Dans un avant-propos daté du 1er octobre 1916, Russell reconnaissait que l’attente selon laquelle les saints du Seigneur seraient avec lui dans la gloire “at the ending of the Gentile Times” avait été “a natural mistake to fall into”, tout en maintenant que les Temps des Gentils eux-mêmes avaient pris fin.

Studies in the Scriptures, Series II: The Time Is at Hand, later printing with Author's Foreword dated 1 October 1916, “Author's Foreword”

1 octobre 1916 · pp.i-iv (foreword) · C. T. Russell · International Bible Students Association

“The author acknowledges that in this book he presents the thought that the Lord's saints might expect to be with Him in glory at the ending of the Gentile Times. This was a natural mistake to fall into ... Our mistake was evidently not in respect to the ending of the Times of the Gentiles; we drew a false conclusion, however, not authorized by the Word of the Lord.”

Russell's own 1916 acknowledgement that the expectation of the Church's glorification by October 1914 was mistaken, while maintaining that the Gentile Times ended in 1914.

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