Early Church Eschatology

Charles Hill, Regnum Caelorum, 1: Early Christian chiliasm refers to “the ancient belief in a thousand-year reign of Christ on earth between his second coming and the last judgment.”

Everett Ferguson, 215: “…I think it is correct that the majority of Christians throughout history have been amillennial. This was true even in the first three centuries, contrary to what one reads in some influential reference works.”

Papias:

Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History, 3.39.10–13: “The same writer adduces other accounts, as though they came to him from unwritten tradition, and some strange parables and teachings of the Saviour, [11] and some other more mythical accounts. [12] Among them he says that there will be a millennium after the resurrection of the dead, when the kingdom of Christ will be set up in material form on this earth. I suppose that he got these notions by a perverse reading of the apostolic accounts, not realizing that they had spoken mystically and symbolically. [13] For he was a man of very little intelligence, as is clear from his books. But he is responsible for the fact that so many Christian writers after him held the same opinion, relying on his antiquity, for instance Irenaeus and whoever else appears to have held the same views.”