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Definition of Chiliast
1. Noun. A person who believes in the coming of the millennium (a time of great peace and prosperity).
Definition of Chiliast
1. n. One who believes in the second coming of Christ to reign on earth a thousand years; a millenarian.
Definition of Chiliast
1. Noun. One who believes that Jesus will reign over Earth for a thousand years. ¹
2. Noun. A millenarian. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Chiliast
1. a supporter of chiliasm [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chiliast
Literary usage of Chiliast
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Sacred Scriptures of the New Testament by Eduard Reuss (1884)
"... of the princes at the court of Constantino, belongs as a chiliast among the
favorers of the Apocalypse. He nowhere mentions the Epistle to the Hebrews. ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1912)
"that Victorinus was a chiliast, and in the eleventh book of his ... The attempt
has also been made to ascribe to Victorinus the Anonymi chiliast œ in ..."
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