Editing Millennialism (section)

==== Premillennialism ====
During the first centuries after Christ, various forms of chiliasm (millennialism) were to be found in the Church, both [[Eastern Church|East]] and [[Western Church|West]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2005-01-03 |title=Theology Today – Vol 53, No. 4 – January 1997 – ARTICLE – Paul Tillich and the Millenialist Heritage |url=http://theologytoday.ptsem.edu/jan1997/v53-4-article3.htm |access-date=2023-06-16 |pages=464–476|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050103083254/http://theologytoday.ptsem.edu/jan1997/v53-4-article3.htm |archive-date=2005-01-03 }}</ref> Premillennialism held by the Early Church is called "[[historic premillennialism]]",<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Blomberg |first1=Craig L. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=huMlsCYyI5YC&dq=Early+Church+historic+premill&pg=PT73 |title=A Case for Historic Premillennialism: An Alternative to "Left Behind" Eschatology |last2=Chung |first2=Sung Wook |date=2009-02-01 |publisher=Baker Academic |isbn=978-1-4412-1056-2 |language=en |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref> and it was supported in the early church by [[Papias of Hierapolis|Papias]],<ref name=":1">{{cite book |last=Davies and Allison |title=A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel according to Saint Matthew, Volume 1, ICC |page=13}}</ref> [[Irenaeus]], [[Justin Martyr]],<ref name=":0">{{cite web |title=Historic Premillennialism |url=https://www.monergism.com/topics/eschatology/all-millennial-views/historic-premillennialism |access-date=26 February 2018 |website=Monergism}}</ref> [[Tertullian]],<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Chung |first1=Sung Wook |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AlcXEAAAQBAJ&dq=Tertullian+premillennialism&pg=PA12 |title=Models of Premillennialism |last2=Mathewson |first2=David L. |date=2018-08-27 |publisher=[[Wipf & Stock Publishers]] |isbn=978-1-5326-3769-8 |language=en |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref> [[Polycarp]],<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Chung |first1=Sung Wook |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OcpwDwAAQBAJ&dq=Papias+historic+premill&pg=PT16 |title=Models of Premillennialism |last2=Mathewson |first2=David L. |date=2018-08-27 |publisher=[[Wipf & Stock Publishers]] |isbn=978-1-5326-3771-1 |language=en |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref> [[Epistle of Barnabas|Pseudo-Barnabas]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Philip Schaff: ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus – Christian Classics Ethereal Library |url=https://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf01.vi.html |access-date=2023-06-16 |website=www.ccel.org |at=Volume 2, p. 382 |quote=Among the Apostolic Fathers Barnabas is the first and the only one who expressly teaches a pre-millennial reign of Christ on earth. He considers the Mosaic history of the creation a type of six ages of labor for the world, each lasting a thousand years, and of a millennium of rest, since with God 'one day is as a thousand years.' Millennial Sabbath on earth will be followed by an eight and eternal day in a new world, of which the Lord's Day (called by Barnabas 'the eighth day') is the type}}</ref> [[Methodius of Olympus|Methodius]], [[Lactantius]],<ref>''Insruct. adv. Gentium Deos'', pp. 43, 44.</ref> [[Commodianus]],<ref>According to the ''Encyclopedia of the Early Church'' "[[Commodian]] (mid 3rd century) takes up the theme of the 7000 years, the last of which is the millennium (''Instr''. II 35, 8 ff.)." M. Simonetti, "Millenarism," p. 560.</ref> [[Theophilus of Antioch|Theophilus]],<ref>Against Marcion, book 3, chapter 25</ref> [[Melito of Sardis|Melito]],<ref>Simonetti writes in the ''Encyclopedia of the Early Church'' "We know that Melito was also a millenarian" regarding [[Jerome]]'s reference to him as a chiliast. M. Simonetti, "Millenarism," p. 560.</ref> [[Hippolytus of Rome]], [[Victorinus of Pettau]],<ref>Note this is Victorinus of Pettau not Marcus Piav(v)onius [[Victorinus]] the Gaelic Emperor</ref><ref>In his ''Commentary on Revelation'' and from the fragment ''De Fabrica Mundi'' (Part of a commentary on Genesis). Jerome identifies him as a premillennialist.</ref> [[Book of Nepos|Nepos]], [[Julius Africanus]], [[Tatian]]<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last1=Foster |first1=K. Neill |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xaVvBAAAQBAJ&dq=Book+of+Nepos+premillenialism&pg=PT14 |title=Essays on Premillennialism: A Modern Reaffirmation of an Ancient Doctrine |last2=Fessenden |first2=David E. |date=2007-02-01 |publisher=Moody Publishers |isbn=978-1-60066-959-0 |language=en |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref> and [[Montanus]].<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Foster |first1=K. Neill |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xaVvBAAAQBAJ&dq=Montanist+premillenialism&pg=PT14 |title=Essays on Premillennialism: A Modern Reaffirmation of an Ancient Doctrine |last2=Fessenden |first2=David E. |date=2007-02-01 |publisher=Moody Publishers |isbn=978-1-60066-959-0 |language=en |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref> However, the premillennial views of Montanus probably affected the later rejection of premillennialism in the Church, as [[Montanism]] was seen as a heresy.<ref name=":2" /> {{Christian Eschatology}}