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The best most truthful answer is NO. The early Church did NOT take to full preterism. We read in all these answers here that "confusion set in," and "there's no easy answer," and 'we scarcely have writings from 70 to 120 AD.' All equivocations. Further restatements of the preterist belief system is also NOT an answer. The truth is better stated preterists simply have no evidence to show for any early Church adoption. We should not then merely presume it for their dogma which had not even been officially articulated until the Jesuit Alcazar and Frenchman Firmin Abauzit more than 1500 years later.

There is actually evidence AGAINST early preterism as any possibility, in fact. Horae Apocalypticae is an eschatological study written by Edward Bishop Elliott:

Not a vestige of testimony exists to the fact of such an understanding; albeit quite general, according to him, among the more intelligent in the Christian body. On the contrary, the early testimony of Irenseus, disciple to Polycarp, who was himself disciple to St. John, indicates a then totally different view of the Apocalyptic Beast from Professor Stuart's, as if the only one ever known to have been received: a view referring it, not to any previous persecution by Nero and the Roman Empire under him, but to an Antichrist even then future; one that was to arise and persecute the Church not till the breaking up, and reconstruction in another form, of the old Empire.

The best most truthful answer is NO. The early Church did NOT take to full preterism. We read in all these answers here that "confusion set in," and "there's no easy answer," and 'we scarcely have writings from 70 to 120 AD.' All equivocations. Further restatements of the preterist belief system is also NOT an answer. The truth is better stated preterists simply have no evidence to show for any early Church adoption. We should not then merely presume it for their dogma which had not even been officially articulated until the Jesuit Alcazar and Frenchman Firmin Abauzit more than 1500 years later.

The best most truthful answer is NO. The early Church did NOT take to full preterism. We read in all these answers here that "confusion set in," and "there's no easy answer," and 'we scarcely have writings from 70 to 120 AD.' All equivocations. Further restatements of the preterist belief system is also NOT an answer. The truth is better stated preterists simply have no evidence to show for any early Church adoption. We should not then merely presume it for their dogma which had not even been officially articulated until the Jesuit Alcazar and Frenchman Firmin Abauzit more than 1500 years later.

There is actually evidence AGAINST early preterism as any possibility, in fact. Horae Apocalypticae is an eschatological study written by Edward Bishop Elliott:

Not a vestige of testimony exists to the fact of such an understanding; albeit quite general, according to him, among the more intelligent in the Christian body. On the contrary, the early testimony of Irenseus, disciple to Polycarp, who was himself disciple to St. John, indicates a then totally different view of the Apocalyptic Beast from Professor Stuart's, as if the only one ever known to have been received: a view referring it, not to any previous persecution by Nero and the Roman Empire under him, but to an Antichrist even then future; one that was to arise and persecute the Church not till the breaking up, and reconstruction in another form, of the old Empire.

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The best most truthful answer is NO. The early Church did NOT take to full preterism. We read in all these answers here that "confusion set in," and "there's no easy answer," and 'we scarcely have writings from 70 to 120 AD.' All equivocations. Further restatements of the preterist belief system is also NOT an answer. The truth is better stated preterists simply have no evidence to show for any early Church adoption. We should not then merely presume it for their dogma which had not even been officially articulated until the Jesuit Alcazar and Frenchman Firmin Abauzit more than 1500 years later.