Darbyite

Dar´by`ite


n.1.One of the Plymouth Brethren, or of a sect among them; - so called from John N. Darby, one of the leaders of the Brethren.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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Bawler, the Darbyite, in the evening, and all in vain.
232.) Whereas pre-millennialist dispensationalism in its nineteenth-century Darbyite form was opposed to all forms of political and social activism, it later nurtured activist pro-Zionism and anti-Communism and is now quietistic chiefly in reference to what might be called "ameliorative" public policies.
Instead, Brookes synthesized motifs from Old School Presbyterianism--developed in the American, and more specifically Missourian, conflicts of the 1860s--and antebellum premillennialism with the newer Darbyite concepts involving sharp distinction between God's program for Israel and that for the church and a pretribulation secret rapture of the church as the first stage of the eschaton.
The Darbyites pulled out a 1-0, ten-inning victory, but the Bacharachs, due in no small part to 11 base hits by Poles, proceeded to win the next five games to capture the eastern crown.
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