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Pillar of Fire
adjective
Definition of Pillar of Fire
: of, relating to, or being a fundamentalist holiness premillenarian church beginning as an offshoot of U.S. Methodism in 1901, retaining Methodist polity, and emphasizing sanctification as a second work of grace following justification
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Origin and Etymology of pillar of fire
from Pillar of Fire, bulletin published by the founder of the sect
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