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The reign of the pope or Antichrist will be followed by the millennial reign
of Christ on earth (Rev. 20:4–7). Then will take place the first resurrection.
Servetus was a chiliast, but not in the carnal Jewish sense. He blames
Melanchthon for deriding, with the papal crowd, all those as chiliasts who
believe in the glorious reign of Christ on earth, according to the book of
Revelation and the teaching of the school of St. John. f1149
The general resurrection and judgment follow after the millennium. Men
will be raised in the flower of manhood, the thirtieth year—the year of
baptismal regeneration, the year in which Christ was baptized and entered
upon his public ministry. f1150 “Then wilt thou,” so he addresses Philip
Melanchthon, who, next to Calvin, was his greatest enemy, “with all thy
senses, see, feel, taste, and hear God himself. If thou dost not believe this,
thou dost not believe in a resurrection of the flesh and a bodily
transformation of thy organs.” f1151
After the general judgment, Christ will surrender his mediatorial reign with
its glories to the Father, and God will be all in all (Acts 3:21; 1 Cor. 15:24–
28).
§ 148. THE TRIAL AND CONDEMNATION
OF SERVETUS AT VIENNE.
See D’ARTIGNY in Nouveaux Memoires d’histoire, etc.; MOSHEIM’s
Neue Nachrichten, etc.; and CALVIN’S Opera, VIII. 833–856.
Shortly after the publication of the “Restitution,” the fact was made known
to the Roman Catholic authorities at Lyons through Guillaume Trie, a
native of Lyons and a convert from Romanism, residing at that time in
Geneva. He corresponded with a cousin at Lyons, by the name of Arneys,
a zealous Romanist, who tried to reconvert him to his religion, and
reproached the Church of Geneva with the want of discipline. On the 26th
of February, 1553, he wrote to Arneys that in Geneva vice and blasphemy
were punished, while in France a dangerous heretic was tolerated, who
deserved to be burned by Roman Catholics as well as Protestants, who
blasphemed the holy Trinity, called Jesus Christ an idol, and the baptism of
infants a diabolic invention. He gave his name as Michael Servetus, who
called himself at present Villeneuve, a practising physician at Vienne. In
confirmation he sent the first leaf of the “Restitution,” and named the
printer Balthasar Arnoullet at Vienne. f1152