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  • The Millenarians were a product of an already lawless age.

    Jihad Watch 2009

  • These include white supremacists and neo-Nazis; “Millenarians,” who say major social transformation is imminent; and believers in “Christian Identity,” a pro-white version of Christianity.

    Rapid Growth of Militia Fueled by Politics | Impact Lab 2010

  • Instead, they separate themselves into four basic groups: Unarians, who cloister themselves in the concents for a year, Decennarians, who separate themselves from the outside world for a decade, Centenarians, who separate themselves from the outside world for a century, and Millenarians, who go for one thousand year separations from the world outside.

    Book Review: Anathem by Neal Stephenson | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2008

  • That said, there's even more in his study of apocalyptic religion, The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages, than its main takeaway point -- that Nazism and Communism are simply reiterations of a cultural pattern that goes back to before the Anabaptists of Munster, Joachim of Fiore, and the Beggar's Crusade.

    Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2007

  • Many radical Adventists and Millenarians will accept him, because they are in haste in their expectations: many of these will follow him.

    The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 Joseph Wild

  • Many, upon the authority of St. Jerom, rank Sulpicius Severus among the Millenarians, though all allow that he never defended any error so as to be out of the communion of the church.

    The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler

  • Again, "The wolf shall dwell with the lamb ... and the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp" (Isaias, xi, 6-8) would have afforded material for a charming idyl, but the Evangelists have left that realism to the apocrypha and to the Millenarians.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

  • Millenarians always _assume_ that this refers to a literal resurrection at the second coming of Christ, but no such thing is hinted at.

    The Revelation Explained 1913

  • Millenarians, and for this reason his works were ranked with the apocrypha by Pope Gelasius.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

  • We are scarcely just to the Millenarians or to those who maintain the continuance of miracles or spiritual gifts in the

    Scripture and Truth: Dissertations by the Late Benjamin Jowett with Introduction by Lewis Campbell. 1817-1893 1907

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