Lord’s Day 22, Chapter 3: The “Millennium” (3)

4. To our objections against the idea of a millennium during which Christ is supposed to reign with His people on this earth, with His throne in Jerusalem, we may finally add the incongruity of the conception. This incongruity is twofold. The first concerns the irreconcilable conflict that must needs express itself, in such a state as the millennium is supposed to be, between the ethically perfect condition of Christ and His risen saints and this sinful world. Whatever may be the conception...