CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY

What the Bible Teaches About Angels & Satan the Devil

R. A. Torrey &
Edward D. Andrews

Christian Publishing House

Cambridge, Ohio

Copyright © 2020 R. A. Torrey & Edward D. Andrews

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CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY What the Bible Teaches About Angels & Satan the Devil by R. A. Torrey & Edward D. Andrews

ISBN-13: 9798610587943

Bible Translations Referred to in This Book

Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations are from the Updated American Standard Version, 2020 (UASV). Explanations of the abbreviations used to designate other translations of the Bible are provided below:

ERV – 1881 English Revised Version (ERV) Public Domain

ASV – 1901 American Standard Version (ASV) Public Domain.

UASV – Updated American Standard Version, 2020 (UASV)

PREFACE

This book represents years of study. Its contents have been tested again and again in the classroom—in classes composed, in some instances, of representatives of thirty-six denominations. However, it is not supposed for a moment that it exhausts all the Bible has to say on the topics treated, much less that it takes up and exhausts every topic dealt with in the Bible. The Bible is the one inexhaustible book. This work is simply an attempt at a careful, unbiased, systematic, thorough-going, inductive study and statement of Bible truth. The method of the book is rigidly inductive. The material contained in the Bible is brought together, carefully scrutinized, and then what is seen to be contained in it stated in the most exact terms possible. Exactness of statement is first aimed at in every instance, then clearness of statement. Beauty and impressiveness must always yield to precision and clearness. The scripture from which a proposition is deduced is always given before the proposition. The methods of modern science are applied to Bible study—thorough analysis followed by careful synthesis. Though no Hebrew nor Greek words appear in the work, it is based upon a careful study of the original text as decided by the best textual critics (especially Tischendorf and Westcott and Hort in the New Testament, though other editors, and the manuscripts themselves, have been considered in some instances). Wherever possible the text of the Authorized Version has been given. In many instances this was impossible, as the Revised Version is manifestly much more exact. Had it appeared that the Revised Version would soon obtain that general acceptance and use which it seems to so richly deserve, the author would have adopted it through ...