What was the position of the School of Alexandria on this view in the second century?

Millennialism was generally not considered as a topic of itself, nor was much attention given to it; but the School of Alexandria quickly became aware that this matter could be

1210 See St. Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho 80–81 (ANF 1:239–240).

1211 See Papias, Fragments 4 (ANF 1:153).

1212 Eusebius Pamphili, Ecclesiastical History 3.39.12–13 (NPNF II/1:172). See also Fr. Pishoy Kamel, “The Millennial Reign,” in St. Mark’s Magazine (Arabic).

1213 Eusebius Pamphili, Ecclesiastical History 3.39.11 (NPNF II/1:172).

1214 St. Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho 80–91 (ANF 1:239–245).

dangerous. It was almost as though they peered into the future and saw what we see happening today — how this erroneous doctrine represents the dangerous central ideology of some denominations, such as the Adventists. Thus, the scholar Origen set out in the second century to oppose this view, and Pope Dionysius of Alexandria followed him in the third century in refuting the idea of a literal interpretation of the Book of Revelation. By the end of the fourth century, this view had disappeared entirely in the Church of Alexandria. Elsewhere, St. Augustine , realizing his mistake, made clear the danger of a literal interpretation of the thousand years, countering it with the power of irrefutable argument.