Num prefácio datado de 1.º de outubro de 1916, Russell reconheceu que a expectativa de que os santos do Senhor estariam com ele em glória “at the ending of the Gentile Times” havia sido “a natural mistake to fall into”, embora mantivesse que os próprios Tempos dos Gentios haviam terminado.

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 de outubro de 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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