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It might be wise to check your own sources first.
Please read the following SDA INFORMATION.
ENDTIME ISSUES NEWSLETTER NUMBER 146
“The Saga of the Adventist Papal Tiara: Part 2”
Samuele Bacchiocchi, Ph. D,
Retired Professor of Church History and Theology,
Andrews University
( From the very start, back in 1874, Andrews University has placed serious scholarship, quality research and a strong focus on practical Christianity first on the list of things we think are important about attendance at a Christian university. We started out small. Mr. Bell, a teacher, started a tiny school with only twelve students in Battle Creek, Mich. This was the birth of what we now know as Andrews University. Today, Andrews is the best-known Adventist educational institution in the world.)
Now read the following!
The Role of Uriah Smith
The view that the number of the Beast (666) is to be found in the pope’s title Vicarius Filii Dei, inscribed in the papal tiara, was first presented and promoted by Uriah Smith. In his book The United States in the Light of Prophecy (published in 1884), Smith affirms unequivocally that “The number over which the saints are also to get the victory, is the number of the papal beast, called also the number of his name, and the number of a man, and said to be six hundred three scores and six. The pope wears upon his pontifical crown in jeweled letters, this title, Vicarius Filii Dei, vicegerent of the Son of God. The most plausible supposition we have seen on this point is that here we find the number in question. It is the number of the beast, the papacy; it is the number of a man, for he adopts it as his distinctive title; it is the number of a man, for he who bears it is the ‘man of sin’” (4th edition, 1884, p. 224).
Smith’s interpretation was accepted and promoted even by John N. Andrews, a leading Adventist scholar. In his book The Three Messages of Revelation 14:6-12, Andrews wrote: “The number of the name of the beast is also to be enforced as a test of submission to him. This number, which is said to be that of a man, is seen, without doubt, in the title of ‘Vicar of the Son of God’ which the pope has caused to be inscribed upon his mitre. It is written in Latin, and the numeral letters employed make the sum of 666. The design of this test is to cause men to acknowledge the authority of the papacy” (pp. 108-109).
Andrews believed that the number 666 was visible “without doubt” in the inscription Vicarius Filii Dei found in the MITRE, while Smith placed the inscription on the TIARA. Most likely Andrews did not know the difference between the two, because the oral testimonies used to support the inscription always speak of the TIARA, not of the MITRE.
Uriah Smith and John N. Andrews played a major role in leading the whole Adventist church to accept the application of the number of the Beast to the papal title Vicarius Filii Dei, allegedly inscribed in the papal tiara. The wide circulation of Smith’s book Daniel and the Revelation contributed significantly to popularize this teaching.
Unfortunately, in spite of the painstaking efforts by private and official Adventist investigators commissioned by the GC, no tiara has ever been found with the inscription Vicarius Filii Dei. Of the 13 existing papal tiara, only two of them have inscriptions, but these inscriptions are considerably different from Vicarius Filii Dei. You can see the stunning pictures of the inscribed tiaras in the DVD recording. This factor as well as other compelling exegetical reasons to be mentioned shortly, have led respected Adventist scholars to abandon the traditional numeric interpretation in favor of a symbolic interpretation of the number 666.
It might be wise to check your own sources first.
Please read the following SDA INFORMATION.
ENDTIME ISSUES NEWSLETTER NUMBER 146
“The Saga of the Adventist Papal Tiara: Part 2”
Samuele Bacchiocchi, Ph. D,
Retired Professor of Church History and Theology,
Andrews University
( From the very start, back in 1874, Andrews University has placed serious scholarship, quality research and a strong focus on practical Christianity first on the list of things we think are important about attendance at a Christian university. We started out small. Mr. Bell, a teacher, started a tiny school with only twelve students in Battle Creek, Mich. This was the birth of what we now know as Andrews University. Today, Andrews is the best-known Adventist educational institution in the world.)
Now read the following!
The Role of Uriah Smith
The view that the number of the Beast (666) is to be found in the pope’s title Vicarius Filii Dei, inscribed in the papal tiara, was first presented and promoted by Uriah Smith. In his book The United States in the Light of Prophecy (published in 1884), Smith affirms unequivocally that “The number over which the saints are also to get the victory, is the number of the papal beast, called also the number of his name, and the number of a man, and said to be six hundred three scores and six. The pope wears upon his pontifical crown in jeweled letters, this title, Vicarius Filii Dei, vicegerent of the Son of God. The most plausible supposition we have seen on this point is that here we find the number in question. It is the number of the beast, the papacy; it is the number of a man, for he adopts it as his distinctive title; it is the number of a man, for he who bears it is the ‘man of sin’” (4th edition, 1884, p. 224).
Smith’s interpretation was accepted and promoted even by John N. Andrews, a leading Adventist scholar. In his book The Three Messages of Revelation 14:6-12, Andrews wrote: “The number of the name of the beast is also to be enforced as a test of submission to him. This number, which is said to be that of a man, is seen, without doubt, in the title of ‘Vicar of the Son of God’ which the pope has caused to be inscribed upon his mitre. It is written in Latin, and the numeral letters employed make the sum of 666. The design of this test is to cause men to acknowledge the authority of the papacy” (pp. 108-109).
Andrews believed that the number 666 was visible “without doubt” in the inscription Vicarius Filii Dei found in the MITRE, while Smith placed the inscription on the TIARA. Most likely Andrews did not know the difference between the two, because the oral testimonies used to support the inscription always speak of the TIARA, not of the MITRE.
Uriah Smith and John N. Andrews played a major role in leading the whole Adventist church to accept the application of the number of the Beast to the papal title Vicarius Filii Dei, allegedly inscribed in the papal tiara. The wide circulation of Smith’s book Daniel and the Revelation contributed significantly to popularize this teaching.
Unfortunately, in spite of the painstaking efforts by private and official Adventist investigators commissioned by the GC, no tiara has ever been found with the inscription Vicarius Filii Dei. Of the 13 existing papal tiara, only two of them have inscriptions, but these inscriptions are considerably different from Vicarius Filii Dei. You can see the stunning pictures of the inscribed tiaras in the DVD recording. This factor as well as other compelling exegetical reasons to be mentioned shortly, have led respected Adventist scholars to abandon the traditional numeric interpretation in favor of a symbolic interpretation of the number 666.
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