegorizing of Scripture has made deep inroads, as reported by the contemporary Eucherius, bishop of Treves (c. 450). ^{1Farrar, History, p. 24.}PFF1 465.1

The popularizer of the new millennial theory was the founder of Latin theology, Augustine, but we must first look at the writings of Tichonius, a little-known personality, but the source of much of Augustine’s teaching on the millennium, and of many later prophetic interpretations which followed this new philosophy of history and prophecy.PFF1 465.2