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Notes

Introduction

1. Matthew 23:37.

2. Matthew 24:10-12.

3. Matthew 24:9.

4. Ibid., verses 23-26.

5. Neander, Church History, Volume 1, p. 250.

6. I Corinthians 5:1-2.

7. I Corinthians 12:3.

8. II Peter 1:20-21.

9. Philip Smith, Students' Ecclesiastical History, Volume 1, p. 49

10. Acts 20:29-30

11. I Timothy 4:1-3

12. II Timothy 4:3-4. See also II Thess. 1:2-14; II Peter 2:1-3; Jude 17, 18.

13. Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History, Book VIII, Chapter 1.

14. Institutes, Volume 1, Cent. 11, Chapter IV.

15. Mosheim, Ecclesiastical History, Century I, Part I, Chapter 5:6-7.

16. Gibbon, Roman Empire, Preface by Dean Milman, p. 15.

17. See Acts 2:37-41; 8:26-39. Talmage, The Great Apostasy, note pp. 93-95. Talmage, Articles of Faith, Lecture 6:8-29; Lecture 7.