THE PROMISE OF HIS COMING

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THE PROMISE OF HIS

COMING

A Historical Interpretation
and Revaluation of the Idea
of the Second Advent

BY

CHESTER CHARLTON McCOWN, Ph.D., D.D.

PROFESSOR Of New Testament LiteratURE IN
PACIFIC SCHOOL OF RELIGION

New York

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

ANDOVER-HARVARD
THEOLOGICAL LIBRATY
CAMBHILU &, MASS,

H49.763

COPYRIGHT, 1921,

BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and printed. Published December, 1921.

The Old Testament texts used in this book are taken from the
American Standard Edition of the Revised Bible, copyrighted
1901, by Thomas Nelson & Sons, and are uзed by permission.

TO MY FATHER AND MOTHER WHO FIRST TAUGHT ME THE PLEASURE AND PROFIT OF STUDY