[231:1] Gibbon's Rome, vol. i. p. 541.
[231:2] Nicodemus, Apoc. ch. xii.
[232:1] Baccalaureate Sermon, June 26th, 1881.
[232:2] Greg: The Creed of Christendom, p. 284.
[232:3] See Jameson's Hist. of Our Lord in Art, vol. ii., and Lundy's Monumental Christianity.
CHAPTER XXIV.
THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST JESUS, AND THE MILLENNIUM.
The second coming of Christ Jesus is clearly taught in the canonical, as well as in the apocryphal, books of the New Testament. Paul teaches, or is made to teach it,[233:1] in the following words: