Fundamental Beliefs of Seventh-day Adventists

8. See e.g. "Persecution," Encyclopaedia of
Religion and Ethics, ed. James Hastings (New
York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1917), vol.
9, pp. 749-57; John Dowling, The History of
Romanism: From the Earliest Corruptions of
Christianity to the Present Time, 10th ed. (New
York, NY: Edward Walker, 1846), pp. 237-
616.
9. This blow severely damaged the prestige of the
papacy but did not end its influence. Revelation
13:3 speaks of a healing of the "deadly wound,"
indicating a revival of the papal influence. In
the last days it becomes the most powerful
religious influence in the world.
10. George Trevor, Rome: From the Fall of the
Western Empire (London: The Religious Tract
Society, 1868), pp. 439, 440; John Adolphus,
The History of France From the Year 1790 to
the Peace Concluded at Amiens in 1802
(London: George Kearsey, 1803), vol. 2, pp.
364-369. See also Source Book, pp. 701, 702.
11. Leroy E. Froom, The Prophetic Faith of Our
Fathers (Washington, D.C.: Review and
Herald, 1948), vol. 2 pp. 765-782.
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