Bible Dictionary: War in Heaven: Symbolical

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Revelation 12:7
And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
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An Abortive Symbol against Syncretism, 1655.
... A war to the knife was waged against it, and ... as well as Bellarmin, Calvin, and Socinus,
from heaven. ... man is active in his conversion; that symbolical books are ...
/.../ 49 an abortive symbol.htm

The Founder of Christianity.
... have been drowned in the passions of war and the ... He came down from heaven and spoke,
out of ... highest moral and of a profoundly symbolical significance, prompted ...
/.../schaff/history of the christian church volume i/section 15 the founder of.htm

After These Matters, Celsus Brings the Following Charges against ...
... say that there is a general war and discord ... expelled and conquered them should have
possession of heaven. ... and Giants also had some such (symbolical) meaning, as ...
/.../origen/origen against celsus/chapter xlii after these matters.htm

Faustus Insists that the Old Testament Promises are Radically ...
... the bright inheritance of the kingdom of heaven. ... law are observed by Christians;
the symbolical precepts were ... previously of small extent, and war was desirable ...
/.../faustus insists that the old.htm

New Testament History and Prophecy.
... find the explanation of much of this symbolical language. ... the earth because he has
been expelled from heaven. The war of the Dragon against the woman indicates ...
/.../gladden/who wrote the bible/chapter x new testament history.htm

The Revelation and Career of the Anti-Christ.
... ground and stamped upon them (probably a symbolical reference to ... and His tabernacle,
and them that dwell in heaven. ... it was given unto him to make war with the ...
/.../pink/the redeemers return/4 the revelation and career.htm

In Jericho and at Bethany - Jericho - a Guest with Zacchæus - the ...
... [5000] In the war of liberation ... him - when those wondrous Eyes, out of which heaven
itself seemed to ... And herein, also, seems this story spiritually symbolical. ...
/.../the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter xxiv in jericho and.htm

The Apocalypse.
... hand of power, and coming on the clouds of heaven") and goes ... 1-10) is the anti-Christian
world-power at war with the ... (c) The number is symbolical of Antichrist ...
/.../schaff/history of the christian church volume i/section 101 the apocalypse.htm

The Brandenburg Confessions.
... a Unionistic, type, and had a certain symbolical authority in ... so far as to exclude
the Calvinists from heaven. ... the horrors of the Thirty-Years' War growing out ...
/.../ 70 the brandenburg confessions.htm

The Baptism of John, Whence was It?
... themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven: He will ... them), yet was there a
dread symbolical sentence involved ... He was carrying the war into the heart of ...
/.../chadwick/the gospel of st mark/chapter 11 27-33 the baptism of.htm