I attach no importance, in this argument, to the precise period of a thousand years. It occurs nowhere in Scripture but in one solitary passage. There are reasons for taking it definitely and literally; but, to some these reasons appear slender. They think it means just a long indefinite period; agreeing with us, however, as to its being yet to come. Be it so. Wherever I speak of the millennium, or "thousand years," let them understand their own "indefinite period," or bright "latter day," to precede the coming of Christ; and my argument will remain the same.

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